Beyond resilience: Responses to changing climate and disturbance regimes in temperate forest landscapes across the Northern Hemisphere

Climate change has profound impacts on forest ecosystem dynamics and could lead to the emergence of novel ecosystems via changes in species composition, forest structure, and potentially a complete loss of tree cover. Disturbances fundamentally shape those dynamics: the prevailing disturbance regime determines the inherent variability of a system, and its climate-mediated change could accelerate forest transformation. We used the individual-based forest landscape and disturbance model iLand to investigate the resilience of three protected temperate forest landscapes on three continents – selected to represent a gradient from low to high disturbance activity – to changing climate and disturbance regimes. In scenarios of sustained strong global warming, natural disturbances increased across all landscapes regardless of projected changes in precipitation (up to a seven-fold increase in disturbance rate over the 180-year simulation period). Landscapes with historically high disturbance acti..., The dataset was simulated using the individual-based forest landscape and disturbance model iLand (Model page).
 , , # Beyond resilience: Responses to changing climate and disturbance regimes in temperate forest landscapes across the Northern Hemisphere

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pc866t1zt](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pc866t1zt)

## Description of the data

We used the individual-based forest landscape and disturbance model iLand to investigate the resilience of three protected temperate forest landscapes on three continents – selected to represent a gradient from low to high disturbance activity – to changing climate and disturbance regimes.

### Input files

All input files needed to replicate the simulations for the three landscapes in iLand ([https://iland-model.org/](https://iland-model.org/)) are available in the Zendodo repository associated with this data repository.

Folder name (n=3): \"iLand_project\" [landscape]; separated with \"_\"

* project files (.xml): one for running scenarios without climate change (\"baseline\"), one for running scenarios with climate change (\"change\")

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