Nature-based recreation provides benefits facilitating social interactions and cohesion,
creating job opportunities, and stimulating the local economy. The aim of this study was to …

Ecosystem services are investigated from many perspectives, but there are very few studies
comparing the perception of forest and demand for forest ecosystem services (FES) in a …

Saproxylic fungi act as keystone species in forest ecosystems because they colonise and
decompose dead wood, facilitating colonisation by later species. Here, we review the …

This study investigates visitors' perceptions and preferences regarding the characteristics of
deadwood in the Bavarian Forest National Park (SE-Germany). Visitor-employed …

The level of biodiversity is in decline, also in forests. As more natural structures are known to
safeguard biodiversity, changes in forest management, including higher amounts of …

Research on recreation in forests often aims at quantifying the recreational area, counting
the numbers of visitors, or assessing the attractiveness of forest characteristics. The nature …

Deadwood is a fundamental structural and functional component of forests, with a crucial
role in supporting forest biodiversity, nutrient and carbon cycling. Precise deadwood density …

In the last decades, the structural and functional role of standing dead trees and lying
deadwood in forests has been widely recognized by scientific community and forest …

Forest policy and management traditionally rely on physical forest data from National Forest
Inventories (NFIs). Nationwide questionnaire surveys on the other hand provide information …

Peri-urban forests are characterized by multiple-use and various kinds of recreation
activities. Public forest services have to take into account ecological, economic and social …