Forest loss and degradation are the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Rising global
wood demand threatens further damage to remaining native forests. Contrasting solutions …

The forest restoration challenge (globally 2 billion ha) and the prospect of changing climate
with increasing frequency of extreme events argues for approaching restoration from a …

Human impacts on Earth's ecosystems have greatly intensified in the last decades. This is
reflected in unexpected disturbance events, as well as new and increasing socio-economic …

There is increasing interest across Europe in adopting forest management strategies, which
promote species and structural diversity through the use of irregular silvicultural systems, an …

For managed temperate forests, conservationists and policymakers favour fine‐grained
uneven‐aged (UEA) management over more traditional coarse‐grained even‐aged (EA) …

Key message Climate change is posing a considerable challenge to foresters. The intensity
of required adaptive measures and the relevance of old-growth forests as benchmark for …

In many parts of Europe, close-to-nature silviculture (CNS) has been widely advocated as
being the best approach for managing forests to cope with future climate change. In this …

Closer-to-Nature Forest Management is a new concept proposed in the EU Forest Strategy
for 2030, which aims to improve the conservation values and climate resilience of …

Measures to describe stand structural complexity efficiently and objectively are increasingly
demanded to understand the relationship between forest management, stand structure …

Background The development of forestry as a scientific and management discipline over the
last two centuries has mainly emphasized intensive management operations focused on …