Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?
Creators: name: Burrascano, Sabina
name: Chianucci, Francesco
name: Trentanovi, Giovanni
name: Kepfer-Rojas, Sebastian
name: Sitzia, Tommaso
name: Tinya, Flóra
name: Doerfler, Inken
name: Paillet, Yoan
name: Nagel, Thomas Andrew
name: Mitic, Bozena
name: Morillas, Lourdes
name: Munzi, Silvana
name: Van Der Sluis, Theo
name: Alterio, Edoardo
name: Balducci, Lorenzo
name: De Andrade, Rafael Barreto
name: Bouget, Christophe
name: Giordani, Paolo
name: Lachat, Thibault
name: Matosevic, Dinka
name: Napoleone, Francesca
name: Nascimbene, Juri
name: Paniccia, Chiara
name: Roth, Nicolas
name: Aszalós, Réka
name: Brazaitis, Gediminas
name: Cutini, Andrea
name: D'Andrea, Ettore
name: De Smedt, Pallieter
name: Heilmann-Clausen, Jacob
name: Janssen, Philippe
name: Kozák, Daniel
name: Mårell, Anders
name: Mikoláš, Martin
name: Nordén, Björn
name: Matula, Radim
name: Schall, Peter
name: Svoboda, Miroslav
name: Ujhazyova, Mariana
name: Vandekerkhove, Kris
name: Wohlwend, Michael
name: Xystrakis, Fotios
name: Aleffi, Michele
name: Ammer, Christian
name: Archaux, Frederic
name: Asbeck, Thomas
name: Avtzis, Dimitrios
name: Ayasse, Manfred
name: Bagella, Simonetta
name: Balestrieri, Rosario
name: Barbati, Anna
name: Basile, Marco
name: Bergamini, Ariel
name: Bertini, Giada
name: Biscaccianti, Alessandro Bruno
name: Boch, Steffen
name: Bölöni, János
name: Bombi, Pierluigi
name: Boscardin, Yves
name: Brunialti, Giorgio
name: Bruun, Hans Henrik
name: Buscot, François
name: Byriel, David Bille
name: Campagnaro, Thomas
name: Campanaro, Alessandro
name: Chauvat, Matthieu
name: Ciach, Michał
name: Čiliak, Marek
name: Cistrone, Luca
name: Pereira, Joao Manuel Cordeiro
name: Daniel, Rolf
name: De Cinti, Bruno
name: De Filippo, Gabriele
name: Dekoninck, Wouter
name: Di Salvatore, Umberto
name: Dumas, Yann
name: Elek, Zoltán
name: Ferretti, Fabrizio
name: Fotakis, Dimitrios
name: Frank, Tamás
name: Frey, Julian
name: Giancola, Carmen
name: Gomoryová, Erika
name: Gosselin, Marion
name: Gosselin, Frederic
name: Gossner, Martin M.
name: Götmark, Frank
name: Haeler, Elena
name: Hansen, Aslak Kappel
name: Hertzog, Lionel
name: Hofmeister, Jeňýk
name: Hošek, Jan
name: Johannsen, Vivian Kvist
name: Justensen, Mathias Just
name: Korboulewsky, Nathalie
name: Kovács, Bence
name: Lakatos, Ferenc
name: Landivar, Carlos Miguel
name: Lens, Luc
name: Lingua, Emanuele
name: Lombardi, Fabio
name: Máliš, František
name: Marchino, Luca
name: Marozas, Vitas
name: Matteucci, Giorgio
name: Mattioli, Walter
name: Møller, Peter Friis
name: Müller, Jörg
name: Németh, Csaba
name: Ónodi, Gábor
name: Parisi, Francesco
name: Perot, Thomas
name: Perret, Sandrine
name: Persiani, Anna Maria
name: Portaccio, Alessia
name: Posillico, Mario
name: Preikša, Žydrūnas
name: Rahbek, Carsten
name: Rappa, Nolan James
name: Ravera, Sonia
name: Romano, Antonio
name: Samu, Ferenc
name: Scheidegger, Urs Christoph
name: Schmidt, Inger Kappel
name: Schwegmann, Sebastian
name: Sicuriello, Flavia
name: Spinu, Andreea Petronela
name: Spyroglou, Gavriil
name: Stillhard, Jonas
name: Topalidou, Eleni
name: Tøttrup, Anders P.
name: Ujházy, Karol
name: Veres, Katalin
name: Verheyen, Kris
name: Weisser, Wolfgang W.
name: Zapponi, Livia
name: Ódor, Péter
Publisher: name: Elsevier
Year: 2023
Subjects: Forest biodiversity Multi-taxon Sustainable management Biodiversity conservation Forest stand structure

description: 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.