Reconstructing European forest management from 1600 to 2010

McGrath, M. J.; Luyssaert, S.; Meyfroidt, P.; Kaplan, J. O.; Bürgi, M.; Chen, Y.; Erb, K.; Gimmi, U.; McInerney, D.; Naudts, K.; Otto, J.; Pasztor, F.; Ryder, J.; Schelhaas, M.-J.; Valade, A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4291-2015

Articles | Volume 12, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4291-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4291-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 14

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23 Jul 2015

Research article |

| 23 Jul 2015

Reconstructing European forest management from 1600 to 2010

M. J. McGrath, S. Luyssaert, P. Meyfroidt, J. O. Kaplan, M. Bürgi, Y. Chen, K. Erb, U. Gimmi, D. McInerney, K. Naudts, J. Otto, F. Pasztor, J. Ryder, M.-J. Schelhaas, and A. Valade

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RC C1220: 'Referee comment', Richard Houghton, 15 Apr 2015
- AC C2648: 'Response to referee 1 and 2', Sebastiaan Luyssaert, 08 Jun 2015
RC C1930: 'Comment to the MS bg-2015-59 "Reconstructing European forest management from 1600 to 2010" by MacGrath et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 May 2015
- AC C2650: 'see reply to referee 1', Sebastiaan Luyssaert, 08 Jun 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Sebastiaan Luyssaert on behalf of the Authors (11 Jun 2015) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (22 Jun 2015) by Edzo Veldkamp

AR by Sebastiaan Luyssaert on behalf of the Authors (29 Jun 2015)

Short summary

Studying century-scale ecological processes and their legacy effects requires taking forest management into account. In this study we produce spatially and temporally explicit maps of European forest management from 1600 to 2010. The most important changes between 1600 and 2010 are an increase of 593 000km2 in conifers at the expense of deciduous forest, a 612 000km2 decrease in unmanaged forest, a 152 000km2 decrease in coppice management and a 818 000km2 increase in high stand management.