Ecological Bulletins, Biodiversity Evaluation Tools for European Forests

<i>The Biodiversity Evaluation Tools BETs for European forest</i> presented in this report are the outcome of a pan-European project BEAR, bringing together expertise from 27 European research organisations. The main achievements are a common scheme of key factors of biodiversity applicable to European forests, European-level Forest Types for Biodiversity Assessment and a list of potential biodiversity indicators to assess forest biodiversity. Furthermore the report gives general advice for European and national level assessment and monitoriing of forest biodiversity. <p>The BETs for European forest will, hopefully, help to develop both the policy framework for conserving European forests as well as the operational level management.</p>