Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?

• DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110176
• Publication Date: 2023-06-30T09:09:18Z
• Authors: Sabina Burrascano; Francesco Chianucci; Giovanni Trentanovi; Sebastian Kepfer-...; Tommaso Sitzia; Flóra Tinya; Inken Doerfler; Yoan Paillet; Thomas Andrew Nagel; Bozena Mitic; Lourdes Morillas; Silvana Munzi; Theo Van der Sluis; Edoardo Alterio; Lorenzo Balducci; Rafael Barreto de...; Christophe Bouget; Paolo Giordani; Thibault Lachat; Dinka Matosevic; Francesca Napoleone; Juri Nascimbene; Chiara Paniccia; Nicolas Roth; Réka Aszalós; Gediminas Brazaitis; Andrea Cutini; Ettore D'Andrea; Pallieter De Smedt; Jacob Heilmann-Cl...; Philippe Janssen; Daniel Kozák; Anders Mårell; Martin Mikoláš; Björn Nordén; Radim Matula; Peter Schall; Miroslav Svoboda; Mariana Ujhazyova; Kris Vandekerkhove; Michael Wohlwend; Fotios Xystrakis; Michele Aleffi; Christian Ammer; Frederic Archaux; Thomas Asbeck; Dimitrios Avtzis; Manfred Ayasse; Simonetta Bagella; Rosario Balestrieri; Anna Barbati; Marco Basile; Ariel Bergamini; Giada Bertini; Alessandro Bruno ...; Steffen Boch; János Bölöni; Pierluigi Bombi; Yves Boscardin; Giorgio Brunialti; Hans Henrik Bruun; François Buscot; David Bille Byriel; Thomas Campagnaro; Alessandro Campanaro; Matthieu Chauvat; Michał Ciach; Marek Čiliak; Luca Cistrone; Joao Manuel Corde...; Rolf Daniel; Bruno De Cinti; Gabriele De Filippo; Wouter Dekoninck; Umberto Di Salvatore; Yann Dumas; Zoltán Elek; Fabrizio Ferretti; Dimitrios Fotakis; Tamás Frank; Julian Frey; Carmen Giancola; Erika Gomoryová; Marion Gosselin; Frederic Gosselin; Martin M. Gossner; Frank Götmark; Elena Haeler; Aslak Kappel Hansen; Lionel Hertzog; Jeňýk Hofmeister; Jan Hošek; Vivian Kvist Joha...; Mathias Just Just...; Nathalie Korboule...; Bence Kovács; Ferenc Lakatos; Carlos Miguel Lan...; Luc Lens; Emanuele Lingua; Fabio Lombardi; František Máliš; Luca Marchino; Vitas Marozas; Giorgio Matteucci; Walter Mattioli; Peter Friis Møller; Jörg Müller; Csaba Németh; Gábor Ónodi; Francesco Parisi; Thomas Perot; Sandrine Perret; Anna Maria Persiani; Alessia Portaccio; Mario Posillico; Žydrūnas Preikša; Carsten Rahbek; Nolan James Rappa; Sonia Ravera; Antonio Romano; Ferenc Samu; Christoph Scheide...; Inger Kappel Schmidt; Sebastian Schwegmann; Flavia Sicuriello; Andreea Petronela...; Gavriil Spyroglou; Jonas Stillhard; Eleni Topalidou; Anders P. Tøttrup; Karol Ujházy; Katalin Veres; Kris Verheyen; Wolfgang W. Weisser; Livia Zapponi; Péter Ódor
• Keywords: Sustainable Forest Management

The European biodiversity and forest strategies rely on sustainable management (SFM) to conserve biodiversity. However, current sustainability assessments hardly account for direct indicators. We focused multi-taxon to: i) gather map the existing information; ii) identify knowledge research gaps; iii) discuss its potential. established a network fit data species, standing trees, lying deadwood sampling unit description from 34 local datasets across 3591 units. A total of 8724 species were represented, with share common rare varying taxonomic classes: some included many several ones (e.g., Insecta); others Bryopsida) represented by few species. Tree-related structural attributes sampled in subset units (2889; 2356; 2309 1388 respectively diameter, height, microhabitats). Overall, studies are biased towards mature forests may underrepresent related other developmental phases. compositional categories all but beech over-represented as compared thermophilous boreal forests. Most (94%) referred habitat type conservation concern. Existing information support SFM in: (i) methodological harmonization coordinated monitoring; (ii) definition testing indicators thresholds; (iii) data-driven assessment effects environmental drivers biological functional diversity, (iv) multi-scale monitoring integrating in-situ remotely sensed information.