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Article

Multisilva: A Web-Based Decision Support System to Assess and Simulate the Provision of Forest Ecosystem Services at the Property Level

by
Claudio Petucco
1,
Laurent Chion
1,
Jérémy Ludwig
1,
Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez
1,
Benedetto Rugani
2,3 and
Jacek Stankiewicz
1,*
1
RDI Unit on Environmental Sustainability Assessment and Circularity, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), 5 Av. des Hauts-Fourneaux, L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
2
Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via G. Marconi 2, 05010 Porano, Italy
3
National Biodiversity Future Centre (NBFC), Piazza Marina 61, 90133 Palermo, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Forests 2024, 15(12), 2248; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15122248 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 22 October 2024 / Revised: 25 November 2024 / Accepted: 12 December 2024 / Published: 20 December 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economy and Sustainability of Forest Natural Resources)
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Abstract

Forests provide a variety of ecosystem services (ESs) that contribute to a society’s wellbeing. ES provision depends on the structure and evolution of forest ecosystems and is influenced by forest management. Society’s increasing need for ESs requires these complex ecological dynamics to be understood and integrated in forest management and planning. We present the decision support system (DSS) Multisilva for multifunctional forest management. The Multisilva DSS is a web-based application that comprises two tools: the Mapping tool and the Simulation tool. The first tool provides spatial statistics and maps of the current provision of ESs at the forest property level. The Simulation tool compares two alternative, user-defined management scenarios over time and returns the biophysical estimations of ESs and the economic costs for each alternative. Multisilva is calibrated for Luxembourg, though it can be adapted for other temperate forest regions.
Keywords: ecosystem services; forest management; decision support system; forest; silviculture; simulation; mapping ecosystem services; forest management; decision support system; forest; silviculture; simulation; mapping

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Petucco, C.; Chion, L.; Ludwig, J.; Gutiérrez, T.N.; Rugani, B.; Stankiewicz, J. Multisilva: A Web-Based Decision Support System to Assess and Simulate the Provision of Forest Ecosystem Services at the Property Level. Forests 2024, 15, 2248. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15122248

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Petucco C, Chion L, Ludwig J, Gutiérrez TN, Rugani B, Stankiewicz J. Multisilva: A Web-Based Decision Support System to Assess and Simulate the Provision of Forest Ecosystem Services at the Property Level. Forests. 2024; 15(12):2248. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15122248

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Petucco, Claudio, Laurent Chion, Jérémy Ludwig, Tomás Navarrete Gutiérrez, Benedetto Rugani, and Jacek Stankiewicz. 2024. "Multisilva: A Web-Based Decision Support System to Assess and Simulate the Provision of Forest Ecosystem Services at the Property Level" Forests 15, no. 12: 2248. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15122248

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Petucco, C., Chion, L., Ludwig, J., Gutiérrez, T. N., Rugani, B., & Stankiewicz, J. (2024). Multisilva: A Web-Based Decision Support System to Assess and Simulate the Provision of Forest Ecosystem Services at the Property Level. Forests, 15(12), 2248. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15122248

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