Integrating data from National Forest Inventories into socio-cultural forest monitoring – a new approach

Hegetschweiler, K. Tessa; Fischer, Christoph; Moretti, Marco; Hunziker, Marcel

doi:10.1080/02827581.2020.1799066

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“…Our study demonstrated the capacity of the new DSS prototype to provide enterprise-specific scenario estimates under changing climate and alternative management strategies, enabling stakeholders to take scientifically well-founded decisions for sustainable forest management. In particular, the new DSS offers: (1) a stronger link to inventory data and forest growth conditions in Switzerland by incorporating the new forest model SwissStandSim (Zell et al, 2020), the stand initialization approach by Mey et al (2021) and the allometric functions for tree biomass and carbon content based on the latest national forest inventory (Didion et al, 2019;Herold et al, 2019), (2) a climate sensitive framework, which is of increasing importance for strategic planning (Mina et al, 2017), (3) a widened portfolio of BES indicators, integrating also the socially important recreation function (e.g., Hegetschweiler et al, 2020), as well as an updated framework for harvested wood products and substitution effects for carbon sequestration (FOEN, 2020), and (4) a revised MCDA framework allowing stakeholders to perform trade-off analyses under different management strategies and weighting preferences. Altogether, the new DSS provides a flexible and dynamic tool for strategic (i.e., long-term) planning of sustainable forest management under changing climatic conditions and political/strategic goals.…”

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“…Improvements comprise an automatic handling of input data (e.g., inventory datasets), a more efficient software framework for faster computation, and an extension of the indicator framework. Additional indicators could for instance address further aspects of timber production (e.g., sustainability indicators for forest operations, Schweier et al, 2019), forest infrastructure (Bont et al, 2019), biodiversity (e.g., species associated with different successional stages, Hilmers et al, 2018), recreation (e.g., Hegetschweiler et al, 2020) as well as soil-and water related indicators (e.g., groundwater recharge, Schwaiger et al, 2018). Further aspects of key importance for forest managers are information about the uncertainty of the DSS results (Knoke et al, 2016), as well as the monetarization of BES (Gret-Regamey et al, 2017).…”

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“…Forest managers therefore find themselves in the difficult position to balance the political demands in biodiversity promotion and ecosystem service provisioning with other socio-economic demands (Borges et al, 2014). Besides the importance of forests for carbon sequestration, timber production and biodiversity, progressive urbanization leads to an increasing demand in recreation value of forests (e.g., Hegetschweiler et al, 2020). Furthermore, many forests offer protection functions, e.g., in mountainous areas where forests play a key role in protecting settlements and infrastructure against gravitational hazards, such as rockfall, avalanches and landslides (Frehner et al, 2005).…”

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A Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Strategic Planning at the Swiss Forest Enterprise Level: Coping With Climate Change and Shifting Demands in Ecosystem Service Provisioning

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Blattert

Bont

et al. 2021

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Sustainable forest management plays a key role for forest biodiversity and the provisioning of ecosystem services (BES), including the important service of carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation. Forest managers, however, find themselves in the increasingly complex planning situation to balance the often conflicting demands in BES. To cope with this situation, a prototype of a decision support system (DSS) for strategic (long-term) planning at the forest enterprise level was developed in the present project. The DSS was applied at three case study enterprises (CSEs) in Northern Switzerland, two lowland and one higher-elevation enterprise, for a 50-year time horizon (2010 to 2060) under present climate and three climate change scenarios (‘wet’, ‘medium’, ‘dry’). BES provisioning (for biodiversity, timber production, recreation, protection against gravitational hazards and carbon sequestration) was evaluated for four management scenarios (no management, current (BAU), lower and higher management intensity) using a utility-based multi-criteria decision analysis. Additionally, four alternative preference scenarios for BES provisioning were investigated to evaluate the robustness of the results to shifting BES preferences. At all CSEs, synergies between carbon sequestration, biodiversity and protection function as well as trade-offs between carbon sequestration and timber production occurred. The BAU management resulted in the highest overall utility in 2060 for different climate and BES preference scenarios, with the exception of one lowland CSE under current BES preference, where a lower intensity management performed best. Although climate change had a relatively small effect on overall utility, individual BES indicators showed a negative climate change impact for the lowland CSEs and a positive effect for the higher elevation CSE. The patterns of overall utility were relatively stable to shifts in BES preferences, with exception of a shift toward a preference for carbon sequestration. Overall, the study demonstrates the potential of the DSS to investigate the development of multiple BES as well as their synergies and trade-offs for a set of lowland and mountainous forest enterprises. The new system incorporates a wide set of BES indicators, a strong empirical foundation and a flexible multi-criteria decision analysis, enabling stakeholders to take scientifically well-founded decisions under changing climatic conditions and political goals.

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A Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Strategic Planning at the Swiss Forest Enterprise Level: Coping With Climate Change and Shifting Demands in Ecosystem Service Provisioning

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“…Images with obvious human impact are mostly disliked in such studies. In previous studies examined the management effects on visitors' preferences in urban forests found that negative perceptions were held of forestry work signs including stumps and piles of cut trees (Heyman 2012;Tessa Hegetschweiler et al 2020). They further concluded that a key factor in the participants' preferences was "natural" versus "human-made".…”

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Effects of stand types on recreational preferences of society in the Sub-Alpine Zone, northern Turkey

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The main objective of this study was to examine how different stand types influenced the tendency of visitors for varying recreational activities (i.e., hiking, trekking, camping and hunting) from 1993 to 2018 in the surrounding areas of Uluyayla Natural Recreation Site in Bartin, northern Turkey. A total of 627 visitors were selected on a voluntary basis, and questioned in the form of questionnaire. Most of the participants were in the age of 21–40 years old, and they were mostly (62.4%) male. Most of the participants (82.7%) lived in cities, while 62.8% of them were tourists when visiting the site. In determining the preferences of the visitors regarding the stand types for different recreational activities, several images of each stand were shared with them, and they were asked which stand type they would prefer for a given recreation activity (i.e., hiking, tracking, camping and hunting). A range of options from 1 to 5 in Likert’s scale was used in evaluating the given responses. The degree of positive and negative effects was examined via trend analysis. It was found that stand type had influence on the preferences of visitors regarding the recreational activities. In general, unmanaged and moderately treated stands were more preferred by visitors for the recreational purposes, compared to the previously managed stands. On the other hand, visitors’ preference for the activities were different during two periods (i.e., 1993–2005 and 2006–2018). For each recreational activity, there was an increasing trend from 1993 to 2018. There had been a continuous increase for hunting since 1996, and for trekking and camping after 1999. The increases between 1993–1996 and 1996–1999 were likely due to the increasing awareness of the society as a result of the training and consciousness raising activities for nature conservation. The demand on the recreational activities continuously increased in unmanaged and moderately treated stands, while no significant changes were examined in the previously managed stands. The study points out that forest planning and management should consider different needs of visitors for recreational infrastructure.

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“…However, expert surveys present several limits inherent to the methodology (e.g., time and cost, low response rate if the survey is not appropriately designed, potential biases in the analysis), which reduce their use and potential applications. To overcome the limitations of both of these methods, NFI data may be combined with stakeholder surveys that take technical considerations into account (Hegetschweiler et al 2020).…”

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Identification and spatial extent of understory plant species requiring vegetation control to ensure tree regeneration in French forests

Dumas

Dupouey

Gégout

et al. 2022

Annals of Forest Science

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Key message Fifteen species are most susceptible to require vegetation control during tree regeneration in the range of our study. Among these 15 species, Rubus fruticosus, Pteridium aquilinum, and Molinia caerulea cover each more than 300,000 ha of open-canopy forests. Context Vegetation control, i.e., the reduction of competitive species cover, is often required to promote tree seedling establishment during the forest regeneration stage. The necessity to control understory vegetation largely depends on the species to be controlled. In order to plan forest renewal operations, it is critical to identify which species require vegetation control during the regeneration stage and to quantify the forest area affected by these species. Aims We aimed at identifying the main species requiring vegetation control and at estimating the forest area they cover at the national level. Methods Using National Forest Inventory data, we created four indicators based on two levels of plant cover, cross-referenced with two levels of canopy opening, and compared them to the outcome of a survey of forest manager practices. Results The best indicator was the one that represented the proportion of forests with open canopy where the species was present with a large cover in the understory. In non-Mediterranean France, according to the indicator, a total of 15 species were found to frequently require vegetation control during the tree regeneration stage. Pteridium aquilinum, Molinia caerulea, and Rubus fruticosus were the main species, and each covered more than 300,000 ha of forest with open canopies, representing about 13% of the total forest area with open canopies outside of the Mediterranean area. Conclusions Forests covered by species requiring vegetation control according to forest managers represent a large share of the forest area undergoing regeneration. This study provides the first list of species that require vegetation control based on a methodological protocol that makes it possible to calculate the area associated with each species.

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Integrating data from National Forest Inventories into socio-cultural forest monitoring – a new approach

Abstract: Integrating data from National Forest Inventories into socio-cultural forest monitoring -a new approach

Cited by 13 publications

References 35 publications

A Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Strategic Planning at the Swiss Forest Enterprise Level: Coping With Climate Change and Shifting Demands in Ecosystem Service Provisioning

A Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Strategic Planning at the Swiss Forest Enterprise Level: Coping With Climate Change and Shifting Demands in Ecosystem Service Provisioning

Effects of stand types on recreational preferences of society in the Sub-Alpine Zone, northern Turkey

Identification and spatial extent of understory plant species requiring vegetation control to ensure tree regeneration in French forests

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