Effect of Forest Management of Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica with Different Types of Felling on Carbon and Economic Balances in the Czech Republic

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/16:73187

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/44/5/052042" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/44/5/052042</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/44/5/052042" target="_blank" >10.1088/1755-1315/44/5/052042</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effect of Forest Management of Picea abies and Fagus sylvatica with Different Types of Felling on Carbon and Economic Balances in the Czech Republic

Original language description

he selection of the most sustainable forest management under given site conditions needs suitable criteria and indicators. For this purpose, carbon and economic balance assessment, completed with environmental impact computation using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) were used. The aim of this study was to compare forestry operations and wood production of selected forest stands with different i) tree species composition (Norway spruce-Picea abies and European beech-Fagus sylvatica) and ii) type of felling (chainsaw and harvester). Carbon and economic balance methods consist in the comparison of quantified inputs (fossil fuels, electricity, used machinery, fertilizers, etc., converted into emission units of carbon in Mg of C-CO2-eq. or EUR) with quantified outputs (biomass production in Mg of carbon or EUR). In this contribution, similar forest stands ("forest site complexes") in the 4th forest vegetation zone (in the Czech Republic approximately 400-700 m above sea-level) were selected. Forestry operations were divided into 5 main stages: i) seedling production, ii) stand establishment and pruning, iii) thinning and final cutting, iv) skidding, and v) secondary timber transport and modelled for one rotation period of timber production (ca. 100 years). The differences between Norway spruce and European beech forest stands in the carbon efficiency were relatively small while higher differences were achieved in the economic efficiency (forest stands with Norway spruce had a higher economic efficiency). Concerning the comparison of different types of felling in Norway spruce forest stands, the harvester use proved to induce significantly higher environmental impacts (emission of carbon) and lower economic costs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/LO1415" target="_blank" >LO1415: CzechGlobe 2020 – Development of the Centre of Global Climate Change Impacts Studies</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

ISBN

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ISSN

1755-1307

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

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Publisher name

IOP

Place of publication

Bristol

Event location

Prague

Event date

Sep 5, 2016

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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