Nutrient sustainability in beech forests

Description

With this study, our aim was to estimate the nutrient fluxes relevant for assessing nutrient sustainability as accurately as possible and to calculate nutrient balances for alternative forest management scenarios. Furthermore, we tested whether mapping units from existing geologic maps can serve as a basis for forest practitioners to estimate nutrient sustainability or whether more detailed data is needed. Positive fluxes include deposition and weathering, while negative fluxes include losses due to leaching and nutrient removal through timber harvesting in the balance. Weathering and leachate losses were modeled with a geochemical model. The SwissStandSim model was used to simulate the biomass growth under different harvesting and silvicultural strategies, allowing sustainability to be assessed for each nutrient at a given intensity of use. This assessment was made per rotation period of 100 years based on two criteria: i) nutrient supply; and ii) total stocking volume.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/23bb8222-159c-42b8-8e06-dd14b8469600
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/59464da8-a4aa-4adf-86d1-df763223e9c4
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/ba211033-8761-4d53-a1fd-6e741926f3d6
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/3f5aa362-7738-4a1e-8cce-9c0b60f0ef71
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/ba211033-8761-4d53-a1fd-6e741926f3d6
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/59464da8-a4aa-4adf-86d1-df763223e9c4
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/3f5aa362-7738-4a1e-8cce-9c0b60f0ef71
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/23bb8222-159c-42b8-8e06-dd14b8469600
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/23bb8222-159c-42b8-8e06-dd14b8469600
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/ba211033-8761-4d53-a1fd-6e741926f3d6
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/59464da8-a4aa-4adf-86d1-df763223e9c4
53 https://www.envidat.ch/dataset/nutrient-sustainability-in-beech-forests/resource/3f5aa362-7738-4a1e-8cce-9c0b60f0ef71

Tags

  • nutrient
  • mass-balance
  • soil
  • sustainability
  • beech

Topics

  • EDUC

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