Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015

G Ceccherini, G Duveiller, G Grassi, G Lemoine… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Forests provide a series of ecosystem services that are crucial to our society. In the
European Union (EU), forests account for approximately 38% of the total land surface. These …

Large carnivore expansion in Europe is associated with human population density and land cover changes

M Cimatti, N Ranc, A Benítez‐López… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The recent recovery of large carnivores in Europe has been explained as resulting from
a decrease in human persecution driven by widespread rural land abandonment, paralleled …

Belowground biodiversity relates positively to ecosystem services of European forests

MR Bakker, I Brunner, F Ashwood… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Biodiversity of ecosystems is an important driver for the supply of ecosystem services to
people. Soils often have a larger biodiversity per unit surface area than what can be …

[HTML][HTML] A matter of size and shape: Microclimatic changes induced by experimental gap openings in a sessile oak–hornbeam forest

CV Horváth, B Kovács, F Tinya, JS Locatelli… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Forest management integrating nature conservation aspects into timber production focuses
increasingly on small-scale interventions. However, the ecological consequences of gap …

Cross-scale monitoring of habitat suitability changes using satellite time series and ecological niche models

S Arenas-Castro, N Sillero - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the biggest challenges to deal with the global crisis of biodiversity loss is the lack of
efficient and viable monitoring systems across scales. Unlike traditional in situ biodiversity …

Robust modelling of the impacts of climate change on the habitat suitability of forest tree species

D de Rigo, G Caudullo, J San-Miguel-Ayanz… - 2017 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
In Europe, forests play a strategic multifunctional role, serving economic, social and
environmental purposes. However, forests are among the most complex systems and their …

Analyzing TLS scan distribution and point density for the estimation of forest stand structural parameters

J Torralba, JP Carbonell-Rivera, LÁ Ruiz… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, the feasibility of using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) in forest inventories
was investigated as a replacement for time-consuming traditional field measurements …

The evolution of the dialogue and perspectives on sustainable forest management with special emphasis on the United States of America

C Rodriguez Franco, J Conje - Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A review covering a synopsis of the history of forest sustainability concepts and
how it has led to the social, economic, and legal frameworks, criteria and indicators, and key …

[HTML][HTML] How do landowners perceive and respond to incentives for sustainable forest management? A synthesis to inform discussions on programs for climate-smart …

S Chizmar, T Cushing, S Baral, T Ruseva - Trees, Forests and People, 2025 - Elsevier
Originally, forest sustainability was primarily concerned with continual timber production.
Contemporary concepts such as sustainable forest management (SFM) and climate-smart …

CO2 fertilization, transpiration deficit and vegetation period drive the response of mixed broadleaved forests to a changing climate in Wallonia

L de Wergifosse, F André, H Goosse… - Annals of Forest …, 2020 - Springer
Key message The change in forest productivity was simulated in six stands in Wallonia
(Belgium) following different climate scenarios using a process-based and spatially explicit …