Recent Advances in Forest Management and Forest Ecosystem Services

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 3886

Special Issue Editors

Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-1244, Japan
Interests: biodiversity; disturbance; ecosystem service; forest ecology; regeneration
Shikoku Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 2-915 Asakuranishi, Kochi 780-8077, Japan
Interests: landscape ecology; forest management; habitat fragmentation; bird

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Forest ecosystem services are essential to support our sustainable lives. In recent years, it has become possible to quantitatively and economically evaluate ecosystem services with spatial information, which used to be difficult. In addition, through such methods, it has become possible to make scenario analysis at various spatial levels and discuss governance of ecosystem services. Forest management methods, including the spatial arrangement of forests and socio-economic systems, are also important and effective means for regional planning that consider ecosystem services. This Special Issue invites a wide range of papers on forest management and ecosystem services. Specifically, quantitative evaluation methods for forest ecosystem services which have been difficult until now, the relationship between forest management methods and ecosystem services in a broad sense, socio-economic systems such as payments for ecosystem services, and scenario analysis of ecosystem services at various levels are welcome. 

Dr. Tohru Nakashizuka
Dr. Yuichi Yamaura
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • ecosystem service
  • economic evaluation
  • forest management
  • payment for ecosystem services
  • quantification
  • scenario analyses

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Spatial Optimization and Tradeoffs of Alternative Forest Management Scenarios in Macedonia, Greece
by Palaiologos Palaiologou, Kostas Kalabokidis, Alan A. Ager, Spyros Galatsidas, Lampros Papalampros and Michelle A. Day
Forests 2021, 12(6), 697; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/f12060697 - 28 May 2021
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Managing forests has been demonstrated to be an efficient strategy for fragmenting fuels and for reducing fire spread rates and severity. However, large-scale analyses to examine operational aspects of implementing different forest management scenarios to meet fire governance objectives are nonexistent for many [...] Read more.
Managing forests has been demonstrated to be an efficient strategy for fragmenting fuels and for reducing fire spread rates and severity. However, large-scale analyses to examine operational aspects of implementing different forest management scenarios to meet fire governance objectives are nonexistent for many Mediterranean countries. In this study we described an optimization framework to build forest management scenarios that leverages fire simulation, forest management, and tradeoff analyses for forest areas in Macedonia, Greece. We demonstrated the framework to evaluate five forest management priorities aimed at (1) protection of developed areas, (2) optimized commercial timber harvests, (3) protection of ecosystem services, (4) fire resilience, and (5) reducing suppression difficulty. Results revealed that by managing approximately 33,000 ha across all lands in different allocations of 100 projects, the area that accounted for 16% of the wildfire exposure to developed areas was treated while harvesting 2.5% of total wood volume. The treatments also reduced fuels on the area that are responsible for 3% of the potential fire impacts to sites with important ecosystem services, while suppression difficulty and wildfire transmission to protected areas attainment was 4.5% and 16%, respectively. We also tested the performance of multiple forest district management priorities when applying a proposed four-year fuel treatment plan that targeted achieving high levels of attainment by treating less area but strategically selected lands. Sharp management tradeoffs were observed among all management priorities, especially for harvest production compared with suppression difficulty, the protection of developed areas, and wildfire exposure to protected areas. Full article
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