Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015

doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2438-y

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DOI	10.1038/s41586-020-2438-y
	Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015
	Guido Ceccherini; Gregory Duveiller; Giacomo Grassi; Guido Lemoine; Valerio Avitabile; Roberto Pilli; Alessandro Cescatti
	2020-07-01
发表期刊	NATURE
ISSN	0028-0836
EISSN	1476-4687
出版年	2020
卷号	583 期号:7814 页码:72-+
文章类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Italy
英文关键词	Fine-scale satellite data are used to quantify forest harvest rates in 26 European countries, finding an increase in harvested forest area of 49% and an increase in biomass loss of 69% between 2011-2015 and 2016-2018. Forests provide a series of ecosystem services that are crucial to our society. In the European Union (EU), forests account for approximately 38% of the total land surface(1). These forests are important carbon sinks, and their conservation efforts are vital for the EU' s vision of achieving climate neutrality by 2050(2). However, the increasing demand for forest services and products, driven by the bioeconomy, poses challenges for sustainable forest management. Here we use fine-scale satellite data to observe an increase in the harvested forest area (49 per cent) and an increase in biomass loss (69 per cent) over Europe for the period of 2016-2018 relative to 2011-2015, with large losses occurring on the Iberian Peninsula and in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Satellite imagery further reveals that the average patch size of harvested area increased by 34 per cent across Europe, with potential effects on biodiversity, soil erosion and water regulation. The increase in the rate of forest harvest is the result of the recent expansion of wood markets, as suggested by econometric indicators on forestry, wood-based bioenergy and international trade. If such a high rate of forest harvest continues, the post-2020 EU vision of forest-based climate mitigation may be hampered, and the additional carbon losses from forests would require extra emission reductions in other sectors in order to reach climate neutrality by 2050(3).
领域	地球科学 ; 气候变化 ; 资源环境
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000544773600012
WOS关键词	CLIMATE ; IMPACTS
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/281779
专题	地球科学资源环境科学
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Guido Ceccherini,Gregory Duveiller,Giacomo Grassi,et al. Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015[J]. NATURE,2020,583(7814):72-+.
APA	Guido Ceccherini.,Gregory Duveiller.,Giacomo Grassi.,Guido Lemoine.,Valerio Avitabile.,...&Alessandro Cescatti.(2020).Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015.NATURE,583(7814),72-+.
MLA	Guido Ceccherini,et al."Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015".NATURE 583.7814(2020):72-+.