Developing a production possibility set of wildlife species persistence and timber harvest value1

نویسندگان

  • David E. Calkin
  • Claire A. Montgomery
  • Nathan H. Schumaker
  • Stephen Polasky
  • Jeffrey L. Arthur
  • Darek J. Nalle
چکیده

An integrated model, combining spatial wildlife population and timber harvest and growth models, was developed to explore tradeoffs between the likelihood of persistence of a wildlife species, the northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus), and timber production on a landscape on the west side of the Oregon Cascade Range. A simplified wildlife model was developed from the fully parameterized spatial wildlife model, using a habitat neighborhoodweighting scheme, for use in the optimization. Simulated annealing, a heuristic optimization technique, was used to solve for harvest schedules that maximized the net present value of timber harvest subject to a target value for likelihood of species persistence over a 100-year planning period. By solving this problem for a range of species persistence targets, a production possibility frontier was developed that showed tradeoffs between timber harvest value and likelihood of species persistence on this landscape. Although the results are specific to the wildlife species and the landscape analyzed, the approach is general and provides a structure for future models that will help land managers and forest planners to understand tradeoffs among competing resource uses. Résumé : Un modèle intégré, combinant des modèles à référence spatiale de populations fauniques et de récolte et croissance de matière ligneuse, a été développé pour explorer les compromis entre la probabilité de persistance d’une espèce faunique, le grand polatouche (Glaucomys sabrinus), et la production ligneuse dans un paysage du versant ouest de la chaîne des Cascades en Oregon. Un modèle faunique simplifié a été développé, à des fins d’optimisation, à partir du modèle faunique à référence spatiale paramétrique complet en utilisant un système de pondération des habitats voisins. L’adoucissement simulé, une technique heuristique d’optimisation, a été utilisé pour produire des cédules de récolte qui maximisent la valeur actuelle nette de la récolte ligneuse tout en visant une valeur-cible de probabilité de persistance de l’espèce sur une période de 100 ans. En produisant ces cédules pour une gamme de cibles de persistance de l’espèce, nous avons pu déterminer une frontière des possibilités de production qui montrait les compromis entre la valeur de la récolte ligneuse et la probabilité de persistance de l’espèce dans le paysage. Malgré que les résultats soient spécifiques à l’espèce faunique et au paysage étudiés, l’approche est généralisable et elle fournit un cadre pour de futurs modèles qui aideront les aménagistes du territoire et les planificateurs forestiers à comprendre les compromis entre l’utilisation de ressources concurrentes. [Traduit par la Rédaction] Calkin et al. 1342

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تاریخ انتشار 2002