Biodiversité

Le One Forest Summit se tient aujourd'hui et demain à Libreville au Gabon. Sabrina Krief, professeure au Museum d'Histoire naturelle, vétérinaire, spécialiste des grands singes et Gilles Kleitz, directeur exécutif de l'Agence française du Développement, sont les invités du 7h50 pour en parler.

Projecting terrestrial biodiversity intactness with GLOBIO 4

Aafke M. Schipper and al.

Temperature change as a driver of spatial patterns and long‐term trends in chironomid (Insecta: Diptera) diversity

Stefan Engels

Secondary forest fragments offer important carbon and biodiversity cobenefits

Fabio A. R. Matos

Soil fauna diversity increases CO2 but suppresses N2O emissions from soil

Ingrid M. Lubbers

Primary forests, defined here as forests where the signs of human impacts, if any, are strongly blurred due to decades without forest management, are scarce in Europe and continue to disappear. Despite these losses, we know little about where these forests occur. Here, we present a comprehensive geodatabase and map of Europe’s known primary forests. Our geodatabase harmonizes 48 different, mostly field-based datasets of primary forests, and contains 18,411 individual patches (41.1 Mha) spread across 33 countries. When available, we provide information on each patch (name, location, naturalness, extent and dominant tree species) and the surrounding landscape (biogeographical regions, protection status, potential natural vegetation, current forest extent).