Current Advances on Ecological Modeling for Sustainable Forest Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Forestry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 July 2021) | Viewed by 12290
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest growth; tree and stand structure modelling; forest management; mixed-effects models; remote sensing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: multipurpose forest management; decision support systems; expert systems; multicriteria analysis; valuation of forest externalities; ecosystem servisesservices; urban forestry; spatial statistics; adaptive governance
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The implementation and monitoring of sustainable forest management, particularly in relation to climate change and socio-economic demands, remains a major challenge for forest managers, stakeholders, and policy-makers in Europe and other regions of the world. Ecological modelling at different spatial and temporal scales has been used over the past few decades to explore the complexity of the concept and practice of forest management sustainability. Ecological models have been aimed in particular at enabling the rational use of forest resources by focusing on the dynamics of forest growth and structure, production of wood and non-wood products, and ecosystem services (e.g., water and soil protection, biodiversity conservation, nutrient cycling, carbon storage, air-filtering, and other socio-economic benefits). Moreover, ecological models are important components for building multi-criteria decision-making tools, which aim at providing impact support information on natural disturbances such as wildfires and forest pests; forest management or restoration regimes such as planting, thinning, and harvesting; as well as optimal resource allocation schemes. The current Special Issue, Current Advances in Ecological Modelling for Sustainable Forest Management, seeks high-quality works and topics focusing on the state-of-the-art forest ecological modelling approaches at relevant spatial and temporal scales; the identification and mathematical description of the main driving forces and attributes; and optimization of forest resource use and restoration to assess the implementation and monitoring of forest management sustainability.
Ass. Prof. Dimitrios I. Raptis
Prof. Vassiliki Kazana
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainable forest management
- Forest Ecosystem Services
- Yield modeling
- Climate change forest impacts
- Forest sequestration
- Forest restoration
- Forest sustainability assessment
- Forest sustainability monitoring
- Forest productivity
- Forest resource impact modeling
- Forest ecosystem modeling
- Tree and Forest growth modeling
- Forest structure modeling
- Forest multi-criteria modeling
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