The role of European National Forest Inventories for international forestry reporting

Vidal, Claude; Alberdi, Iciar; Redmond, John; Vestman, Martin; Lanz, Adrian; Schadauer, Klemens

doi:10.1007/s13595-016-0545-6

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“…In this case, these issues reduce not only the quality, but also the credibility of forest information. Although these results support prior research findings [15,19,20,[54][55][56], we suggest that further research is needed towards the unexplored linkage between forest information quality and credibility. In addition, the dissemination and communication of forest information is intimately related to data quality in regard to the comprehension and presentation of data.…”

Section: Perceived Actor-oriented Factors Constraining Expert-based Fsupporting

confidence: 72%

“…The information sources include the social and natural sciences, policy analyses, government reports, and access, remains a challenging task. In particular, previous research has indicated that forest information is scattered, partially incomplete, and difficult to access [4,[15][16][17][18][19][20].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In 2016, Vidal et al [19] revealed that despite agreements on definitions, the national forest inventory data that was provided for international reporting still lacked comparability, and was partially incomplete.…”

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Institutional and Actor-Oriented Factors Constraining Expert-Based Forest Information Exchange in Europe: A Policy Analysis from an Actor-Centred Institutionalist Approach

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Holmgren

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Forests

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Adequate and accessible expert-based forest information has become increasingly in demand for effective decisions and informed policies in the forest and forest-related sectors in Europe. Such accessibility requires a collaborative environment and constant information exchange between various actors at different levels and across sectors. However, information exchange in complex policy environments is challenging, and is often constrained by various institutional, actor-oriented, and technical factors. In forest policy research, no study has yet attempted to simultaneously account for these multiple factors influencing expert-based forest information exchange. By employing a policy analysis from an actor-centred institutionalist perspective, this paper aims to provide an overview of the most salient institutional and actor-oriented factors that are perceived as constraining forest information exchange at the national level across European countries. We employ an exploratory research approach, and utilise both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse our data. The data was collected through a semi-structured survey targeted at forest and forest-related composite actors in 21 European countries. The results revealed that expert-based forest information exchange is constrained by a number of compound and closely interlinked institutional and actor-oriented factors, reflecting the complex interplay of institutions and actors at the national level. The most salient institutional factors that stand out include restrictive or ambiguous data protection policies, inter-organisational information arrangements, different organisational cultures, and a lack of incentives. Forest information exchange becomes even more complex when actors are confronted with actor-oriented factors such as issues of distrust, diverging preferences and perceptions, intellectual property rights, and technical capabilities. We conclude that expert-based forest information exchange is a complex and challenging task. It is driven by actors' preferences/interests, perceptions, and capabilities, and is shaped by formal rules and social norms.

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Section: Perceived Actor-oriented Factors Constraining Expert-based Fsupporting

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Institutional and Actor-Oriented Factors Constraining Expert-Based Forest Information Exchange in Europe: A Policy Analysis from an Actor-Centred Institutionalist Approach

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Sotirov

Holmgren

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“…The temporal resolution of available growth data varies from continuous (point dendrometers) to annual (tree‐ring) and multi‐annual (forest inventory) diameter or height measurements (Table ). However, to substitute the general limitation of ozone data in terms of temporal extent (usually <20 years), sample size and spatial distribution should be as large as possible, for instance, by combining growth datasets from aerial surveys (McRoberts & Tomppo, ) with pan‐European (ICP Forests Level I and Level II networks) and national‐scale forest inventories (see Vidal et al., ) carried out at both unmanaged and managed plots, and intensive, fully equipped single experimental sites (e.g. Percy & Ferretti, ).…”

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Ozone effects on European forest growth—Towards an integrative approach

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The phytotoxic impacts of tropospheric ozone on cellular and molecular processes are increasingly understood and quantified. They generally lead to a decrease in plant carbon uptake that is mainly detectable at leaf scale. At larger scales, most of the empirical and modelling studies reported negative ozone effects on productivity, but the latest empirical studies and model developments temper these observations and simulations. Ozone impacts on European forest growth are controversial and seem negligible because of (1) differences among tree sizes and species, sites, data sources and methodological approaches, (2) the moderate link between adult tree growth and carbon uptake, (3) the presence of several confounding factors such as drought or nitrogen fertilization, and of legacy effects of past land use and management on stand development, and (4) the presence of compensatory processes such as tree acclimation, population adaptation and changes in competition intensity and species composition. We provide a comprehensive review of the empirical and modelling approaches available for ozone risk assessment by detailing their respective main outputs, advantages and limits, and examine research gaps. Synthesis. To disentangle between the forcing factors and to better understand ozone impacts at each ecosystem level and feedbacks across levels, and to reinforce the strength of ozone impact predictions, we recommend to combine ozone‐controlled experiments and long‐term monitoring data with physiological and forest succession process‐based models.

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“…The major advantage of occurrence‐based SDMs is that they can be easily developed from species’ presence or presence/absence data and high‐resolution environmental data, which have become available in the last decades (Peterson et al 2015). However, occurrence‐based SDMs have been criticized for only focusing on the species’ current distribution and thus realized niche, while under climate change SDMs are required to identify areas where a species could possibly occur (Wiens et al ). Thus, their potential for applications under novel climates, or to be transferred to other region is limited (Randin et al 2006, Kearney et al 2010, Dormann et al 2012).…”

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Genetic trials improve the transfer of Douglas‐fir distribution models across continents

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Climate change is likely to result in novel conditions with no analogy to current climate. Therefore, the application of species distribution models (SDMs) based on the correlation between observed species’ occurrence and their environment is questionable and calls for a better understanding of the traits that determine species occurrence. Here, we compared two intraspecific, trait‐based SDMs with occurrence‐based SDMs, all developed from European data, and analyzed their transferability to the native range of Douglas‐fir in North America. With data from 50 provenance trials of Douglas‐fir in central Europe multivariate universal response functions (URFs) were developed for two functional traits (dominant tree height and basal area) which are good indicators of growth and vitality under given environmental conditions. These trials included 290 North American provenances of Douglas‐fir. The URFs combine genetic effects i.e. the climate of provenance origin and environmental effects, i.e. the climate of planting locations into an integrated model to predict the respective functional trait from climate data. The URFs were applied as SDMs (URF‐SDMs) by converting growth performances into occurrence. For comparison, an ensemble occurrence‐based SDM was developed and block cross validated with the BIOMOD2 modeling platform utilizing the observed occurrence of Douglas‐fir in Europe. The two trait based SDMs and the occurrence‐based SDM, all calibrated with data from Europe, were applied to predict the known distribution of Douglas‐fir in its introduced and native range in Europe and North America. Both models performed well within their calibration range in Europe, but model transfer to its native range in North America was superior in case of the URF‐SDMs showing similar predictive power as SDMs developed in North America itself. The high transferability of the URF‐SDMs is a testimony of their applicability under novel climatic conditions highlighting the role of intraspecific trait variation for adaptation planning in climate change.

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The role of European National Forest Inventories for international forestry reporting

Cited by 73 publications

References 31 publications

Institutional and Actor-Oriented Factors Constraining Expert-Based Forest Information Exchange in Europe: A Policy Analysis from an Actor-Centred Institutionalist Approach

Institutional and Actor-Oriented Factors Constraining Expert-Based Forest Information Exchange in Europe: A Policy Analysis from an Actor-Centred Institutionalist Approach

Ozone effects on European forest growth—Towards an integrative approach

Genetic trials improve the transfer of Douglas‐fir distribution models across continents

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