TY - SLIDE TI - Empirical evidences on the potential adaptive performance of alternative species under current and future climate: First results of the REINFFORCE arboreta network. T2 - IUFRO World congress - B4l: Climate smart forestry or how to integrate adaptation, mitigation and sustainable forest management A2 - Correia, António A2 - Orazio, Christophe AB - The forestry sector is strongly dependent on a very limited number of tree species whose long-term performance is increasingly threaten by climate change impacts. In order to sustain their productivity and mitigation capacity, the adaptation potential of our productive forests needs to be increased by diversifying the number of available species with better-adapted provenances. It is therefore crucial to provide forest owners and managers with empirical evidences on the potential performance of alternative species/provenances under a future climate. However, most of the current available information is originated from models that do not account for species/provenance plasticity, nor climatic conditions outside their current distribution. With the aim of reducing the uncertainty in the selection of adapted material, the REINFFORCE arboreta network was established along the European Atlantic arc (between latitudes 37° - 58° N) to test current and alternative species/provenances under contemporary and future climates. We present the field performance results of 33 different tree species under the wide gradient of climatic conditions covered by the 38 innovative network sites. We identified the climate drivers which better explain growth and survival performance, and the best and worst performing species under different climatic conditions. We also present a risk analysis for predicted performance for RCP 4.5 and 8.5 climate change scenarios. Our results will improve the knowledge about the site - climate matching of alternative planting species and the prediction of its behaviour in response to future climate, providing evidences for recommended plantation material with real adaptive capacity to climate change. CY - Curitiba DA - 2019/05/10/ PY - 2019 UR - https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/events/691/program-app/submission/92266 ER -