CENTRE ON THE PROBLEMS OF ECOLOGY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF FORESTS
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Khoroshev A.V. Accounting for Landscape--Ecological Values in Planning of Forest Management // Forest Science (Lesovedenie). 2009. No 6. P. 54-62 (in Russian). The paper focuses on landscape--ecological values that are proposed to be taken into account in forest inventory. This would provide the opportunity to avoid a decrease in the efficiency of forest landscape functions, as well as to minimize conflicts between stakeholders. The principal tool is rational spatial organization of a forest landscape at the level higher than a smallest ordinary unit of forest management. Analysis of landscape--ecological values is based on: (1) interaction between biotic and abiotic components; (2) differentiated approaches to forest use taking into account the relief, soil-forming rocks, and regimes of moistening of units; (3) interaction between units; (4) contribution of each unit to the functioning of higher-ordered geosystems. Approaches to forest management aimed in minimizing the conflicts between logging and a set of ecological functions, such as runoff regulation, biodiversity protection, and buffering undesirable substance flows, are analyzed. A key role is assumed to support mosaics in accordance with the natural landscape pattern. Landscape structure, river basin, relief, spatial organization of forest harvesting, ecological functions, conflict |
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