Forest owner is more than her goal: a qualitative typology of Lithuanian owners

In contrast to quantitative surveys up to date, this study employs in-depth interviews and qualitative analyses aiming to provide detailed contextualized portrayals of private forest owners (PFOs) in Lithuania, where forest ownership underwent crucial changes in the last two decades. We scrutinized narrations of 18 owners, focusing on the background and goals of forest possession, actually applied management practices and informants' future plans. Content analysis of the narrations revealed three classes of goals: ideational rationale, i.e. immaterial justification for owning and managing forest, financial goals referring to monetary benefits from selling forest products and own material use for household needs. Reported practices differ widely among PFOs, ranging from largely absent management to intensive silvicultural regimes. Syntheses of each informant's goals and practices enabled discerning four types of PFOs. Forest Businessmen typically own largest estates (>100 ha) and regard forest as an investment to get long-term financial benefits; they resort to forest management for timber and often intend to enlarge their possessions. Household Foresters primarily use timber for own needs, regularly applying selective tree cutting; such forestry results in frequent but small-scale management interventions. Passive Forest Lovers aspire for recreational or environmental values, being largely uninterested in timber harvesting. Ad Hoc Owners usually are small scale, have vague goals and rarely engage in forest management. The study concludes with discussing policy implications of the identified diversity of PFOs

Decision support tools and strategies to simulate forest landscape evolutions integrating forest owner behaviour: a review from the case studies of the European Project, INTEGRAL

For forest sustainability and vulnerability assessment, the landscape scale is considered to be more and more relevant as the stand level approaches its known limitations. This review, which describes the main forest landscape simulation tools used in the 20 European case studies of the European project “Future-oriented integrated management of European forest landscapes” (INTEGRAL), gives an update on existing decision support tools to run landscape simulation from Mediterranean to boreal ecosystems. The main growth models and software available in Europe are described, and the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches are discussed. Trades-offs between input efforts and output are illustrated. Recommendations for the selection of a forest landscape simulator are given. The paper concludes by describing the need to have tools that are able to cope with climate change and the need to build more robust indicators for assessment of forest landscape sustainability and vulnerability.The INTEGRAL project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No. 282887. http://www. integral-project.eu/. Moreover, financial support by the Transnational Access to Research Infrastructures activity in the 7th Framework Programme of the EC under the Trees4Future project (No. 284181) for conducting the research is gratefully acknowledged. This research has also received funding from the European Union H2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 691149 (SuFoRun). Researcher Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo was supported by a “Ramon y Cajal” research contract from the MINECO (Ref. RYC-2013-14262) and has received funding from CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. This paper could be achieved thanks to support of EFIATLANTIC donors: Conseil regional d’Aquitaine, Ministère de l’agriculture et de la forêt

How sensitive are ecosystem services in European forest landscapes to silvicultural treatment?

While sustainable forestry in Europe is characterized by the provision of a multitude of forest ecosystem services, there exists no comprehensive study that scrutinizes their sensitivity to forest management on a pan-European scale, so far. We compile scenario runs from regionally tailored forest growth models and Decision Support Systems (DSS) from 20 case studies throughout Europe and analyze whether the ecosystem service provision depends on management intensity and other co-variables, comprising regional affiliation, social environment, and tree species composition. The simulation runs provide information about the case-specifically most important ecosystem services in terms of appropriate indicators. We found a strong positive correlation between management intensity and wood production, but only weak correlation with protective and socioeconomic forest functions. Interestingly, depending on the forest region, we found that biodiversity can react in both ways, positively and negatively, to increased management intensity. Thus, it may be in tradeoff or in synergy with wood production and forest resource maintenance. The covariables species composition and social environment are of punctual interest only, while the affiliation to a certain region often makes an important difference in terms of an ecosystem service’s treatment sensitivityinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Survey of the Elementary Population of Elk in the Tyruliai Botanical – Zoological Reserve

Magistro baigiamąjame darbe nagrinėjama briedžių elementarioji populiacija Tyrulių botaniniame – zoologiniame draustinyje. Tyrimais bandyta nustatyti briedžių pasiskirstymą teritorijoje vasaros – rudens, bei žiemos pavasario laikotarpiais. Taip pat tyrinėta draustinyje gyvenančių briedžių rujos elgsenos ypatumai – rujai pasirenkamų teritorijų charakteristikos, rujos pradžios ir pabaigos datos. Darbo objektas – Tyrulių botaninio – zoologinio draustinio teritorijoje gyvenanti elementarioji briedžių (Alces alces) populiacija. Darbo tikslas – ištirti briedžių elgsenos ypatumus Tyrulių botaniniame zoologiniame draustinyje, nustatyti erdvinio pasiskirstymo teritorijoje dinamiką skirtingais metų sezonais, bei rujos elgsenos ypatumus. Darbo metodai – darbe naudoti briedžių vizualinio stebėjimo, bei apskaitos žiemavietėse pagal ekskrementų krūveles metodai. Darbo rezultatai –nustatyta, kad tyrinėjamu laikotarpiu draustinio teritorijoje žiemojo 25-30 briedžių. Mėgstamiausios briedžių žiemavietės buvo sklypai su dideliais pelkėtų lapuotynų ir krūmynų plotais. Vasaros ganyklos išsiskyrė atvirais ir pusiau atvirais šlapiais biotopais – žemapelkėmis, krūmokšnynais. Rujos teritorijoms briedžiai rinkos sklypus su dideliais pelkėtų lapuotynų ir krūmokšnynų plotais. Anksčiausia tyrime užfiksuota briedžių rujos data teritorijoje buvo rugpjūčio 23 d., vėliausia – rugsėjo 26 d.In the master thesis is being analized an elementary population of elk in the Tyruliai botanical – zoological reserve. With a help of the survey it was being tried to identify the elk distribution in the territory in summer, autumn, winter and spring. Also, the behaviour patterns of rutting of the elks which live in the reserve were analyzed as well. The patterns analyzed were as follows: the characteristics of the territory chosen for rutting, the beginning and the end of the rut. Object of the work - an elementary population of european elk (Alces alces) living in the territory of the Tyruliai botanical – zoological reserve. The aim of the work - to examine the behavior patterns and the patterns of rutting of elks living in the territory of the Tyruliai botanical – zoological reserve, also, to identify the dynamics of the dimensional distribution in the territory according to the seasons. Methods of the work – visual observation of the elks and the accounting according to the piles of the excrements in the winterings. The results of the work – it was estimated that during the research period there were 25-30 elks hibernating in the territory of the reserve. The favourite elk places of hibernating were plots with wide leafy areas with lots of bushes. In the summer pastures there were open and half-open wet biotopes such as low swamps and shrubberies. For rutting territories elk chose plots with wide areas of shrubberies and leafy swamps. The former elk rutting date in the territory was stated on the 23 of August and the latest - the 26 of September.Žemės ūkio akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta

The research of work time use of managing employees in Forest statements

Tyrimo dalykas: miško ūkio vadovaujančių darbuotojų darbo laiko naudojimas. Tyrimo tikslas: atlikti miškų urėdijų vadovaujančių darbuotojų darbo laiko naudojimo analizę ir santykinį jų darbo laiko naudojimo palyginimą. Tyrimo objektas: trys iš šiuo metu Generalinės miškų urėdijos organizuotų devynių koordinacinių regionų. Tyrimo metodai: darbe buvo taikyti šie bendrieji metodai: loginės analizės, anketinės apklausos, lyginamosios analizės ir matematinės statistikos metodai. Tyrimo rezultatai: Pateikiami miškų urėdų, urėdų pavaduotojų bei girininkų apklausos metu gautų rezultatų analizė. Rezultatai analizuojami pagal išskirtas klausimų grupes: 1) darbo planavimas; 2) darbo laiko naudojimo struktūra; 3) darbo laikas pagrindinėms valdymo procedūroms; 4) laisvo laiko naudojimas; 5) pasiūlymai dėl vadovų laiko naudojimo gerinimo. Nagrinėjant miškų urėdijų vadovaujančių darbuotojų darbo laiko naudojimą, pastebimos tokios tendencijos: 1. Miškų urėdijos vadovaujantys darbuotojai dirba dalinai reglamentuotą darbo laiką. 2. Darbuotojų darbo laiko naudojimo struktūra pagal pareigybes skiriasi. 3. Daugiausia laiko pagal veikiančius reikalavimus naudojama dokumentų tvarkymo bei nenumatytiems darbams atlikti. 4. Galima didinti darbo laiko naudojimo racionalumą.The subject of research: work time use of managing employees in forestry. The aim of this study is to exercise state forest enterprise managing personnel on work time use analysis of forest state director, vice directors and forestry officers and to compare their relative work time use. The object of this study: for research have been chosen three Lithuanian State Forests regions abstracted from provided nine Directorate General of State Forests The following methods of analyses were used in the study: logical analyses, questionnaire, comparative analyses and mathematical statistics methods. The result of the study: there are listed the results of forest state director, vice directors and forestry officers obtained during questionnaire. To have more representative results are divided to the groups of the questions: the structure of work time, work planning, work time for the main managing procedures, leisure time use, offers for the better time use of managers. The study reveals the following trends: 1. The managing personnel of forest enterprise are working partly regalemented work time. 2. Work time use structure differs by employees function. 3. The most time looses are on administrating documents and on work time for unexpected jobs. 4. Possible to increase the rationality of time use.Žemės ūkio akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta

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