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- Title
Quantifying the Effects of Forest Management Strategies on the Production of Forest Values: Timber, Carbon, Oxygen, Water, and Soil.
- Authors
Başkent, Emin Zeki; Keleş, Sedat; Kadıoğulları, Ali İhsan; Bingöl, Özkan
- Abstract
Forest management practices alter forest structure quantified with ecosystem characteristics and values. In this paper, we utilized a forest management simulation model to assess the effects of three forest management strategies focusing on timber production, carbon sequestration, oxygen production, soil erosion, and water production of a forest management unit in Turkey. A forest simulation model 'ETÇAPSimülasyon' was developed and used to project forest ecosystem development over 100 years under three forest management policies of timber-oriented forest management (TFM), multipurpose forest management (MFM), and no intervention (NI). The results showed that TFM strategy produced more timber and its net present value than MFM and NI strategies did. The amount of carbon sequestration and oxygen production potential was also found to be the highest with TFM strategy than with the MFM and NI strategies. Compared with the other strategies, however, NI strategy produced the highest amount of water production and soil losses over the planning horizon. The effects of a forest management strategy depend mainly on the initial forest structure, the rate of development and the level of forest management interventions. Therefore, forest dynamics under various management strategies should be explained before the final management decision. Understanding long-term effects of any management strategies on forest structure will provide the basis for better reaching the management objectives.
- Subjects
FOREST management; CARBON; OXYGEN; FOREST ecology; CASH flow
- Publication
Environmental Modeling & Assessment, 2011, Vol 16, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
1420-2026
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10666-010-9238-y