Global Climate Change and Human Impacts on Forest Ecosystems: Postglacial Development, Present Situation and Future Trends in Central Europe

The inclusion of forests as potential biological sinks in the Kyoto Prool to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1997 has attracted international attention and again has put scientific and political focus on the world's forests, regarding their state and development. The international discussion induced by the Kyoto Prool has clearly shown that not only the tropical rain forests are endangered by man's activities, but also that the forest ecosystems of bore...