ClimChAlp

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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name Webbased decision support system to explore adaptation options for silviculture in secondary Norway spruce forests in Austria
Has acronym ClimChAlp
Has wiki contact person Harald Vacik
Has wiki contact e-mail harald.vacik@boku.ac.at

Software identification

Has software ClimChAlp.Software

Description

Has description ClimChAlp focuses on the question of suitable stand treatment programmes for currently existing Norway spruce stands given a particular set of management objectives (represented by a set of indicators focusing on timber production, ecophysiological tree suitability, timber yield, harvesting and silvicultural costs, carbon sequestration, biodiversity and groundwater recharge). The tool is particularly designed to support the consultation process of the forestry extension services for small-scale private landowners. The staff of the forestry extension services has a key role in knowledge transfer to small scale owners who often do not have any professional background in forestry. Therefore, the DSS was supposed to (a) inform the extension foresters about potential impacts of climate change on Norway spruce forests and provide them with information on alternative stand treatment options; and (b) to assist them by various means of visualization to support the consultation session.
Has modelling scope Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Ecological indicators, Climate change
Has temporal scale Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context Spatial with no neighbourhood interrelations
Has spatial scale Stand level
Has objectives dimension Multiple objectives
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension Market wood products, Non-market services
Has decision making dimension Single decision maker
Has forest management goal afforestation management, carbon sequestration, climate change impact, ecological classification, economic evaluation, forest health, groundwater recharge, silvicultural regime, species selection, wind hazard, multi-functional
Supports tree species Norway Spruce
Supports silvicultural regime even-aged, uneven-aged/natural regeneration

Concrete application

Has typical use case
Has user profile Non-industrial private owners, forest owners associations, national forest administration
Has country Austria
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users <=10
Has number of real-life applications <=30
Has utilisation in education presentation/demo
Has research project reference Vacik H., Lexer M.J., Rammer W., Seidl R., Hochbichler E., Strauss M., Schachinger C. (2010): ClimChAlp - a webbased decision support system to explore adaptation options for silviculture in secondary Norway spruce forests in Austria. In: Falcao, A., Rosset. C (Eds.) , Proceedings of the Workshop on Decision Support Systems in Sustainable Forest Management. Lisbon, April 2010. , OP3 http://www.fc.ul.pt/dsfm2010/docs/presentations/paper_15.pdf
Has tool dissemination

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques ClimChAlp.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes ClimChAlp.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation ClimChAlp.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development ClimChAlp.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website http://climchalp.boku.ac.at
Has online demo
Has manual No
Has technical documentation Yes
Has reference