Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a vast part of the mountain forests of
Mediterranean counties was created by the State Forest Services. Through afforestation with …

Wood-pastures are among the most valuable types of farmland for ecosystem services,
including biodiversity, landscape, soil protection, water management and cultural values …

The bottom-up effects of vegetation are widely recognized as important factors influencing
the structure and functioning of soil food webs in forests. However, the influence of forest …

Despite the definition of social and cultural values as the third pillar of Sustainable Forest
Management (SFM) in 2003 and the guidelines for their implementation in SFM in 2007 …

The forest policy in Greece and the current regulatory framework is not efficient to support
the implementation of sustainability at a satisfactory level. The main scope of this study is to …

The aim of the paper is to assess the recently established National Forest Strategy (NFS) of
Greece with regard to its potential to contribute to regional development, taking into …

The Mediterranean Basin is a biodiversity hotspot. Greek forest ecosystems are threatened
both by natural causes (eg, fires, erosion, and desertification) and by human activities (eg …

252 Alexandra D. Solomou thousands of years. Today, forest is the most common natural
terrestrial ecosystem type of Greece, accounting for 42% of the country's land area (Figure …