scholarly journals Trade‐offs of forest management scenarios on forest carbon exchange and threatened and endangered species habitat

Ecosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nate G. McDowell ◽  
Zeli Tan ◽  
Matthew D. Hurteau ◽  
Rajiv Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Endangered Species ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Carbon Exchange ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Threatened And Endangered Species ◽  
Endangered Species Habitat

Engineering Simulation on Forest Carbon Balance under Different Tree Configuration Mode

2013 ◽  
Vol 295-298 ◽  
pp. 2324-2327
Author(s):  
Yue Feng Guo ◽  
Li Zhi Wu ◽  
Yun Feng Yao ◽  
Fu Cang Qin ◽  
Wei Qi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Industrial Systems ◽  
The North ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
C Cycle ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Plant Configuration

From a greenhouse gas policy standpoint, forests play an extremely important role in the exchange of carbon dioxide between the land and atmosphere. Because forest management has a potentially large effect on the entire forest carbon (C) cycle, and the biological and industrial systems are tightly coupled in the North region of China, simulation of varying management and forest product production scenarios are needed to explore trade-offs of managing forests for multiple objectives. Thus, an important consideration in management of forests is their present and future capacity to sequester C from the atmosphere. In this paper, C balance of the biological system was simulated under different management scenarios that were designed to test effects of plant configuration.

Spatially Referenced Decision Analysis of Long-Term Forest Management Scenarios in Southwestern Finland

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. 1850009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Sironen ◽  
Laura Mononen
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Numerical Information ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
Economic And Social Impacts

Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) of regional level long-term forest management scenarios was conducted by applying spatially explicit information to examine the trade-offs between ecological, economic and social impacts. Interval scale judgements were applied to mapped and numerical information jointly, while assessing the performance of alternative scenarios. The experts relied mostly on the numerical information, with which they might have been more confident and familiar. The weight elicitation was based on SMART using Swings (SMARTS) and SMART Exploiting Ranks (SMARTER). SMARTS resulted in two scenarios being quite equal either due to experts truly considering them equally important or being unconfident to express their weights applying SMARTS. SMARTER was considered more understandable, but lead to total utilities having wider range. However, impact information had a greater effect on the overall utility than the weighting. Future insights include use of dynamic approach, considering the issue more from ecosystem services point of view and tighter integration of participatory MCDA and geographic information systems (GIS).

Trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services under different forest management scenarios – The LEcA tool

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Pang ◽  
Eva-Maria Nordström ◽  
Hannes Böttcher ◽  
Renats Trubins ◽  
Ulla Mörtberg
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Trade Offs

scholarly journals Forest management scenarios in a changing climate: trade-offs between carbon, timber, and old forest

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 503-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan K. Creutzburg ◽  
Robert M. Scheller ◽  
Melissa S. Lucash ◽  
Stephen D. LeDuc ◽  
Mark G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Trade Offs

scholarly journals Waldbewirtschaftung zur Senkenerhöhung? Mögliche Konfliktfelder und Synergien | Increasing carbon sinks by forest management? Conflicts and synergies

2008 ◽  
Vol 159 (9) ◽  
pp. 281-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Thürig ◽  
Edgar Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Kyoto Protocol ◽  
Carbon Sources ◽  
National Forest Inventory ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Carbon Sinks ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Growing Stock ◽  
Federal Institute ◽  
Management Conflicts

A new function of forests was brought into focus by the Kyoto Protocol: forests as carbon sinks. Switzerland decided to have forest management taken into account under the Kyoto Protocol (Art. 3.4). This new forest function brings about new conflicts. The Swiss Forestry statistics and the Swiss National Forest Inventory show harvesting amounts are increasing and the trend seems set to continue. In a study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) different forest management scenarios were analyzed as was their influence both on the amount harvested in the long term and the forest sink effect. The study focussed on the following question: How can increased forest management be combined with forest carbon sinks and where are the limits? The scenarios range from reduced forest management and corresponding forest carbon sinks to a reduction of growing stock with corresponding carbon sources. Results show that for a limited time span both aspects can be considered on a national scale. Further studies should focus on interactions with other forest functions such as preservation of biodiversity, damage to forests and the effect of climate change.

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