Criterion 3

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Criterion 3

• Maintenance and encouragement of productive
  functions of eucalyptus
• J-N Marien, AFOCEL
• Pedro Lencart, CELBI
• Clara Araújo, CELBI
• Juan Picos, AFG
• Nuno Borralho, RAIZ

Paco Soria (PECADOR)
Évora, Jan 22, 1999
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Proposed Indicators

• 31. Wood production per hectare
• 32. Wood production in a region
• 33. Growth-harvesting balance
• 34. Appropriate management plans in place
• 35. Use of genetically improved stock
• 36. Importance of non-wood products

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31. Wood production per hectare

• Operational indicator
• Wood MAI (u.b.) at rotation age
• PICL
• Forest inventory plot or total stand harvested
  volume
• ML
• Stand level
• Representativity
• FMU

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31. Wood production per hectare

• Methodology
• Growth models using forest inventory data
• Wood harvested from company land
• Costs
• Low
• Pros/Cons
• Useful for managers, simple
• High year to year variation (e.g. climate)

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32. Wood production in a region

• Operational indicator
• Total standing volume
• PICL
• Forest inventory plots
• ML
• Region
• Representativity
• Region
• Methodology
• Forest inventory
• Costs
• Low

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33. Growth-harvesting balance

• Operational indicators
• Total annual volume increment (ub)
• Total volume purchased by industries
• PICL
• Regional or national inventory plot
• Industries
• ML
• Regional or national
• Representativity
• Regional or national

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33. Growth-harvesting balance

• Methodology
• Regional or national forest inventory results
• Industry statistics
• Costs
• Low
• Pros/Cons
• Simple
• National forest inventories are only available
  every 5 to 10 years
• Often unreliable source of purchases

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34. Appropriate management plans in place

• Operational Indicators
• Proportion of eucalypt stands under management
  plans
• PICL
• FMU
• Representativity
• Region
• Costs
• Low

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34. Appropriate management plans in place

• Methodology
• Areas from national forest inventory
• Areas under projects approved and supervised by
  Government Forest Departments
• Pros/Cons
• Compliance to plans is assumed
• Difficult to define what is appropriate

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35. Use of genetically improved stock

• Operational indicator
• Ratio of selected plants produced and total
  plants produced, as reported by nurseries
• PICL
• Nursery statistics
• Representativity
• FMU or Region
• Costs
• Low

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35. Use of genetically improved stock

• Methodology
• Nursery statistics
• Pros/Cons
• Most plants coming from few large nurseries
• In some years number of plants produces very
  different from areas planted

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36. Importance of non wood products

• Operational indicators
• Percentage surface with non wood use
• PICL
• Property or estate
• Representativity
• Region
• Costs
• Depend on level of accuracy required

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36. Importance of non wood products

• Methodology
• Specific survey to forest owners by region
• Some statistics available in companies
• Pros/Cons
• Difficult to estimate areas for most small scale
  forest owners. Only reliable with companies and
  organized forest associations