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How Sensitive Are Ecosystem Services in European Forest Landscapes to Silvicultural Treatment?
- Source :
- Forests, Volume 6, Issue 5, Pages 1666-1695, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP, Forests, 6(5), 1666-1695, Forests 6 (2015) 5
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2015.
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Abstract
- While sustainable forestry in Europe is characterized by the provision of a multitude of forest ecosystem services, there exists no comprehensive study that scrutinizes their sensitivity to forest management on a pan-European scale, so far. We compile scenario runs from regionally tailored forest growth models and Decision Support Systems (DSS) from 20 case studies throughout Europe and analyze whether the ecosystem service provision depends on management intensity and other co-variables, comprising regional affiliation, social environment, and tree species composition. The simulation runs provide information about the case-specifically most important ecosystem services in terms of appropriate indicators. We found a strong positive correlation between management intensity and wood production, but only weak correlation with protective and socioeconomic forest functions. Interestingly, depending on the forest region, we found that biodiversity can react in both ways, positively and negatively, to increased management intensity. Thus, it may be in tradeoff or in synergy with wood production and forest resource maintenance. The covariables species composition and social environment are of punctual interest only, while the affiliation to a certain region often makes an important difference in terms of an ecosystem service’s treatment sensitivity info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
- Subjects :
- growth
Bos- en Landschapsecologie
Forest management
WASS
Ecoforestry
Forest and Nature Conservation Policy
Ecosystem services
Forest restoration
stand
Forest ecology
regions
Bos- en Natuurbeleid
Forest and Landscape Ecology
impacts
Intact forest landscape
Vegetatie
Ecosystem health
Vegetation
business.industry
Forest Science
Environmental resource management
Settore AGR/05 - Assestamento Forestale e Selvicoltura
Forestry
15. Life on land
scenario analysis
yield
tree
ddc
simulator silva
Geography
climate-change
Ecosystem management
Vegetatie, Bos- en Landschapsecologie
Vegetation, Forest and Landscape Ecology
business
ecosystem services
management
European forests
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19994907
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Forests
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....15a21e396dbc6641d12fc91614be2611
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/f6051666