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ForestValue: Innovative forestry strategies towards a resilient bioecononomy (ForestValue)
Project
Project code: 2219NR189
Contract period: 15.06.2019
- 14.05.2022
Budget: 204,406 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: plant health, forest protection, renewable ressources
The main aim of our project is to improve the scientific basis for developing management strategies that increase resilience of the bioeconomy to future natural disturbances and climate change, while also maintaining a high level of wood production, carbon storage, and habitat quality for biodiversity (Fig. 1). To reach this aim, the project will deliver on the following objectives: - review knowledge on forest disturbances and forest resilience to synthesize and improve evidence on resistance to disturbances and recovery processes; develop an updated disturbance database (Schelhaas et al. 2003b) to produce forest disturbance scenarios over Europe; - simulate the impacts of disturbances, management and climate change scenarios on wood production, carbon storage, and biodiversity conservation (resilience, provisioning) at different scales (stand, landscape and the European temperate forest zone); - improve biodiversity assessment in forest dynamics models by defining biodiversity linker functions (i.e. any algorithm or indicator that allows assessing an ecosystem service from forest dynamics model outputs; Blattert et al. 2017) at the landscape scale that integrate disturbance effects; - assess the influence of structural complexity on ecosystem services and the value of complexity-based management strategies; - synthesize evidence-based recommendations for enhancing resilience through adaptive management strategies targeting practice and policy decision makers. Using forest simulation models integrating disturbance, management and climate change, I-Maestro will address the following hypotheses: 1- forest management influences recovery processes after disturbance with high impacts on wood production and other ecosystem services; 2- enhancing structural complexity at the stand scale leads to higher resilience of ecosystem services by favouring processes related to growth reactivity (e.g. advance regeneration, response diversity of species); 3- structural complexity
Section overview
Subjects
- Silviculture
- Forestry
- Renewable Resources
