Forest Inventory-based Projection Systems for Wood and Biomass Availability
In many European countries, the importance of wood production has been declining over the last decades in favour of other forest functions. However, recent policy targets for bioenergy and emphasis on the contribution of forests to the bio-economy have sp
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Susana Barreiro Mart-Jan Schelhaas Ronald E. McRoberts Gerald Kändler Editors
Forest Inventorybased Projection Systems for Wood and Biomass Availability
Managing Forest Ecosystems Volume 29
Series Editors Klaus von Gadow, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany Timo Pukkala, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland Margarida Tomé, Instituto Superior de Agronomía, Lisbon, Portugal
Aims & Scope Well-managed forests and woodlands are a renewable resource, producing essential raw material with minimum waste and energy use. Rich in habitat and species diversity, forests may contribute to increased ecosystem stability. They can absorb the effects of unwanted deposition and other disturbances and protect neighbouring ecosystems by maintaining stable nutrient and energy cycles and by preventing soil degradation and erosion. They provide much-needed recreation and their continued existence contributes to stabilizing rural communities. Forests are managed for timber production and species, habitat and process conservation. A subtle shift from multiple-use management to ecosystems management is being observed and the new ecological perspective of multi-functional forest management is based on the principles of ecosystem diversity, stability and elasticity, and the dynamic equilibrium of primary and secondary production. Making full use of new technology is one of the challenges facing forest management today. Resource information must be obtained with a limited budget. This requires better timing of resource assessment activities and improved use of multiple data sources. Sound ecosystems management, like any other management activity, relies on effective forecasting and operational control. The aim of the book series Managing Forest Ecosystems is to present state-ofthe-art research results relating to the practice of forest management. Contributions are solicited from prominent authors. Each reference book, monograph or proceedings volume will be focused to deal with a specific context. Typical issues of the series are: resource assessment techniques, evaluating sustainability for evenaged and uneven-aged forests, multi-objective management, predicting forest development, optimizing forest management, biodiversity management and monitoring, risk assessment and economic analysis. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6247
Susana Barreiro • Mart-Jan Schelhaas Ronald E. McRoberts • Gerald Kändler Editors
Forest Inventory-based Projection Systems for Wood and Biomass Availability
COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020
Editors Susana Barreiro Forest Research Centre (CEF), School of Agriculture University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal Ronald E. McRoberts Northern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service Saint Paul, MN, USA
Mart-Jan Schelhaas Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra) Wageningen, The Netherlands Gerald Kändler Forest Research Institute of Baden-Württemberg Freiburg, Germany
ISSN 1568-1319 ISSN 2352-3956 (electronic) Managing Forest Ecosystems
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