This report describes the work under AA “Forest Monitoring for Policies”, Lot 1 (Improved GHG Inventories for better Forest Policies). Within task “thematic policy...
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The European Union (EU) has committed to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. This requires a rapid reduction of nearly all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and ensuring that any...
Primary and old-growth forests are more resilient to natural disturbances – Perspective on wildfires
This briefing describes the characteristics of primary and old-growth forests and assesses its resilience to natural disturbances, in particular wildfires. Likewise, the role of primary and old-growth forests on wildfire risk...
European forests are facing multiple natural and anthropogenic pressures which are expected to become more severe in the next decades. Tree diversity is projected to decline...
Discover uses and sources of woody biomass at EU and Member State's scale (2009-2017 data).
To become carbon neutral by 2050, the European Union (EU27) net carbon sink from forests should increase from the current level of about -360 Mt CO2e yr-1...
The Amazon forest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world, which houses about 10% of the Earth’s biodiversity and 16% of the world’s total river discharge into the oceans. However, the Amazon...
Remote sensing can be used to collect information for forests management. Previous studies have shown the great potential of multispectral satellite imagery for tree species...
A recent study on harvested forest area in the EU (Ceccherini et al. 2020) reported a strong increase in clear-cut harvest area in recent years, based on remote...
A new release of Sankey diagrams of woody biomass flows in the European Union as a whole are available for the years 2009 to 2017 on the European Commission Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy...