AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR OBTAINING DATA ON FOREST PLANTATIONS FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT PURPOSES

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-174
Author(s):  
D.B. GOROKHOV ◽  
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O.K. DANILENKO ◽  
D.S. KHLYSTOV ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Automation Technology

scholarly journals Land Use Spatial Optimization for Sustainable Wood Utilization at the Regional Level: A Case Study from Vietnam

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Nguyen Dang Cuong ◽  
Köhl Michael ◽  
Mues Volker
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Forest Landscape ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Landscape Restoration ◽  
Forest Landscape Restoration ◽  
Wood Utilization

Forest landscape restoration is a widely accepted approach to sustainable forest management. In addition to revitalizing degraded sites, forest landscape restoration can increase the supply of sustainable timber and thereby reduce logging in natural forests. The current study presents a spatial land use optimization model and utilizes a linear programming algorithm that integrates timber production and timber processing chains to meet timber demand trade-offs and timber supply. The objective is to maximize yield and profit from forest plantations under volatile timber demands. The model was parameterized for a case study in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam, where most forest plantations grow Acacia mangium (A. mangium). Data were obtained from field surveys on tree growth, as well as from questionnaires to collect social-economic information and determine the timber demand of local wood processing mills. The integration of land use and wood utilization approaches reduces the amount of land needed to maintain a sustainable timber supply and simultaneously leads to higher yields and profits from forest plantations. This forest management solution combines economic and timber yield aspects and promotes measures focused on economic sustainability and land resource efficiency.

RENOVATION OF THE FOREST MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN TERMS OF THEIR INTEGRATION INTO THE MARKET ENVIRONMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-94
Author(s):  
Olga Gamzina
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
The State ◽  
State Agency ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Market Environment ◽  
Market Mechanisms ◽  
Forest Use

The article considers modern transformations of forestry in Ukraine, including the specifics of its integration into the market environment. It is shown that the currently formed model of forest use has led to a continuous reduction of forest resources and deterioration of the quality of their structure. It is essential to revise the current model, including the forest management system. Currently, more than two thirds of the country's forest resources are available to the State Forest Resources Agency. However, due to the gradual transfer of the entire forest resource sector to market mechanisms of work, it is necessary to provide in advance to ensure its restoration, as well as the implementation of the most acceptable format of private forest use. The main result of the study is a conceptual vision of the new management structure. Due to the fact that in the future forestry will become more and more dependent on the private sector, the new management model should include exactly those tools that will be appropriate in market conditions. Currently, the State Agency for Forest Resources of Ukraine has very limited tools for such influence. The agency, when transferring the site for use, can only control the final result. However, the actual effectiveness of such control remains extremely low. In conditions when the bulk of wood will belong to private companies, it will be problematic to establish systematic monitoring in the country. That is why an effective economic and environmental mechanism of this type of control should be created in advance. Also, the transfer of forest use in the country requires early regulation of all production stages. That is, without such regulation it will be impossible to ensure proper compliance with the law. The introduction of market mechanisms for forest use should take place simultaneously with the introduction of comprehensive rules for the use of forest resources and the restoration of forest plantations. The main purpose of the article is to formulate the basis of a promising model of forest resources management in Ukraine. The problem is that now this area needs to be reformed and is in transition. The previous model of natural resource use in the country has led to a rapid reduction in the number of forest plantations.

Nested forest nutrient cycles: implications for plantation management

1993 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 694-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Q. Hendrickson ◽  
J. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Litter Production ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Nutrient Cycles ◽  
Natural Forests ◽  
Plantation Forest ◽  
Atmospheric Processes ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
Internal Storage ◽  
Storage Pools

Natural forests may be viewed as containing nested nutrient cycles: an "external" cycle mediated by atmospheric processes, a "soil" cycle of litter production and decay, and one or more "plant" cycles involving retranslocation and internal storage pools. The goal of plantation forest management should be to enhance all of these cycles. Stimulating the "external" cycle by adding fertilizer nutrients is likely to increase "soil" and "plant" cycling rates as well. A basic understanding of how these nested cycles are linked can improve the management of nutrients in forest plantations.

scholarly journals CREATING FOREST PLANTS OF MULTI-PURPOSE RESOURCE USE BY FORESTRY METHODS

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Ирина Прока ◽  
Irina Proka ◽  
Сергей Бабынин ◽  
Sergey Babynin
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Growth ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Potential Productivity ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
Rational Organization ◽  
Forest Users ◽  
Forest Plants

Based on the results of the analysis and assessment of the problem of meeting the growing needs of resource forest management in relatively densely populated areas with developed transport infrastructure, within the framework of the developed concept of ensuring the intensification of forest reproduction and use by creating forest plantations with silvicultural methods, one of the ways to solve the problem is to develop for the practical application of the target forest management systems for the creation of forest plantations of many special purpose resources, distinguished by relatively high ecological properties, potential for efficient integrated use of forest resources, which creates the possibility (due to their use) of preserving and reducing the intensity of exploitation of valuable forest ecosystems of natural and natural economic origin. To achieve this goal, based on the use of two types of technological organization of territories of different types of forests and potential productivity of cultivated plantation stands, the interrelated implementation of all activities of the forest regeneration cycle is provided. They are organically combined with a relatively intensive multi-purpose resource forest use throughout the forest reproduction cycle. In turn, effective measures for the protection and preservation of forests are ensured by integrating them into phased measures of thinning throughout all stages of forest growth, as well as by rational organization of the creation and use of forest plantations by silvicultural methods. At the same time, measures are provided for forest users to motivate the use of forest-established forest use - the creation and operation of forest plantations, taking into account the introduction of reasonable changes to the Forest Code to expand the possibilities of planted forest growing while preserving environmentally valuable forests.

scholarly journals Do Locals Have a Say? Community Experiences of Participation in Governing Forest Plantations in Tanzania

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed B. Degnet ◽  
Edwin van der Werf ◽  
Verina Ingram ◽  
Justus H.H. Wesseler
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Forest Stewardship Council ◽  
Responsible Investment ◽  
Forest Stewardship ◽  
Female Headed Households

As large-scale forest plantations expand in developing countries, concerns are rising about their relation to and integration with adjacent local communities. In developing countries with weak enforcement of property rights, private plantations are more likely than state-owned plantations to involve villagers in plantation’s activities in order to secure and guarantee their access to land and labor resources. Certification standards of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and adherence to responsible investment guidelines further strengthen this likelihood by requiring plantations to consult and engage local communities. Using household data from Tanzania, we assess households’ experiences with their participation in plantation activities by comparing the experiences of households in villages adjacent to private, FSC-certified plantations with those of households in villages adjacent to a non-certified, state-owned plantation. Our quantitative analyses show that households in the villages adjacent to the private, certified plantations are more likely to report to participate in plantation activities. Our results show that the certified plantations are more likely to respond to community complaints and grievances. We further find that male-headed households and households of plantation employees are more likely than female-headed households and households without plantation employees to participate in plantations’ activities. Our results imply that forest management certification can complement state policy approaches of sustainable forest management to enhance community participation in forest management.

scholarly journals The Impact of Forest Plantation Thinning on Flying Insect Community in Sukabumi Forest Management Unit

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
Ali Akbar ◽  
Ahmad Budiaman ◽  
Noor Farikhah Haneda
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Disturbance ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Management Unit ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Forest Plantation ◽  
Insect Community ◽  
Insect Communities ◽  
Thinning Intensity ◽  
The Impact

Insects are part of the forest ecosystem that plays an important role in the sustainability of the ecological functions of the forest plantations. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of thinning on insect communities and determine the types of insects which has potential to be bioindicators in order to assess the success of thinning in forest plantations. This research was conducted on forest plantation at the part of Forest Management Unit (BKPH) Cikawung and West Gede, Forest Management Resort (RPH) Ciguha, Forest Management Unit (KPH) Sukabumi Perum Perhutani Regional Division III West Java and Banten. The plot used in this research is a circular plot with a radius of 17.95 m. The traps used are malaise traps that is spread on thinning blocks at thinning intensity of 20%. The type of stand of thinning plots is Pinus merkusii in the age class 3. The obtained insects later identified to the morphospecies level. The results of the study show that thinning affect changes in environmental conditions and insect composition. In thinning blocks, there was decrease in the number of insect compositions by 11 families, 4 genera and also decrease of 3 morphospecies. Overall, thinning activities have no effect on changes over species richness index and evenness index of insect species. Diptera is a type of insect that can be used as a bioindicator, it states based on the consideration of ease in obtaining information related to taxonomy and biological properties, ease of identification, role of the ecosystem, pressure status and abundance parameters. Keywords: bioindicator, ecological assessment, forest disturbance

scholarly journals Eucalyptus Short-Rotation Management Effects on Nutrient and Sediments in Subtropical Streams

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Bozetti Rodrigues ◽  
Ricardo Hideo Taniwaki ◽  
Patrick Lane ◽  
Walter de Paula Lima ◽  
Silvio Frosini de Barros Ferraz
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Suspended Solids ◽  
First Year ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Intensive Management ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Short Rotation ◽  
Eucalyptus Plantations

Forested catchments generally present conserved aquatic ecosystems without anthropogenic disturbances; however, forest management operations can degrade these environments, including their water quality. Despite the potential degradation, few studies have analyzed the effects of forest management in subtropical regions, especially in forest plantations with intensive management, such as Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil. The intensive management of those plantations is characterized by fast-growing, short rotation cycles, and high productivity. This study aimed to assess the effects of Eucalyptus plantations harvesting on the concentration and exportation of nutrients and suspended solids in subtropical streams. Results showed that clear-cut harvesting and subsequent forest management operations do not alter most of the concentration of nitrate, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. The concentration of suspended solids increased during the first year after timber harvesting in all studied catchments, however, the increases were statistically significant in only two catchments. In the first year after harvest, it was observed an increment of water yield/precipitation ratio at three catchments, which also increased export of nutrients and suspended solids. Our results showed that harvesting of fast-growing Eucalyptus forest plantations partially affected sediment exports and did not compromise water quality in the studied catchments. However, the catchment land-use design, especially related to road density and land-use composition, showed significant relationship with sediment exportation.

scholarly journals PLANTAÇÕES FLORESTAIS E A PROTEÇÃO DE FLORESTAS NATIVAS EM UNIDADES DE MANEJO CERTIFICADAS NA AMÉRICA DO SUL PELOS SISTEMAS FSC E PEFC

FLORESTA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ribeiro Alves ◽  
Laércio Antônio Gonçalves Jacovine ◽  
Vanessa Maria Basso ◽  
Márcio Lopes da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
South America ◽  
Forest Plantations ◽  
Forest Certification ◽  
Forest Stewardship Council ◽  
Forest Protection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Certification System ◽  
Native Forests ◽  
Forest Stewardship

A certificação florestal está presente no continente sul-americano desde 1995 e, desde então, tem se expandido por diversos países da região. Objetivou-se analisar a contribuição que as empresas com certificação de plantações florestais têm na proteção de florestas nativas na América do Sul pelos sistemas Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) e Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC). Foram consultados os resumos públicos das unidades de manejo florestal certificadas dos países da América do Sul, tanto os referentes à certificação de plantações florestais quanto de florestas nativas. Buscou-se a informação referente à área total certificada da unidade de manejo florestal, a área efetivamente implantada, a área de proteção florestal e a área destinada a outros usos. Tanto o FSC (40,9%) quanto o PEFC (34,4%), no Brasil, contribuíram mais para a proteção florestal, quando comparado com o FSC (22,4%) e o PEFC (22,9%) no Chile. Conclui-se que a certificação de plantações florestais exerce uma importante função na proteção florestal, notadamente em países como Brasil, Colômbia, Paraguai e Chile. Além disso, no Brasil as áreas destinadas à proteção florestal são superiores às do Chile, tanto pelo sistema de certificação FSC quanto pelo PEFC.Palavras-chave:Certificação florestal; proteção florestal; sistemas de certificação; manejo florestal. AbstractForest plantations and the protection of native forests in certified units management in South America by FSC and PEFC Systems. Forest certification is present in South America since 1995 and since then has expanded to various countries of the region. The objective was to examine the contribution that companies with certification of forest plantations, have the protection of native forests in South America for systems Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes (PEFC). We consulted the public summaries of certified forest management units in the countries of South America, both for the certification of forest plantations on native forests. We sought information on the total area of certified forest management unit, the area effectively deployed, the protected area and forest area for other uses. Both FSC (40.9%) and PEFC (34.4%), Brazil, contributed more to the forest protection when compared with FSC (22.4%) and PEFC (22.9%) in Chile. We conclude that certification of forest plantations has an important role in forest protection, especially in countries like Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay and Chile. Moreover, in Brazil the areas intended for forest protection are higher than those of Chile, both the FSC certification system as PEFC.Keywords: Forest certification; forest protection; certification systems; forest management.

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