Biodiversity indicators on silvopastoral systems in Europe

Biodiversity is being influenced by miscellaneous driving forces. A major goal at global and European level aims at halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010. Since some years several international initiatives have emerged basing their work on developing indicators in order to assess the current state of biodiversity and the impact of different factors. Among these initiatives the European Environment Agency (EEA) is setting up a set of indicators where forest aspects are included within the biodiversity section. Such indicators may find application in policy and decision making processes while contemporarily providing transparent information on the environment to the public in general as expressed within the Aarhus Convention