Forest Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, and Wood Production: Modeling Synergies and Trade-Offs for Ten Forest Landscapes Across Europe

Biber, Peter; Felton, Adam; Nieuwenhuis, Maarten; Lindbladh, Matts; Black, Kevin; Bahýľ, Ján; Bingöl, Özkan; Borges, J. G. C.; Botequim, Brigite; Brukas, Vilis; Bugalho, Miguel N.; Corradini, Giulia; Eriksson, Ljusk Ola; Forsell, Nicklas; Hengeveld, G.M.; Hoogstra-Klein,; Kadıoğulları, Ali İhsan; Karahalil, Uzay; Lodin, Isak; Lundholm, Anders; Makrickienė, Ekaterina; Masiero, Mauro; Mozgeris, Gintautas; Pivoriūnas, Nerijus; Poschenrieder, Werner; Pretzsch, Hans; Sedmák, Róbert; Tuček, Ján

doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.547696

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“…However, compared to a recent study of selected landscapes across several European countries, including Lithuania, their overall conclusions were different, since their results showed almost no reduction in outcomes for biodiversity indicators with an increase in forest biomass harvest [30]. For a selected landscape in Lithuania, they also showed a significant increase in forest biomass production for the studied time period, but when it comes to biodiversity indicators, their study came to a different conclusion based on compositional and structural biodiversity indicators, aggregated across the landscape.…”

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“…A key question is the potential to secure or increase forest biomass production, while concurrently securing habitat requirements of forest-dependent taxa [10,[25][26][27]. For such analyses, addressing forest biomass and forest biodiversity together, several modelling tools have been developed, e.g., Kupolis [28], Heureka [29], and others (see e.g., Reference [30]).…”

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Sustainability Assessment of Intensified Forestry—Forest Bioenergy versus Forest Biodiversity Targeting Forest Birds

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Intensified forestry can be seen as a solution to climate change mitigation and securing energy supply, increasing the production of forest bioenergy feedstock as a substitution for fossil fuels. However, it may come with detrimental impacts on forest biodiversity, especially related to older forests. The aim of this study was to assess the sustainability of intensified forestry from climate-energy and biodiversity perspectives, targeting forest bird species. For this purpose, we applied the Landscape simulation and Ecological Assessment (LEcA) tool to the study area of Lithuania, having high ambitions for renewables and high forest biodiversity. With LEcA, we simulated forest growth and management for 100 years with two forest management strategies: Business As Usual (BAU) and Intensive forestry (INT), the latter with the purpose to fulfil renewable energy goals. With both strategies, the biomass yields increased well above the yields of the reference year, while the biodiversity indicators related to forest bird habitat to different degrees show the opposite, with lower levels than for the reference year. Furthermore, Strategy INT resulted in small-to-no benefits in the long run concerning potential biomass harvesting, while substantially affecting the biodiversity indicators negatively. The model results have the potential to inform policy and forest management planning concerning several sustainability goals simultaneously.

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“…For this purpose, various decision support systems (DSS) have been developed in forestry across the globe (Vacik and Lexer, 2014;Nordström et al, 2019) and are increasingly used to explore synergies and trade-offs in BES (e.g., Biber et al, 2020). Although a DSS can in principal be any system that aids decision makers, the term typically refers to model-based software systems which provide a user interface, a 'knowledge system' (database, models, etc.)…”

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A Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Strategic Planning at the Swiss Forest Enterprise Level: Coping With Climate Change and Shifting Demands in Ecosystem Service Provisioning

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Sustainable forest management plays a key role for forest biodiversity and the provisioning of ecosystem services (BES), including the important service of carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation. Forest managers, however, find themselves in the increasingly complex planning situation to balance the often conflicting demands in BES. To cope with this situation, a prototype of a decision support system (DSS) for strategic (long-term) planning at the forest enterprise level was developed in the present project. The DSS was applied at three case study enterprises (CSEs) in Northern Switzerland, two lowland and one higher-elevation enterprise, for a 50-year time horizon (2010 to 2060) under present climate and three climate change scenarios (‘wet’, ‘medium’, ‘dry’). BES provisioning (for biodiversity, timber production, recreation, protection against gravitational hazards and carbon sequestration) was evaluated for four management scenarios (no management, current (BAU), lower and higher management intensity) using a utility-based multi-criteria decision analysis. Additionally, four alternative preference scenarios for BES provisioning were investigated to evaluate the robustness of the results to shifting BES preferences. At all CSEs, synergies between carbon sequestration, biodiversity and protection function as well as trade-offs between carbon sequestration and timber production occurred. The BAU management resulted in the highest overall utility in 2060 for different climate and BES preference scenarios, with the exception of one lowland CSE under current BES preference, where a lower intensity management performed best. Although climate change had a relatively small effect on overall utility, individual BES indicators showed a negative climate change impact for the lowland CSEs and a positive effect for the higher elevation CSE. The patterns of overall utility were relatively stable to shifts in BES preferences, with exception of a shift toward a preference for carbon sequestration. Overall, the study demonstrates the potential of the DSS to investigate the development of multiple BES as well as their synergies and trade-offs for a set of lowland and mountainous forest enterprises. The new system incorporates a wide set of BES indicators, a strong empirical foundation and a flexible multi-criteria decision analysis, enabling stakeholders to take scientifically well-founded decisions under changing climatic conditions and political goals.

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“…If management outside of protected forests is locally intensified following the land sparing principle, this could however have sig-nificant environmental trade-offs in those forests. This is particularly true in countries or regions that already have a very high utilisation rate of forest resources (Biber et al, 2020). However, there are also examples of combining land sparing (protected and intensive sustainable forest management) with land sharing in integrative forest management at different spatial scales.…”

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Protecting old-growth forests in Europe - a review of scientific evidence to inform policy implementation

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CH 1 | Objectives and methodological approach 13 CH 5 | Associated benefits, consequences, and potential trade-offs of old-growth forest protection and development of old-growth forest attributes 71Key Messages:• Biodiversity conservation in integrative forest management systems can bring multiple ecological benefits, as well as benefits to the forest manager/owner and society, but can also carry opportunity costs for the landowner.

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Forest Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, and Wood Production: Modeling Synergies and Trade-Offs for Ten Forest Landscapes Across Europe

Cited by 49 publications

References 68 publications

Sustainability Assessment of Intensified Forestry—Forest Bioenergy versus Forest Biodiversity Targeting Forest Birds

Sustainability Assessment of Intensified Forestry—Forest Bioenergy versus Forest Biodiversity Targeting Forest Birds

A Multi-Criteria Decision Support System for Strategic Planning at the Swiss Forest Enterprise Level: Coping With Climate Change and Shifting Demands in Ecosystem Service Provisioning

Protecting old-growth forests in Europe - a review of scientific evidence to inform policy implementation

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