Optimal management of a flammable multi-stand forest for timber production and maintenance of nesting sites for wildlife

A review of decision-making approaches to handle uncertainty and risk in adaptive forest management under climate change

“…Amenity was also included in a considerable part of the literature (16%) compared with other objectives (Pukkala and Miina 1997;Prato 2000;Bulte et al 2002;Alvarez and Koskela 2007a;Zhou et al 2008). However, non-timber products and services like biodiversity, carbon, wildlife and water were only considered in a smaller number of studies Decision-making to handle climate change (Huang et al 1998;Creedy and Wurzbacher 2001;Bulte et al 2002;Spring et al 2008;Galik and Jackson 2009;Yousefpour 2009), which made up 9%, 8% and 6% of the papers. The least common objective in forest risk management was recreation, addressed in only 3% of the papers.…”

Ant community responses to experimental fire and logging in a eucalypt forest of south-eastern Australia

“…The effective implementation of such policies requires an understanding of the longer term responses of biodiversity to forest management. The management practices of most relevance to forestry are timber harvesting (e.g., Fredericksen et al, 2000;Alexander et al, 2002;Spring et al, 2008) and prescribed burning (e.g., Brown et al, 1991;Bradstock et al, 1998;Russell et al, 1999;Gundale et al, 2005;Hood et al, 2007), both of which can simplify habitat structure and significantly alter floristic composition (Kappelle, 1993;Hickey, 1994;Watson and Wardell-Johnson, 2004;Hutchinson et al, 2005). The magnitude and direction of the impacts on biodiversity vary with vegetation type (Connell and Slatyer, 1977;Denslow, 1980;Kappelle et al, 1994;Safford and Harrison, 2004;Schieck and Song, 2006), the intensity and frequency of management (Trabaud and Galtie, 1996;Ough, 2001;Hutchings et al, 2002;Andersen et al, 2005;Carrington and Mullahey, 2006;Penman et al, 2008b), and the taxa of interest (Fox and McKay, 1981;Law, 1996;Kavanagh and Webb, 1998;Abbott et al, 2003;Chang et al, 2007).…”

Review. Assessing uncertainty and risk in forest planning and decision support systems: review of classical methods and introduction of new approaches

“…Forsell et al (2011) included the risk of wind damage in long-term forestry management with the object of maximizing the expected net present value of the forest accounting for the spatial relationships of the stands. Other Markov decision process applications at forest level have dealt with climate change , reserve site selection (Sabbadin et al, 2007), risk of forest fire Garcia and Sabbadin, 2001), maintenance of wildlife (Spring et al, 2008) and wind effects (Forsell et al, 2011).…”