Journal
IFOREST-BIOGEOSCIENCES AND FORESTRY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages 76-84Publisher
SISEF-SOC ITALIANA SELVICOLTURA ECOL FORESTALE
DOI: 10.3832/ifor2617-011
Keywords
Biodiversity Conservation; Sustainable Forest Management; Microhabitats; Habitat Tree; Marteloscope; Timber Production; Precision Forestry
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- LIFE program
- Italian Academy of Forest Sciences [LIFE14 ENV/IT/000414]
- German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) through the Integrate+ project
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The most significant European forest-related strategies highlight the importance of multifunctional forests for human wellbeing, due to the provision of a wide range of goods and services. However, managing competing aims, such as timber production, economic drivers and biodiversity conservation is often difficult for practitioners. In order to assess the loss and gain of ecosystem services caused by forestry, trade-off evaluation has been increasingly used to aid decision-making. In this study, four silvicultural scenarios are simulated using the Marteloscope approach to evaluate the trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and timber production. Tree-related Microhabitats (TreMs) are used as a proxy to evaluate forest habitat value, while timber production is assessed by the number of harvested trees, biomass removal and economic income. This study takes an innovative approach by investigating TreMs using the Marteloscope in mixed Mediterranean forest. The main findings from this paper confirm that tree-related microhabitats can be considered ecological indicators effective in identifying important habitat trees, to assess forest habitat value and support tree marking for thinning operations and management.
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