Editorial: “Forest Inventories at the European level”

Leban, Jean-Michel; Bontemps, Jean‐Daniel

doi:10.1007/s13595-016-0586-x

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“…On the international level, in 1985, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE-CLRTAP) launched the International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests with the aim of monitoring the spatial and temporal variation of forest conditions in relation to anthropogenic and natural stress factors [20]. On the national level, forest monitoring is based mostly on National Forest Inventory (NFI) programmes, which provide data on the tree species, growing stock, increment, and status of timber and non-timber forest resources [19,21]. Although forest monitoring (e.g., International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests) (ICP Forest)) and NFI provide relevant data indispensable for forest management and the conservation of ecosystems, they do not share common targets with a genetic monitoring approach.…”

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The Interplay between Forest Management Practices, Genetic Monitoring, and Other Long-Term Monitoring Systems

Kavaliauskas

Fussi

Westergren

et al. 2018

Forests

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The conservation and sustainable use of forests and forest genetic resources (FGR) is a challenging task for scientists and foresters. Forest management practices can affect diversity on various levels: genetic, species, and ecosystem. Understanding past natural disturbance dynamics and their level of dependence on human disturbances and management practices is essential for the conservation and management of FGR, especially in the light of climate change. In this review, forest management practices and their impact on genetic composition are reviewed, synthesized, and interpreted in the light of existing national and international forest monitoring schemes and concepts from various European projects. There is a clear need and mandate for forest genetic monitoring (FGM), while the requirements thereof lack complementarity with existing forest monitoring. Due to certain obstacles (e.g., the lack of unified FGM implementation procedures across the countries, high implementation costs, large number of indicators and verifiers for FGM proposed in the past), merging FGM with existing forest monitoring is complicated. Nevertheless, FGM is of paramount importance for forestry and the natural environment in the future, regardless of the presence or existence of other monitoring systems, as it provides information no other monitoring system can yield. FGM can provide information related to adaptive and neutral genetic diversity changes over time, on a species and/or on a population basis and can serve as an early warning system for the detection of potentially harmful changes of forest adaptability. In addition, FGM offers knowledge on the adaptive potential of forests under the changing environment, which is important for the long-term conservation of FGR.

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The Interplay between Forest Management Practices, Genetic Monitoring, and Other Long-Term Monitoring Systems

Kavaliauskas

Fussi

Westergren

et al. 2018

Forests

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GIS Coop: networks of silvicultural trials for supporting forest management under changing environment

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Bailly

Balandier³

et al. 2018

Annals of Forest Science

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& Key message The diversity of forest management systems and the contrasted competition level treatments applied make the experimental networks of the GIS Coop, a nationwide testing program in the field of emerging forestry topics within the framework of the ongoing global changes. & Context To understand the dynamics of forest management systems and build adapted growth models for new forestry practices, long-term experiment networks remain more crucial than ever. & Aims Two principles are at the basis of the experimental design of the networks of the Scientific Interest Group Cooperative for data on forest tree and stand growth (GIS Coop): contrasted and extreme silvicultural treatments in diverse pedoclimatic contexts. & Methods Various forest management systems are under study: regular and even-aged stands of Douglas fir, sessile and pedunculate oaks, Maritime and Laricio pines, mixed stands of sessile oak, European silver fir, and Douglas fir combined with other species. Highly contrasted stand density regimes, from open growth to self-thinning, are formalized quantitatively. & Results One hundred and eighty-five sites representing a total of 1206 plots have been set up in the last 20 years, where trees are measured regularly (every 3 to 10 years). The major outputs of these networks for research and management are the calibration/ This article is part of the Topical collection on Mensuration and modelling for forestry in a changing environment.

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Editorial: “Forest Inventories at the European level”

Cited by 2 publications

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The Interplay between Forest Management Practices, Genetic Monitoring, and Other Long-Term Monitoring Systems

The Interplay between Forest Management Practices, Genetic Monitoring, and Other Long-Term Monitoring Systems

GIS Coop: networks of silvicultural trials for supporting forest management under changing environment

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