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  • Modelling future growth of mountain forests under changing environments [Elektronski vir]
    Bošela, Michal ...
    Models to predict the effects of different silvicultural treatments on future forest development are the best available tools to demonstrate and test possible climate-smart pathways of mountain ... forestry. This chapter reviews the state of the art in modelling approaches to predict the future growth of European mountain forests under changing environmental and management conditions. Growth models, both mechanistic and empirical, which are currently available to predict forest growth are reviewed. The chapter also discusses the potential of integrating the effects of genetic origin, species mixture and new silvicultural prescriptions on biomass production into the growth models. The potential of growth simulations to quantify indicators of climate-smart forestry (CSF) is evaluated as well. We conclude that available forest growth models largely differ from each other in many ways, and so they provide a large range of future growth estimates. However, the fast development of computing capacity allows and will allow a wide range of growth simulations and multi-model averaging to produce robust estimates. Still, great attention is required to evaluate the performance of the models. Remote sensing measurements will allow the use of growth models across ecological gradients.
    Source: Climate-smart forestry in mountain regions [Elektronski vir] (Str. 223-262)
    Type of material - e-article
    Publish date - 2022
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 86700547

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    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-80767-2_7
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80767-2_7
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