Current sustainability challenges–including biodiversity loss, pollution and land-use change–
require new ways of understanding, acting in and caring for the landscapes we live in. The …

FSC is a worldwide recognized forest certification scheme, that aims to promote the
environmentally responsible management and conservation of the world's forests. Despite …

Primary forests, defined here as forests where the signs of human impacts, if any, are
strongly blurred due to decades without forest management, are scarce in Europe and …

In the face of accelerating forest degradation and deforestation, forest certification emerged
in the early 1990s as a voluntary and market-based mechanism to promote environmentally …

Key factors causing the difference of wildlife populations in natural and managed forests are
an important field of ecosystem and biodiversity research. To explore the factors contributing …

Global environmental changes are expected to alter the functional characteristics of
understorey herb-layer communities, potentially affecting forest ecosystem functioning …

For political and administrative governance of land-use decisions, high-resolution and
reliable spatial models are required over large areas and for various time horizons. We …

A major question in fungal conservation is why many species are confined to old forests, and
how they could be supported by contemporary landscape matrix. Specifically, forestry that …

Retention forestry is a silvicultural approach that can achieve both ecological and economic
objectives in various forest ecosystems. It builds largely on the assumption that the live trees …

Efficient quantification of the three-dimensional forest structure is of increasing importance
for our understanding of forest functions and services, but it remains challenging with …