Land use impact of maritime pine and eucalypt: A life cycle assessment study

The forestry sector in Portugal faces important challenges, resulting an increased incidence of fires and the action pathogens, which puts sustainability forest resources at risk. Due to economic, social, environmental importance forests, this work assessed land use impact maritime pine eucalypt standing Portuguese forests. SimaPro software was used translate inventory table results into category. ILCD 2011 Midpoint+ method chosen assess “land use” that focuses on soil quality its indicator (kg carbon deficit), describes changes organic matter associated with interventions. showed for first rotation time, category per cubic meter is 18423 kg C deficit 23430 eucalypt, means 27% higher than pine.