Forest management optimization across spatial scales to reconcile economic and conservation objectives

编号 030019305

推送时间 20190701

研究领域 森林经理 

年份 2019 

类型 期刊 

语种 英语

标题 Forest management optimization across spatial scales to reconcile economic and conservation objectives

来源期刊 PLOS ONE

期 第193期

发表时间 20190610

关键词 DEAD-WOOD;  BIODIVERSITYCONSERVATION;  FINLAND;  MULTIFUNCTIONALITY;  FRAGMENTATION;  ASSOCIATIONS;  DIVERSITY;  DYNAMICS;  ECOLOGY;  STANDS; 

摘要 Conflicts between biodiversity conservation and resource production can be mitigated by multi-objective management planning. Optimizing management for multiple objectives over larger land areas likely entails trading off the practicability of the process against the goodness of the solution. It is therefore worthwhile to resolve how large areas are required as management planning regions to reconcile conflicting objectives as effectively as possible. We aimed to reveal how the extent of forestry planning regions impacts the potential to mitigate a forestry-conservation conflict in Finland, represented as a trade-off between harvest income and deadwood availability. We used forecasted data from a forest simulator, a hierarchy of forestry planning regions, and an optimization model to explore the production possibility frontier between harvest income and deadwood. We compared the overall outcomes when management was optimized within the different-sized planning regions in terms of the two objectives, the spatial variation of deadwood, and the optimal combinations of management regimes. Increasing the size of the planning regions did produce higher simultaneous levels of the two objectives, but the differences were most often of the magnitude of only a few percentages. The differences among the scales were minor also in terms of the spatial variation in deadwood availability and in the optimal management combinations. The conflict between timber harvesting and deadwood availability is only marginally easier to mitigate at large spatial scales than at small forest ownership scales. However, regardless of the spatial scale of planning, the achievable solutions may not be good enough to safeguard deadwood- dependent biodiversity without active deadwood creation.

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