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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4291-2015
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4291-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research article
| 
23 Jul 2015
Research article |
| 23 Jul 2015
Reconstructing European forest management from 1600 to 2010
M. J. McGrath
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
S. Luyssaert
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
P. Meyfroidt
F.R.S.-FNRS & Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, 3 Place Pasteur, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
J. O. Kaplan
Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Université de Lausanne, Géopolis, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss Federal Research Institute, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
K. Erb
Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen-Adria Universität, Klagenfurt-Wien-Graz, Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Vienna, Austria
U. Gimmi
Swiss Federal Research Institute, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
D. McInerney
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
now at: Coillte Teoranta, Irish State Forestry Board, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
K. Naudts
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
now at: Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Climate Service Center 2.0, Hamburg, Germany
F. Pasztor
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
J. Ryder
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
M.-J. Schelhaas
Alterra, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
A. Valade
Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, BP 99, 75252 Paris, France
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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.
Studying century-scale ecological processes and their legacy effects requires taking forest...
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