Forest
Forests are the largest terrestrial ecosystem in the EU-28 covering around 16131 million ha (FOREST EUROPE 2015b), corresponding to 38% of the EU-28’s land area, hosting a dominant part of Europe’s terrestrial biodiversity, and contributing significantly to climate change mitigation. Due to both natural processes and to active afforestation, the area of forests has increased by 13 million hectares in the period 1990-2015 in the EU-28. FOREST EUROPE 2015b; Sabatini et al. 2018). Nowadays, the major part of EU-28’s forests is seminatural32 (89%) and the remaining share is covered by plantations (FOREST EUROPE 2015b). The EU level assessment of the conservation status of 81 forest habitats concluded that 14.2% are in good (or favourable) conservation status. The remaining habitats are in poor status (53.9%), a bad status (30.6%) or unknown (1.3%)
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Forest
Forests are the largest terrestrial ecosystem in the EU-28 covering around 16131 million ha (FOREST EUROPE 2015b), corresponding to 38% of the EU-28’s land area, hosting a dominant part of Europe’s terrestrial biodiversity, and contributing significantly to climate change mitigation. Due to both natural processes and to active afforestation, the area of forests has increased by 13 million hectares in the period 1990-2015 in the EU-28. FOREST EUROPE 2015b; Sabatini et al. 2018). Nowadays, the major part of EU-28’s forests is seminatural32 (89%) and the remaining share is covered by plantations (FOREST EUROPE 2015b). The EU level assessment of the conservation status of 81 forest habitats concluded that 14.2% are in good (or favourable) conservation status. The remaining habitats are in poor status (53.9%), a bad status (30.6%) or unknown (1.3%)
