European Forest Institute 24d ago

Marteloscope sites are forest areas where trees are numbered, measured, and mapped. 🌳📏 For each tree, data are collected on microhabitats – such as cavities, wounds, deadwood, fungi, mosses, lichens, and bird nests – as well as economic information, such as wood quality and estimated value. In this video, Senior Researcher Michael den Herder explains how forest owners can use the Marteloscope software to collect and process this information in practice. During the summer and autumn of this year, the PRUDENT project will invite forest owners to discover different types of forest management. Michael is part of PRUDENT, an EU-funded project dedicated to promoting behavioural change towards more sustainable forestry and agriculture. The project develops tools to support the transition to forest and farming systems that are fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly. EFI leads the Finnish Use Case pilot, focusing on boreal forests. More about PRUDENT: https://prudent-project.eu/