Deliverable 4.1. Technical dissemination article

MONIMED project seeks to advance adaptive forest management by integrating closer-to-nature management strategies and incorporating novel parameters related to multifunctional management, biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration potential, and climate resilience. The project encompasses the long-term monitoring of ongoing pilot sites under conventional management (9 and 4 years of monitoring) alongside newly established adjacent pilots implementing Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) practices: (1) integrative multifunctional management and (2) management geared towards fostering natural development processes. All management approaches will be assessed using newly defined indicators reflecting the forest’s capacity to support biodiversity, its carbon sequestration potential, and its resilience to climatic stressors. Although the main objective of the MONIMED project is to assess the effects of forest adaptive and multifunctional management, incorporating new, closer-to-nature management strategies, on biodiversity conservation, mitigation capacity and climate resilience, the project also aims to transfer the results to the local and regional levels, raising social awareness of the challenges of sustainable forest management and the need for long-term research programmes to assess these challenges. This deliverable showcases the dissemination articles and activities that has been produced during the MONIMED project. These activities include: The organisation of three field visits to the field trials, attended by 44 people, including forest technicians, managers, rural agents from the public administration, forest researchers, primary school teachers, forest owners, farmers and forestry students. The organisation of a technical seminar with 16 attendees, including forest researchers, regional government technicians, forest owners, farmers and members of the public. The creation of technical documents, including a dissemination article in the L'Aulet journal, a draft scientific manuscript and project deliverables. Dissemination through various media, such as Instagram, X, Bluesky and webpages, reaching approximately 12,715 people.