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Pioneering Ecosystem Service Markets: A Game-Changer for Private Forest Owners

Understanding the motivations and behaviors of private forest owners is paramount for crafting effective forest policies. Misguided policies can lead to inefficiencies, underscoring the need for precise targeting. The French NOBEL partner ‘INRAE‘, delves into this crucial realm in their recent publication titled “Probabilistic typology of private forest owners: A tool to target the development …

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Adapted forest management to improve the potential for reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden

In order to propose and develop a system to support and improve co-planning between reindeer husbandry and forestry with a long time perspective at the landscape scale, the Swedish partners of NOBEL demonstrate a new and improved basis for planning and decision-making in the long term.The study area is located in the County of Västerbotten …

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An up-to-date list of indicators to measure Ecosystem Services

In order to provide a set of indicators supporting the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Service, the NOBEL partners have published a systematic review paper recently. In this study, they performed an extensive systematic literature review aimed to complete a list of indicators that could be used as proxies to evaluate each one of the …

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Auctioning approaches for ecosystem services – Evidence and applications

As a part of WP3-task 5 of the NOBEL project, this review paper was set out to systematically map the “where, when, and how” of ES auction research. It is a dissemination work in this dynamic field and encourages continued interdisciplinary collaboration; Using an applied classification system based on criteria like target ecosystem, location, and …

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A framework for an RS-based forest ecological base map- Norway case study

The main drivers of change in the forest ecosystems in Europe are forest activities. Change detection using a long time series of optical satellite imagery with relatively high resolution enables annual detection of changes with high accuracy.Therefore, in order to provide fine spatial resolution information and support the calculation of statistically rigorous estimates about the …

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remotely sensed forest stand geodata

Forest Change Dynamics

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 …

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Open Research Europe launched

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 …

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Forest attributes to integrate ES into planning

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 …

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Optimization techniques for biodiversity

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 …

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