Models for Forest Ecosystem Management: A European Perspective

Abstract

In our opinion, the current challenge of forest ecosystem management in Europe is to integrate system knowledge from different temporal and spatial scales and from various disciplines. For this purpose, using a set of models with different focus that can be selected from a kind of toolbox according to particular needs is more promising than developing one overarching model, covering ecological, production and landscape issues equally well.

Application and limitations of growth models for silvicultural purposes in heterogeneously structured forest in Sweden

“…Secondly, cross-validations with other models could be used to evaluate and improve predictions. In particular, combinations of different modelling approaches seem to be beneficial in the long run (see for example Matala et al 2003;Pretzsch et al 2008;Yue et al 2008). In the Heureka system, stand growth and single-tree growth models are already combined, with the stand growth function controlling total growth of single trees.…”

Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

“…Traditional management paradigms, originating in Central Europe in the 19th century and aiming at sustained timber yield, largely neglected disturbance dynamics in their conceptual design (cf. Puettmann et al, 2009), a fact that is also reflected in early modelling concepts such as yield tables (see Pretzsch et al, 2008 for a historical overview). Consequently, these management paradigms aimed at an exclusion or at least minimization of disturbance impacts, as these were viewed as interfering with "normal" forest structure and development.…”

Statistical Investigations on Abies pindrow in Himachal Pradesh

“…For smaller and restricted area diameter alone is enough. Volume tables have been described as a form of forest growth model (Pretzsch et al, 2008) and were traditionally intended as a means of estimating future timber production based on long term series of successive measurements.…”