It's not the cow it’s the how - First ever FAO Global Conference on Sustainable Livestock Transformation focuses on bett...
Are relational capital and marketing important? The case of the wood sector of Galicia (Spain) and Portugal
This paper examines the importance of marketing and relational capital in value addition. We studied the effect that relational capital has in the timber and related industries of Galicia (Spain) and Portugal for 2002–2018. The industry is characterized by a large number of SMEs, many of them operating in the subsistence and unorganized sectors. Di...
Assessing the efficiency of the forestry sector in EU countries
Published in Forestry Studies
This paper deals with a quantitative assessment of the production efficiency of the forestry sector in EU countries, which is largely neglected in the literature. Only a few studies have been conducted so far, processing data mainly in the first half of the last decade. In contrast to these studies, in this article we focus on the period between 20...
Towards a clean environment: to what extent can trees serve as phytoremediators for chemically polluted soils?
Open Access Article / The study investigated the potential of five common tree species in West Africa to bioaccumulate heavy metals in their various plant components over the course of different growth phases and at varying contamination levels (control, double the permissible level and triple the permissible limit). Heavy metals in plant tissues w...
Ecuador's Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition is using the Collect Earth Online tool to improve for...
Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment, Water and Ecological Transition (MAATE) is using a Collect Earth Online through a service co-developed with EcoCiencia and SERVIR-Amazonia (an Alliance – led regional program) to improve forest monitoring data accuracy in the Ecuadorian Amazon and to validate National Monitoring System maps and land cover estimate...
Economic and financial instruments of forest management in the Czech Republic
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
The forest bioeconomy becomes a feature of a climate-neutral economic system, while effective financial support is crucial for sustainable forest management. The main goal of this paper is to explain the impact of economic and financial instruments on the development of the forestry sector in the Czech Republic in the period 2000–2020. For research...
Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review.
Published in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Fighting insect pests is a major challenge for agriculture worldwide, and biological control and integrated pest management constitute well-recognised, cost-effective ways to prevent and overcome this problem. Bats are important arthropod predators globally and, in recent decades, an increasing number of studies have focused on the role of bats as ...
Metabarcoding reveals that mixed forests mitigate negative effects of non-native trees on canopy arthropod diversity.
Published in Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America
Averting climate change-induced forest diebacks increasingly relies on tree species planted outside of their natural range and on the addition of non-native tree species to mixed-species forests. However, the consequences of such changes for associated biodiversity remain poorly understood, especially for the forest canopy as a largely understudied...
Forest tree proteomics
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
RNAi-chitosan biopesticides for managing forest insect pests: an outlook
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
The expanding world population demands superior forest protection to fulfil feasible environmental certainty. The persistent pest infestations negatively influence forest health and cause substantial economic losses. In contrast, the traditional use of conventional pesticides results in a loss of soil microbial biodiversity, a drop in the populatio...
