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Economic evaluation of standard costs for conversion of coppice forests

Coppice forests, shrubs, shrubbery, maquis and garigue are forms of degradation of forest stands and they cover 1.046.972 ha, which amounts to 44 % of forest areas in Croatia. Due to their structure, climate and habitat conditions, degraded forest stands are very sensitive, be it to forest fires, diseases and pests or to other abiotic and biotic factors. Given the large share and potential of these forests, in both the environmental and the economic sense, a part of these forests should be converted to high forests through silvicultural works, in order to contribute to an increase of their resilience and environmental value as well as the improvement of their ecosystem services. This was the main reason to include this measure in Rural Development Program of Republic of Croatia 2014-2020. In order to define standard costs of conversion of degraded forest stands Croatian Forest Research Institute, as an independent scientific institution, prepare list of 9 diferent types of conversions and for each cost calculation possibility, the regulations on the number of plants and seed amounts per particular tree species have been taken into consideration. The conversion of degradation forms of forest stands into high forest stands will contribute to the restoration of these areas, to sustainable management and to biodiversity preservation and improvement. The restoration of degraded forest stands will increase the favourable effect of forests on the water regime, on soil protection and on enhancing soil quality and fostering carbon capture and sequestration.

Coppice, conversion, standard costs, RDP.

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