1. Decision support tools and strategies to simulate forest landscape evolutions integrating forest owner behaviour: A review from the case studies of the European project, INTEGRAL
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Róbert Smreček, Rudolf Navrátil, Margarida Tomé, Peter Biber, Ljusk Ola Eriksson, Geerten M. Hengeveld, Vilis Brukas, Ola Sallnäs, Marius Kavaliauskas, Matteo Vizzarri, Davide Pettenella, Gherardo Chirici, Christophe Orazio, José G. Borges, Rebeca Cordero Montoya, Susana Barreiro, Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo, Renats Trubins, Brigite Botequim, Susete Marques, Yvonne Brodrechtova, Hans Pretzsch, Matteo Favero, Ralf Moshammer, Ivan Paligorov, Ida Wallin, Emil Galev, Róbert Sedmák, Gintautas Mozgeris, Andrius Stanislovaitis, Maarten Nieuwenhuis, Marco Marchetti, Margot Régolini, Edwin Corrigan, and Ján Tuček
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0106 biological sciences ,Mediterranean climate ,Decision support system ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Computer science ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Forest management ,Wood resource ,Climate change ,Diseases ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law ,Decision support systems ,01 natural sciences ,Forest and Nature Conservation Policy ,Forest landscape ,Vulnerability assessment ,Fire ,Forest owner behaviour ,Indicators ,Risk evaluation ,Storm ,Sustainability ,Bos- en Natuurbeleid ,Ecosystem ,Integrated management ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,decision support system ,forest landscape ,indicators ,sustainability ,wood resource ,risk evaluation ,storm ,fire ,diseases ,forest management ,forest owner behaviour ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,business.industry ,Environmental resource management ,15. Life on land ,Biometris ,Boreal ,Landscape assessment ,business ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
For forest sustainability and vulnerability assessment, the landscape scale is considered to be more and more relevant as the stand level approaches its known limitations. This review, which describes the main forest landscape simulation tools used in the 20 European case studies of the European project “Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes” (INTEGRAL), gives an update on existing decision support tools to run landscape simulation from Mediterranean to boreal ecosystems. The main growth models and software available in Europe are described, and the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches are discussed. Trades-offs between input efforts and output are illustrated. Recommendations for the selection of a forest landscape simulator are given. The paper concludes by describing the need to have tools that are able to cope with climate change and the need to build more robust indicators for assessment of forest landscape sustainability and vulnerability. The INTEGRAL project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 282887. http://www. integral-project.eu/. Moreover, financial support by the Transnational Access to Research Infrastructures activity in the 7th Framework Programme of the EC under the Trees4Future project (No. 284181) for conducting the research is gratefully acknowledged. This research has also received funding from the European Union H2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 691149 (SuFoRun). Researcher Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo was supported by a “Ramon y Cajal” research contract from the MINECO (Ref. RYC-2013-14262) and has received funding from CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. This paper could be achieved thanks to support of EFIATLANTIC donors: Conseil regional d’Aquitaine, Ministère de l’agriculture et de la forêt.
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- 2017