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Development of a forest monitoring system including any carbon storage and climate adaptation - FOMOSY-KK
Project
Project code: 28WC4070
Contract period: 01.06.2016
- 31.12.2019
Budget: 1,505,330 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Global climate change and the loss of biodiversity are central challenges of mankind in the 21. century. Sustain-able forestry plays a key role for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, for the sequestration of carbon, and for the adaptation to climate change. The majority of current temperate forests in Central Europe have formed under centuries of intensive use and management by man. The forest management drives the species composi-tion of the tree layer, thereby also affecting the species composition of the herb layer and the soil development. Besides species richness, which is important for management flexibility, the adaptability of wood use and for
nature conservation, the storage of carbon in forests over relatively long time spans is of paramount importance with respect to global climate change. How much carbon can be stored in forests is, inter alia, a function of forest management.
There a various approaches to foster sustainable land use that aim at combining wood production and protection of biodiversity and soils. These have been leading to changes in forest management (e.g., by largely eliminating clear-cuts or by increasing the amount of dead wood) and to the establishment of certification schemes (FSC, PEFC, etc.). The effects of forest use under certification schemes on carbon sequestration and climate are, how-ever, largely unknown. Because of the slow reaction of forests to changes in management, robust long-term data are needed to get reliable knowledge on the underlying processes. Therefore, it is necessary, to develop specific and efficient monitoring schemes that are able to record these changes. In addition, changes in management will also provoke short- to mid-term reaction in forest ecosystems.
FOMOSY-KK, therefore, combines the investigation of short- to mid-term reaction of forests to changes in management regime regarding carbon sequestration, tree growth, forest structure, regeneration dynamics, and naturalness with the development of a transferable monitoring system. This system shall allow for the efficient long-term monitoring of the above mentioned forest functions and will, thus, enable forest managers across a wide range of sites to effectively assess and evaluate forest management measures for adapting to climate change with respect to carbon sequestration, forest dynamics, naturalness, and diversity of wood-dwelling fauna.
Section overview
Subjects
- Forestry
- Climate Change
