IPCC's scientific contributions

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... Europe's forests are strongly shaped by centuries of human activities (Conedera et al., 2017;Kaplan et al., 2009), and most of the mixed mountain forests accessible to humans were often intensively exploited and/or converted to monospecific age-class systems dominated by spruce . The observed climatic changes since the second half of the 20th century (IPCC, 2021) and the associated increasing uncertainties in the future forest development and health necessitated a re-assessment of such silvicultural practices (e.g. Bowditch et al., 2020;Knoke et al., 2021;Rigling et al., 2008;Seidl et al., 2011). ...