Deliverable 14: Report with the 1st year monitoring results of the adaptive forest management (action C2)

This deliverable presents the results obtained from monitoring of the pilot experiences in adaptive forest management during the first year of the monitoring. The pilot experiences were mainly implemented by the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, the setting of initial monitoring variables was performed in 2020 and the first monitoring campaign has been realized in 2021, between May and November 2021.

Following the monitoring protocol developed in deliverable 9 (Pascual et al., 2020b), this document includes the first results obtained in the pilot experiences of forest management for fire risk prevention and maintenance with extensive livestock farming in Aragon and Catalonia.

The first section is a short introduction to the deliverable, with a briefly description of the pilot experiments and the main objectives of this deliverable. The second section summaries the monitoring protocol, to have a quick overview of the monitored variables.  The third, fourth and fifth sections detail the results of the first monitoring campaigns, in both sites of Aragon and Catalonia. Finally, the sixth section summarises the main outcomes found in the first monitoring campaign.