Forest land managers are faced with unprecedented global pressures to produce resources for human consumption, while still maintaining essential ecosystem services benefiting society at multiple spatial scales. These global pressures alone present daunting challenges to sustainable forest management (SFM) worldwide, but they are occurring in the context of an unprecedented rate of climate change that is anticipated to have drastic effects on forest ecosystem productivity and function. The rate and scale of these social, economic, and environmental changes facing forestry worldwide underscores an urgent need to understand their multiscale interactions and use that insight to guide SFM planning efforts into an uncertain future.
