Stand-Level Forest Management Planning Approaches

Forest Stand Structure and Development: Implications for Forest Management

A general premise of forest managers is that modern silviculture should be based, in large part, on natural disturbance patterns and species' adaptations to these disturbances. An understanding of forest stand dynamics is therefore a prerequisite to sound forest management. This paper provides a brief overview of forest stand development, stand structures, and disturbance regimes and discusses ...

The Impact of Stand Identification Through An Object-Oriented Approach For Forest Management Planning*

Stand boundary identification is an important factor in forest management planning that is dependent on the quality and resolution of the imagery available. We identified stand boundaries on an area within the John C. Stennis Space Center using two sources of multispectral imagery, IKONOS and QuickBird. Forest stands were delineated using eCognition v3.0. Segmentation was performed by initially...

Approaches to Integrated Strategic/Tactical Forest Planning

Approaches to Sustainable Forest Management

Claim of sustainability are virtually impossible to prove but enough is known about tropical forest ecology and silviculture to protect ecosystem functions and maintain biodiversity while still deriving financial profirs from logging . Rapid improvements in long-term forest production will derive from better planning of harvesting operations and stand improvement treatments. Lack of good manage...

Impact of climate change uncertainty on optimal forest management policies at stand level

Forest management is classically modeled as a deterministic planning problem where decisions are determined in advance unconditionally to future events. This approach has led to the development of efficient optimization methods based on linear programming which can solve large forest management problems as encountered in Scandinavian countries. Recent research results have nevertheless establis...