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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1">1 --"Whereas in recent
decades, promoting resilience has been a widespread goal of forest
management, the increasing pressure of chronic and acute disturbances
is pushing many temperate forests toward and over resilience
thresholds. ... . Serious thresholds are crossed when forests convert
to vegetation types without trees and, as a result, lose valued forest
ecosystem services."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1">"In the short term, some
forests will likely continue to absorb or rebound from disturbances,
sustain a diversity of ecological functions, and deliver ecosystem
services similar to those of past decades<b> (Fig. 2)</b>. Over the
longer term, however, most temperate forests are likely to change ....
The changes could range from minor shifts in forest structure (e.g.,
tree density and ages) and species compositions to major
transformation of vegetation types, some resulting in novel ecosystems
relative to recent centuries"</font></div>
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Millar and Stephenson. Temperate forest health in an era of emerging
megadisturbance. Science (2015)</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1"><b>Figure 2</b> in Millar and
Stephenson is particularly helpful in presenting 4 scenarios
progressing from forest sustainability to a conversion, first to an
unfamilar forest, then conversion to a system without
trees.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">2 -- "We
contend that traditional approaches to forest conservation and
management will be inadequate given the predicted scale of
social-economic and biophysical changes in the 21st
century."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Forest Ecology and
Management Accepted 7 October 2015</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Review and
synthesis<br>
Achievable future conditions as a framework for guiding forest
conservation and management</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">S.W. Golladay,
K.L. Martin, J.M. Vose, D.N. Wear, A.P. Covich, R.J. Hobbs, K.D.
Klepzig, G.E. Likens, R.J. Naiman, A.W. Shearer </font></div>
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