Abstract
Degraded forests are among of the most important environmental and commercial problems around the world. Turkey has 22.74 million hectares of forest area, out of which 9.656 million ha (42%) are unproductive. To transform these unproductive forests into productive ones, forest restoration including rehabilitation is one of the best actions. In this sense, juniper species play an important role for degraded lands because they are drought-tolerant and withstand aridity and poor soils better than most timber species grown in Turkey. Therefore, this review presents the ecological considerations for the restoration of degraded forest lands in Turkey under the conditions of climate change. Within this framework, it focuses on the production of planting stock of juniper species, the significance of site-species matching, and post-planting site maintenance for successful rehabilitation.
Highlights
Degraded forests have lost much of their productivity, biodiversity and most of the ecological goods and services that they once provided (Lamb and Gilmour 2003)
This paper presents a review of the ecological features to use junipers for the rehabilitation of degraded forest lands
Even though several forest tree species are relevant in rehabilitation activities, this article focuses on species belonging to Juniperus, which is one of the dominant genera in Turkey both ecologically and economically. It focuses on the production of planting stock of juniper species, the significance of site-species matching, and postplanting site maintenance for successful rehabilitation
Summary
Juniperus L. for Rehabilitation of DegraIdSedS FNore1st8La4nd7s-in6Tu4rk8ey eISSN 1849-0891. Received: 31 Oct 2020; Revised: 31 Dec 2020; Accepted: 5 Jan 2021; Published online: 4 Feb 2021
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