Words apart : standardizing forestry terms and definitions across European biodiversity studies

Trentanovi, Giovanni (author), Campagnaro, Thomas (author), Sitzia, Tommaso (author), Chianucci, Francesco (author), Vacchiano, Giorgio (author), Ammer, Christian (author), Ciach, Michał (author), Nagel, Thomas Andrew (author), del Rio, Miren (author), Paillet, Yoan (author)

Forest biodiversity studies conducted across Europe use a multitude of forestry terms, often inconsistently. This hinders the comparability across studies and makes the assessment of the impacts of forest management on biodiversity highly context-dependent. Recent attempts to standardize forestry and stand description terminology mostly used a top-down approach that did not account for the perspectives and approaches of forest biodiversity experts. This work aims to establish common standards for silvicultural and vegetation definitions, creating a shared conceptual framework for a consistent study on the effects of forest management on biodiversity. We have identified both strengths and weaknesses of the silvicultural and vegetation information provided in forest biodiversity studies. While quantitative data on forest biomass and dominant tree species are frequently included, information on silvicultural activities and vegetation composition is often lacking, shallow, or based on broad and heterogeneous classifications. We discuss the existing classifications and their use in European forest biodiversity studies through a novel bottom-up and top-driven review process, and ultimately propose a common framework. This will enhance the comparability of forest biodiversity studies in Europe, and puts the basis for effective implementation and monitoring of sustainable forest management policies. The standards here proposed are potentially adaptable and applicable to other geographical areas and could be extended to other forest interventions.

• Language: English
• Keywords: forest management, multi-taxon, terminology, silviculture, data harmonization
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2023
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 1-13
• Numbering: Vol. 10, article no. ǂ100128
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-148212
• UDC: 630*94:630*2:630*6
• ISSN on article: 2197-5620
• DOI: 10.1016/j.fecs.2023.100128
• COBISS.SI-ID: 160393219
• Publication date in RUL: 02.08.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Forest ecosystems
• Shortened title: Forest ecosyst.
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 2197-5620
• COBISS.SI-ID: 524649753

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: gospodarjenje z gozdovi, terminologija, taksonomija, gojenje gozdov, usklajevanje definicij, usklajevanje izrazoslovja