{"id":4045,"date":"2020-03-27T10:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2020-03-27T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:44:57","slug":"trade-offs-between-economic-profitability-erosion-risk-mitigation-and-biodiversity-in-the-management-of-uneven-aged-abies-alba-mill-stands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2020\/03\/27\/trade-offs-between-economic-profitability-erosion-risk-mitigation-and-biodiversity-in-the-management-of-uneven-aged-abies-alba-mill-stands\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade-offs between economic profitability, erosion risk mitigation and biodiversity in the management of uneven-aged Abies alba Mill. stands"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Key message<\/strong> Multi-objective forest planning methods were used to assess the trade-offs between three ecosystem services: timber production, erosion protection and biodiversity. The use of trade-off analysis helps to define proper weights for the management objectives and evaluate the feasibility of obtaining economic profit from timber while controlling the erosion risk and maintaining biodiversity of <em>Abies alba<\/em> Mill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong> Forests provide several ecosystem services (ES), many of which are in trade-off. The assessment of relationships between ES helps to optimize forest management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aims<\/strong> This study analyses the trade-offs between timber production, erosion protection and biodiversity in uneven-aged mountain forest of <em>Abies alba<\/em> Mill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methods<\/strong> Multi-functional forest management was optimized using a simulation-optimization software. Timber production was measured with present value, erosion risk was modelled as a function of stand structure, and biodiversity was dealt with by setting a minimum number of 10 large trees (dbh &gt; 60cm) per hectare as a requirement. Optimizations were conducted for slopes of 10%, 45% and 80% and cutting cycles of 10, 30 and 50 years. Discount rate 2% was used in all optimizations. Trade-offs were evaluated with production possibility boundaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong> We found relevant trade-offs between timber production and erosion protection, which depended on the slope steepness and the length of the cutting cycle. Trade-offs were marginal on 10% slope (50-year cycle) and large on 80% slope (10-year cycle). Biodiversity constraint reduced both economic profits and erosion protection values.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong> In multifunctional mountain forest, defining proper weights for ecosystem services that are in trade-off is important for satisfying different management objectives in a sustainable way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nEcosystem services, Erosion protection, Multi-objective forest management, Optimization, Structural diversity, Timber,<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13595-019-0914-z'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nSelkim\u00e4ki, M., Gonz\u00e1lez-Olabarria, J.R., Trasobares, A. et al. Trade-offs between economic profitability, erosion risk mitigation and biodiversity in the management of uneven-aged Abies alba Mill. stands. Annals of Forest Science 77, 12 (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13595-019-0914-z\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13595-019-0914-z<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data availability<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All raw data has been obtained from freely available sources. Data of 3rd Spanish National Forest Inventory is freely available in: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miteco.gob.es\/es\/biodiversidad\/servicios\/banco-datos-naturaleza\/informacion-disponible\/ifn3_bbdd_descargas.htm.aspx\">https:\/\/www.miteco.gob.es\/es\/biodiversidad\/servicios\/banco-datos-naturaleza\/informacion-disponible\/ifn3_bbdd_descargas.htm.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digital elevation model is available from Institut Cartogr\u00e0fic i Geol\u00f2gic de Catalunya. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icgc.cat\/en\/Public-Administration-and-Enterprises\/Downloads\/Elevations\/Terrain-Elevation-Model-of-Catalonia\">http:\/\/www.icgc.cat\/en\/Public-Administration-and-Enterprises\/Downloads\/Elevations\/Terrain-Elevation-Model-of-Catalonia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Key message Multi-objective forest planning methods were used to assess the trade-offs between three ecosystem services: timber production, erosion protection and biodiversity. The use of trade-off analysis helps to define proper weights for the management objectives and evaluate the feasibility of obtaining economic profit from timber while controlling the erosion risk and maintaining biodiversity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,109,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-open-access","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-109-id","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}