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Forest Tenure and Sustainable Forest Management
We reviewed the principles and key literature related to forest tenure and sustainable forest management, and then examined the status of sustainable forestry and land ownership at the aggregate national level for major forested countries. The institutional design principles suggested by Ostrom are well accepted for applications to public, communal ...
Jacek P. Siry +3 more
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Natural disturbance regimes as a guide for sustainable forest management in Europe.
In Europe, forest management has controlled forest dynamics to sustain commodity production over multiple centuries. Yet over-regulation for growth and yield diminishes resilience to environmental stress as well as threatens biodiversity, leading to ...
R. Aszalós +22 more
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The New EU Forest Strategy for 2030: A New Understanding of Sustainable Forest Management?
Two decades after the pan-European set of indicators for sustainable forest management was adopted, the European Commission published the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030.
M. Lier +5 more
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Mediterranean ecosystems are frequently invaded by pyrophytic scrubs such as Halimium lasianthum that colonize areas traditionally used by livestock. A diverse fungal community is associated with this kind of vegetation, playing an important ecological ...
Pablo Martín-Pinto +8 more
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Into the void: ECM fungal communities involved in the succession from rockroses to oak stands
Oak forests accompanied by Cistus species are a common landscape in the Mediterranean basin. It is argued that Cistus dominated fields serve as recruitment areas for Quercus seedlings, as they help in the transmission of the fungal community through ...
Ignacio Sanz-Benito +7 more
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The accelerating global rate of species extinctions and the inevitable human impacts on biodiversity have increased the need to conserve, restore and use ecosystems sustainably. Indicators for biodiversity are the most frequently used tool to monitor the
Janine Oettel, K. Lapin
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Most of the Dry Afromontane forests in the northern part of Ethiopia are located around church territories and, hence, are called church forests. These forests are biodiversity islands and provide key ecosystem services to local communities.
Demelash Alem +4 more
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Quantifying fire severity: a brief review and recommendations for improvement
Introduction: Quantifying fire severity is an important aspect of studying the response mechanism of terrestrial ecosystems to wildfire, and it is of great significance to fire ecology.
Dongdong Han +4 more
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Airborne laser scanning (ALS) has emerged as a technology capable of generating descriptors of vegetation structure and best available terrain information.
Tristan R. H. Goodbody +8 more
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The natural forest ecosystem has been affected by wind storms for years, which have caused several down wood (DW) and dramatically modified the fabric and size.
Yuman Sun +6 more
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