• Key message A recent paper by Ceccherini et al.( 2020a ) reported an abrupt increase of 30% in the French harvested forest area in 2016–2018 compared to 2004–2015. A re-analysis of their data rather led us to conclude that, when accounting for the singular effect of storm Klaus, the rate of change in harvested area depended on the change year used to separate the two periods to compare. Moreover, the comparison with data on harvested volumes from different sources brought contrasted results depending on the source. Therefore, it cannot be concluded that wood harvest increased in France in 2016–2018 compared to 2004–2015. The discrepancy between Ceccherini et al.’s data and other data on harvested volumes points out the difficulty of reconciling different approaches to estimate wood harvest at a country level.

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根据面积估计（Ceccherini et al. 2020a），最近欧洲森林采伐量的增加未在法国案例中得到证实

• 关键信息 Ceccherini 等人（2020a）最近的一篇论文报告称，与 2004-2015 年相比，2016-2018 年法国采伐林面积突然增加了 30%。对他们的数据的重新分析使我们得出结论，在考虑克劳斯风暴的单一影响时，收获面积的变化率取决于用于将两个时期分开进行比较的变化年份。此外，与来自不同来源的收获量数据的比较带来了不同来源的对比结果。因此，无法得出结论，与 2004-2015 年相比，2016-2018 年法国的木材采伐量有所增加。Ceccherini 等人的数据与其他木材采伐量数据之间的差异表明，很难在国家层面协调不同的木材采伐估算方法。