Long-term silvicultural experiments for adaptive and multifunctional forest management
Latvian State Forest Research Institute Silava (LSFRI Silava) PIC 958882443 is interested in joining or co-developing a consortium under Topic 2 focusing on adaptive silviculture and evidence-based forest management under changing environmental and socio-economic conditions. The institute maintains close and long-standing cooperation with forest-sector companies, forest owners and managers, public authorities and other stakeholders, providing good opportunities for operational-scale testing, co-creation and transfer of results into forest-management practice.
LSFRI Silava can contribute expertise in natural (spontaneous) and anthropogenic - planted/sown (artificial) regeneration, young-stand cleaning, management, thinning, stand structure, productivity, mixed forests and alternative management approaches. Long-term empirical data can also support modelling and comparison of management scenarios under future climatic conditions. Afforestation of marginal and/or degraded teritories including post mining sites.

A key strength of LSFRI Silava is its extensive network of long-term silvicultural experiments and research forests, including cleaning, thinning and tending experiments, regeneration trials, spacing and stand-density experiments, mixed-stand studies and other long-term management trials. These datasets allow assessment of how different silvicultural treatments influence stand development, productivity, tree vitality, structural diversity, regeneration dynamics and long-term management outcomes.
Complementary competence includes forest monitoring, field inventories, UAV/LiDAR and remote sensing, although our main contribution would be long-term experimental evidence on silvicultural treatments and their management effects.