Management related pressures on forest ecosystems
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Prod-ID:
DAT-218-en
Created 04 Sep 2019
Published 06 Sep 2019
Last modified 06 Sep 2019
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Topics:
Biodiversity — Ecosystems
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Forest management involves various degrees of human intervention to safeguard the forest ecosystem and its functions as well as the exploitation of forest resources. While the objectives of management vary widely and include the protection of resources in protected forests and nature reserves, the primary objective is mostly the production of wood products. Although sustained yield forestry continues to be widely practised, there is an increasing trend towards the management of forests as ecological systems with multiple economic benefits and environmental values, ensuring that benefits meet present as well as future generations’ needs. In order to assess forest management intensity in Europe an indicator based on three data sources has been developed: a) Fast track ecosystem capital accounts (forest growth & harvest – disaggregated to 1km grid), b) Potential forest management (gradient of intensity of intervention with the natural processes in a forest) c) Forest fragmentation (forest ecosystem network connected by forest bridges – GUIDOS Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis).
Each input dataset has been assessed separately in a first step in terms of pressures on forest ecosystems which are the result of the specific management, use or respectively state of the forest patch. The overall management related pressure is then derived by crossing the relative pressures by each input and evaluating the constellation of the input representative factors.
This updated version of the management related forest pressures is based on the first assessment done in framework of the ETC-SIA report "Land use and land management related pressures on agricultural and forest ecosystems" (ETC-SIA, Task 1.8.4.3 Ecosystem pressures).
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Management related pressures on forest ecosystems
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Reporting obligations (ROD)
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- Not applicable
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Temporal coverage:
- 2012-2017
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Last upload:
- 29 Aug 2019
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Geographic coverage:
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Geographic accuracy:
- 1 km
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Tags:
- forest indicators , natural areas , forest management , forest , forest ecosystem , ecosystems , forest conservation
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Rights:
- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Data sources
Tree species map 1 km grid (EFI), Potential forest management 1 km grid (Hengeveld), Fast track ecosystem capital accounts 1 km grid (UMA), HRL forest 2012 – tree cover density 20m grid (Copernicus),
JRC GUIDOS Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) – Forest patch connectivity (JRC / UMA).-
Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Processors:
- European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soil Systems (ETC-ULS)
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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/management-related-pressures-on-forest-ecosystems or scan the QR code.
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