TY - JOUR
T1 - Models for forest ecosystem management
T2 - A European perspective
AU - Pretzsch, H.
AU - Grote, R.
AU - Reineking, B.
AU - Rötzer, Th
AU - Seifert, St
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for providing funds for forest ecosystem modelling as part of the Sonderforschungsbereich SFB 607 ‘Growth and Parasite Defense’ and the projects CSWH (0330546A), ENFORCHANGE (03306434L) and OSTALB (0330622D) funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. B.R. acknowledges funding by the European Union within the FP 6 Integrated Project ‘ALARM’ (GOCE-CT-2003-506675). Thanks are also due to Dr Thierry Forcaud for initiating the conference ‘Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications’ (Beijing, China, 13–17 November, 2006), and to the three anonymous reviewers for their constructive criticism.
PY - 2008/5
Y1 - 2008/5
N2 - • Background: Forest management in Europe is committed to sustainability. In the face of climate change and accompanying risks, however, planning in order to achieve this aim becomes increasingly challenging, underlining the need for new and innovative methods. Models potentially integrate a wide range of system knowledge and present scenarios of variables important for any management decision. In the past, however, model development has mainly focused on specific purposes whereas today we are increasingly aware of the need for the whole range of information that can be provided by models. It is therefore assumed helpful to review the various approaches that are available for specific tasks and to discuss how they can be used for future management strategies. • Scope: Here we develop a concept for the role of models in forest ecosystem management based on historical analyses. Five paradigms of forest management are identified: (1) multiple uses, (2) dominant use, (3) environmentally sensitive multiple uses, (4) full ecosystem approach and (5) eco-regional perspective. An overview of model approaches is given that is dedicated to this purpose and to developments of different kinds of approaches. It is discussed how these models can contribute to goal setting, decision support and development of guidelines for forestry operations. Furthermore, it is shown how scenario analysis, including stand and landscape visualization, can be used to depict alternatives, make long-term consequences of different options transparent, and ease participation of different stakeholder groups and education. • Conclusions: 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.
AB - • Background: Forest management in Europe is committed to sustainability. In the face of climate change and accompanying risks, however, planning in order to achieve this aim becomes increasingly challenging, underlining the need for new and innovative methods. Models potentially integrate a wide range of system knowledge and present scenarios of variables important for any management decision. In the past, however, model development has mainly focused on specific purposes whereas today we are increasingly aware of the need for the whole range of information that can be provided by models. It is therefore assumed helpful to review the various approaches that are available for specific tasks and to discuss how they can be used for future management strategies. • Scope: Here we develop a concept for the role of models in forest ecosystem management based on historical analyses. Five paradigms of forest management are identified: (1) multiple uses, (2) dominant use, (3) environmentally sensitive multiple uses, (4) full ecosystem approach and (5) eco-regional perspective. An overview of model approaches is given that is dedicated to this purpose and to developments of different kinds of approaches. It is discussed how these models can contribute to goal setting, decision support and development of guidelines for forestry operations. Furthermore, it is shown how scenario analysis, including stand and landscape visualization, can be used to depict alternatives, make long-term consequences of different options transparent, and ease participation of different stakeholder groups and education. • Conclusions: 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.
KW - Decision support in Europe
KW - Ecosystem management
KW - Management paradigms
KW - Models
KW - Scaling
KW - Scenario generation
KW - Spatial and temporal scales
KW - Sustainability
KW - Visualization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=48249097434&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/aob/mcm246
DO - 10.1093/aob/mcm246
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17954471
AN - SCOPUS:48249097434
SN - 0305-7364
VL - 101
SP - 1065
EP - 1087
JO - Annals of Botany
JF - Annals of Botany
IS - 8
ER -