Biodiversity and Protected Wooded Lands

Abstract The importance of forests for their functions other than timber and wood production has dramatically increased in the last decades with awareness risks deriving from deforestation acknowledgment great amount goods benefits provide. Consequently, national forest inventories have widened objectives nowadays include variables related to environmental aspects. Among these aspects, biodiversity plays a key role ecosystems’ adaptation climate change. This chapter details INFC2015 estimates regarding tree species diversity. It also shows on naturalness stands’ regeneration processes those presence type deadwood forests. In addition carbon storage, standing dead trees, stumps lying potential biodiversity. Forest protection is pursued through laws policies that allow creation protected areas various degree. main inventory statistics wooded lands are given section this chapter.