All the interventions needed to create the Saproxylic Habitat Network will be included in the revised management plan of the Cansiglio Orientale Forest and Sailershausen University Forest. A resolution will be signed by the competent authorities ensuring that the measures will be adopted before the end of the project.

Head of action: Roberto Luise, Gianluca Barnabà (FVG)

A work plan for the monitoring activities (Actions Group D) will be developed during the first year of the project. It will allow coordinating the monitoring activities for the Italian and German sites and monitoring the results of the project in an efficient and replicable way.

Head of action: Ruth Pickert (Universität Würzburg)

Intervention will be carried out in order to increase the presence of deadwood (e.g. standing and laying dead trees), microhabitat (e.g. trunk cavities), structural heterogeneity (horizontally and vertically) and gaps. The interventions will trigger a rapid evolution of processes beneficial for biodiversity, which will naturally promote the increase in ecosystem services. The interventions will be carried out in 25 SHS in Italy and in 18 SHS in Germany. The SHS will be evenly distributed in the forest matrix, considering all forest types.

Head of action: Roberto Luise (FVG), Fabrizio Ferretti (CREA)

The actions of this group are aimed at monitoring the impacts of the interventions realized in Action C1. The monitoring plan, defined in Action A2, will be essential for their registration, ensuring the possibility of a before/after comparison. These actions also evaluate the socio-economic impact and sustainability of the methodology proposed by the project.

For each action the evaluated parameters are indicated:

• D1 Monitoring forest biomass, structure and tree microhabitats
  horizontal and vertical structure of the forest, structural heterogeneity, microhabitat availability, abundance of flowering herbaceous species (Head of action: Joerg Muller, UNI-DE);

• D2 Monitoring deadwood
  amount, volume and decay stage of the different types of deadwood (Head of action: Ettore D'Andrea, CNR - ISAFOM);

• D3 Monitoring forest animal biodiversity
  distribution and richness of protected saproxylic vertebrate (e.g. Picinae and Bats) and invertebrate (e.g. Cerambycidae and Aradidae) species (Head of action: Paolo Colangelo);

• D4 Monitor the project impact on ecosystems services
  all categories of ecosystem services mapping both from the biophysical and the economic point of view (Head of action: Alessandro Paletto, CREA-FL);

• D5 Monitoring the impact of the whole project (Head of action: Flavia Sicuriello).

To increase awareness of the issues of the project and prepare the way for the dissemination of the results, a newsletter and some pages of the main social networks are linked to this website. In addition, numerous dissemination products will be created during the project, such as: notice boards, roll-ups, brochures and tools aimed at students. An educational path will be created in each of the areas by the managing partners to increase the usability of the demonstration areas and stimulate awareness of the issues of biodiversity conservation at the same time.

Head of action: Andrea Barzagli (CdF)

Two "Martelloscopes" will be set up, one for each of the demonstration sites, to allow practical exercise in the application of the proposed methodologies by technicians, students and professionals of the sector. A Martelloscope is an area of 1 hectare of surface in which each tree over 7 cm in diameter has been measured and recorded within a system that attributes, based on its characteristics, a value in economic terms and biodiversity. All the information are collected by software that allows to test different types of intervention, transforming the forest into an open-air classroom where discuss and simulate the results of the various management solutions.

Head of action: Andreas Schuck (EFI)

Project results will be spread with products designed to ensure their utility for various categories of stakeholders. Toolkits will be designed both for schools, to be made available to teachers for environmental education courses, and for the world of training for technicians in the sector. These tools will be accompanied by intense activity in schools and universities by the project partners with lessons aimed at raising awareness of issues such as Sustainable Forest Management, the Natura 2000 Network and the conservation of biodiversity. The whole path developed during the project will also be summarized in guidelines and in a layman report, accompanied by a series of videos that will deepen the main activities and the results obtained.

Head of action: Andrea Barzagli (CdF)

During the project particular attention will be paid to the creation of a network of LIFE and / or non-LIFE projects that are linked by similar or complementary themes to test the replicability and transferability of the proposed solutions, encourage the exchange of good practices and the spread of results.

Head of action: Umberto Di Salvatore (CREA-PB)

This action is mostly internal and dedicated to monitoring the correct development of the project and the achievement of the objectives in the scheduled time.

Head of action: Bruno De Cinti (CNR-IRET)