Nutrient sustainability in beech forests

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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.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.505
Metadata Access https://www.envidat.ch/api/action/package_show?id=b938dd05-54ab-4dc0-b7d8-a106567322f4
Provenance
Creator Stephan, Zimmermann, 0000-0002-8904-9024; Maximilian, Posch,; Daniel, Kurz,; Reinhard, Mey, 0000-0003-3702-0366; Timothy, Thrippleton,; Niál, Perry,; Janine, Schweier, 0000-0003-4435-3089
Publisher EnviDat
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference BAFU,
Rights CC0-1.0; Creative Commons Zero - No Rights Reserved (CC0 1.0)
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Contact envidat(at)wsl.ch
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Environmental Sciences
Spatial Coverage (5.956W, 45.818S, 10.492E, 47.808N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z