Climate-Smart Silviculture in Mountain Regions

Abstract Mountain forests in Europe have to face recently speeding-up phenomena related climate change, reflected not only by the increases mean global temperature but also frequent extreme events, that can cause a lot of various damages threatening forest stability. The crucial task management is adapt environmental uncertainties using strategies should be undertaken enhance resistance and resilience, as well maintain biodiversity provision ecosystem services at requested levels. Forests play an important role mitigation change. stand features increase smartness could improved applying appropriate silvicultural measures, which are powerful tools modify forests. chapter provides information on importance selected change prescriptions level focusing achieve required smartness. selection supported application simulation models. sets treatments alternatives inherent part adaptive leading approach changing conditions.