ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a number of landscape indicators that are currently used in sustainable forest management (SFM) and describes the trends and efforts to integrate landscape into SFM. The development of ecological landscape indicators has been a very active area of research and has resulted in a wide range of measures and indicators, based on the principles of ecological landscape. The chapter analyzes the main silvicultural methods from the landscape point of view and relates them to the main processes of natural dynamics. It analyzes the temporal dynamics in fundamental models of forestry organized in a forest management plan. The chapter describes the different sources of the landscape indicators used to assess the landscape. It aims to highlight the common ground for both kinds of indicators, as many ecological indicators may also be useful for visual aspects, and links the indicators identified in the literature with the conceptual proposal for forest landscape management criteria.
