Foreword ........................................................ 3
Acknowledgements ................................................ 7
Executive summary .............................................. 11
Part I
The carbon cycle in temperate and Mediterranean forests
Chapter 1. The forest carbon cycle: generalities, definitions
and scales .................................................. 19
Denis Loustau, Serge Rambal
Chapter 2. Environmental control of carbon fluxes in forest
ecosystems in France: a comparison of temperate,
Mediterranean and tropical forests .......................... 27
Bernard Longdoz, André Granier, Denis Loustau, Mark
Bakker, Sylvain Delzon, Andrew S. Kowalski, Serge Rambal,
Éric Dufrêne, Damien Bonal, Yann Nouvellon
Chapter 3. Dynamics of soil carbon and moder horizons
related to age in pine and beech stands ..................... 55
Bernard Guillet, Jean-Robert Disnar, Denis Loustau,
Jérôme Balesdent
Chapter 4. Estimating carbon stocks in forest stands:
1. Methodological developments ................................. 79
Laurent Saint-André, Patrick Vallet, Gérôme Pignard,
Jean-Luc Dupouey, Antoine Colin, Denis Loustau, Christine
Le Bas, Céline Meredieu, Yves Caraglio, Annabel Porté,
Nabila Hamza, Antoine Cazin, Yann Nouvellon,
Jean-François Dhôte
Chapter 5. Estimating carbon stocks and fluxes in forest
biomass:
2. Application to the French case based upon National
Forest Inventory data ...................................... 101
Jean-Luc Dupouey, Gérôme Pignard, Nabila Hamza,
Jean-François Dhôte
Part II
Forest under a changing climate
Chapter 6. Possible future climates in France ................ 133
Michel Déqué, Émmanuel Cloppet
Chapter 7. Forest tree phenology and climate change .......... 145
Isabelle Chuine
Chapter 8. Forest tree phenology in the French Permanent
Plot Network (RENECOFOR, ICP forest network) ............... 157
François Lebourgeois, Erwin Ulrich
Chapter 9. Modelling tools for predicting the carbon cycle ... 173
Hendrik Davi, Christophe François, Jérôme Ogée, Éric
Dufrêne, Philippe Ciais, Alexandre Bosc, Denis Loustau,
Guerric le Maire
Chapter 10. How will the production of French forests respond
to climate change? An integrated analysis from site to
country scale .............................................. 201
Philippe Ciais, Denis Loustau, Alexandre Bosc, Jérôme
Ogée, Éric Dufrêne, Christophe François, Hendrik Davi,
Nicolas Viovy, François Delage, Shilong Piao
Part III
Climate change and forest vulnerability
Chapter 11. Climate change and the biogeography of French
tree species: first results and perspectives ............... 231
Vincent Badeau, Jean-Luc Dupouey, Catherine Cluzeau,
Jacques Drapier, Christine Le Bas
Chapter 12. Simulating the effects of climate change on
geographical distribution and impact of forest
pathogenic fungi ........................................... 253
Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau, Valérie Belrose, Magali
Bergot, Gilles Capron, Émmanuel Cloppet, Claude Husson,
Dominique Piou, Gregory Reynaud, Cécile Robin, Benoît
Marçais
Chapter 13. Mediterranean forests, fire and carbon budget:
the threats of global change ............................... 281
Florent Mouillot, Serge Rambal, Roland Joffre,
Jean-Pierre Ratte
Abbreviations ................................................. 303
Contributors .................................................. 307
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