Modelling the windthrow risk for simulated forest stands of Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.)

Cucchi, Véronique; Meredieu, Céline; Stokes, Alexia; Coligny, François de; Suárez, Juan Carlos Pinilla; Gardiner, Barry

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2005.03.019

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“…In addition to species-specific attributes, other important risk factors considered to influence storm damage are stand or tree dimension (e.g., height or taper; Cucchi et al 2005), site characteristics, and the impact of silvicultural treatments. In cases where height information is not available, some studies use age or diameter information as proxies for height (Rich et al 2007).…”

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Storm damage of Douglas-fir unexpectedly high compared to Norway spruce

Albrecht

Kohnle

Hanewinkel

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Annals of Forest Science

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& Methods Generalized linear mixed models and boosted regression trees were applied to recorded storm damage of individual trees from long-term experimental plots in southwest Germany. This included two major winter storm events in 1990 and 1999. Over 40 candidate predictors were tested for their explanatory power for storm damage and summarized into predictor categories for further interpretation. & Results The two most important categories associated with storm damage were timber removals and topographic or site information, explaining between 18 and 54 % of storm damage risk, respectively. Remarkably, general damage levels were not different between Douglas-fir and Norway spruce.& Conclusion Under current forest management approaches, Douglas-fir may be considered a species with high storm risk in Central Europe, comparable to that of Norway spruce.

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Storm damage of Douglas-fir unexpectedly high compared to Norway spruce

Albrecht

Kohnle

Hanewinkel

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Annals of Forest Science

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“…Without determining that relationship, the methods can only be applied to a particular stand. That is, a statistical model created for a particular stand could not be used for any other stand type (Cucchi et al 2005). Jalkanen and Mattila (2000) emphasized that the statistical approaches did not indicate high damage occurrence in the stand but absolute damage risks in individual forest stands.…”

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A review of strategies for wind damage assessment in Japanese forests

Kamimura

Shiraishi

2007

Journal of Forest Research

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Forest management for minimizing wind damage risk requires predicting future wind damage as accurately as possible. However, previous studies carried out in Japan mostly focused on field observation and not on an extensive estimate of damage in various regions. This paper, therefore, aims to understand better approaches to the assessment of wind damage in Japan. First, basic descriptions of wind damage were reviewed including the process and types of tree and stand failures. Several factors relating to wind damage were also described including biological factors and stand characteristics. Second, the current methods of wind damage risk assessment were classified such as (1) observational/empirical, (2) statistical, and (3) mechanistic methods. Of the current methods, the mechanistic methods were acceptable in terms of their prediction of wind damage using the mechanistic behaviour of tree and stand as a result of wind pressure. Third, this paper reviewed previous case studies in Japan and showed that most studies of wind damage focused on particular typhoon events. Their conclusions might be difficult to apply to other settings for the estimation of future wind damage risk with the changes of stand condition (thinning, gap creation, etc.). Therefore, the mechanistic methods would be one of the most powerful approaches to estimate the possibility of future wind damage risk with changes of stand conditions. Further studies are required to develop the methods of wind damage risk assessment in Japan including the mechanical behaviour of tree and stand as a result of wind (typhoon) phenomena.

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“…Even-aged management is known to favor the development of trees with higher H:D ratios, which in turn may lead to lower overall stand windfirmness. Ideally, the analyses that were performed here should be based on H:D ratio equations or should incorporate tree height [30,31]. To our knowledge, equations similar to those of Canham and Nolet [16,17], providing windthrow probabilities as a function of wind severity and H:D ratio, are not available in the literature for North American hardwood species.…”

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Long-Term Susceptibility of Even- and Uneven-Aged Northern Hardwood Stands to Partial Windthrow

Nolet

Béland

2017

Forests

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Abstract:While uneven-aged silviculture may appear preferable to even-aged silviculture in terms of stand susceptibility to windthrow (major wind damage), the scientific evidence is equivocal on this issue, because the two systems do not operate over the same time frame. The goal of this study was to evaluate the windthrow susceptibility of even-and uneven-aged stands over a 100-year period. Susceptibility to windthrow of North American hardwood stands was evaluated by coupling a stand growth model (Forest Vegetation Simulator, or FVS) to stem windthrow probability equations from the literature. This coupling was straightforward given that FVS provides the diameter at breast height (DBH) of each tree within a stand over the simulation period. Windthrow susceptibility equations also use DBH to calculate stem windthrow probability. Our results show that average loss due to windthrow under uneven-aged management can be twice that observed under even-aged management at moderate wind severity for sugar maple-dominated stands. This result should be interpreted with caution because of the impossibility in our simulations of considering differences in tree form development between the two approaches. Nevertheless, this study clearly shows that even-/uneven-aged silviculture comparisons should be made on a long-term basis since uneven-aged stands are continuously susceptible to windthrow, while even-aged stands tend to be little affected by windthrow in their early developmental stages.

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Modelling the windthrow risk for simulated forest stands of Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.)

Cited by 72 publications

References 43 publications

Storm damage of Douglas-fir unexpectedly high compared to Norway spruce

Storm damage of Douglas-fir unexpectedly high compared to Norway spruce

A review of strategies for wind damage assessment in Japanese forests

Long-Term Susceptibility of Even- and Uneven-Aged Northern Hardwood Stands to Partial Windthrow

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