Assessment of multiple climate change effects on plantation forests in New Zealand (Review paper 2018)

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This study synthesizes predicted climate change impacts and future biosecurity threats to New Zealand’s plantation forests, including:

1. Projected productivity increases for radiata pine due to changing climatic conditions (slight) and increasing CO2 (+19% by 2040);
2. increases in wind risk due to trees becoming taller and more slender;
3. 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;
4. slight increases in needle case diseases depending on the disease and region;
5. possible increase in pest damage and (6) likely increase in invasive weedy and damaging tree species.

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