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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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A timber truck fully loaded with logs drives over a very simple wooden bridge in a forest.
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Further news 2023 - 2014

Interview with Matthias Dieter on raw material availability


The forest-based sector can play diverse roles in the emerging bio-economy.


The book "Deforestación en paisajes forestales tropicales del Ecuador: Bases científicas para perspectivas políticas" (in German: "Entwaldung in tropischen Waldlandschaften Ecuadors: wissenschaftliche Grundlagen für politische Perspektiven") will be presented in Quito, Ecuador, on 23/24 February…


In this article we investigate the economic benefits of fundamental forest ecosystem services (FES) for the population in Germany at national level in monetary terms and estimate the spatial distribution of these benefits at county level.


In January, Ms Liliya Shmyhelska has joined our Forest Products Markets team as a researcher.


The forest-based sector can play diverse roles in the emerging bio-economy. Under the title "Modelling Bioeconomy Scenario Pathways for the Forest Products Markets with Emerging Lignocellulosic Products", this study examines how wood product markets could develop in a growing bioeconomy and which…


The Dissertation of Richard Fischer has now been published by the University of Göttingen.


Project brief 2021/01

· Martin Banse, Jörg Berkenhagen, Simone Brüning, Ralf Döring, Natalia Geng, Susanne Iost, Dominik Jochem, Andrea Machmüller, Jörg Schweinle, Holger Weimar ·


Project brief 2020/24 · Peter Elsasser et al.


An analysis of published articles reveals that the number of international scientific publications on tropical humid forests is 3.6 times higher as on tropical dry forests. Also the research topics differ. The authors suggest an international strategic research agenda for tropical dry forests.


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