Regional contacts

Florestas e Afins, Sociedade Unipessoal, Lda.
Pedro Serra Ramos ()

Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Read the feature in SIMWOOD's February 2017 newsletter

Find out about:

• SIMWOOD's work in the region
• the pilot project: Increasing the availability of eucalypt and maritime pine wood through management and afforestation in the Alentejo region

2016

Barreiro S., Rua J., Tomé M. 2016. StandsSIM-MD: a Management Driven forest SIMulator. Forest Systems 25(2): eRC07. doi:10.5424/fs/2016252-08916

09.05.2015

Presentation SIMWOOD, Expo Forestal
Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal

15.01.2015

Workshop «Aumento da Disponibilidade da Madeira em Portugal - Compatível com uma floresta sustentável?»

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Projeto SIMWOOD

As florestas são um importante recurso natural

Desbloqueio de recursos florestais

Specific situation

• The forest area is mainly privately owned.
• The northern area of Alentejo is characterised by small and medium-sized properties, while the southern area is dominated by large and very large-sized properties.
• Cork oak and holm oak stands account for 72% of forest area, eucalypts 16% and umbrella pine 7%.
• 70% of eucalypt stands are larger than 10ha.
• Eucalypt plantations account for 76% of the wood produced in the region, most of which is used outside the region.

Main challenges

• Fragmented ownership in part of the area.
• Reduced professional organisation of forest owners not integrated in landowners association.
• Harvesting and extraction on small scale.
• High demand from industry to increase wood from eucalypt stands by intensification of silviculture and/or plantation of new areas.