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Assessing the provisioning potential of ecosystem services in a Scandinavian boreal forest : suitability and tradeoff analyses on grid-based wall-to-wall forest inventory data

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2017
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Vauhkonen J
Ruotsalainen R
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10.1016/j.foreco.2016.12.005
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Vauhkonen J. Ruotsalainen R. (2017). Assessing the provisioning potential of ecosystem services in a Scandinavian boreal forest : suitability and tradeoff analyses on grid-based wall-to-wall forest inventory data.  FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 389, 272-284. 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.12.005.
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Determining optimal forest management to provide multiple goods and services, also referred to as Ecosystem Services (ESs), requires operational-scale information on the suitability of the forest for the provisioning of various ESs. Remote sensing allows wall-to-wall assessments and provides pixel data for a flexible composition of the management units. The purpose of this study was to incorporate models of ES provisioning potential in a spatial prioritization framework and to assess the pixel-level allocation of the land use. We tessellated the forested area in a landscape of altogether 7500 ha to 27,595 pixels of 48 × 48 m2 and modeled the potential of each pixel to provide biodiversity, timber, carbon storage, and recreational amenities as indicators of supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural ESs, respectively. We analyzed spatial overlaps between the individual ESs, the potential to provide multiple ESs, and tradeoffs due to production constraints in a fraction of the landscape. The pixels considered most important for the individual ESs overlapped as much as 78% between carbon storage and timber production and up to 52.5% between the other ESs. The potential for multiple ESs could be largely explained in terms of forest structure as being emphasized to sparsely populated, spruce-dominated old forests with large average tree size. Constraining the production of the ESs in the landscape based on the priority maps, however, resulted in sub-optimal choices compared to an optimized production. Even though the land-use planning cannot be completed without involving the stakeholders' preferences, we conclude that the workflow described in this paper produced valuable information on the overlaps and tradeoffs of the ESs for the related decision support.

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Forest inventory   Remote sensing   Spatial multi-criteria decision analysis   Multi-attribute utility theory   Zonation   
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https://erepo.uef.fi/handle/123456789/4901
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.12.005
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