Long-term forest management and timely transfer of carbon into wood products help reduce atmospheric carbon

2009 ◽  
Vol 220 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 1719-1723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoliang Liu ◽  
Shijie Han
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Atmospheric Carbon

scholarly journals Does Aiming for Long-Term Non-Decreasing Flow of Timber Secure Carbon Accumulation: A Lithuanian Forestry Case

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2778
Author(s):  
Gintautas Mozgeris ◽  
Vaiva Kazanavičiūtė ◽  
Daiva Juknelienė
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Carbon Accumulation ◽  
Total Carbon ◽  
Change Mitigation

Lithuanian forestry has long been shaped by the classical normal forest theory, aiming for even long-term flow of timber, and the aspiration to preserve domestic forest resources, leading to very conservative forest management. With radically changing forest management conditions, climate change mitigation efforts suggest increasing timber demands in the future. The main research question asked in this study addresses whether current forest management principles in Lithuania can secure non-decreasing long-term flow of timber and carbon accumulation. The development of national forest resources and forestry was simulated for the next century using the Kupolis decision support system and assuming that current forest management is continued under the condition of three scenarios, differing by climate change mitigation efforts. Potential development trends of key forest attributes were analysed and compared with projected carbon stock changes over time, incorporating major forest carbon pools—biomass, harvested wood products and emission savings due to energy and product substitution. The key finding was that the total carbon balance should remain positive in Lithuania during the next one hundred years; however, it might start to decrease after several decades, with steadily increasing harvesting and a reduced increase of forest productivity. Additionally, incorporating the harvested wood and CO2 emissions savings in carbon balance evaluations is essential.

scholarly journals Carbon balance in harvested wood products in Slovakia / Bilancia uhlíka v drevných produktoch na Slovensku

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
Rastislav Raši ◽  
Emil Cienciala ◽  
Tibor Priwitzer ◽  
Štěpán Palán ◽  
Pavel Pavlenda
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Carbon Balance ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Harvested Wood Products ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Management Plans

Abstract The forests in Slovakia are managed according to the forest management plans. The limits for cuttings are prescribed according to the rules of sustainable forest management. Thus, the produced timber becomes the sustainable natural resource. The purpose of wood use has implications for the carbon balance. Wood products for long term use represent a carbon pool from which carbon is released according to decay of products. The method for calculation and results of carbon balance of harvested wood products in Slovakia are provided in this paper. According to the results, the total amount of carbon stored in the harvested wood products in Slovakia have had an increasing trend in the last years and reached almost 15 Tg. The calculation follows the methods and good practice guidance arising from the Kyoto Protocol.

Planning a system of permanent sample plots for integrated long-term studies of community-based forest management

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Meilby ◽  
L Puri ◽  
M Christensen ◽  
S Rayamajhi
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Managed Forests ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Permanent Sample Plots ◽  
Long Term Studies

To monitor the development of four community-managed forests, networks of permanent sample plots were established in 2005 at sites in Chitwan, Kaski and Mustang Districts, Nepal. This research note documents the procedures used when preparing for establishment of the plot networks, evaluates the applied stratification of the forest on the basis of data gathered in pilot surveys conducted in the early 2005, and provides a discussion on the implications of the choices made. Key words: Community-managed forests; permanent sample plots; stratification; allocation; estimates Banko Janakari Vol.16(2) 2006 pp.3-11

Long-term response in nutrient load from commercial forest management operations in a mountainous watershed

2021 ◽  
Vol 494 ◽  
pp. 119312
Author(s):  
C. Deval ◽  
E.S. Brooks ◽  
J.A. Gravelle ◽  
T.E. Link ◽  
M. Dobre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Nutrient Load ◽  
Mountainous Watershed ◽  
Commercial Forest ◽  
Term Response

Forest Management Decision-Making: Art or Science?

1981 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Simulation Modeling ◽  
Forest Planning ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Evaluation Techniques ◽  
Making Art

This paper describes an approach to forest management decision-making. Acknowledging both objective and subjective elements, the approach offers a methodology to encourage more creative design in forest planning. It uses the descriptive capabilities of simulation modeling in tandem with the prescriptive capabilities of graphical evaluation techniques, to facilitate the use and interpretation of technical forestry information in decision-making problems. It emphasizes a need for an overview of long-term resource behavior as a prerequisite to, and a framework for, forest planning.

scholarly journals Mosaics of canopy openness induced by tropical cyclones in lowland rain forests with contrasting management histories in northeastern Australia

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 883-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON J. GROVE ◽  
STEPHEN M. TURTON ◽  
DANNY T. SIEGENTHALER
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Canopy ◽  
Canopy Openness ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Lowland Rain Forest ◽  
Forest Sites ◽  
Local Topography ◽  
Marked Points ◽  
Impacted Site

Tropical Cyclone ‘Rona’ crossed the coast of the Daintree lowlands of northeastern Australia in 1999. This study reports on its impact on forest canopy openness at six lowland rain forest sites with contrasting management histories (old-growth, selectively logged and regrowth). Percentage canopy openness was calculated from individual hemispherical photographs taken from marked points below the forest canopy at nine plots per site 3–4 mo before the cyclone, and at the same points a month afterwards. Before the cyclone, when nine sites were visited, canopy openness in old-growth and logged sites was similar, but significantly higher in regrowth forest. After the cyclone, all six revisited sites showed an increase in canopy openness, but the increase was very patchy amongst plots and sites and varied from insignificant to severe. The most severely impacted site was an old-growth one, the least impacted a logged one. Although proneness to impact was apparently related to forest management history (old-growth being the most impacted), underlying local topography may have had an equally strong influence in this case. It was concluded that the likelihood of severe impact may be determined at the landscape-scale by the interaction of anthropogenic with meteorological, physiographic and biotic factors. In the long term, such interactions may caution against pursuing forest management in cyclone-prone areas.

A probability model for long-term forest fire occurrence in the Karst forest management area of Slovenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomaž Šturm ◽  
Tomaž Podobnikar
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Fire ◽  
Probability Model ◽  
Target Area ◽  
Fire Occurrence ◽  
Occurrence Probability ◽  
Karst Forest ◽  
Management Area ◽  
Stand Characteristics

The aim of this study is to develop a long-term forest fire occurrence probability model in the Karst forest management area of Slovenia. The target area has the greatest forest fire occurrence rates and the largest burned areas in the country. To discover how the forest stand characteristics influence forest fire occurrence, we developed a long-term linear regression model. The geographically weighted regression method was applied to build the model, using forest management plans and land-based datasets as explanatory variables and a past forest fire activity dataset as a predicted variable. The land-based dataset was used to represent human activity as a key component in fire occurrence. Variables representing the natural and the anthropogenic environment used in the model explained 39% of past forest fire occurrences and predicted areas with the highest likelihood of forest fire occurrence. The results show that forest fire occurrence probability in a stand increases with lower wood stock, lower species diversity and lower thickness diversity, and in stands dominated by conifer trees under normal canopy closure. These forests stand characteristics are planned to be used in forest management and silviculture planning to reduce fire damage in Slovenian forests.

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