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- Title
Deep Ecology, Biodiversity and Assisted Natural Regeneration of European Hemiboreal Forests.
- Authors
Petrokas, Raimundas; Ibanga, Diana-Abasi; Manton, Michael
- Abstract
Climate change and the associated disturbances have disrupted the relative stability of tree species composition in hemiboreal forests. The natural ecology of forest communities, including species occurrence and composition, forest structure, and food webs, have been affected. Yet, the hemiboreal forest zone of Lithuania is the least studied in the country for climate change risks and possible management adaption techniques. This problem is further complicated by the fact that Lithuania uses a traditional centralised forest management system. Therefore, this work proposes assisted natural regeneration (ANR) of tree species as a more viable means of building hemiboreal forest resilience to cope with future climate change risks. The ANR model implies that forest management is localised in local communities, to provide opportunities for the local people to participate in forest management based on local knowledge, thereby facilitating the transition from cultural diversity to biodiversity. Further, ANR is grounded on an ethical framework—deep ecology—to provide ethical justification for the proposal to transit forest management in Lithuania from the traditional centralised segregated system to a community-driven practice. The work combines the theories of ANR, deep ecology, and hemiboreal forest knowledge systems to provide complementary information that builds on gaps in the existing literature. This study is unique in that no previous work has linked ANR and deep ecology in the context of Lithuania's forest ecosystems.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; DEEP ecology; BIOTIC communities; FOREST resilience; FOREST management; FOREST ecology; FOREST biodiversity
- Publication
Diversity (14242818), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 10, p892
- ISSN
1424-2818
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/d14100892