A new integrated approach for ecologically sustainable forest management

由于采伐地区可以保持高水平的生物多样性，林业已经从大型保护区的保护转向专注于创造采伐和未采伐森林的动态马赛克。然而，设计这种马赛克会带来复杂的问题。该项目旨在确定决定森林生物多样性如何分布的基本模式和过程，并利用这些信息制定决策模型，以支持可持续森林管理计划。现有的和新的证据将被使用，后者来自三种更有效和更具成本效益的生物多样性评估的创新方法：植物遥感、下一代甲虫DNA技术和鸟类声学记录分析。

As harvested regions can maintain high levels of biodiversity, forestry has moved away from conservation in large reserves, and instead focuses on creating a dynamic mosaic of harvested and unharvested forest. However, designing this mosaic poses complex problems. This project aims to identify underlying patterns and processes determining how forest biodiversity is distributed and use this information to develop decision models to underpin sustainable forest management plans. Existing and new evidence will be used, the latter derived from three innovative approaches for more efficient and cost effective biodiversity assessment: remote sensing of plants, next generation DNA technology of beetles and analysis of acoustic recording of birds.