You are a forest manager or forest owner in Austria? We study and compare the perception of forest owners in Europe regarding the marketing and provision of forest ecosystem services. Do you know about the opportunities? Are you willing to manage the forests for different purposes? How would you perceive a change in income from …
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28 Sep 2021, 13:30 – 29 Sep 2021, 16:00 CEST Incentives for forest ecosystem services in Europe: connecting science, practice and policy Join policy makers, practitioners, business leaders and researchers to explore the state of forest ecosystem services (FES) in Europe and the incentive mechanisms that support their provision, via state-of-the art research, global insights, …
A webinar to discuss how to strengthen forest ecosystem services and integrated forest management for biodiversity and climate change. About this event IUCN and EFI have joined forces to present an open, high-level webinar and exchange on the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030. The webinar, organised via the SINCERE project and Integrate Network, will …
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From 9-13 August 2021 in Pokljuka, Slovenia, a summer school is co-organized by a Horizon 2020 project ValoFor, EVOLTREE and COST Action(s), in collaboration with the Slovenian Forestry Institute. The 9th summer school on ‘Scientific writing, reviewing and publishing: Measures for protection and monitoring of forest genetic diversity & Communicating scientific results to small-scale forest …
“Decision Support Systems (DSS) for the Analysis of Pathways that Optimize Ecosystem Services Provision” Within this issue researchers gain the opportunity to submit a manuscript until 30 November 2021. Dear Colleagues, Forests provide a wide range of products and services, but among the most urgent demands put on forest ecosystems is contributing to climate mitigation, …
In Europe, the change in forest cover caused by felling activities, especially clear-cutting, is the most significant driver of forest ecosystem change. Monitoring the magnitude of harvest activities and their spatial and temporal distribution can provide essential change indicators of the pressure on forest ecosystems. Satellite remote sensing offers the means to assess and map …
The European Commission’s open access publishing platform supports fast publication and open peer review for research stemming from Horizon 2020 funding across all subject areas. It enables researchers to publish any research they wish to share, supporting reproducibility, transparency and impact. An open research publishing model is used: publication within days of submission, followed by …
“Payments for Ecosystem Services: Forest for Water” and “Ecosystem Services Science, Policy and Practice in the face of Global Changes” as virtual and hybrid events tackle two different aspects of ES. The final conference of the PESFOR-W COST Action is looking into the positive impact that woodlands and trees can have on water quality, and how the …
A review on forest attributes measurable by forest inventory that may support the integration of non-provisioning ecosystem services (ES) and biodiversity into forest planning was recently published by members of the NOBEL research group. The review identifies appropriate forest attributes to quantify the opportunity for recreation, biodiversity promotion and carbon storage, and describes new criteria …
A recently published article from our Portuguese partner ISA draws a glance at landscape level of the ecosystem services biodiversity conservation at the pilot region Vale do Sousa. Botequim et al. integrate an effective stand-level biodiversity indicator that reflects tree species composition, stand age, and understory coverage under divergent climate conditions and linear programming optimization …
