BioSum

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Name, responsible organisation and contact person

Has full name	BioSum
Has acronym	BioSum
Has wiki contact person
Has wiki contact e-mail	sean.gordon@oregonstate.edu

Software identification

Has software	BioSum.Software

Description

Has description	Bioregional Inventory Originated Simulation Under Management Biosum provides simulation-based analytical tools that leverage data from FIA — the nation's forest census — to predict, and statistically summarize over multi-million acre forested landscapes, the consequences of forest management strategies. Management strategies can be multi-objective, vary among owner groups, evolve over time, and be contingent on targeted sets of specific site and vegetation attributes. As many as hundreds of alternative silvicultural sequences can be simulated, evaluated and compared and best alternatives selected for each forested acre via user defined heuristics. Biosum is suitable for addressing a variety of policy relevant questions concerning forest landscape management such as: cost and effectiveness of forest health restoration potentially sustainable yields of timber and feedstock for wood biomass energy generation most promising locations for building biomass energy facilities cost effectiveness of alternative fuel treatments implications of stand density and surface fuels management for forest carbon dynamics. The MS Windows based biosum software and all component models in the analytic framework are free, downloadable, documented and supported.
Has modelling scope	Economical indicators, Forest indicators, Ecological indicators
Has temporal scale	Long term (strategic)
Has spatial context
Has spatial scale	Forest level
Has objectives dimension	Multiple objectives
Has related DSS
Has goods and services dimension
Has decision making dimension	More than one decision maker, More than one decision maker/stakeholder
Has forest management goal	ecological classification, economic evaluation
Supports tree species
Supports silvicultural regime

Concrete application

Has typical use case
Has user profile	public land managers (i.e. state-owned / federal / cantonal / communal forests), national forest administration
Has country	United States
Has references about examples of application
Has number of users	N/A
Has number of real-life applications	N/A
Has utilisation in education	N/A
Has research project reference
Has tool dissemination

Decision support techniques used in the DSS

Has decision support techniques	BioSum.Decision support techniques

Support of Knowledge Management

Has knowledge management processes	BioSum.Knowledge management process

Support of social participation

Has support for social participation	BioSum.Support of social participation

DSS development

Has DSS development	BioSum.Description of DSS development

Documentation

Has website	http://biosum.info/
Has online demo	http://biosum.info/downloads/
Has manual	No
Has technical documentation	No
Has reference	Lead Developer: Lesley Bross Founding Developer: Larry Potts Project Manager: Jeremy Fried