Understanding Europe's Forest Harvesting Regimes
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F25%3A00618938" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/25:00618938 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF005225" target="_blank" >https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024EF005225</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005225" target="_blank" >10.1029/2024EF005225</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Understanding Europe's Forest Harvesting Regimes
Original language description
European forests are being shaped by active human use and management, and by harvesting of wood in particular. Yet, our understanding of how forests are harvested across Europe is limited, as the real harvest regimes are not well described by currently available data. Here, we analyse recent harvests, as observed in permanent plots of forest inventories in 11 European countries, totaling to 182,649 plots and covering all major forest types. We (a) characterize harvest regimes through the frequency and intensity of harvest events spatially across Europe, and (b) build models for the probability and intensity of harvest events at the plot-level and examine the links to potential drivers of harvest, including the pre-harvest forest structure and composition, climatic, topographic and socio-economic factors, and past natural disturbances. The results revealed notable variation in harvest regimes across Europe, ranging from high-frequency and low-intensity harvests in eastern Central Europe to low-frequency and high-intensity harvests in the north, with different strategies emerging in regions with similar total harvest rates. The harvest regimes were strongly driven by country-level variation, emphasizing the role of national-level factors. Pre-harvest forest properties were important drivers for the intensity of harvest, whereas the probability of harvest was more related to socio-economic factors and natural disturbances. The presented quantification of the forest harvesting regimes provides much needed detail in our understanding of the contemporary forest management practices in Europe, providing a baseline against which to assess future changes in management and strengthening the knowledge-base for decision-making on European level.
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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
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Earth's Future
ISSN
2328-4277
e-ISSN
2328-4277
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
e2024EF005
UT code for WoS article
001416584200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85217221096