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National forest inventory based growth simulators are an important tool to assess long-term consequences of forest management in many European countries. MASSIMO is the empirically-based growth simulator used in Switzerland. This individual-tree model has been developed to simulate the growth of trees using the spatial grid of the Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) and its repeated measurements. MASSIMO has been used at the national scale to predict timber harvesting potentials, to assess the CO2 effects of Swiss forests and their potential for carbon sequestration, especially regarding the full timber chain, and for simulating the forest management reference level (FMRL) under the Kyoto protocol. Further, MASSIMO has been used to evaluate different timber mobilisation scenarios in a mountainous landscape and to evaluate timber-mobilisation strategies and habitat-tree retention in low-elevation Swiss forests.
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Stadelmann, G., Didion, M., Thürig, E. (2019). Scenario Simulations. In: Fischer, C., Traub, B. (eds) Swiss National Forest Inventory – Methods and Models of the Fourth Assessment. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19293-8_19
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