Decision Support Tools and Strategies to Simulate Forest Landscape Evolutions Integrating Forest Owner Behaviour: A Review from the Case Studies of the European Project, INTEGRAL

Orazio, Christophe; Montoya, Rebeca Cordero; Régolini, Margot; Borges, José G.; García-Gonzalo, Jordi; Barreiro, Susana; Botequim, Brigite; Marques, Susete; Sedmák, Róbert; Smreček, Róbert; Brodrechtová, Yvonne; Brukas, Vilis; Chirici, Gherardo; Marchetti, Marco; Moshammer, Ralf; Biber, Peter; Corrigan, Edwin; Eriksson, Ljusk Ola; Favero, Matteo; Galev, Emil; Hengeveld, G.M.; Kavaliauskas, Marius; Mozgeris, Gintautas; Navrátil, Rudolf; Nieuwenhuis, Maarten; Paligorov, Ivan; Pettenella, D.; Stanislovaitis, Andrius; Tomé, Margarida; Trubins, Renats; Tuček, Ján; Vizzarri, Matteo; Wallin, Ida; Pretzsch, Hans; Sallnäs, Ola

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“…The drawback, however, is that the output variables were not a priori comparable across CSAs, due to e.g., different definitions and input variables. This has been a major obstacle for previous European-wide studies (Biber et al, 2015;Orazio et al, 2017). For this reason, a pre-condition for inclusion in this study was that all CSAs need to apply a common standard for output information that was defined and established across all simulation models and DSSs (Nordström et al, 2019).…”

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Forest Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, and Wood Production: Modeling Synergies and Trade-Offs for Ten Forest Landscapes Across Europe

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Forest Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, and Wood Production: Modeling Synergies and Trade-Offs for Ten Forest Landscapes Across Europe

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“…To describe the future trends of forest resource development, we use a forest decision support system. The early forest decision support systems were used to facilitate the evaluation of future woody biomass availability and potential timber resources to support policy measures aimed for sustainable timber supply; however, later there are numerous examples available of the successful decision support system application to modeling future trends of other forest ecosystem services, balancing wood production with other forest functions [27][28][29][30][31][32]. After the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, forest monitoring and resource projections became an important field of forest decision support systems application [33].…”

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Spatial Pattern of Climate Change Effects on Lithuanian Forestry

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Brukas

Pivoriūnas

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Research Highlights: Validating modelling approach which combines global framework conditions in the form of climate and policy scenarios with the use of forest decision support system to assess climate change impacts on the sustainability of forest management. Background and Objectives: Forests and forestry have been confirmed to be sensitive to climate. On the other hand, human efforts to mitigate climate change influence forests and forest management. To facilitate the evaluation of future sustainability of forest management, decision support systems are applied. Our aims are to: (1) Adopt and validate decision support tool to incorporate climate change and its mitigation impacts on forest growth, global timber demands and prices for simulating future trends of forest ecosystem services in Lithuania, (2) determine the magnitude and spatial patterns of climate change effects on Lithuanian forests and forest management in the future, supposing that current forestry practices are continued. Materials and Methods: Upgraded version of Lithuanian forestry simulator Kupolis was used to model the development of all forests in the country until 2120 under management conditions of three climate change scenarios. Selected stand-level forest and forest management characteristics were aggregated to the level of regional branches of the State Forest Enterprise and analyzed for the spatial and temporal patterns of climate change effects. Results: Increased forest growth under a warmer future climate resulted in larger tree dimensions, volumes of growing stock, naturally dying trees, harvested assortments, and also higher profits from forestry activities. Negative impacts were detected for the share of broadleaved tree species in the standing volume and the tree species diversity. Climate change effects resulted in spatially clustered patterns-increasing stand productivity, and amounts of harvested timber were concentrated in the regions with dominating coniferous species, while the same areas were exposed to negative dynamics of biodiversity-related forest attributes. Current forest characteristics explained 70% or more of the variance of climate change effects on key forest and forest management attributes. Conclusions: Using forest decision support systems, climate change scenarios and considering the balance of delivered ecosystem services is suggested as a methodological framework for validating forest management alternatives aiming for more adaptiveness in Lithuanian forestry.

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“…In fact, both Bauhus et al (2013) and Boncina (2011) highlighted the importance of nature-based (close-to-nature) silvicultural system referring to the stand level compositional context (e.g., respecting local site conditions) in integrating nature conservation to ecosystem management framework developed in this study. Another review by Orazio et al (2017) emphasized the landscape level approach to promote sustainably and vulnerability in forest management planning. Baskent (2018) reviewed the advancements in multiple use forest management planning concept, exploring some components of planning, highlighting the need for improved stand projection models to account for climate changes, upgraded functionality of DSS to accommodate various ecosystem services, use of expert knowledge, better communication with the stakeholders and opportunity to analyze trade-offs.…”

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A Framework for Addressing Multiple Ecosystem Services in Forest Management Planning

Başkent

Borges

Kašpar

2020

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Background: Forest policy and decision makers are challenged by the need to balance the increasing demand for multiple ecosystem services while addressing the impacts of natural disturbances (e.g. wildfires, droughts, wind, insect attacks) and global change scenarios (e.g. climate change) on its potential supply. This challenge provides the motivation for the development of a framework for incorporating concerns with a wide range of ecosystem services in multiple criteria management planning contexts. Thus, the paper focused on both the analysis of the current state-of-the art in forest management planning and the development of a conceptual framework to accommodate various components in a forest ecosystem management planning process.Results: Based on a thorough recent classification of forest management planning problems and the state-of-the-art research, the key dimensions of that framework and the process were defined. The emphasis is on helping identify how concerns with a wide range of ecosystem services may be analyzed and better understood by forest ecosystem management planning. This research discusses the potential of contemporary management planning approaches to address multiple forest ecosystem services. It highlights the need of a landscape-level perspective and of spatial resolution to integrate multiple ecosystem services. It discusses the importance of methods and tools that may help support the involvement of stakeholders and public participation in hierarchical planning processes. Conclusions: The research addressed the need of methods and tools that may encapsulate the ecological, economic and social complexity of forest ecosystem management to provide an efficient plan, information about tradeoffs between ecosystem services as well as the sensitivity of the plan to uncertain parameters (e.g. prices, climate change) in a timely manner.

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Decision Support Tools and Strategies to Simulate Forest Landscape Evolutions Integrating Forest Owner Behaviour: A Review from the Case Studies of the European Project, INTEGRAL

Cited by 25 publications

References 36 publications

Forest Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, and Wood Production: Modeling Synergies and Trade-Offs for Ten Forest Landscapes Across Europe

Forest Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, and Wood Production: Modeling Synergies and Trade-Offs for Ten Forest Landscapes Across Europe

Spatial Pattern of Climate Change Effects on Lithuanian Forestry

A Framework for Addressing Multiple Ecosystem Services in Forest Management Planning

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