Navigating European Forests and forest bioeconomy sustainably to EU climate neutrality

Project Information

ForestNavigator

Grant agreement ID: 101056875

DOI

10.3030/101056875

EC signature date 13 May 2022

Start date 1 October 2022

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

€ 5 995 240,80

EU contribution

€ 5 995 237,30

Coordinated by

INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE
Austria

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Report and dataset of alternative forest management systems and their featuring in models

Report and dataset containing descriptions of selected forest managements modules aimed at adaptation and mitigation in the EU forests, including their suitability in different regions, as in T3.1.

Report on socioeconomic variables

Collection of economic information to be used in cost spatialization and benefit transfer, as in T4.3.

Report on biomass demand trajectories for energy and materials

Report presenting EU wood market pathways by end uses through expert participation and alignment with energy sector demands modelling, as in T5.1.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Release of first set of communication materials and tools

Set of dissemination and communication materials and tools applied in the project including “incl. project web site, social media channels, graphical ID, templates for posters/presentations, brochure”, as in T10.2.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Integrated analysis of harvest statistics provided by remote sensing, national forest inventories and administrative survey systems: An example from Italy

Author(s): Roberto Pilli, Alexandra Runge, Gherardo Chirici, Elia Vangi, Alessio Collalti, Martin Herold
Published in: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Issue 144, 2025, ISSN 1569-8432
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JAG.2025.104871

StrucNet: a global network for automated vegetation structure monitoring

Author(s): Kim Calders; Benjamin Brede; Glenn Newnham; Darius Culvenor; John Armston; Harm Bartholomeus; Anne Griebel; Jodie Hayward; Samuli Junttila; Alvaro Lau; Shaun Levick; Rosalinda Morrone; Niall Origo; Marion Pfeifer; Jan Verbesselt; Martin Herold
Published in: REMOTE SENSING IN ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, 2023, ISSN 2056-3485
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/rse2.333

Toward a forest biomass reference measurement system for remote sensing applications

Author(s): Nicolas Labrière; Stuart J. Davies; Mathias I. Disney; Laura I. Duncanson; Martin Herold; Simon L. Lewis; Oliver L. Phillips; Shaun Quegan; Sassan S. Saatchi; Dmitry G. Schepaschenko; Klaus Scipal; Plinio Sist; Jérôme Chave
Published in: Global Change Biology, 2022, ISSN 1365-2486
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16497

Predicting Future Trends of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Carbon Transport to Global River Systems

Author(s): Mahdi (André) Nakhavali, Ronny Lauerwald, Pierre Regnier, Pierre Friedlingstein
Published in: Earth’s Future, 2024, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023EF004137

Exploring characteristics of national forest inventories for integration with global space-based forest biomass data

Author(s): Karimon Nesha; Martin Herold; Veronique De Sy; Sytze de Bruin; Arnan Araza; Natalia Málaga; Javier G.P. Gamarra; Kristell Hergoualc'h; Anssi Pekkarinen; Carla Ramirez; David Morales-Hidalgo; Rebecca Tavani
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue Volume 850, 2022, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157788

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems

Author(s): Johan Rockström, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, Walter C Willett, Line J Gordon, Mario Herrero, Christina C Hicks, Daniel Mason-D'Croz, Nitya Rao, Marco Springmann, Ellen Cecilie Wright, Rina Agustina, Sumati Bajaj, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Bianca Carducci, Costanza Conti, Namukolo Covic, Jessica Fanzo, Nita G Forouhi, Matthew F Gibson, Xiao Gu, Ermias Kebreab, Claire Kremen, Amar Laila, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Theresa M Marteau, Carlos A Monteiro, Anna Norberg, Jemimah Njuki, Thais Diniz Oliveira, Wen-Harn Pan, Juan A Rivera, James P W Robinson, Marina Sundiang, Sofie te Wierik, Detlef P van Vuuren, Sonja Vermeulen, Patrick Webb, Lujain Alqodmani, Ramya Ambikapathi, Anne Barnhill, Isabel Baudish, Felicitas Beier, Damien Beillouin, Arthur H W Beusen, Jannes Breier, Charlotte Chemarin, Maksym Chepeliev, Jennifer Clapp, Wim de Vries, Ignacio Pérez-Domínguez, Natalia Estrada-Carmona, Dieter Gerten, Christopher D Golden, Sarah K Jones, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Marta Kozicka, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Federico Maggi, Emma Marzi, Abhijeet Mishra, Fernando Orduna-Cabrera, Alexander Popp, Lena Schulte-Uebbing, Elke Stehfest, Fiona H M Tang, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, Hannah H E Van Zanten, Willem-Jan van Zeist, Xin Zhao, Fabrice DeClerck
Published in: The Lancet, Issue 406, 2025, ISSN 0140-6736
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01201-2

ForestScope: Comprehensive tool for analysing soil, climate, and stand data in forest ecosystems

Author(s): Mahdi (André) Nakhavali, Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Anna Repo, Elia Vangi, Petr Havlík
Published in: Ecological Modelling, Issue 508, 2025, ISSN 1872-7026
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOLMODEL.2025.111251

Historical trends and drivers of the laterally transported terrestrial dissolved organic carbon to river systems

Author(s): Mahdi (Andre) Nakhavali, Ronny Lauerwald, Pierre Regnier, Pierre Friedlingstein d
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue Volume 917, 2024, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170560

Peeking inside the black box: Untangling the influence of key market assumptions on the substitution effect of wood-based textile fibers

Author(s): Jing Yang, Janni Kunttu, Elias Hurmekoski
Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, Issue 486, 2025, ISSN 0959-6526
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JCLEPRO.2024.144435

Stand age diversity (and more than climate change) affects forests’ resilience and stability, although unevenly

Author(s): Elia Vangi; Daniela Dalmonech; Elisa Cioccolo; Gina Marano; Leonardo Bianchini; Paulina F. Puchi; Elisa Grieco; Alessandro Cescatti; Andrea Colantoni; Gherardo Chirici; Alessio Collalti
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, 2024, ISSN 1095-8630
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.3929/ETHZ-B-000684019

Forest carbon stock development following extreme drought-induced dieback of coniferous stands in Central Europe: a CBM-CFS3 model application

Author(s): Emil Cienciala, Jan Melichar
Published in: Carbon Balance and Management, 2024, ISSN 1750-0680
Publisher: BioMed Central
DOI: 10.1186/s13021-023-00246-w

Impact of the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 on the EU wood-based bioeconomy

Author(s): Fulvio Di Fulvio, Tord Snäll, Pekka Lauri, Nicklas Forsell, Mikko Mönkkönen, Daniel Burgas, Clemens Blattert, Kyle Eyvindson, Astor Toraño Caicoya, Marta Vergarechea, Clara Antón-Fernández, Julian Klein, Rasmus Astrup, Jani Lukkarinen, Samuli Pitzén, Eeva Primmer
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 92, 2025, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.GLOENVCHA.2025.102986

Carbon Credits Through Wood Use: Revisiting the Maximum Potential and Sensitivity to Key Assumptions

Author(s): Jari Niemi, Sampo Soimakallio, Elias Hurmekoski, Tanja Myllyviita, Janni Kunttu, Federico Lingua, Tord Snäll
Published in: GCB Bioenergy, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1757-1693
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GCBB.70017

Adapting forest management to climate change impacts and policy targets in the EU: Insights from the coupled GLOBIOM/G4M-i3PGmiX model

Author(s): Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Mykola Gusti, Andre Deppermann, Mahdi (André) Nakhavali, Fanqi Jia, Fulvio di Fulvio, Petr Havlík
Published in: One Earth, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ONEEAR.2025.101313

Benchmarking operational conditions, productivity, and costs of harvesting from industrial plantations in different global regions

Author(s): Di Fulvio, F., Acuna, M., Ackerman, P., Ackerman, S., Spinelli, R., Abbas, D., … Guerra, S. P. S.
Published in: International Journal of Forest Engineering, Issue 35(2), 2024, ISSN 1913-2220
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14942119.2023.2296789

Evaluation of climate change mitigation strategies for Irish forests using the CBM-CFS3 model

Author(s): Kevin Black, Andrew McCullagh, John Redmond, Viorel N. B. Blujdea, Roberto Pilli
Published in: Carbon Balance and Management, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1750-0680
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/S13021-025-00302-7

Stand Age and Climate Change Effects on Carbon Increments and Stock Dynamics

Author(s): Elia Vangi, Daniela Dalmonech, Mauro Morichetti, Elisa Grieco, Francesca Giannetti, Giovanni D’Amico, Mahdi (Andre) Nakhavali, Gherardo Chirici, Alessio Collalti
Published in: Forests, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 1999-4907
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/F15071120

Monitoring forest attributes, C-fluxes, and C-stocks using the process-based model 3D-CMCC-FEM at the National level

Author(s): Elia Vangi, Daniela Dalmonech, Giovanni d'Amico, Elisa Grieco, Mauro Morichetti, Paulina F. Puchi, Saverio Francini, Silvano Fares, Francesca Giannetti, Piermaria Corona, Roberto Barbetti, Gherardo Chirici, Alessio Collalti
Published in: Ecological Informatics, Issue 92, 2025, ISSN 1574-9541
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOINF.2025.103489

Modelling the effects of climate and management on the distribution of deadwood in European forests

Author(s): Augustynczik, A. L. D.; Gusti, M; Di Fulvio, F.; Lauri, P.; Forsell, N.; Havlík, P.
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management, Issue Volume 354, 2024, ISSN 0301-4797
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120382

Conversion from coniferous to broadleaved trees can make European forests more climate-effective

Author(s): Yi Yao, Petra Sieber, Mathias Hauser, Jonas Schwaab, Felix Jäger, Fulden Batibeniz, Meri Räty, Julia Pongratz, Martin Wild, Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Steven J. De Hertog, Verena C. Griess, Michael G. Windisch, Jun Ge, Alessio Collalti, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Petr Havlík, Sonia I. Seneviratne
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-64580-Y

Enhanced agricultural carbon sinks provide benefits for farmers and the climate

Author(s): Frank, Stefan; Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Andrey; Havlík, Petr; Boere, Esther; Ermolieva, Tatiana; Fricko, Oliver; Di Fulvio, Fulvio; Gusti, Mykola; Krisztin, Tamás; Lauri, Pekka; Palazzo, Amanda; Wögerer, Michael
Published in: Nature Food, 2024, ISSN 2662-1355
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S43016-024-01039-1