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Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?
Burrascano
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Sabina
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Chianucci
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Francesco
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Trentanovi
,
Giovanni
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Kepfer-Rojas
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Sebastian
,
Sitzia
,
Tommaso
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Tinya
,
Flóra
,
Doerfler
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Inken
,
Paillet
,
Yoan
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Nagel
,
Thomas A.
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Mitić
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Božena
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Morillas
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Lourdes
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Munzi
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Silvana
,
Van Der Sluis
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Theo
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Alterio
,
Edoardo
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Balducci
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Lorenzo
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de Andrade
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Rafael Barreto
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Bouget
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Christophe
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Giordani
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P.
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Lachat
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Thibault
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Matošević
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Dinka
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Napoleone
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Francesca
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Nascimbene
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Juri
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Paniccia
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Chiara
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Roth
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Nicolas
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Aszalós
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Réka
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Brazaitis
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Gediminas
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Cutini
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Andrea
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D'Andrea
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Ettore
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de Smedt
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Pallieter
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Heilmann-Clausen
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Jacob
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Janssen
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Philippe
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Kozák
,
Daniel
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Mårell
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Anders
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Mikoláš
,
Martin
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Nordén
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Björn
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Matula
,
Radim
,
Schall
,
Peter
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Svoboda
,
Miroslav
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Ujházyová
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Mariana
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Vandekerkhove
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Kris
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Wohlwend
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Michael Rudolf
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Xystrakis
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Fotios
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Aleffi
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Michele
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Ammer
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Christian
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Archaux
,
Frédéric
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Asbeck
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Thomas
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N Avtzis
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Dimitrios N.
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Ayasse
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Manfred
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Bagella
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Simonetta
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Balestrieri
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Rosario
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Barbati
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Anna
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Basile
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Marco
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Bergamini
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Ariel
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Bertini
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Giada
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Biscaccianti
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Alessandro Bruno
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Boch
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Steffen
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Bölöni
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János
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Bombi
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Pierluigi
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Boscardin
,
Yves
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Brunialti
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Giorgio
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Bruun
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Hans Henrik
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Buscot
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François
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Byriel
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David Bille
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Campagnaro
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Thomas
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Campanaro
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Alessandro
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Chauvat
,
Matthieu
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Ciach
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Michał
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Čiliak
,
Marek
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Cistrone
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Luca
,
Pereira
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Joaò Manuel Cordeiro
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Daniel
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Rolf
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de Cinti
,
Bruno
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de Filippo
,
Gabriele
,
Dekoninck
,
Wouter
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Di Salvatore
,
Umberto
,
Dumas
,
Yann
,
Elek
,
Zoltán
,
Ferretti
,
Fabrizio
,
Fotakis
,
Dimitrios G.
,
Frank
,
Tamás
,
Frey
,
Julian
,
Giancola
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Carmen
,
Gömöryová
,
Erika
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Gosselin
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Marion
,
Gosselin
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Frédéric
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Goßner
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Martin M.
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Götmark
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Frank
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Haeler
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Elena
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Hansen
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Aslak Kappel
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Hertzog
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Lionel R.
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Hofmeister
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Jeňýk
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Hošek
,
Jan
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Johannsen
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Vivian Kvist
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Justensen
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Mathias Just
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Korboulewsky
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Nathalie
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Kovács
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Bence
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Lakatos
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Ferenc
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Landivar
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Carlos Miguel
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Lens
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Luc
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Lingua
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Emanuele
forest biodiversity
biodiversity conservation
forest stand structure
multi-taxon
sustainable management
Mostra abstract
The European biodiversity and forest strategies rely on forest sustainable management (SFM) to conserve forest biodiversity. However, current sustainability assessments hardly account for direct biodiversity indicators. We focused on forest multi-taxon biodiversity to: i) gather and map the existing information; ii) identify knowledge and research gaps; iii) discuss its research potential. We established a research network to fit data on species, standing trees, lying deadwood and sampling unit description from 34 local datasets across 3591 sampling units. A total of 8724 species were represented, with the share of common and rare species varying across taxonomic classes: some included many species with several rare ones (e.g., Insecta); others (e.g., Bryopsida) were represented by few common species. Tree-related structural attributes were sampled in a subset of sampling units (2889; 2356; 2309 and 1388 respectively for diameter, height, deadwood and microhabitats). Overall, multi-taxon studies are biased towards mature forests and may underrepresent the species related to other developmental phases. European forest compositional categories were all represented, but beech forests were over-represented as compared to thermophilous and boreal forests. Most sampling units (94%) were referred to a habitat type of conservation concern. Existing information may support European conservation and SFM strategies in: (i) methodological harmonization and coordinated monitoring; (ii) definition and testing of SFM indicators and thresholds; (iii) data-driven assessment of the effects of environmental and management drivers on multi-taxon forest biological and functional diversity, (iv) multi-scale forest monitoring integrating in-situ and remotely sensed information. © 2023 The Authors
Handbook of field sampling for multi-taxon biodiversity studies in European forests
Burrascano
,
Sabina
,
Trentanovi
,
Giovanni
,
Paillet
,
Yoan
,
Heilmann-Clausen
,
Jacob
,
Giordani
,
P.
,
Bagella
,
Simonetta
,
Bravo-Oviedo
,
Andrés
,
Campagnaro
,
Thomas
,
Campanaro
,
Alessandro
,
Chianucci
,
Francesco
,
de Smedt
,
Pallieter
,
Itziar
,
García Mijangos
,
Matošević
,
Dinka
,
Sitzia
,
Tommaso
,
Aszalós
,
Réka
,
Brazaitis
,
Gediminas
,
Cutini
,
Andrea
,
D'Andrea
,
Ettore
,
Doerfler
,
Inken
,
Hofmeister
,
Jeňýk
,
Hošek
,
Jan
,
Janssen
,
Philippe
,
Kepfer-Rojas
,
Sebastian
,
Korboulewsky
,
Nathalie
,
Kozák
,
Daniel
,
Lachat
,
Thibault
,
Lõhmus
,
Asko
,
López
,
Rosana
,
Mårell
,
Anders
,
Matula
,
Radim
,
Mikoláš
,
Martin
,
Munzi
,
Silvana
,
Nordén
,
Björn
,
Pärtel
,
Meelis
,
Penner
,
Johannes
,
Runnel
,
Kadri
,
Schall
,
Peter
,
Svoboda
,
Miroslav
,
Tinya
,
Flóra
,
Ujházyová
,
Mariana
,
Vandekerkhove
,
Kris
,
Verheyen
,
Kris
,
Xystrakis
,
Fotios
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Ódor
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Péter
Mostra abstract
Forests host most terrestrial biodiversity and their sustainable management is crucial to halt biodiversity loss. Although scientific evidence indicates that sustainable forest management (SFM) should be assessed by monitoring multi-taxon biodiversity, most current SFM criteria and indicators account only for trees or consider indirect biodiversity proxies. Several projects performed multi-taxon sampling to investigate the effects of forest management on biodiversity, but the large variability of their sampling approaches hampers the identification of general trends, and limits broad-scale inference for designing SFM. Here we address the need of common sampling protocols for forest structure and multi-taxon biodiversity to be used at broad spatial scales. We established a network of researchers involved in 41 projects on forest multi-taxon biodiversity across 13 European countries. The network data structure comprised the assessment of at least three taxa, and the measurement of forest stand structure in the same plots or stands. We mapped the sampling approaches to multi-taxon biodiversity, standing trees and deadwood, and used this overview to provide operational answers to two simple, yet crucial, questions: what to sample? How to sample? The most commonly sampled taxonomic groups are vascular plants (83% of datasets), beetles (80%), lichens (66%), birds (66%), fungi (61%), bryophytes (49%). They cover different forest structures and habitats, with a limited focus on soil, litter and forest canopy. Notwithstanding the common goal of assessing forest management effects on biodiversity, sampling approaches differed widely within and among taxonomic groups. Differences derive from sampling units (plots size, use of stand vs. plot scale), and from the focus on different substrates or functional groups of organisms. Sampling methods for standing trees and lying deadwood were relatively homogeneous and focused on volume calculations, but with a great variability in sampling units and diameter thresholds. We developed a handbook of sampling methods (SI 3) aimed at the greatest possible comparability across taxonomic groups and studies as a basis for European-wide biodiversity monitoring programs, robust understanding of biodiversity response to forest structure and management, and the identification of direct indicators of SFM. © 2021 The Authors