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The concept “dynamic treatment unit” refers to such an approach in forest management planning, which does not consider stand compartments as permanent units of data collection, planning and management. The treatment units are created for the accomplishment of prescribed treatments, after which they are no longer required. The interest towards using dynamic treatment units instead of fixed compartments is related to the ongoing changes in forest inventory. Although the dynamic units discussed in this chapter are called treatment units, dynamic spatial units can be formed also for forest features e.g. old-growth forest and habitat type, not only for cuttings and other treatments. In this case, the purpose of dynamic spatial units is to check that the landscape structure meets some ecological requirements. These kind of ecological spatial units are even more transient than the treatment units. They are not used for management actions and they are never delineated in the forest. This chapter discusses methods that can be used to form dynamic treatment units by numerical optimization. The emphasis is on heuristic methods although integer programming could also be used. Finally, some case study results from Finland and Brazil are reported.
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Pukkala, T., Packalén, P., Heinonen, T. (2014). Dynamic Treatment Units in Forest Management Planning. In: Borges, J., Diaz-Balteiro, L., McDill, M., Rodriguez, L. (eds) The Management of Industrial Forest Plantations. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8899-1_12
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