Forest Management Practices and their relevance in case study areas

The present deliverable reports on forest management practices in the case study areas (CSAs) of OptFor-EU and their relevance in the CSAs. The first section includes the context of this deliverable. The second section includes the general modeling framework, a literature review of forest management practices, detailed descriptions of current management in the eight case study areas and the coverage of case study areas with the European Forest Types. The third section of the deliverable reports the simulation protocol to be used in WP2 (Modeling the F-C Nexus), including the methods used for stand initialization and descriptions for output variables, to be used in the DSS and as input to other models. The final part is a synthesis and summary of next steps.