Forest multifunctionality is not resilient to intensive forestry

编号 030036401

推送时间 20221010

研究领域 森林经理 

年份 2022 

类型 期刊 

语种 英语

标题 Forest multifunctionality is not resilient to intensive forestry

来源期刊 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

期 第364期

发表时间 20210121

关键词 Sustainable forest management;  Ecosystem services;  Biodiversity;  Boreal forest;  Finland;  Transformation capacity; 

摘要 There is ample evidence that intensive management of ecosystems causes declines in biodiversity as well as in multiple ecosystem services, i.e., in multifunctionality. However, less is known about the permanence and reversibility of these responses. To gain insight into whether multifunctionality can be sustained under intensive management, we developed a framework building on the concept of resilience: a system's ability to avoid displacement and to return or transform to a desired state. We applied it to test the ability of forest multifunctionality to persist during and recover from intensive management for timber production in a boreal forest. Using forest growth simulations and multiobjective optimization, we created alternative future paths where the forest was managed for maximal timber production, for forest multifunctionality, or first maximal timber production and then multifunctionality. We show that forest multifunctionality is substantially diminished under intensive forestry and recovers the slower, the longer intensive forestry has been continued. Intensive forestry thus not only reduces forest multifunctionality but hinders its recovery should management goals change, i.e., weakens its resilience. The results suggest a need to adjust ecosystem management according to long-term sustainability goals already today.

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