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Biblioteca(s): | INIA Las Brujas.
Tipo de la producción científica: | Artículos en Revistas Indexadas Internacionales
Circulación/Nivel: | Internacional - --
Fecha corriente: | 15/06/2021
Fecha de la última actualización: | 15/06/2021
Autoria: | HIRIGOYEN, A.; ACUNA. M.; RACHID, C.; FRANCO, J.; NAVARRO-CERRILLO, R.
Afiliación: | ANDRES EDUARDO HIRIGOYEN DOMINGUEZ, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; MAURICIO ACUNA, Forest Research Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.; ANA CECILIA RACHID CASNATI, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; JORGE FRANCO, Faculty of Agronomy, University of the Republic, Uruguay.; RAFAEL NAVARRO-CERRILLO, Laboratory of Silviculture, Department of Forestry Engineering, Dendrochronology and Climate Change, DendrodatLab-ERSAF, University of Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, Córdoba, Spain.
Título: | Use of optimization modeling to assess the effect of timber and carbon pricing on harvest scheduling, carbon sequestration, and net present value of eucalyptus plantations.
Año de publicación: | 2021
Fuente/Imprenta: | Forests, 2021, Volume 12, Issue 6, Article number 651. OPEN ACCESS. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/f12060651
ISSN: | 1999-4907
DOI: | 10.3390/f12060651
Idioma: | Inglés

Notas:

Article history: Received 21 March 2021; Revised 10 May 2021; Accepted 12 May 2021; Published: 21 May 2021.
Academic Editor: Luis Diaz-Balteiro.
The authors thank the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA-Uruguay) for supporting our research work, for help during the fieldwork, and the INIA Scholarship for PhD studies. We are particularly grateful for the support of Leonidas Carrasco Letelier, Roberto Scoz (INIA), Pablo Rodriguez, Carola Odonne, and Juan Carlos de Mello (FOSA). We acknowledge the institutional support of the University of Cordoba-Campus de Excelencia CEIA3.
Corresponding author: Hirigoyen, A.; Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agopecuaria (INIA) Tacuarembó, Ruta 5 km 386, Tacuarembó, Uruguay; email:andreshirigoyen@gmail.com

Contenido:

ABSTRACT.
Quantifying the impact of carbon (C) and timber prices on harvest scheduling and economic returns is essential to define strategies for the sustainable management of short-rotation plantations so that they can provide timber products and contribute to C sequestration. In this paper, we present a mixed-integer linear programming model that optimizes harvest scheduling at the forest level, C sequestration, and Net Present Value (NPV) over a planning period of up to 15 years. The model included revenue from the sale of timber (pulplogs) and credits from the net C sequestered during the life of the stands. In addition, plantation establishment, management, harvesting, and transportation costs were included in the analysis. The study area comprised 88 Eucalyptus grandis W. Hill and Eucalyptus dunnii Maiden stands located in Uruguay, totaling a forest area of nearly 1882 ha. The study investigated the impact of C and timber prices on NPV, harvest schedules, stands? harvest age, timber flows to customers, and C sequestered per period. The maximum NPV among all the scenarios evaluated (USD 7.53 M) was calculated for a C price of 30 USD t?1, an interest rate of 6%, and a timber price of 75 USD m?3 . This was USD 2.14 M higher than the scenario with the same parameters but that included only revenue from timber. C prices also impacted stands? harvest age, C sequestration, and timber flows delivered to end customers. On average, in scenarios that included C prices, timber flows and C sequestration increased by 15.4 and 12.1%, respectively, when C price increased from 5 to 30 USD t?1 . These results demonstrate that harvest scheduling, harvest age, and NPV are very sensitive to C and timber, and that the best economic returns are obtained when the stands are managed to maximize timber production and C sequestration. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Palabras-Clave: | Carbon sequestration; Eucalyptus plantations; Forestry; Harvest age; Harvesting; Mixed-integer programming; Timber harvest scheduling.
Categoría del tema: | K01 Ciencias forestales - Aspectos generales
URL: | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/6/651/pdf
Registro original: | INIA Las Brujas (LB)
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