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The health and well-being of society are deeply rooted in land use. Terrestrial ecosystems sustain us through biomass provision, contributing end-use goods of food, materials...

Deadwood (DW) plays a critical role in maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, as well as other critical forest ecosystem processes, such as nutrient and carbon cycling and forest...

Although complex systems such as land systems cannot be fully represented with models, they stimulate discussion that can help understand the potential risks of trade-offs...

A new study models how changing climate conditions will impact forest services such as wood for construction and paper, eatable fruits, leaves, roots and other...

Increasing pressure on land resources necessitates landscape management strategies that simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to numerous stakeholder groups with competing interests. Accordingly, we developed...

1 December (Thu), 10.00-11.00 CET The Commission’s Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy (KCB), jointly with the Commission’s Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) organise this webinar to present the...

The first edition of the EFI Mediterranean Network Forum renews collaboration and invites new participation in EFIMED’s network connecting forest researchers, policymakers, and practitioners across the Mediterranean...

Over the last half century in the United States, the per-hectare volume of wood in trees has increased, but it is not clear whether this increase has been driven...

Climate change, global population growth, declining natural resources and the loss of biodiversity challenge us to move towards a global bioeconomy, based on the sustainable utilisation of renewable...

Tropical forests take up more carbon (C) from the atmosphere per annum by photosynthesis than any other type of vegetation. Phosphorus (P) limitations to C uptake are paramount...