Boosting the EU forest-based bioeconomy: market, climate, and employment impacts
Jonsson R, Rinaldi F, Pilli R, Fiorese G, Hurmekoski E, Cazzaniga N, Robert N, Camia A (2021)
Technol Forecast Soc Change 120478
Combined effects of natural disturbances and management on forest carbon sequestration: the case of Vaia storm in Italy
Roberto Pilli, Matteo Vizzarri, Gherardo Chirici, (2021)
Annals of Forest Science, 10.1007/s13595-021-01043-6, 78, 2.
Time matters: Resilience of a post-disturbance forest landscape, Science of The Total Environment
Tomáš Hlásny, Andrey L.D. Augustynczik, Laura Dobor, (2021)
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149377, 799, (149377)
Understanding and Modeling Forest Disturbance Interactions at the Landscape Level, Frontiers
Brian R. Sturtevant, Marie-Josée Fortin, (2021)
in Ecology and Evolution, 10.3389/fevo.2021.653647, 9
Combined effects of natural disturbances and management on forest carbon sequestration: the case of Vaia storm in Italy
Roberto Pilli, Matteo Vizzarri & Gherardo Chirici
26.04.2021
Natural disturbances and management are key drivers for forest carbon balance. We modelled the impact of Vaia storm on forest sink at national scale in Italy. We demonstrate that after Vaia, carbon fluxes among pools and through harvested wood products from salvage logging limit the carbon losses. Our findings can improve the effectiveness of mitigation actions under disturbance scenarios.
A spatially explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000–2018
Forzieri G, Pecchi M, Girardello M, Mauri A, Klaus M, Nikolov C, Rüetschi M, Gardiner B, Tomaštík J, Small D, Nistor C, Jonikavicius D, Spinoni J, Feyen L, Giannetti F, Comino R, Wolynski A, Pirotti F, Maistrelli F, Savulescu I, Wurpillot-Lucas S, Karlsson S, Zieba-Kulawik K, Strejczek-Jazwinska P, Mokroš M, Franz S, Krejci L, Haidu I, Nilsson M, Wezyk P, Catani F, Chen Y-Y, Luyssaert S, Chirici G, Cescatti A, Beck PSA (2020)
Earth Syst Sci Data 12:257–276
Is salvage logging effectively dampening bark beetle outbreaks and preserving forest carbon stocks?
Dobor L, Hlásny T, Rammer W, Zimová S, Barka I, Seidl R (2020)
J Appl Ecol 57:67–76
Salvage logging is one of most frequently applied management responses to forest disturbances worldwide. As forest disturbances are increasing, so too is the application of salvage logging, yet its effects on ecosystems remains incompletely understood.
Abrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015
Ceccherini G, Duveiller G, Grassi G, Lemoine G, Avitabile V, Pilli R, Cescatti A (2020)
Nature 583:72–77
GHG displacement factors of harvested wood products: the myth of substitution
Leturcq P (2020)
Sci Rep 10:20752
Global mitigation potential of carbon stored in harvested wood products. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Johnston CMT, Radeloff VC (2019)
116: 14526 LP – 14531
State of Mediterranean Forests 2018
FAO and Plan Blue (2018)
Marseille, France, Rome, p 331
Italian greenhouse gas inventory 1990–2017
National inventory report 2019. Rome, pp 587
ISPRA (2019)
Annual European Union greenhouse gas inventory 1990–2017 and inventory report 2019. Submission under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol
EEA (2019)
Copenhagen, Denmark, pp 962
The extraordinary windstorm of 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands and its central European context.
International Journal of Climatology 37 (S1): 14-29.
Brázdil R, Szabó P, Stucki P, Dobrovolny P, Rezníčková L, Kotyza O, Valášek H, Melo M, Suchánková S, Dolák L, Chromá K (2017).
An extreme windstorm that took place on 7 December 1868 in the Czech Lands is analysed by means of rich documentary evidence from narrative sources, damage records, forestry journals and newspapers. Early meteorological measurements and a numerical atmospheric reanalysis support the documentary reconstruction. The windstorm reached hurricane-force over the Czech Lands between 0900 and 1600 of local mean time and was related to the passage of a cold front. The high winds, achieving hurricane-force, led to loss of human lives and many other casualties, as well as to severe damage to buildings and other structures. In particular, the documentary sources facilitate a quantitative reconstruction of the massive windthrow that occurred in forested areas across the Czech Lands, where the windstorm damaged at least 8 million m3 of timber, which is arguably more than has been lost to any single similar event since. Reasons for the extreme windthrow, apart from wind forces and destabilization arising from wet and thawed soils, were found in increased vulnerability arising out of old, dense and mono-species conifer stands and inadequate clear-cutting and thinning measures. For the Czech Lands, this event was the most damaging windstorm in the 19th century. Moreover, damage reports are found from the British Isles, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany to Austria, the Czech Lands and Poland, documenting its disastrous effects on a (sub-)continental scale.
Substitution effects of wood-based products in climate change mitigation
Leskinen P, Cardellini G, González-García S, Hurmekoski E, Sathre R, Seppälä J, Smyth C, Stern T, Verkerk PJ (2018)
EFI FROM SCIENCE TO POLICY 7. Joensuu, pp 28
Outlook of the European forest-based sector: forest growth, harvest demand, wood-product markets, and forest carbon dynamics implications
Jonsson R, Blujdea VN, Fiorese G, Pilli R, Rinaldi F, Baranzelli C, Camia A (2018)
iForest-Biogeosciences and Forestry 11(2):315
Science-based approach for credible accounting of mitigation in managed forests
Grassi G, Pilli R, House J, Federici S, Kurz WA (2018)
Carbon Balance Manag 13:8
Interactions between windthrow, bark beetles and forest management in the Tatra national parks
Havašová M, Ferenčík J, Jakuš R (2017).
Forest Ecology and Management 391: 349-361.
Forest restoration as a double-edged sword: the conflict between biodiversity conservation and pest control
Kärvemo S, Björkman C, Johansson T, Weslien J, Hjältén J (2017).
Journal of Applied Ecology 54 (6): 1658-1668.
Forest disturbances under climate change
Seidl R, Thom D, Kautz M, Martin-Benito D, Peltoniemi M, Vacchiano G, Wild J, Ascoli D, Petr M, Honkaniemi J, Lexer MJ, Trotsiuk V, Mairota P, Svoboda M, Fabrika M, Nagel TA, Reyer CPO (2017).
Nature Climate Change 7: 395.
Mountain watersheds and ecosystem services
Tognetti R, Scarascia Mugnozza G, Hofer T (2017).
EFI Technical Report 101, European Forest Institute, Joensuu, Finland, pp. 191.
The European forest sector: past and future carbon budget and fluxes under different management scenarios
Pilli R, Grassi G, Kurz WA, Fiorese G, Cescatti A (2017)
Consumption of wood biomass for energy in Italy: a strategic role based on weak knowledge.
Pra A, Pettenella D (2016)
Ital J For Mt Environ 71(1)
Assessing forest windthrow damage using single-date, post-event airborne laser scanning data
Chirici G, Bottalico F, Giannetti F, Rossi P, Del Perugia B, Travaglini D, Nocentini S, Marchi E, Foderi C, Fioravanti M, Fattorini L, Guariglia A, Ciancio O, Bottai L, Corona P, Gozzini B (2016).
Forestry 91 (1): 27-37.
One of many possible climate change effects in temperate areas is the increase of frequency and severity of windstorms; thus, fast and cost efficient new methods are needed to evaluate wind-induced damages in forests. We present a method for assessing windstorm damages in forest landscapes based on a two-stage sampling strategy using single-date, post-event airborne laser scanning (ALS) data. ALS data are used for delineating damaged forest stands and for an initial evaluation of the volume of fallen trees. The total volume of fallen trees is then estimated using a two-stage model-assisted approach, where variables from ALS are used as auxiliary information in the difference estimator. In the first stage, a sample of the delineated forest stands is selected, and in the second stage the within-stand damages are estimated by means of line intercept sampling (LIS). The proposed method produces maps of windthrown areas, estimates of forest damages in terms of the total volume of fallen trees, and the uncertainty of the estimates. A case study is presented for a large windstorm that struck the Tuscany Region of Italy the night of the 4th and the 5th of March 2015 and caused extensive damages to trees in both forest and urban areas. The pure field-based estimates from LIS and the ALS-based estimates of stand-level fallen wood were very similar. Our positive results demonstrate the utility of the single-date approach for a fast assessment of windthrow damages in forest stands which is especially useful when pre-event ALS data are not available.
Living with storm damage to forests: what science can tell us
Gardiner B, Schuck A, Schelhaas M-J, Orazio C, Blennow K, Nicoli B (2013)
European Forest Institute, EFI, Joensuu, Finland, pp. 133.
Wind effects on trees
Schindler D, Bauhus J, Mayer H (2012).
European Journal of Forest Research 131 (1): 159-163.
Datasets
Database publicly available at the European Commission
Joint Research Centre Data Catalogue
CBM Vaia Input data
European Commission, Joint Research Centre Data Catalogue (JRC).
Pilli R, Vizzarri M (2020)