The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 aims to establish green infrastructures and to restore at least 15% of degraded ecosystems until 2020. Forests play a key role to reach these aims. While European
Integrated forest management approaches are a key strategy to integrate nature conservation objectives into Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). Changing socio-economic and environmental driving
European forests are affected by different disturbances. They range from pests and insect damages to megafires and transnational storm events and can have profound impacts on forest ecosystem services