Session: Biodiversity friendly forest management – from concepts to practices
Übersicht / Overview
Titel / Title: Biodiversity friendly forest management – from concepts to practices
Thema / Topic: 2. Gefährdung und Schutz von Natur und Biodiversität im globalen Wandel / Endangering and protecting nature and biodiversity in a global context
Leitung / Coveners: Florian Schnabel, Frank Krumm, Michael Wohlwend, Catalina Munteanu
Bevorzugte Sprache / Preferred language: Englisch (deutsche Poster möglich) / English (German posters possible)
Inhalte / Content: Vorträge, Lightning-Talks & Poster-Session / oral presentations, lightning talks on posters & poster session
Beschreibung / Description
Managed forests provide a multitude of ecosystem services, including but not limited to renewable resource provision and biodiversity protection. As such, they represent perfect study cases for multifunctional landscapes that aim to reconcile resource demands with biodiversity protection.
Various biodiversity-friendly management concepts, such as retention forestry or integrative forest management, have been introduced in European forests, each employing a range of specific practices. Practices that promote individual aspects like deadwood, habitat trees, tree micro-habitats, or tree species composition have long been debated for improving diversity, but affect species (groups) in different ways. Moreover, progressing global change introduces novel conditions and rapid changes to forests with strong impacts on biodiversity measures. This raises the question of whether contemporary biodiversity-friendly forest management concepts and practices are fit for the future. Under such a high degree of uncertainty, finding successful approaches compatible with regional conditions and realities brings major challenges to enterprises, forest owners and managers.
In our session, we will introduce biodiversity-friendly forest management concepts and practices. Contributions that present management concepts or analyze the effectiveness of practices for biodiversity conservation and the delivery of ecosystem services should be motivated to participate in our session. We are particularly interested in approaches that consider different scales (from the tree to landscape scale) and adaptation to global change in their approaches for biodiversity-friendly management. We invite both contributions expanding on management concepts and their application in practice and concrete case-studies of taxonomic group responses. In addition to standard talks and posters, we will invite poster contributions from practitioners highlighting applied examples based on a standardized template, which the organizing team will provide.
Keywords: Forest transformation, biodiversity, global change, ecosystem service, Integrative Forest Management, Multifunctional forest landscapes
