Part B: Sustainable Management and
Ecosystem Services
Speakers:
T. Knoke, R. Mosandl
Projects:
B2 (K. Roos)
B3 (R. Mosandl, M. Weber, B. Stimm)
B5 (T. Knoke)
Part B: Sustainable Management and
Ecosystem Services
Speakers:
T. Knoke, R. Mosandl
Projects:
B2 (K. Roos): Pasture rehabilitation on, and
management of degraded areas in the Andes of South
Ecuador.
B3 (R. Mosandl, M. Weber, B. Stimm)
B5 (T. Knoke)
Part B: Sustainable Management and
Ecosystem Services
Speakers:
T. Knoke, R. Mosandl
Projects:
B2 (K. Roos)
B3 (R. Mosandl, M. Weber, B. Stimm): Improvement of
forest management key strategies: a contribution to
conservation and sustainable land use
B5 (T. Knoke)
B3 – Improvement of forest management key strategies: a
contribution to conservation and sustainable land use
WP (a) Optimization of relevant forest management alternatives
• Identification of relevant natural resources and demands
• Identification of possible management alternatives
• Installation and monitoring of experimental field plots
• Improvement of management alternatives
WP (b) Accounting for global changes
• Assessment of management alternatives regarding their impacts on
biodiversity
• Spatial distribution of species under climate change scenarios
• Testing of potential tree provenances for better adaptation to climate change
• Conclusions for climate-smart management guidelines
WP (c) Balancing of alternative strategies for multi objective forest
management
• Optimization with regard to different decision criteria
• Testing for uncertain parameters
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B3 - Work packages (a) and topics in
different ecosystems
(1) Dry Forest:
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Domestication of native NTFP tree species
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Selection of plus trees for multiplication as cultivars, germination trials,
survival of seedling, early growth rates
Browsing effects on regeneration dynamics and species composition
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Stratification according to stand densities
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Installation of fenced and unfenced inventory plots
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Integration into system of existing inventory plots (NCI, UTPL)
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Sites: Laipuna, La Ceiba, Cazaderos
Cooperation partners: B5, NCI, UTPL (Carlos Ivan Espinosa)
PhD-candidate:
Jorge Cueva (SENESCYT-scholarship;
starting from April 2014)
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Work packages (a) and topics in
different ecosystems
(2) Tropical Mountain Forest, ECSF:
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Natural forest experiment
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monitoring, regeneration dynamics
Reforestation of abandoned pastures
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Monitoring of reforestation plots
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Problem: leasing rates
 Cooperation partners: NCI, UNL (Nikolay Aguirre)
 PhD-candidate:
Johana Munoz (SENESCYT-scholarship;
starting from April 2014)
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Work packages (a) and topics in
different ecosystems
(3) Paramo, Surroundings of
Cajas National Park:
 Optimization of regulating ecosystem services (hydrological
capacities and carbon sequestration)
 Comparison of Paramo, managed and unmanaged Pine plantations
and the effects on production and provision of ecosystem services
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Installation of inventory field plots
 Cooperation partners: Universidad de Cuenca (Patricio Crespo), ETAPA
 PhD-candidate: Carlos Quiroz
(SENESCYT-scholarship; started in February 2014)
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Work package (b) Global change – Dry forest/ECSF
Identification of ecological characteristics of key species along
climate gradient
Assessment of ecological parameters
along a climate gradient for key species
for conservation and managament
- Seed testing
- Cross planting experiments
- Genetic analysis
- Tree ring analysis
Potential future habitat
due to climate change
scenarios of IPCC
(Worldclim data and WG
Bendix)
Habitat model according
to environmental
envelopes today (Maxent)
 Cooperation partners: UTPL (Augusta Cueva), CATIE (Sven Günter)
 PhD-candidate: Carlos Manchego (50% UTPL 50% DFG; started in
December 2013)
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Part B: Sustainable Management and
Ecosystem Services
Speakers:
T. Knoke, R. Mosandl
Projects:
B2 (K. Roos)
B3 (R. Mosandl, M. Weber, B. Stimm)
B5 (T. Knoke): Balancing regulating and provisioning
ecosystem services: Comprehensive land-use concepts
for effective conservation.
Team
• W. Santiago Ochoa M
• Carola Paul
• T Knoke
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
Key research question
How can land-use concepts be used to
develop climate- and water-friendly land-use
options for food, biofuel and timber
production (provisioning services) …?
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
Research approach
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
Knoke et al. (2013) Glob Env Change 23: 1064-1072
Project components
Land use optimization
Identification of
current land uses
Further development
of bio-economic
modelling approaches
Inclusion of regulating
services in land use
modelling
- Interviews with local
farmers
- Deriving cost
effective
conservation
strategies
- Review on bioeconomic modelling
approaches
- Review on the role
of forests in future
land use portfolios
- Consequences of
land use options on
regulating services
- Testing of alternative
land use options
(Agroforestry
Systems)
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
Project components
Land use optimization
Identification of
current land uses
Further development
of bio-economic
modelling approaches
Inclusion of regulating
services in land use
modelling
- Interviews with local
farmers
- Deriving cost
effective
conservation
strategies
- Review on bioeconomic modelling
approaches
- Review on the role
of forests in future
land use portfolios
- Consequences of
land use options on
regulating services
- Testing of alternative
land use options
(Agroforestry
Systems)
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
Current status of manuscript:
„Land Use Portfolios in the Dry Forest of Ecuador:
Cost-effective Conservation Strategies”
Authors: W. Santiago Ochoa M, Carola Paul, Luz María Castro und
Thomas Knoke
Objectives:
• Identification of current land
use
• Estimation of optimal land use
allocation for risk-averse
farmers
• Deriving compensation
payments and cost-effective
conservation strategies
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
Materials and Methods
• Interviews with 163
households (766 inhabitants)
in the surroundings of the
Laipuna Reserve
– Current land use practices
– Costs, Revenues,
Producer-Prices
• Incorporation of yield and
price fluctuations
• Application of modern
portfolio theory
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
First Results
Share of land use option
Required compensation
payment
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
$204/ha with
forest value
$100/ha without
forest value
Actual
Optimum
Land use portfolio
MAIZE
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BEANS
PEANUTS
FOREST WITH GOATS
B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
Project components
Land use optimization
Identification of
current land uses
Further development
of bio-economic
modelling approaches
Inclusion of regulating
services in land use
modelling
- Interviews with local
farmers
- Deriving cost
effective
conservation
strategies
- Review on bioeconomic modelling
approaches
- Review on the role
of forests in future
land use portfolios
- Consequences of
land use options on
regulating services
- Testing of alternative
land use options
(Agroforestry
Systems)
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
Outlook: Inclusion of regulation services in land
use modelling
• Evaluation of carbon
sequestration of different
land use options
 Cooperation with B3
(Mosandl/Stimm/Weber/
Hildebrandt)
 Inventory in dry forests
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke
We are looking for win-win (or low opportunity cost)
concepts and means to make their consequences
demonstrable.
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B5 Regulating and provising of ecosystem services – T. Knoke