LANDSCAPE LEVEL BIODIVERSITY

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LANDSCAPE LEVEL BIODIVERSITY
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Relevant FREP questions

• Are ecosystems represented across the landscape
  in time and space?
• Is there a sufficient degree of connectivity
  among ecosystems?
• Are stand-level management objectives for
  maintaining biological diversity (e.g., retention
  of wildlife trees and coarse woody debris)
  adequately contributing to the maintenance of
  diverse ecosystems over the landscape?

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Milestones

• Initial scoping papers completed (L.Kremsater)
• (May-July 2006)
• Working group established (Sept 2006)
• Review, revision and prioritization of DART
  tool and indicators (Dec 2006)
• Project Charter developed (draft) (Jan 2007)

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Draft Project Objectives

• TWO Inter-related projects
• To provide quantitative data on a range of
  indicators which are generally accepted as
  important elements of patterns of natural
  disturbance.
• To provide landscape-level context to stand-level
  biodiversity RSM data through pilot effectiveness
  evaluations.
• HowProposed Pilots which will
• Critically assess the pilot approach, and apply
  this knowledge to developing standardized
  procedures for future effectiveness evaluations.

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Goal 1 Evaluating biodiversity attributes using
current DART indicators
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Goal 2 Putting FREP stand-level data into a
landscape context

• directed by the goals of stand-level retention
  and what is being monitored at the stand-level
• need to know the distribution of important stand
  level elements across the landscape (i.e., snags,
  big trees, and large CWD)
• Need to develop predictive attribute
  trajectories for different stand ages and forest
  types for these elements
• Data from literature values, cruise data,
  stand-level FREP data
• Compare predicted natural abundance of these
  structures to actual FREP field data how well
  are we doing?

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Next steps

• Update DART code to meet current software
  standards
• Modify DART logic model to incorporate
  new/revised indicators and FREP objectives
• Develop trajectories for each of the stand level
  elements
• Pilot implementation in Prince George TSA and
  Sunshine Coast TSA