Till now, none of the studies about "Simulating the Impact of Global Change to managed Forests" have addressed ecosystem services of forests. Therefore the goal of this study was to develop a comprehensive concept for simulating the management of forests under the goal to maintain and develop particular ecosystem services also under changing climatic conditions. For this purpose the contents of environmental legislation regulating particular categories of conservation areas relevant to forest land use was analysed in a qualitative and a quantitative manner. The results of this analysis have then been summarized to comprehensive synopses. As well as an assessment of the intensity of regulations in the various conservation area categories (Part A "Legal Regulations"), the current and possible future relevance of these conservation area categories for forest land use was estimated by establishing the size of their areas (Part C "Statistical Data"). Through interviewing experts, status and prognosis regarding zones of conservation area categories have been supplemented and validated. Furthermore expert votes about optimal forest structures and legal constraints regarding the fulfilment of ecosystem services as well as the impact of scientific knowledge on legal implementations have been collected (Part B "Expert Votes"). Based on these results, a method for conceptual simulating the management of conservation areas was designed. For this it was necessary to define the potential natural forest communities in a technical way through the use of ecogrammes. Therefore the parameters water supply, nutrient supply, degree of continentality and altitude have been operationalized. The input data have been produced by the forest enterprise model generator "ActioSilva 1.0". For enabling a simulation with the forest growth simulator "SILVA 2.2", the legal constraints have been transformed to operationalized management strategies. After this, these management strategies have been adopted to a specific part of the model stands, regarding to their categories of conservation area. The simulating concept has been completed through converting the tree species from the ecogrammes to tree species, which could be simulated with "SILVA 2.2" (Part D "Simulation Concept").
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Till now, none of the studies about "Simulating the Impact of Global Change to managed Forests" have addressed ecosystem services of forests. Therefore the goal of this study was to develop a comprehensive concept for simulating the management of forests under the goal to maintain and develop particular ecosystem services also under changing climatic conditions. For this purpose the contents of environmental legislation regulating particular categories of conservation areas relevant to forest la...
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