A landscape approach to sustainable forest management and habitat quality modelling
Résumé
This work provides views and examples on how the holistic approach of landscape ecology can be considered towards the interplay between biodiversity value and the needs of forestry activities. Focusing on biodiversity conservation as a proxy for ecological dimensions of sustainable forest management the work proposes a series of requirements for the conservation of habitat networks and ecological processes to be met by forest landscape managers. This is particular challenging nowadays because of the increasing pressures to intensify wood production and timber exploitation. Nevertheless, there are also demands for improving the actions in favour of safeguarding biodiversity, and in a more general way improving forest ecosystems functioning. This twofold requirement of an optimized forest production and an environmental quality improvement represents a true challenge for the years to come. A fast reorganization of the system is needed in order to find the right balance between management within a forest ecosystem services approach at different scales. In particular, we need to consider a valorisation of wood resources and production, thorough knowledge of their vulnerability within an intensification management scenario.
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