The conservation status assessment of Natura 2000 forest habitats in Europe: capabilities, potentials and challenges of national forest inventories data

Table 1 Forested area of the Natura 2000 Network for countries participating in the questionnaire on “Forest Habitat Types -Natura 2000”

Country	Forest area (1000 ha)	Forest SCI area (1000 ha)	Ratio forest SCI area/national forest area (%)	Ratio forest SCI area/European forest habitat types area (%)
Austria	3860	184	4.76	1.71
Belgium	681	102	14.92	0.95
Finland	22,218	1439	6.48	13.40
France	16,424	164	1.00	1.53
Germany	11,409	777	6.81	7.23
Hungary	2046	441	21.54	4.11
Italy	9028	1803	19.97	16.79
Portugal	3239	1	0.02	0.01
Romania	6515	144	2.22	1.34
Slovakia	1939	238	12.27	2.22
Slovenia	1247	238	19.10	2.22
Spain	18,247	1151	6.31	10.72
UK	3059	19	0.61	0.17
Total	99,913	6700		62.39

Forest area from SoEF (2015). Forest habitat type area in Sites of Community Importance (SCI) from https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/natura-8 (2016)