Final Report of LIFE09/ENV/IT/000078 - Managing forests for multiple purposes: carbon, biodiversity and socio-economic wellbeing" - ManFor C.BD. (prot. 0001359 del 31/03/2017)

The project ManFor C.BD. was a 67 months long project (01/10/2010 - 30/04/2016) aimed at testing and verifying in the field the effectiveness of forest management options in meeting multiple objectives (production, protection, biodiversity, etc.), providing data, guidance and indications of best-practice. In this respect, data related to the main Pan-European indicators for Sustainable Forest Management have been collected, with a particular emphasis on those indicators related to carbon cycle and biodiversity. Furthermore, additional indicators have been developed and tested. The project addressed these issues in different areas, from production to protected forests, including Natura 2000 sites and priority habitats and species, along a East to West transect from Slovenia (3 test sites) to Italy and a North to South transect within Italy (7 sites). In the selected areas, owned by State, Regions or other public bodies, and regularly managed and/or monitored, the project evaluated the traditional management practices and designed, implemented, evaluated and compared new "innovative" management practices in the same forests. At the sites, data/indicators on biodiversity (structure, fauna, flora, deadwood), carbon (biomass, soil) and landscape parameters have been collected.