Periodic harvests, rather than passive conservation, increase the carbon balance of boreal forests much more in Northeast China

L Dong, P Bettinger, Z Liu - Forest Ecology and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Proper forest management can significantly contribute to global or regional carbon neutrality
goals; however, the effects of different harvesting strategies on the carbon balances of forest …

Recognizing spatial considerations in forest management planning

I De Pellegrin Llorente, HM Hoganson… - Current Forestry …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The aim is to help identify how spatial facets of forest
management can be analyzed and better understood in strategic forest management …

A comparison of a neighborhood search technique for forest spatial harvest scheduling problems: A case study of the simulated annealing algorithm

L Dong, P Bettinger, Z Liu, H Qin - Forest Ecology and Management, 2015 - Elsevier
In this research application paper, the usefulness of the s-metaheuristic neighborhood
search technique of simulated annealing algorithm when applied to forest management …

Developing alternative forest spatial management plans when carbon and timber values are considered: A real case from northeastern China

L Dong, W Lu, Z Liu - Ecological modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
Forest ecosystems play an important role in mitigating global climate change, and this role
has recently been further reinforced by the Paris Agreement. However, our knowledge with …

A multiple objective methodology for sugarcane harvest management with varying maturation periods

HO Florentino, C Irawan, AF Aliano, DF Jones… - Annals of Operations …, 2018 - Springer
This paper addresses the management of a sugarcane harvest over a multi-year planning
period. A methodology to assist the harvest planning of the sugarcane is proposed in order …

Effects of site productivity on forest harvest scheduling subject to green-up and maximum area restrictions

P Borges, I Martins, E Bergseng, T Eid… - … Journal of Forest …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Green-up requirements are of great interest for forests near cities since these forests are
commonly used for recreational activities by the local population as well as for commercial …

[HTML][HTML] Forest management with fire simulation

F Alvelos, I Martins, S Marques - European Journal of Operational …, 2025 - Elsevier
In this work, we address a forest management problem for timber production with fire
concerns, employing a novel simulation-based optimization approach wherein forest …

Integrating wildfire resistance and environmental concerns into a sustainable forest ecosystem management approach

L Ferreira, A Nascimento Baptista… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This research aims at presenting landscape management planning methods to help
stakeholders select forest ecosystem management plans that may address concerns with …

A multi-objective Monte Carlo tree search for forest harvest scheduling

T Neto, M Constantino, I Martins, JP Pedroso - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
While the objectives of forest management vary widely and include the protection of
resources in protected forests and nature reserves, the primary objective has often been the …

Branch-and-cut for the forest harvest scheduling subject to clearcut and core area constraints

M Constantino, I Martins - European Journal of Operational Research, 2018 - Elsevier
Integrating forest fragmentation into forest harvest scheduling problems adds substantial
complexity to the models and solution techniques. Forest fragmentation leads to shrinking of …