Assessment of multiple climate change effects on plantation forests in New Zealand (Review paper 2018)
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Description
This study synthesizes predicted climate change impacts and future biosecurity threats to New Zealand’s plantation forests, including:
- Projected productivity increases for radiata pine due to changing climatic conditions (slight) and increasing CO2 (+19% by 2040);
- increases in wind risk due to trees becoming taller and more slender;
- average season length with ‘very high and extreme’climatic fire risk increasing by 71 per cent up to 2040 and by 83 per cent up to 2090;
- slight increases in needle case diseases depending on the disease and region;
- possible increase in pest damage and (6) likely increase in invasive weedy and damaging tree species.
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