Forest statistics, and particularly fire statistics should be improved to allow useful data in biodiversity research. In particular, precise geographical reference of forest fires are needed to exactly determine more impacted areas. As still we will experience extreme events of large wildfires, and they provide unique opportunities to study their effects, a framework for quick response to implement needed researh is necessary as extreme events may provide the upper limit of severe impact to biodiversity. Landscape dynamics modeling becomes an essential tool in this context. Aditionally, indicators for the biodiversity status of the system are needed in rapidly evolving fire-prone areas.
Diversity is a distinctive sign of nature and is the basis for ecological stability.
The forest has ethic, esthetic and cultural values that must be safeguarded and protected. Biodiversity is an intrinsic value of the forest system. To address the question of the relationship between management and forest biodiversity it is essential to overcome the concept that the forest is a machine that, if properly arranged and regulated, is capable of providing direct and indirect benefits. This view is based on a Cartesian or Newtonian scientific paradigm. But biology is not physics.