Concerns about reported harvests in European forests
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F21%3A89531" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/21:89531 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03292-x" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03292-x</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03292-x" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-021-03292-x</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Concerns about reported harvests in European forests
Original language description
Ceccherini et al. reported an abrupt increase in harvested forest in terms of both biomass and area in Europe from 2016, and suggested that this reflected expanding wood markets encouraged by the bioeconomy policies of the European Union (EU). They used Global Forest Watch and GlobBiomass data together with an analysis that sought to remove natural disturbances from forest losses, which overall resulted in estimates of 49% for the increase in harvested forest area and 69% for the increase in harvested forest biomass. We argue that the reported changes reflect analytical artefacts, with inconsistencies in the forest change time series, misattribution of natural disturbances as harvests, and a lack of causality with the suggested bioeconomy policy frameworks. There is an urgent need to re examine available forest information that can accurately and reliably inform the ongoing policy discussions in the framework of the EU Green Deal, particularly the upcoming post 2020 EU Forest Strategy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40102 - Forestry
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
NATURE
ISSN
0028-0836
e-ISSN
1476-4687
Volume of the periodical
592
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7856
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
3
Pages from-to
15-17
UT code for WoS article
000645368900028
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85105075675