EEA geospatial data catalogue
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).
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-12-21
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-12-10
- Edition
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- Citation identifier
- eea_r_3035_1_km_combined-forest-pressure_p_2012-2017_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-218-en
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 1 km
- Topic category
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- Environment
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2012-01-01 2017-12-10
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land use
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Habitats and biotopes
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- GEMET
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forestry
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natural area
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forest
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ecosystem
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forest resource
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forest management
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forest ecosystem
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forest conservation
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Latvia
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Bulgaria
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Malta
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Hungary
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Czechia
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Romania
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Lithuania
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EU15
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Poland
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Estonia
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Slovenia
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Slovakia
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- EEA Management Plan
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2019 1.7.8
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- EEA topics
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Land use
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Biodiversity
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Forests and forestry
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Language
- English
Distribution Information
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
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
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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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
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 26a23284-755f-4275-a2f2-ddefd5d60aef
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/26a23284-755f-4275-a2f2-ddefd5d60aef
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-06-06T09:42:19Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:41:35.118459Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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