Adapting forest health assessments to changing perspectives on threats--a case example from Sweden
| Autor: | Göran Ståhl, Sture Wijk, Sören Wulff, Åke Lindelöw, Anna-Lena Axelsson, Per Hansson, Pia Barklund, Lars Lundin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Sweden
Conservation of Natural Resources business.industry Ecology (disciplines) Forest Science Environmental resource management Decision Making Information needs General Medicine Forest health Management Monitoring Policy and Law Operational decision Pollution Trees Coleoptera Health assessment Knowledge base Environmental monitoring Animals Business National forest Agricultural Science General Environmental Science Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Environmental monitoring and assessment. 184(4) |
| ISSN: | 1573-2959 |
| Popis: | A revised Swedish forest health assessment system is presented. The assessment system is composed of several interacting components which target information needs for strategic and operational decision making and accommodate a continuously expanding knowledge base. The main motivation for separating information for strategic and operational decision making is that major damage outbreaks are often scattered throughout the landscape. Generally, large-scale inventories (such as national forest inventories) cannot provide adequate information for mitigation measures. In addition to broad monitoring programs that provide time-series information on known damaging agents and their effects, there is also a need for local and regional inventories adapted to specific damage events. While information for decision making is the major focus of the health assessment system, the system also contributes to expanding the knowledge base of forest conditions. For example, the integrated monitoring programs provide a better understanding of ecological processes linked to forest health. The new health assessment system should be able to respond to the need for quick and reliable information and thus will be an important part of the future monitoring of Swedish forests. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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