Environmental Effects of Afforestation in North-Western Europe (eBook, PDF)

From Field Observations to Decision Support
Redaktion: Heil, Gerrit W.; Hansen, Karin; Muys, Bart

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Afforestation of former arable land is a current trend in many European countries. In addition to wood, these new forests provide a variety of environmental benefits, such as carbon sequestration and improved water quality. However, there could be negative impacts, such as reduced groundwater recharge. This book provides techniques for estimating the environmental impacts, and guidelines and decision support systems to enable national and international policy makers, and also forest managers, to maximize benefits and minimize the adverse effects of afforestation. The book describes afforestation research and shows the application of a developed decision support system. The book considers three important environmental issues - carbon sequestration in soils and biomass, water surplus and nitrate leaching, reviewing efforts to quantify these effects in the field and model the data into the future. Finally, it shows how detailed models are reduced to "metamodels" suitable for implementation within a real-time management system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402045684
• Artikelnr.: 37338982

Autorenporträt

Gerrit W. Heil, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands / Bart Muys, KULeuven, Belgium / Karin Hansen, Forest & Landscape, Hørsholm, Denmark

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Demand for Afforestation Management in North-western Europe.- Carbon Sequestration in Soil and Biomass Following Afforestation: Experiences from Oak and Norway Spruce Chronosequences in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.- Interception and Water Recharge Following Afforestation: Experiences from Oak and Norway Spruce Chronosequences in Denmark, Sweden and The Netherlands.- Nitrogen Deposition and Nitrate Leaching Following Afforestation: Experiences from Oak and Norway Spruce Chronosequences in Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.- Modelling the Nitrogen Deposition to Afforested Systems.- Effects of Light and N Availability in Forests on Plant Species Diversity in the Field Layer: A Plant Ecological and Modelling Approach.- Modelling the Afforested System: The Forest/Tree Model.- Modelling the Afforested System: The Soil and Water Compartment.- Metafore: The Afforest Deposition-Soil-Water-Vegetation Metamodel.- Support of Decisions on Afforestation in North-Western Europe with the AFFOREST-sDSS.- Guidelines for Planning Afforestation of Former Arable Land.- The Lessons Learned from Afforest - a Synthesis.