Optimal management of naturally regenerating uneven-aged forests

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2016.06.071zbMATH Open1394.90424arXiv1608.05109OpenAlexW2462734315MaRDI QIDQ1752273FDOQ1752273

Authors: Ankur Sinha, Janne Rämö, Pekka Malo, Markku Kallio, O. Tahvonen 

Publication date: 24 May 2018

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A shift from even-aged forest management to uneven-aged management practices leads to a problem rather different from the existing straightforward practice that follows a rotation cycle of artificial regeneration, thinning of inferior trees and a clearcut. A lack of realistic models and methods suggesting how to manage uneven-aged stands in a way that is economically viable and ecologically sustainable creates difficulties in adopting this new management practice. To tackle this problem, we make a two-fold contribution in this paper. The first contribution is the proposal of an algorithm that is able to handle a realistic uneven-aged stand management model that is otherwise computationally tedious and intractable. The model considered in this paper is an empirically estimated size-structured ecological model for uneven-aged spruce forests. The second contribution is on the sensitivity analysis of the forest model with respect to a number of important parameters. The analysis provides us an insight into the behavior of the uneven-aged forest model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05109

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear programmingevolutionary algorithmsnatural resourcesforest management

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large-scale problems in mathematical programming (90C06) Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Case-oriented studies in operations research (90B90) Nonlinear programming (90C30) Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.) (91B76)

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