Implementação de modelos de produção em PGF. Aplicação de um caso de estudo no Concelho de Ponte de Sôr

Mestrado em Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe scope of the present work is to demonstrate the use of growth and yield models in forestry management practice, namely in the elaboration of a forestry management plan. The SUBER model, a growth and yield model for cork oak stands in Portugal was used to simulate the development of two cork oak stands in the area of Ponte de Sôr. By using data collected from forest inventory, the model SUBER v5.0 allowed to simulate the evolution of the cork oak stands for the next 30 years, according to several management alternatives defined in order to evaluate the effect of different management options in each stand. The resulting outputs include sustainability indicators of cork oaks stands, wood and cork production, carbon sequestration and also economic indicators. By the end of this work it is clearly demonstrated the importance of these growth and yield models as tools for sustainable forest management for areas of cork oak forests in Portugal, and for the additional information that they can generate and embed in a forestry management plan