Criterion 3 Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and Vitality

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Criterion 3Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and
Vitality

• Indicator 15 Biotic Abiotic Stressors
• Bill Ciesla, Andy Mason, and John Coulston
• Indicator 16 Air Pollution
• John Coulston
• Indicator 17 Ecological Processes
• Mark Ambrose
• Criterion 3 Lead
• Ken Stolte

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Criterion 3Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and
Vitality

• Indicator 15
• Area and percent of forest affected by processes
  or agents beyond the range of historic variation,
  e.g. by insects, disease, competition from exotic
  species, fire, storm, land clearance, permanent
  flooding, salinization, and domestic animals.

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Criterion 3Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and
Vitality

• Indicator16
• Area and percent of forest land subjected to
  levels of specific air pollutants (e.g. sulfates,
  nitrate, ozone) or ultra violet B that may cause
  negative impacts on the forest ecosystem.

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Criterion 3Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and
Vitality

• Indicator 17
• Area and percent of forest land with diminished
  biological components indicative of changes in
  fundamental ecological processes (e.g. soil,
  nutrient cycling, seed dispersion, pollination)
  and/or ecological continuity.

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Radiant Energy
Chemical Energy
LIFE ON EARTH
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Conceptual Model for Criteria of Montreal
Process Criteria and Indicator

• Assumptions
• All forces (biological and abiotic) prior to 1500
  are natural and a part of the development and
  maintenance of healthy and sustainable forest
  ecosystems
• Effects of new or exacerbated natural forces
  (latter resulting from human activity) affect
  ecological processes negatively
• Effects on ecological processes, if great enough,
  directly affect one or more components of forest
  ecosystems, e.g., productivity, soils, and/or
  aquatic ecosystems
• Effects on any one component of a forest
  ecosystem (productivity, soils, or water) will
  affect the other two components over varying time
  periods
• Criteria 3 New Organization
• Ind. 15 is group of all human-induced (new)
  stressors
• Ind. 16 is group of all exacerbated natural
  stressors
• Ind. 17 is ecological processes and relevant
  indicators

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Criterion 3 IndicatorsDefining Key Phrases
Essential to Address Indicators
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Criterion 3----IndicatorsExample of Possible
Wording Changes
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Specifics of C3 Indicators fromNational Report
on Sustainable Forests--2003
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Criterion 3Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and
Vitality

• Indicator 15
• Area and percent of forest affected by processes
  or agents beyond the range of historic variation,
  e.g. by insects, disease, competition from exotic
  species, fire, storm, land clearance, permanent
  flooding, salinization, and domestic animals.

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Criterion 3Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and
Vitality

• Indicator16
• Area and percent of forest land subjected to
  levels of specific air pollutants (e.g. sulfates,
  nitrate, ozone) or ultra violet B that may cause
  negative impacts on the forest ecosystem.

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Criterion 3Maintenance of Ecosystem Health and
Vitality

• Indicator 17
• Area and percent of forest land with diminished
  biological components indicative of changes in
  fundamental ecological processes (e.g. soil,
  nutrient cycling, seed dispersion, pollination)
  and/or ecological continuity.

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• Most data only covered 60 of U.S.

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Fuel Loading
Ozone Bioindicators Lichen Communities Exotic
Species
Damage Crown Condition Mortality Regeneration
Understory Vegetation Tree Diversity Lichen
Communities
Soils Down Woody Debris
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1loblolly pine forest 2bottomland hardwood
forest 3mixed hardwood stand 4agricultural
land 5 shortleaf pine plantation. Subplot 1
has 3 condition classes (1, 4, 3) subplot 2 has
3 condition classes (1, 3, 5) subplot 3 has 1
cond. Class (1) subplot 4 has 2 cond.classes(3,
2)
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Fuel Loading
Ozone Bioindicators Lichen Communities Exotic
Species
Damage Crown Condition Mortality Regeneration
Understory Vegetation Tree Diversity Lichen
Communities
Soils Down Woody Debris
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