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Adaptive risk management in oak and pine forests vulnerable to drought via integrative evaluation and flexible damage thresholds
Project
Project code: 22024118
Contract period: 01.07.2019
- 30.06.2022
Budget: 327,784 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: digitalization, plant health, forest protection, risk management
The project is carried out in close cooperation between the state forest research agencies that are responsible for the reference region. To fulfill this central position these agencies benefit from their characteristic role as transmitters between applied research and forest enterprises. Stakeholders from differing backgrounds will be involved to a large extent, primarily to identify the expectations and needs placed upon the forests which in turn define the intensity of forest protection measures to be implemented. In this process new and adaptive decision support tools shall be developed that reflect the regionally-specific set of conditions. They relate to the wide area of forest lands composed of oak and Scots pine in the Southeast and Northeast of Germany which are facing increased risk levels in terms of prolonged drought periods and heat waves. For insect species with mass outbreak potential, monitoring and damage assessment procedures shall be updated to form a reliable basis for the possible application of insecticides. A central aim is to establish flexible thresholds for "acceptable" damages that reflect the immense variety of forest ecosystem functions and services. At the Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the project will combine the use of long-term data on forest protection and pest monitoring with new methods of remote-sensing. Damage assessments based on the regionally-specific set of forest functions will be translated into quantifiable predictions of social, economic, and ecological consequences. This potential damage level will complement and replace the hitherto static threshold which accepted only the expected total loss of the forest cover as a necessary condition for insecticide applications.The joint efforts will lead to a catalog of regionally specific forest protection manamanagement options for controlling the potentially harmful pest species associated with oak and pine forests in the project region.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Protection
- Silviculture
- Renewable Resources
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Associated projects: ADAPTrisk
- Adaptive risk management in oak and pine forests vulnerable to drought via integrative evaluation and flexible damage thresholds
- Adaptive risk management in oak and pine forests vulnerable to drought via integrative evaluation and flexible damage thresholds
- Collaborative project: Adaptive risk management in oak and pine forests vulnerable to drought via integrative evaluation and flexible damage thresholds
- Adaptive risk management in oak and pine forests vulnerable to drought via integrative evaluation and flexible damage thresholds
