Management related pressures on forest ecosystems, Dec. 2017

Forest management involves various degrees of human intervention to safeguard the forest ecosystem and its functions as well as the exploitation of forest resources. While the objectives of management vary widely and include the protection of resources in protected forests and nature reserves, the primary objective is mostly the production of wood products.

Although sustained yield forestry continues to be widely practised, there is an increasing trend towards the management of forests as ecological systems with multiple economic benefits and environmental values, ensuring that benefits meet present as well as future generations’ needs.

In order to assess forest management intensity in Europe an indicator based on three data sources has been developed: a) Fast track ecosystem capital accounts (forest growth & harvest – disaggregated to 1km grid), b) Potential forest management (gradient of intensity of intervention with the natural processes in a forest) c) Forest fragmentation (forest ecosystem network connected by forest bridges – GUIDOS Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis).

Each input dataset has been assessed separately in a first step in terms of pressures on forest ecosystems which are the result of the specific management, use or respectively state of the forest patch. The overall management related pressure is then derived by crossing the relative pressures by each input and evaluating the constellation of the input representative factors.

This updated version of the management related forest pressures is based on the first assessment done in framework of the ETC-SIA report "Land use and land management related pressures on agricultural and forest ecosystems" (ETC-SIA, Task 1.8.4.3 Ecosystem pressures).

Date (Publication): 2017-12-21

Date (Creation): 2017-12-10

Edition: 01.00

Citation identifier: eea_r_3035_1_km_combined-forest-pressure_p_2012-2017_v01_r00

Citation identifier: DAT-218-en

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	http://www.eea.europa.eu	Point of contact
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu		Custodian

Point of contact

No information provided.

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Land use
Habitats and biotopes

Keywords

GEMET

forestry
natural area
forest
ecosystem
forest resource
forest management
forest ecosystem
forest conservation

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Latvia
Bulgaria
Malta
Hungary
Czechia
Romania
Lithuania
EU15
Poland
Estonia
Slovenia
Slovakia

Spatial scope

European

EEA Management Plan

2019 1.7.8

EEA topics

Land use
Biodiversity
Forests and forestry

Use limitation: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 1 km

Language of dataset: English

Topic category

Environment

Begin date: 2012-01-01

End date: 2017-12-10

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

GeoTIFF ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FILEPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_1_km_combined-forest-pressure_p_2012-2017_v01_r00/eea_r_3035_1_km_combined-forest-pressure_p_2012-2017_v01_r00.tif
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/26a23284-755f-4275-a2f2-ddefd5d60aef	Direct download
OGC:WMS	https://forest.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Forest/forest_management_pressures/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS	0

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
ESRI:REST	https://forest.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Forest/forest_management_pressures/MapServer

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The basic production steps are:

1. Categorization of potential forest management approach

2. Comparison of forest harvest and regrowth and classification in terms of sustainability

3. Evaluation forest patch size and connectivity

4. Compilation of the three sub-indicators into the management related forest pressure indicator

For a detailed methodology please consult the report HNVForest_forest_pressures_reprocessing2017_data_description_20171030.pdf provided with the dataset.

Data sets used:

Tree species map (1 km grid): EFI ( http://www.efi.int/portal/virtual_library/information_services/mapping_services/tree_species_maps_for_european_forests/)

Potential forest management (1 km grid): Hengeveld ( http://opendap.cgi-systems.nl/thredds/catalog/projecten/EuropeanForest/FMAmap/catalog.html)

Fast track ecosystem capital accounts (1 km grid): UMA

HRL forest 2012 – tree cover density (20m grid): COPERNICUS

JRC GUIDOS Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) – Forest patch connectivity (input: HRL Forest 2012 – tree cover density - 20m grid): JRC / UMA