Optimisation in forest management

A Kaya, P Bettinger, K Boston, R Akbulut, Z Ucar… - Current Forestry …, 2016 - Springer
The field of forestry has employed various computer-assisted optimisation approaches since
the early 1960s to address the efficient allocation of resources towards various forest …

Synergies and trade-offs in ecosystem services from urban and peri‑urban forests and their implication to sustainable city design and planning

J Cueva, IA Yakouchenkova, K Fröhlich… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reducing trade-offs among ecosystem services (ES) from urban and peri‑urban forests
(UPF) is crucial for human wellbeing. We performed spatial analyses and quantified the …

Tree size inequality reduces forest productivity: an analysis combining inventory data for ten European species and a light competition model

T Bourdier, T Cordonnier, G Kunstler, C Piedallu… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Plant structural diversity is usually considered as beneficial for ecosystem functioning. For
instance, numerous studies have reported positive species diversity-productivity …

Diversity and equitability ordering profiles applied to study forest structure

R Valbuena, P Packalén, S Martı, M Maltamo - Forest Ecology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
This article performs an in-depth examination on whether indices of diversity and equitability
among tree size classes are adequate for studying the structural complexity of forests …

Uneven-aged management options to promote forest resilience for climate change adaptation: effects of group selection and harvesting intensity

V Lafond, G Lagarrigues, T Cordonnier… - Annals of Forest …, 2014 - Springer
Context Climate change is expected to increase forest vulnerability through disturbances
such as windstorms and droughts. Forest managers are therefore investigating strategies to …

The Gini index brings asymmetric competition to light

T Cordonnier, G Kunstler - Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Competition is known to be a key driver of plant population dynamics. However,
understanding how different types of competitive processes interact with population structure …

Tree ring‐based metrics for assessing old‐growth forest naturalness

A Di Filippo, F Biondi, G Piovesan… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Old‐growth studies commonly emphasize structural and age conditions, selecting proxy
indicators of long‐term ecological processes. Transition dynamics from mature to old‐growth …

Characterizing forest structural types and shelterwood dynamics from Lorenz-based indicators predicted by airborne laser scanning

R Valbuena, P Packalen, L Mehtätalo… - Canadian Journal of …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
In this study, Lorenz curve descriptors of tree diameter inequality were used to characterize
the dynamics of forest development in a shelterwood-managed Pinus sylvestris (L.) …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in live and deadwood pools in spruce-fir-beech forests after six decades of converting age class management to single-tree selection

M Neumann, C Spörk, H Hasenauer - Trees, Forests and People, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests and their management are changing due to new policies, land abandonment,
decisions of forest owners, tenure and climate change. The importance of deadwood as …

[HTML][HTML] Analyzing asymmetries in the response of European beech to precipitation anomalies in various stand and site conditions using decadal diameter censuses

V Trifković, A Bončina, A Ficko - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022 - Elsevier
In temperate forests, precipitation-productivity relationships have usually been considered
linear and symmetric, ie under conditions of nominal precipitation variability, trees are able …