Decision support tools and strategies to simulate forest landscape evolutions integrating forest owner behaviour: a review from the case studies of the European Project, INTEGRAL
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Orazio, Christophe
Cordero Montoya, Rebeca
Régolini, Margot
Borges, José G.
Garcia Gonzalo, Jordi
Barreiro, Susana
Botequim, Brigite
Marques, Susete
Sedmák, Róbert
Smreček, Róbert
Brodrechtová, Yvonne
Brukas, Vilis
Chirici, Gherardo
Marchetti, Marco
Moshammer, Ralf
Biber, Peter
Corrigan, Edwin
Eriksson, Ljusk Ola
Favero, Matteo
Galev, Emil
Hengeveld, Geerten M.
Kavaliauskas, Marius
Mozgeris, Gintautas
Navrátil, Rudolf
Nieuwenhuis, Maarten
Paligorov, Ivan
Pettenella, Davide
Stanislovaitis, Andrius
Tomé, Margarida
Trubins, Renats
Tuček, Ján
Vizzarri, Matteo
Wallin, Ida
Pretzsch, Hans
Sallnäs, Ola
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Orazio, Christophe;
Cordero Montoya, Rebeca;
Régolini, Margot;
Borges, José G.;
Garcia Gonzalo, Jordi;
Barreiro, Susana;
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Sallnäs, Ola.
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Decision support tools and strategies to simulate forest landscape evolutions integrating forest owner behaviour: a review from the case studies of the European Project, INTEGRAL.
Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, núm. 4, p. 599.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su9040599.
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For forest sustainability and vulnerability assessment, the landscape scale is considered to be more and more relevant as the stand level approaches its known limitations. This review, which describes the main forest landscape simulation tools used in the 20 European case studies of the European project “Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes” (INTEGRAL), gives an update on existing decision support tools to run landscape simulation from Mediterranean to boreal ecosystems. The main growth models and software available in Europe are described, and the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches are discussed. Trades-offs between input efforts and output are illustrated. Recommendations for the selection of a forest landscape simulator are given. The paper concludes by describing the need to have tools that are able to cope with climate change and the need to build more robust indicators for assessment of forest landscape sustainability and vulnerability.
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