Country-wide assessment of biodiversity, naturalness and old-growth status using national forest inventory data

Review on the Possibilities of Mapping Old-Growth Temperate Forests by Remote Sensing in Europe

(2023) Manuela Hirschmugl et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING & ASSESSMENT

Assessing Forest Biodiversity: A Novel Index to Consider Ecosystem, Species, and Genetic Diversity

(2023) Jana-Sophie Ette et al.   Forests

Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?

(2023) Sabina Burrascano et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Assessing biodiversity using forest structure indicators based on airborne laser scanning data

(2023) Janne Toivonen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Old growth forests and large old trees as critical organisms connecting ecosystems and human health. A review

(2022) Melinda Gilhen-Baker et al.   Environmental Chemistry Letters

The New EU Forest Strategy for 2030: A New Understanding of Sustainable Forest Management?

(2022) Markus Lier et al.   Forests

Key factors determining the presence of Tree-related Microhabitats: A synthesis of potential factors at site, stand and tree scales, with perspectives for further research

(2022) Laurent Larrieu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Accuracy of the Copernicus High-Resolution Layer Imperviousness Density (HRL IMD) Assessed by Point Sampling within Pixels

(2022) Geir-Harald Strand   Remote Sensing

Wall-to-Wall Mapping of Forest Biomass and Wood Volume Increment in Italy

(2022) Francesca Giannetti et al.   Forests

Characteristics of deadwood and implications for biodiversity in Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) planted forests in Italy

(2022) Isabella De Meo et al.   Trees, Forests and People

The Effect of Forest Mask Quality in the Wall-to-Wall Estimation of Growing Stock Volume

(2021) Elia Vangi et al.   Remote Sensing

Forest stand structure and coarse woody debris determine the biodiversity of beetle communities in Mediterranean mountain beech forests

(2021) Francesco Parisi et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Quantifying old-growthness of lowland European beech forests by a multivariate indicator for forest structure

(2021) Peter Meyer et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Co-occurrence patterns of tree-related microhabitats: A method to simplify routine monitoring

(2021) Laurent Larrieu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

How sensitive are epiphytic and epixylic cryptogams as indicators of forest naturalness? Testing bryophyte and lichen predictive power in stands under different management regimes in the Białowieża forest

(2021) Janusz Czerepko et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Tree-Related Microhabitats Follow Similar Patterns but are More Diverse in Primary Compared to Managed Temperate Mountain Forests

(2021) Thomas Asbeck et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Factors affecting the quantity and type of tree-related microhabitats in Mediterranean mountain forests of high nature value

(2021) PA Marziliano et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Using Naturalness for Assessing the Impact of Forestry and Protection on the Quality of Ecosystems in Life Cycle Assessment

(2021) Sylvie Côté et al.   Sustainability

How individual tree characteristics and forest management influence occurrence and richness of tree-related microhabitats in Mediterranean mountain forests

(2021) Giovanni Santopuoli et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Stand Structural Characteristics Are the Most Practical Biodiversity Indicators for Forest Management Planning in Europe

(2020) Marija Ćosović et al.   Forests

Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity Revealed by a Two-Scale Analysis of Species Functional Uniqueness vs. Redundancy

(2020) Anna Kondratyeva et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

What do tree-related microhabitats tell us about the abundance of forest-dwelling bats, birds, and insects?

(2020) Marco Basile et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services

(2020) María R. Felipe-Lucia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity of saproxylic beetle communities in chestnut agroforestry systems

(2020) F Parisi et al.   iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry

Why European biodiversity reporting is not reliable

(2020) Jana-Sophie Ette et al.   AMBIO

Utilising forest inventory data for biodiversity assessment

(2020) Michael Heym et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

A dataset of forest volume deadwood estimates for Europe

(2019) Nicola Puletti et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

A plot-level exploratory analysis of European forest based on the results from the BioSoil Forest Biodiversity project

(2019) Marta Galluzzi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A Conceptual Model for Forest Naturalness Assessment and Application in Quebec’s Boreal Forest

(2019) Sylvie Côté et al.   Forests

Diversity patterns of Coleoptera and saproxylic communities in unmanaged forests of Mediterranean mountains

(2019) Francesco Parisi et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

(2018) Torben Hilmers et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Profile of tree-related microhabitats in European primary beech-dominated forests

(2018) Daniel Kozák et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Classifying drivers of global forest loss

(2018) Philip G. Curtis et al.   SCIENCE

Characterising the richness and diversity of forest bird species using National Forest Inventory data in Germany

(2018) Judith Reise et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Relationships between stand structural attributes and saproxylic beetle abundance in a Mediterranean broadleaved mixed forest

(2018) F. Parisi et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Can tree species diversity be assessed with Landsat data in a temperate forest?

(2017) Maliheh Arekhi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Assessing habitat quality in relation to the spatial distribution of protected areas in Italy

(2017) Lorenzo Sallustio et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending

(2017) Anthony Waldron et al.   NATURE

Living and Dead Aboveground Biomass in Mediterranean Forests: Evidence of Old-Growth Traits in a Quercus pubescens Willd. s.l. Stand

(2017) et al.   Forests

The importance of forest structure to biodiversity–productivity relationships

(2017) Friedrich J. Bohn et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Deadwood volume assessment in Calabrian pine (Pinus brutia Ten.) peri-urban forests: Comparison between two sampling methods

(2017) Isabella De Meo et al.   Journal of Sustainable Forestry

The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013

(2017) Peter Potapov et al.   Science Advances

Consolidating new paradigms in large-scale monitoring and assessment of forest ecosystems

(2016) Piermaria Corona   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Spatial patterns of saproxylic beetles in a relic silver fir forest (Central Italy), relationships with forest structure and biodiversity indicators

(2016) Francesco Parisi et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Classification of multilayered forest development classes from low-density national airborne lidar datasets

(2016) Rubén Valbuena et al.   FORESTRY

Biodiversity and ecosystem services in forest ecosystems: a research agenda for applied forest ecology

(2016) Akira S. Mori et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Copernicus high-resolution layers for land cover classification in Italy

(2016) Luca Congedo et al.   Journal of Maps

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

(2016) J. Liang et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity and ecosystem services require IPBES to take novel approach to scenarios

(2016) Marcel T. J. Kok et al.   Sustainability Science

Reviewing the strength of evidence of biodiversity indicators for forest ecosystems in Europe

(2015) Tian Gao et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

The Gini index brings asymmetric competition to light

(2015) Thomas Cordonnier et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The impact of Natura 2000 on forest management: a socio-ecological analysis in the continental region of the European Union

(2014) Susanne Winter et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

The role of forest stand structure as biodiversity indicator

(2014) Tian Gao et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Do National Parks play an active role in conserving the natural capital of Italy?

(2014) G. Capotorti et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

(2014) M. F. J. Aronson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Deadwood occurrence and forest structure as indicators of old-growth forest conditions in Mediterranean mountainous ecosystems

(2013) Fabio Lombardi et al.   ECOSCIENCE

European Forest Types and Forest Europe SFM indicators: Tools for monitoring progress on forest biodiversity conservation

(2013) A. Barbati et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Essential Biodiversity Variables

(2013) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

How many dimensions of biodiversity do we need?

(2012) Olga Lyashevska et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Assessing Forest Naturalness

(2012) Ronald E. McRoberts et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Assessing Deadwood Using Harmonized National Forest Inventory Data

(2012) Jacques Rondeux et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

National Forest Inventory Contributions to Forest Biodiversity Monitoring

(2012) Gherardo Chirici et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Forest naturalness assessment as a component of biodiversity monitoring and conservation management

(2012) S. Winter   FORESTRY

Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta-analysis

(2012) Yu Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Characterization, structure and genetic dating of an old-growth beech-fir forest in the northern Apennines (Italy)

(2012) D. Travaglini et al.   PLANT BIOSYSTEMS

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deadwood as a surrogate for forest biodiversity: Meta-analysis of correlations between deadwood volume and species richness of saproxylic organisms

(2011) Aurore Lassauce et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Aboveground tree volume and phytomass prediction equations for forest species in Italy

(2011) Giovanni Tabacchi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Contribution of large-scale forest inventories to biodiversity assessment and monitoring

(2011) Piermaria Corona et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Large-scale monitoring of coppice forest clearcuts by multitemporal very high resolution satellite imagery. A case study from central Italy

(2011) Gherardo Chirici et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Influence of tree characteristics and forest management on tree microhabitats

(2010) Aurélie Vuidot et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity Differences between Managed and Unmanaged Forests: Meta-Analysis of Species Richness in Europe

(2010) YOAN PAILLET et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

What are indicators? On the definition of indicators in ecology and environmental planning

(2010) Ulrich Heink et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Relative Quantitative Reference Approach for Naturalness Assessments of forests

(2010) Susanne Winter et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Possibilities for harmonizing national forest inventory data for use in forest biodiversity assessments

(2008) S. Winter et al.   FORESTRY

Estimation of Tree Size Diversity Using Object Oriented Texture Analysis and Aster Imagery

(2008) Ibrahim Ozdemir et al.   SENSORS