Dynamic Landscape Metapopulation Models and Sustainable Forest Management

Abstract

This chapter proposes a model-based approach to assessing sustainability using indicator species of ecosystem condition to provide timely feedback to managers about the sustainability of current and alternative forest management options, and to support the development of better-targeted and more relevant monitoring systems. Dynamic landscape metapopulation (DLMP) models integrate spatial models of forest change (also known as landscape dynamic models or forest succession models) with metapopulation models, which describe demographic and biological attributes of species, and the dynamic consequences of dispersal, and habitat change. DLMP models have the potential to play an important role in ..