We analyses the Global Forest Watch map of forest loss (satellite based) and the compulsory notifications of forestry operations, and overlap them with the prioritization map of high biodiversity value forest produced by the Finnish Environement Institute @syke.fi

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🙏This work would not have been possible without the contribution of many co-authors and the Bottoms-Up COST Action (www.bottoms-up.eu/en/) led by @sabina-burrascano.bsky.social

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- Extensively managed forests contributed little to support species richness of any of the studied taxonomic groups.

📈The main findings are:
- Unmanaged forests are the “backbone” of biodiversity conservation
- it is possible to maintain a certain proportion of forest area dedicated to timber production without compromising overall forest biodiversity

🛠️We mobilized multi-taxonomic biodiversity observations from the Bottoms-up database and develop a ‘‘virtual” landscape approach (i.e., data resampling). We created landscapes that vary in proportion of extensively, intensively, and unmanaged forests, and explored the whole range of possibilities.

This is exactly what they taught me at the agricultural engineering school nearly 20y ago !!

This doesn't solve the greenhouse gas emission though...🤔

@jeremycours@bsky.social
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We used a new methodology to exploit multi-sourced biodiversity records and estimate total and endangered species richness, and beta diversity.

> Link to article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...