Accounting for forest condition in Europe based on an international statistical standard

Author: Joachim Maes, Adrián G. Bruzón, José I. Barredo, Sara Vallecillo, Peter Vogt, Inés Marí Rivero & Fernando Santos-Martín

Date: 2023

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Language: English

Type of resource: Academic article

Topics: Forests and Biodiversity

Covering 35% of Europe’s land area, forest ecosystems play a crucial role in safeguarding biodiversity and mitigating climate change. Yet, forest degradation continues to undermine key ecosystem services that forests deliver to society. Here we provide a spatially explicit assessment of the condition of forest ecosystems in Europe following a United Nations global statistical standard on ecosystem accounting, adopted in March 2021.