The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 aims to establish green infrastructures and to restore at least 15% of degraded ecosystems until 2020. Forests play a key role to reach these aims. While European
The project objectives were as follows: to review the role of dead wood as an indicator of forest biodiversity; to review the currently applied monitoring procedures with regard to dead wood; to
The Tip Tree project aimed to identify tipping points in the demographic and micro-evolutionary dynamics of tree populations. It assessed how human actions interfere in the adjustment between the rate
In this issue: European diversity explored Living with wildfires - what science can tell us Preventing wildfires requires a change of vegetation structure Creating forest conservation policies in SE
In this issue: Linking the regional and global EU Forest Action Plan at its mid-term Fire Paradox project proposes moving towards integrated fire management Climate change effects on the Alpine forest
In this issue: Reaching outside the forest community Shaping the future of sustainable forest management Can wood construction live up to the positive expectations? Social capital in forest governance
The aim of the Integrate+ project was to establish demonstration sites in main forest types in Europe with a focus on implementation of integrative concepts to allow for transnational exchange of
INTEGRATE aimed at giving an insight on the potentials of integrating nature protection measures to forest management while addressing other forest functions/services based on existing scientific
European forests are increasingly exposed to various disturbances which can be of abiotic or biotic nature. When being of more ‘catastrophic’ nature they can strongly disrupt targeted forest
