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Forest Tenure and Sustainable Forest Management

open access: yesOpen Journal of Forestry, 2015
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
openaire   +3 more sources

Natural disturbance regimes as a guide for sustainable forest management in Europe.

open access: yesEcological Applications, 2022
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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

open access: yesForests, 2022
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unaltered fungal community after fire prevention treatments over widespread Mediterranean rockroses (Halimium lasianthum)

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Into the void: ECM fungal communities involved in the succession from rockroses to oak stands

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Linking forest management and biodiversity indicators to strengthen sustainable forest management in Europe

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Metabarcoding analysis of the soil fungal community to aid the conservation of underexplored church forests in Ethiopia

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying fire severity: a brief review and recommendations for improvement

open access: yesEcosystem Health and Sustainability, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Airborne laser scanning for quantifying criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management in Canada

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Forest Research, 2021
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Local neural-network-weighted models for occurrence and number of down wood in natural forest ecosystem

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

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