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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Emerging Threats to Forests: Resilience and Strategies at System Scale

  AUTHORS: Timothy O. Randhir, Ayten Erol

  KEYWORDS: Forest; Resilience; Systems; Emerging Threats

  JOURNAL NAME: American Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol.4 No.3A, March 29, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Forests provide multiple ecosystem services that are critical to sustain societies and ecosystems. Protecting the forest systems become imperative as human demand for forest products and services increase. In addition to current stressors, several emerging threats pose serious implications on the survival and sustainability of forest ecosystems. These include climatic change, invasive species, natural disasters, land use change, and pest/diseases that can severally impact the ability of forest to sustain ecosystem services. There is a need for using a systems-based framework to increase resilience of forest systems to cope with these threats. We review literature on these threats and propose a systems-framework for forest resilience. While strategies for each threat are often easier, comprehensive strategies that can handle multiple threats and specific to forest type is required. There is also a need for further research into forest resilience and landscape-scale response and resilience.