Publication: the need for forest adaptation
It is high time for forest managers to think about how to deal with climate change. Climate change and other changes in our environment are creating a permanently changing forest habitat with a speed and magnitude that our forests and trees cannot easily keep up with. Forest managers and forest owners must ask themselves whether and how they want to respond to this...
Etiënne Thomassen is expert officer in Forest Ecology and Forest Management at Bosgroep Zuid Nederland. He is also involved in the LIFE project Climate Forest on behalf of de Bosgroepen. According to Etiënne, forest managers and forest owners should ask themselves very critically now whether and how they want to respond to climate change. He wrote an article about this for Nature Today.