Forestry operations focusing on different types of felling related to carbon and economic efficiencies

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43410/15:43908711

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Forestry operations focusing on different types of felling related to carbon and economic efficiencies

Original language description

Assessments of carbon and economic efficiencies, completed by an environmental load computation using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method, could be a useful tool for assessing sustainable forest management (e.g. Berg & Lindholm 2005, Michelsen et al. 2008). The purpose of this study was to compare forestry operations focused on manually operated (chainsaw) and fully mechanized (harvester) felling in Norway spruce monocultures and mixed forests within the Novohradské Mts. (Czech Republic) using the methods of carbon efficiency (including LCA) and economic efficiency. In general terms, these methods consist of comparing quantified human inputs (e.g. fossil fuels, electricity, used machinery, and fertilizers, converted into emission units of carbon in t C in CO2 equivalent or EUR) with quantified ecosystem outputs (biomass production in t C or EUR). Forest operations were modelled for one rotation period. The results showed the main differences in carbon emissions and carbon efficiency related to forest operations with different types of felling. In contrast, the economic efficiency results did not differ much with different types of felling. Differences between Norway spruce monocultures and mixed forests using the same type of felling were relatively small for carbon efficiency but large for economic efficiency (Norway spruce monocultures recorded higher economic efficiency).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

GK - Forestry

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Global Change: A Complex Challenge : Conference Proceedings

ISBN

978-80-87902-10-3

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

4

Pages from-to

166-169

Publisher name

Global Change Research Centre, The Czech Academy of Sciences, v. v. i.

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Brno

Event date

Mar 23, 2015

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000381161600040