Landscape based forest management, a real world case study from Mexico

Mendoza, Martín Alfonso; Fajardo, Juan José; Zepeta, Jesús

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2005.01.007

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“…The examples provided also indicate that a logical and realistic hierarchy in forest planning (Baskent & Keles 2005, Mairota & Piussi 2009), coupled with (i) the operational incorporation of landscape ecological principles and spatial objectives (Kurttila 2001, Mendoza et al 2005, and (ii) collective resource management programs (sensu Pretty 2003), is both necessary and a promising way to reach a balance between economic and environmental sustainability. It is also crucial to the creation of short wood-energy supply chains in rural-mountain areas.…”

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Opportunities for coppice management at the landscape level: the Italian experience

Mairota¹,

Amorini²,

Pelleri³

et al. 2016

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Coppice silviculture has a long tradition in Italy. Societal demands have led to the development of forest management techniques for integrating wood production with other kinds of forest uses and regulations have been issued to limit forest degradation. In Italy, 35% of the national forest cover is currently managed under coppice silvicultural systems that provide 66% of the annual wood production. Fuel-wood demand is increasing and a large amount of fuelwood is currently imported in Italy. Modern coppice practices differ from those adopted in the past and may have a reduced impact on ecosystem characteristics and processes. Nevertheless, coppice silviculture has a bad reputation mostly on grounds that are beyond economic, technical and ecological rationales. Neither cessation of use nor a generalized conversion from coppice to high forest are likely to respond simultaneously to the many demands deriving from complex and articulated political and economic perspectives operating at global, European, national, regional and forest stand-level scales. Different approaches of modern silviculture to coppice successfully tested in Italy for more than a decade are illustrated. We propose to combine different options at the stand and sub-stand level, including either development without human interference or conversion to high forest, and to apply these approaches within the framework of novel forest management plans and regionally consistent administrative procedures. This bottom-up approach represents a potential solution to the socio-economic and environmental challenges affecting coppicing as a silvicultural system.

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Opportunities for coppice management at the landscape level: the Italian experience

Mairota¹,

Amorini²,

Pelleri³

et al. 2016

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“…In this regard, Kurttila (2001) provides a review of forest plans where spatial objectives have been integrated into forest planning. Mendoza et al (2005) described a forest plan designed following landscape ecological principles in which silvicultural treatments were planned to accelerate spatial diversification and establish late successional conditions. Chen et al (2008) identified and discussed the main components and challenges in landscape ecological studies with an emphasis on how they relate to forest management.…”

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“…It has now reached a stage of maturity that principles and models can be applied with confidence in real cases (Kurttila 2001, Mendoza et al 2005, Suzuki & Olson 2008. A growing number of agencies and organizations worldwide are now embracing integrated approaches to plan and manage landscapes with a goal to maintain the sustainability and diverse ecosystem services offered by landscapes (de Groot et al 2002, Bunker et al 2005.…”

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Large-scale effects of forest management in Mediterranean landscapes of Europe

Lafortezza¹,

Sanesi²,

Chen³

2013

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Forest landscapes are fundamental components of the living environment and consist of complex assemblages of forest and non-forest elements whose arrangement reflects, in part, the magnitude, intensity, and type of management. Because forests change across regions and scales, a variety of approaches have been proposed to support research and applicable goals. The most promising way to analyze forest landscapes is through the application of the landscape ecological approach, which is the study of ecological patterns and processes in heterogeneous, mostly human-modified, landscapes. In this paper, we analyze the role of landscape ecology in the context of forest landscapes. We discuss the main factors related to forest management which may affect landscape composition and configuration by referencing examples from the Mediterranean landscapes of Europe. Finally, we discuss the key issues for incorporating landscape ecological principles into forest planning and management and provide directions for future research in the emerging context of ecosystem services

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“…Words such as "community" and "diversity", shown as examples in Figure 2B, or "disturbance", "habitat" and "sustainable" took off in the mid-1990s, i.e., shortly after the Earth Summit in 1992. "Landscape" and "forest-landscape" mirror the upsurge of landscape ecology as a theoretical foundation for the sustainable forest management (Mendoza et al, 2005;Schlaepfer, 1997). "Spatial", "local", "pattern", "long-term" exemplify issues related to spatial and temporal scales, which are critical when quantifying landscape or stand heterogeneity.…”

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Exploring research issues in selected forest journals 1979–2008

Dobbertin¹,

Nobis²

2010

Ann. For. Sci.

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Abstract• Forest science and policy have experienced significant changes under the pressure of global change. Assuming that scientific publications mirror contemporary issues, our objective was to verify whether titles of articles show a temporal trend, and whether it coincides with the new agenda set by sustainable forest management.• We used ISI Web of Science to collect articles published 1979-2008 in 6 peer-reviewed forest(ry) journals (n = 20 677). We split titles into strings and processed them to increase the homogeneity of our sample. We applied principal components analysis (PCA) as an indirect gradient analysis. We also searched titles for words related to the social, political and economic components of forestry.• The PCA ordination revealed a dominant and distinct time gradient in the use of title words in our corpus. A few words have disappeared, but those with a positive trend clearly dominate, reflecting an opening of forest science towards more process-oriented research, especially in ecology and environmental and climate change. However, socio-economic aspects are still underrepresented.• In our study, titles of forest(ry) publications increasingly include topics from neighboring natural sciences, but still very few from socio-economic disciplines.

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Landscape based forest management, a real world case study from Mexico

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

Opportunities for coppice management at the landscape level: the Italian experience

Opportunities for coppice management at the landscape level: the Italian experience

Large-scale effects of forest management in Mediterranean landscapes of Europe

Exploring research issues in selected forest journals 1979–2008

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