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Forest Management and Biodiversity in Size-Structured Forests Under Climate Change

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Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics

Part of the book series: Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance ((DMEF,volume 15))

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Climate change is threatening biodiversity conservation at a global scale, urging the need for action in order to prevent current and future losses. In forestry, the consideration of some stand features such as requiring a certain volume of deadwood and/or large trees as a part of the management regime may help to preserve and enhance biodiversity. However, it is likely to lead to a decrease in the benefits obtained from timber sales. This chapter presents a bioeconomic model that allows the optimal selective logging regime of a size-distributed forest to be determined, while taking climate change and biodiversity into account. It analyzes to what extent structural targets related to biodiversity affect the optimal forest management regime and the profitability of forests. For this purpose, an empirical analysis under various climate change scenarios is conducted for two diameter-distributed stands of Pinus sylvestris in Catalonia. The results show that the costs of biodiversity conservation in terms of reduced profitability can be significant, and augment with climate change.

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    Assisted natural regeneration (ANR) is a cost-effective regeneration method that facilitates forest growth. It is based on the natural regeneration of forest trees, and aims to accelerate natural succession by removing or reducing barriers, such as intra-specific competition, and forest disturbances (Shono et al. 2007). We assume that the ingrowth of trees is sufficiently large, and thus the effect of ANR is limited to obtaining the optimal number of trees. Although it represents a simplification, the effect is not decisive since insufficient ingrowth could be resolved through enrichment planting, that is, by planting additional trees to reach the desired number of trees.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology grant Econ2010-17020, with partial funding from the program FEDER of the European Union, and of the Government of Catalonia grants XREPP and 2009 SGR189.

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Goetz, R., Cañizares, C., Pujol, J., Xabadia, A. (2014). Forest Management and Biodiversity in Size-Structured Forests Under Climate Change. In: Moser, E., Semmler, W., Tragler, G., Veliov, V. (eds) Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics. Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54086-8_12

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