Impact of silvicultural treatment and forest operation on soil and regeneration in Mediterranean Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) coppice with standards

Marchi, Enrico; Picchio, Rodolfo; Mederski, Piotr S.; Vusić, Dinko; Perugini, Mattia; Venanzi, Rachele

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.06.084

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“…Stand conditions: extracted timber volume [28,32], soil type and texture [33][34][35], soil moisture content [25], soil's organic matter content, site topography [34,35], stand density and canopy extension [34,35]; 2. Yard logistics: harvesting system, advanced level of logging operation planning, type of machines, logging method [28,32], machine and load mass, tire pressure, vibrations transmitted by vehicles [20], intensity of machine traffic [32], weather conditions during skidding operation, training, experience and expertise of operators as well as planning and worker proficiency [36]; 3. Forest road network characteristics: density of roads and skid trails, slope gradient of skid trail [20].…”

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How and How Much, Do Harvesting Activities Affect Forest Soil, Regeneration and Stands?

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Purpose of Review Lowering the impact of forest utilisation on the forest environment is a part of the improvement in sustainable forest management. As part of forest utilisation, timber harvesting can also cause environmental implications. The main impact of forest operations is on the soil, on regeneration and on the residual stand. The aim of the present review was to identify the state of the art in forest utilisation, identifying how and how much forest operations affect forest soil, regeneration and the remaining stand. Particular attention was paid to the level of impact and potential to limit this. Recent Findings There are a large number of publications tackling forest harvesting, but most of them do not give a comprehensive framework and they mainly focus on one or very few aspects of forest damage. In order to improve general knowledge of the impact of forest operations, it was proposed that the scope of recent findings should be examined and a compilation of the available results from different regions should be presented in one paper. Summary It was found that the least impactful machine-based forest operations were harvester-forwarder technologies, while a larger scale of damage could be expected from ground-based extraction systems (skidders) and cable yarders. Animal power, if applicable, tended to be very neutral to the forest environment. A decrease in damage is possible by optimising skid trail and strip road planning, careful completion of forest operations and training for operators. The existence of legal documents controlling post-harvesting stand damage are rare and have been implemented in only two countries; there is no post-harvesting control on soil damage and natural regeneration.

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“…For other simpler silvicultural techniques such as coppicing, clear cutting, or shelterwood, the limited level of road planning and applied logging technologies do not allow for a proper low-impact operation [29]. Several studies suggest reducing the area of soil disturbance and soil compaction by planning and designing an appropriate forest road network or temporary trails, thus reducing the needs of vehicle movement on forest ground [5,6,[30][31][32][33]. Forest utilization planning, in the case of manual felling, should limit skidding vehicle movement solely on forest infrastructure network without descending/ascending into the forest stand [6,[30][31][32][33].…”

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“…Several studies suggest reducing the area of soil disturbance and soil compaction by planning and designing an appropriate forest road network or temporary trails, thus reducing the needs of vehicle movement on forest ground [5,6,[30][31][32][33]. Forest utilization planning, in the case of manual felling, should limit skidding vehicle movement solely on forest infrastructure network without descending/ascending into the forest stand [6,[30][31][32][33]. In the case of fully mechanized felling, it should be more important to plan temporary trails and to improve specific actions to limit soil damage [5].…”

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“…Suitable planning requires knowledge of the production costs of programmed silvicultural treatments [34] and of forest road networks [18]. In particular, bunching and extraction operations are important steps in the production of wood-based forest products, but they are also the main soil and stand impact factors [18][19][20]26,27,32,35,36]. Bunching and extraction operations may be carried out with various tools and methods, selected according to technical, economic, and environmental aspects.…”

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“…Both the forest conservation approach and the important role of wood production have to be taken into account in the decision-making process for forestry operations, with a view to sustainable management. Within this complex frame, many approaches were developed focused on sustainable forest management, reduced impact logging, and continuous cover forestry [29,32,43]. However, none of the techniques referenced in the cited studies specifically considered road management.…”

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Inappropriate forest management degrades the quality of soil resources. Soil erosion, for instance, leads to decreased soil fertility and landscape quality. Coppice‐wood management includes risk factors for soil erosion due to the partial and temporary lack of soil cover, and this review highlights the importance of considering both an adequate methodology and objective interpretation of findings. This critical review was carried out due to the substantial deficiencies in the research design and methodology, analysis and interpretation of data, and conclusions in the paper that are not supported by their findings. In this paper, we provide a different interpretation of their data, which reveals absence of substantial risk of soil erosion, even in the short period after coppicing when the soil is most exposed. We aim to provide a clearer context for readers about the impact of coppice management in Quercus ilex stands in the south of Sardinia.

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Impact of silvicultural treatment and forest operation on soil and regeneration in Mediterranean Turkey oak (Quercus cerris L.) coppice with standards

Cited by 42 publications

References 64 publications

How and How Much, Do Harvesting Activities Affect Forest Soil, Regeneration and Stands?

How and How Much, Do Harvesting Activities Affect Forest Soil, Regeneration and Stands?

The Application of Two Approaches Using GIS Technology Implementation in Forest Road Network Planning in an Italian Mountain Setting

A critical analysis of Vacca, A., Aru, F., and Ollesch, G. (2017). Short‐term impact of coppice management on soil in a Quercus ilex L. Stand in Sardinia. Land Degradation & Development, 28(2), 553–565

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