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Table 3 Percentage of forest area of Sites of Community Importance (SCI) in Natura 2000 depending on the method used to assess the conservation status of the forest habitat types (FHT) in the 2007–2012 reporting period

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

Method used to assess the conservation status

Percentage forest area of SCI (%)

Both, expert knowledge and other inventories and NFI

3.29

Based mainly on expert knowledge

71.38

N2000 mapping and NFI mainly for structure and function

0.82

NFI and forest management plans mainly

9.99

NFI mainly but not for rare or low represented FHT

14.51