Hi all

I am currently working with some soil scientists and foresters develop a number of environmental indicators of sustainable forestry in New Zealand. This includes soil quality, slope stability & erosion, water quantity & quality and so on. I suspect that there will be some aspects of root studies that will be important to the slope stability indicators (but I as yet don’t know what). In part, this project aims to fit within the range of Montreal Process indicators or general Sustainable Forest Management indicators, but we are wanting useful and pragmatic indicators that might actually mean
something, are easy to measure and perhaps can be aggregated. A lot of NZ and its forests are on steep erosion-prone lands and finding some useful measures of erosion control effectiveness in terms of an indicator

I am intereseted if any of you have, or are aware of, studies that look particularly at slope stability parameters (some of which may include root aspects) that have been used as indicators and tested in local and international studies to-date.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Cheers

Chris