Research program Heureka

Analysis and planning system for multi-objective forestry

-vision, core and applications

Remningstorp year 2024

Cornerstones:

1. Have a holistic approach

Cornerstones:

1. Have a holistic approach2. Analyses for long time and

specific area

13 sub-projects

• 1. Production models• 2. Production and

climate• 3. Decay of dead

wood• 4. Biomass and

carbon• 5. Root rut• 6. Wood properties • 7. Soil

• 8. Biodiversity• 9. Data collection• 10. Social values• 11. Decision

under risk• 12. Optimization • 13. Land owner

behaviour

Young forest 8-10 m Older forest

GrowthDamagesMortality

GrowthMortality

2000

2020

2040

2060

BiodiversityLars Edenius & Grzegorz Mikusiński

What is the future for the three-toed wood pecker in Kilsbergen?

Bild: L. Edenius

Siteconditions

ClimateUptake

Respiration

Litter

Decomposition

Weathering

Base material

Modelling processes in soil

Leaching

Deposition

Influencing factors:

Manage-ment

The Heureka system

Four applications for different users and problems:

1. National and regional analyses2. Long-term planning for forest

enterprises3. Operational planning4. Planning for small-scale forestry

Application for regional analyses

Heureka regional application

Scenario analyses for large geographic areas and all

landowners

RecreationForest fuelTrees Soil

Carbon ton C/haClimate change

What can be analysed?

More utilities and integrated analyses

WoodBiodiversity

For whom?

Authorities:

Organisations:

Companies:Primary Long-term planning application

Application for long-term planning

For what?

• Decision support for long-term planning

• Problem solving• Evaluation

For whom?

• Companies and organisations managing forest

• Private forest owners• Researchers and students

Application for operational planning

Operations and logistics in forestry

Application for small-scale forestry planning

Small-scale forestry:

• Family forestry• Municipalities• Church• and others

Cornerstones:

1. Have a holistic approach2. Analyses for long time and

specific area3. Demand of tools

About the research program

• Ca 30 researchers from 10 different departments of SLU and Skogforsk

• Synthesis of knowledge from different areas

• A way to make results from research operational

Cornerstones:

1. Have a holistic approach2. Analyses for long time and

specific area3. Demand of tools4. Our idea is to utilize others’ good

ideas

Future

• User adaptation• Participatory planning• New utilities• New and enhanced functionality• New application for landscape

scenarios- impediment, grazing land, marginal farmland

Research program Heureka

Summary:• Scenarios for forest landscape

development• Integrated analyses - wood, forest fuel,

recreation, biodiversity and carbon sequestration.

• Analyses on regional level, as well as planning for companies and small-scale forestry.