Wälder sind in ihrer Vielfalt an Lebensräumen für Tier-, Pflanzen- und Pilzarten unverzichtbar, um eine Vielzahl von Ökosystemleistungen, wie z. B. Kohlenstoffbindung, Rohholz, sauberes Trinkwasser und Erholungsraum bereit zu stellen sowie vor Naturgefahren zu schützen. Eine hohe genetische...

Wälder sind in ihrer Vielfalt an Lebensräumen für Tier-, Pflanzen- und Pilzarten unverzichtbar, um eine Viel-zahl von Ökosystemleistungen, wie z. B. Kohlenstoffbindung, Rohholz, sauberes Trinkwasser und Erholungsraum bereit zu stellen sowie vor Naturgefahren zu schützen. Eine hohe...

The handbook is primarily aimed at national experts engaged in the production of European forest accounts. This edition reflects the latest European legal requirements. The handbook provides a framework and practical recommendations for establishing European forest accounts. It offers harmonised...

Recently, the concerns about climate change have heightened the need for effective methods for estimating and mapping Biomass and Carbon stock at local, national, continental, and global scales. Reliable Biomass and Carbon stock quantification and spatialization is a challenge, especially in...

The Lower Mekong Region (LMR) faces significant loss of mangrove forests, yet limited studies have explored this decline in the region. Here, we employ Google Earth Engine and Landsat satellite imagery to assess changes in mangrove forest cover across Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia...

Daten zum Status und zur Veränderung der Landnutzung, also zur Inanspruchnahme von Böden und Landflächen durch den Menschen, stellen eine zentrale Grundlage für eine faktenbasierte Politikberatung und Forschung sowie verschiedene Monitoring- und Evaluierungsaufgaben am Thünen-Institut dar....

Prioritizing sites for conservation has been a central question for over a century. Much work studies large sparsely-populated landscapes to optimize habitat for the highest number (or value) of species for a set cost, given possible ecological interactions between the patches of conserved land....

Research on payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes indicates that few of them in fact implement full marketization on the ground, highlighting the need for better understanding of the performance of incompletely marketized PES models. One prominent example of a PES program with incomplete...

Abstract The Amazonian clear-water igapós are floodplains mainly covered by forests with intermediate hydrochemical and edaphic conditions between the nutrient-rich várzea along white-water rivers and the oligotrophic igapós along black-water rivers. Earlier studies indicate the potential for...

As the impacts of climate change and various disturbances on forest ecosystem have become serious, management and research efforts to improve forest biodiversity in response to the changing environment are needed. Biodiversity is associated with functional protection, adaptation to external...

Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area burned in California can be accounted for by variation in...

Beyond the economic support in terms of food, fuelwood, charcoal, wood, and timber supplies that investment towards forest environments provides, its contribution to environmental quality could also provide health benefits. Using data from 16 selected sub-Saharan African countries from 2002 to...

Forests need to be made more resistant to threats like pests, droughts and wildfires that are exacerbated by climate change. The Forest Monitoring Law will plug information gaps about European forests and create a comprehensive forest knowledge base to allow Member States, forest owners and...

This is the first edition of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) annual report on forest fires for the year 2021 in Latin America. The section on national reports provides an overview of national and regional efforts in several Latin American countries. This is followed by information...

This is the first edition of the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) annual report on forest fires for the year 2021 in Latin America. The section on national reports provides an overview of national and regional efforts in several Latin American countries. This is followed by information...

A tree inventory and carbon stock assessment was conducted in three 50 x 100 meter randomly established sampling plots in the lower montane forest of Mt. Kalatungan, a protected area located in Mindanao, Philippines. A total of 31 species of trees belonging to 24 families that is dominated by...

The ibiCash Protocol serves as a mechanism for encapsulating the time value of forests within a currency made up of units which represent the intangible value of 1 hectare of standing forest for the period of a single day in each of the world's ecoregions. At the end of each day, the system...

Daten zum Status und zur Veränderung der Landnutzung, also zur Inanspruchnahme von Böden und Landflächen durch den Menschen, stellen eine zentrale Grundlage für eine faktenbasierte Politikberatung und Forschung sowie verschiedene Monitoring- und Evaluierungsaufgaben am Thünen-Institut dar....

Die Arbeitsanleitung der dritten Bodenzustandserhebung im Wald ist die methodische Grundlage der BZE III. Die Erhebung wird in den Jahren 2022-2024 an knapp 1900 Punkten in allen Bundesländern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland durchgeführt. Insgesamt werden über 300 Parameter im Gelände aus den...

Die Produktivität von Waldökosystemen wird durch die Bereitstellung von Nährstoffen und Wasser gewährleistet. Somit ist das Wissen über die chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften der Böden essentiell sowohl zur Beurteilung des Bodenzustands als auch der Güte des Waldstandorts....

Abstract In the US South, private forest landowners own the majority of timberland, therefore, understanding timber supply behavior of these landowners is a fundamental forest economic question. This study estimates the pine stumpage supply equations and elasticities of private landowners in...

A predictive model that is trained with non-randomly selected samples can offer biased predictions for the population. This paper discusses when non-random selection is a problem. For the applications in which it is a problem, this paper presents a procedure for adjusting the predictions of...

We study the prevalence of forest fires in Spain in the long run by computing the probability that a forest tree, as opposed to shrub or bush, will be lost to fire over one year. We first show that climate change increases the likelihood of this event. Next, we document how risk grew...

Im Rahmen des Projektes "Transformation zu einem vollständig treibhausgasneutralenDeutschland" (CARE) (FKZ 3720 41 506 0) wird untersucht, welche Pfade notwendig sind, um die deutschen Klimaschutzziele zu erreichen, sowie welche Maßnahmen aus politischer Sicht unterlegt werden müssen, um...

The National Park Service and other agencies have argued that our recreation lands face a crisis of deferred maintenance. This paper evaluates two proposals for funding public lands, increasing gate fees and taxing recreational gear. It analyzes the joint welfare effects of such taxes and the...

For realizing sustainable forest resources management, participatory forest management (PFM) program has been implemented in different areas of Ethiopia for the last two decades. However, the success of PFM program largely depends on the active involvement of local community in the different...

Disturbance trends over recent decades indicate that climate change is resulting in increased fire severity and extent in Australia’s temperate Eucalyptus forests. As disturbance cycles become shorter and of greater magnitude empirical measurements are required to identify changes in forest...

A new EU Forest Strategy for 2030 was announced by the European Commission in July 2021. The objective for our study was to analyze the Strategy in relation to its set boundary conditions namely, that it should be based on the best available scientific knowledge and respect the EU principle of...

Logging-induced disturbance can be an important agent of change in tropical forests. Understanding the relative impacts of specific logging regimes on tree community structure is essential for forest management and biodiversity conservation. In this study, we assessed the response of tree...

Warming temperatures and changing weather patterns are causing more frequent and severe disturbances in western North American forests. The increasing length and severity of recent wildfire seasons have annually caused widespread injury to millions of trees, facilitating the subsequent outbreak...

The Upper Parana Atlantic Forest harbors some of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet. Understanding the stand characteristics of these forests as well as their relationship with soil properties is vital to their conservation and restoration. The objective of this study was to clarify...

Afforestation is a common and effective method for restoring degraded ecosystems worldwide. Robinia pseudoacacia is a main non-native tree species that has been widely planted in the Loess Plateau for revegetation. However, suitability and sustainability of R. pseudoacacia must be considered due...

The article introduces the concepts of forest conservation politics from below and Eco-Solidarism to the forest policy and environmental scholarship by analysing radical environmental social movements aiming at mobilizing society to protect forests in Germany. By focussing on the movements´...