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Forest Ecology and Management. Science to Sustain the World’s Forests

Special Issue: Changes in Global Forest Resources from 1990 to 2015. Volume 352. 7 September 2015

Year of publication 2015

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 149 p.

Author MacDicken, K.

Publisher Elsevier B.V. ;

Product type Article

Synopsis (short abstract) This paper introduces a Special Issue of Forest Ecology and Management that includes a collection of analytical results from the 2015 Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2015) covering 25 years of forest change (1990–2015). FRA 2015 builds on a series of global assessments that began in 1948 and covers change in forest area and type, volume, biomass and carbon stocking, measures of sustainable forest management, biodiversity and conservation, soil and water protective functions, wood product ion and a number of socio-economic variables. It covers 234 countries and territories with an emphasis on forest resource change over a twenty-five year period (1990–2015) and also looks forward to anticipated forest change – both as government targets for forest area and projected change (to 2030) to global production and conservation forest area (to the year 2050).

  • Editorial: K. MacDicken, G. Reams and J. de Freitas  Download PDF [237Kb]
  • Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015: What, why and how?
    K.G. MacDicken (Rome, Italy)  Download PDF [301Kb]
  • Dynamics of global forest area: Results from the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015
    R.J. Keenan (Australia), G.A. Reams (Arlington, USA), F. Achard (Italy), J.V. de Freitas (Brasília-DF, Brazil), A. Grainger (Leeds, UK) and E. Lindquist (Rome, Italy)  Download PDF [530Kb]
  • Changes in forest production, biomass and carbon: Results from the 2015 UN FAO Global Forest Resource Assessment
    M. Köhl (Hamburg, Germany), R. Lasco (Philippines), M. Cifuentes (Turrialba, Costa Rica), Ö. Jonsson (Rome, Italy), K.T. Korhonen (Joensuu, Finland), P. Mundhenk (Hamburg, Germany), J. de Jesus Navar (Mexico) and G. Stinson (Victoria, Canada)  Download PDF [2.9Mb]
  • Protective functions and ecosystem services of global forests in the past quarter-century
    S. Miura (Tokyo, Japan), M. Amacher (Logan, USA), T. Hofer (Rome, Italy), J. San-Miguel-Ayanz (Italy), Ernawati (Indonesia) and R. Thackway (Australia)  Download PDF [788Kb]
  • Global progress toward sustainable forest management
    K.G. MacDicken (Rome, Italy), P. Sola (Kenya), J.E. Hall (Canada), C. Sabogal (Italy), M. Tadoum and C. de Wasseige (Cameroon)  Download PDF [1.5Mb]
  • Changes in planted forests and future global implications
    T. Payn (New Zealand), J.-M. Carnus (France), P. Freer-Smith (UK), M. Kimberley (New Zealand), W. Kollert (Rome, Italy), S. Liu (China), C. Orazio (France), L. Rodriguez (Brazil), L.N. Silva (Switzerland) and M.J. Wingfield (South Africa)  Download PDF [1.2Mb]
  • Status and trends in global primary forest, protected areas, and areas designated for conservation of biodiversity from the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015
    D. Morales-Hidalgo (Roma, Italy), S.N. Oswalt (Knoxville, USA) and E. Somanathan (New Delhi, India)  Download PDF [798Kb]
  • Global forest area disturbance from fire, insect pests, diseases and severe weather events
    P. van Lierop, E. Lindquist, S. Sathyapala and G. Franceschini (Rome, Italy)  Download PDF [621Kb]
  • New estimates of CO2 forest emissions and removals: 1990–2015
    S. Federici, F.N. Tubiello, M. Salvatore, H. Jacobs and J. Schmidhuber (Rome, Italy)  Download PDF [651Kb]
  • Global trends in forest ownership, public income and expenditure on forestry and forestry employment
    A. Whiteman (United Arab Emirates), A. Wickramasinghe (Sri Lanka) and L. Piña (Italy)  Download PDF [1.3Mb]
  • Assessing change in national forest monitoring capacities of 99 tropical countries
    E. Romijn (PB Wageningen, The Netherlands), C.B. Lantican (Los Baños, Philippines), M. Herold (PB Wageningen, The Netherlands), E. Lindquist (Rome, Italy), R. Ochieng (PB Wageningen, The Netherlands), A. Wijaya (Bogor, Indonesia), D. Murdiyarso (Bogor, Indonesia) and L. Verchot (Bogor, Indonesia).      Download PDF [3.3Mb]
  • Projecting global forest area towards 2030
    R. d[1]Annunzio, M. Sandker (Rome, Italy), Y. Finegold (Worcester, USA) and Z. Min (Beijing, China)       Download PDF [1.1Mb]
  • Forest Resources Assessment of 2015 shows positive global trends but forest loss and degradation persist in poor tropical countries
    S. Sloan and J.A. Sayer (Cairns, Australia)  Download PDF [581kb]

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