Services for Transformation to Continious Cover Forestry

Description

Transformation to Continuous Cover Forestry: Synergies and Trade-offs (ContinuFOR) is a project that is being funded by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. This project will: • identify suitable approaches to transforming forests that are managed using the clearfell silvicultural system to continuous cover forestry (CCF). • determine the consequences of CCF transformation for timber production (quality and quantity), biodiversity, resilience, and carbon sequestration. • estimate the forest area in Ireland that is suitable for transformation to CCF and the drivers and barriers to CCF adoption. • evaluate and calibrate existing growth models for use in modelling growth in CCF stands. The project team comprises two academics and one post-doc from UCD Forestry (project lead), one academic and one post-doc from Teagasc and one academic and one PhD student from Maynooth University. Please refer to Appendix A for a summary of the project plan. The contract is to oversee the CCF modelling (Task 4 of the project) and CCF carbon evaluations elements of ContinuFOR (Task 6.4). The successful contractor will provide technical support to the UCD post doc staff member on use of single tree growth models in CCF systems