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ForestValue: Innovative forest management strategies for a resilient bioeconomy under climate change and disturbances, data provisioning, management scenarios, model calibration and simulation (ForestValue)

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Project code: 22035418
Contract period: 01.06.2019 - 31.05.2022
Budget: 241,329 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: plant health, forest protection, renewable ressources

The EU bioeconomy aims to ensure that forests provide sustainable resources while preserving other ecosystem services. However, climate change and intensification of disturbances may jeopardize this objective. Forest resilience can play a major role for the bioeconomy in limiting negative impacts. The aim of I-Maestro is to improve the scientific basis of management strategies that increase forest resilience while preserving biodiversity conservation and carbon storage. I-Maestro will especially assess management strategies fostering forest structural complexity. It will meet this aim by - documenting and analyzing past disturbances to build future disturbance scenarios, - using evidence-based studies of disturbance impacts and recovery processes, - simulating wood production and other ecosystem services under scenarios of disturbance, management and climate change in forests across Slovenia, Poland, Germany and France with complementary forest models. The project will deliver key products for a sustainable bioeconomy: an open access disturbance database, deeper understanding of disturbance impacts and management effects on ecosystem services at stand, landscape and country scale, and simulations evaluating innovative management strategies. By investigating interactions between disturbances, management, climate change and structural complexity, I-Maestro will also build new adaptive management practices. Finally, it will synthesize its main results into recommendations for stakeholders on how to enhance or preserve the forest bioeconomy under environmental changes. PIK is mostly contributing to WP1 (data provision, M1-12) and WP3 (management scenarios, model calibration and simulation, M16-36). The data will be provided in M12, the report on the management scenarios will be made available in M18 and implemented in M24. The model calibration will be finished in M24 and the model simulations available in M30 will lead into a scientific publication in M36.

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