Mixed forests, modelling, dynamics and geographical distribution of productivity and carbon storage in mixed forest ecosystems in Portugal
- Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro(líder)
- Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e das Pescas(parceiro)
- Instituto Politécnico de Bragança(parceiro)
- Universidade de Évora(parceiro)
- Universidade Técnica de Lisboa - Instituto Superior de Agronomia(parceiro)
Summary
Sustainable Forest Management is the general and widely accepted framework, by which forests and their natural resources are recognized by the human societies. Former projects provided 1st generation research tools and initial promising results. This project, connecting related sciences (forestry, ecology, mathmatics, statistics and remote sensing) is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of mixed forests in Portugal. The main topics concerns the mantainance of several mixed stands and plantations scatered in the country; early growth modelling and mixed forest dynamics; strutural diversity vegetation assesment in mixed forests; alternative mixed forests silviculture and management practices; validation of Dryads growth model for mixed forests of Pinus pinaster and broadleaves and its calibration for Quercus suber and Pinus pinea stands assesment of forest types dynamics; maping spatial distribution and carbon storage in mixed forest types.
Goals, activities and expected/achieved results
To quantify productivity, map carbon stored and establish silvicultural guidelines in mixed plantations
To develop mixed stands growth simulator
To monitor and map mixed forest stands in the landscape dynamics, 95-05
