2020
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13487
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‘Latent reserves’: A hidden treasure in National Forest Inventories

Abstract: In a Europe shaped by centuries of forest management, the task of today's scientists in characterising, understanding and modelling natural forests is highly challenging. Although numerous forest reserves exist, most remain hardly comparable case studies. Contrarily, National Forest Inventories (NFIs) consist of systematically distributed sample plots with varying time since last intervention and provide representative data. These characteristics make NFIs a unique opportunity to investigate hidden natural for… Show more

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“…Furthermore, two data sets from strict forest reserves (FRs, sensu Parviainen et al, 2000 ) in Germany (Meyer, 2005 ; Meyer et al., 2006 , 2015 ) and Switzerland (Brang et al., 2011 ) are referred to as “GER FR” and “CH FR.” While the forest reserves consist entirely of unmanaged forests, the NFIs based on a gridded sampling plot inventory covering a very large region are dominated by managed forest but also consist of a representative fraction of undisturbed forests in Flanders and Switzerland (Sabatini et al., 2018 ). Specifically for the CH NFI, the fraction of unmanaged forests is 6% (Abegg et al., 2014 ; Portier et al., 2020 ). This is only mentioned here to raise awareness about the characteristics of the data sets.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, two data sets from strict forest reserves (FRs, sensu Parviainen et al, 2000 ) in Germany (Meyer, 2005 ; Meyer et al., 2006 , 2015 ) and Switzerland (Brang et al., 2011 ) are referred to as “GER FR” and “CH FR.” While the forest reserves consist entirely of unmanaged forests, the NFIs based on a gridded sampling plot inventory covering a very large region are dominated by managed forest but also consist of a representative fraction of undisturbed forests in Flanders and Switzerland (Sabatini et al., 2018 ). Specifically for the CH NFI, the fraction of unmanaged forests is 6% (Abegg et al., 2014 ; Portier et al., 2020 ). This is only mentioned here to raise awareness about the characteristics of the data sets.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The overall results of our study are encouraging, in the sense that a large portion of the French forest has potential to attain interesting states of maturity in a close future and therefore to contribute to the race against climate change, by acting as carbon and biodiversity pools (Portier et al, 2020;Sabatini et al, 2020;Carey et al, 2001). We expect our results to be used in ensuring that the existing 3% of mature forest are properly managed and protected, and that our work will constitute a stepping-stone to further refining our knowledge of the state of maturity of French forests.…”
Section: Limits and Perspectives To Our Modelling Approachmentioning
confidence: 60%
“…More interestingly, our prediction also showed evidence of a large proportion of French forest with abandonment times comprised between 26 and 50 years, with “hotspots” such as Corsica, Brittany and middle-eastern France. Those forests could - in a relatively close future - display interesting conservation attributes which would deserve more attention, especially if some larger continuous and connected areas, particularly interesting for biodiversity, could be restored or managed sensibly (Bauhus et al, 2009; Portier et al, 2020; Sabatini et al, 2020). Indeed, French metropolitan forested surface area has grown since the last century and now occupies 31% of the metropolitan France or about 16.9 million hectares (IGN, 2018).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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