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DOI	10.1038/s41586-020-2438-y
	Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015
	Ceccherini G.; Duveiller G.; Grassi G.; Lemoine G.; Avitabile V.; Pilli R.; Cescatti A.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	280836
起始页码	72
结束页码	77
卷号	583 期号:7814
英文摘要	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 surface1. These forests are important carbon sinks, and their conservation efforts are vital for the EU’s vision of achieving climate neutrality by 20502. 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 20503. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
scopus关键词	bioenergy; ecosystem service; European Union; forest ecosystem; forest management; satellite data; satellite imagery; spatiotemporal analysis; sustainable forestry; Article; biodiversity; bioenergy; biomass; carbon sequestration; climate change; economic aspect; Europe; forest; forestry; harvest; harvested forest area; international trade; priority journal; satellite imagery; soil erosion; water and water related phenomena; water regulation; economics; environmental monitoring; environmental policy; European Union; greenhouse effect; history; legislation and jurisprudence; prevention and control; wood; Iberian Peninsula; Biodiversity; Biomass; Carbon Sequestration; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Policy; Europe; European Union; Forestry; Forests; Global Warming; History, 21st Century; Satellite Imagery; Wood
来源期刊	Nature
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/176626
作者单位	Bio-Economy Unit, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy; Food Security Unit, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ceccherini G.,Duveiller G.,Grassi G.,et al. Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015[J],2020,583(7814).
APA	Ceccherini G..,Duveiller G..,Grassi G..,Lemoine G..,Avitabile V..,...&Cescatti A..(2020).Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015.Nature,583(7814).
MLA	Ceccherini G.,et al."Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015".Nature 583.7814(2020).