Panel discussion at LIGNA Fair
Climate change poses a threat to European Forests. As a result, disturbances like windstorms, fires and bark beetle outbreaks are increasing. What does this mean for the wood value chain?
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Ash dieback and its consequences on genetic diversity
Check out the videos of the EUFORGEN Webinar Series Rising temperatures across Europe, extreme weather events, higher fire risk or increased vulnerability to biotic disturbances such as pests and diseases
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New anthology: Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change
This new open-access, multidisciplinary book launched by Springer gathers contributions from 148 authors on current issues, paradigms and previously neglected challenges related to boreal forest management in the face of
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New policy brief on increased forest disturbances
Based on their recently published paper, RESONATE researchers Marco Patacca (Wageningen Research), Marcus Lindner (RESONATE Coordinator, EFI) and Gert-Jan Nabuurs (Wageningen Research) together with European Forest Institute’s Policy Support Facility
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Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forest Ecosystems
This summer school organized by the 3 COST Actions Process-based models for climate impact attribution across sectors — PROCLIAS Project, 3DForEcoTech, and Bottoms-up is taking place from 10-14 July 2023 at Slovenian Forestry Institute Ljubljana. The summer school is designed for PhD candidates and postdocs from a variety of research fields focusing on forest ecosystems. During the summer school, a poster session on the participants’ current research interests will be organized, and the...
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Video: “Oak Resilience”: investigating ecological measures to combat oak decline
Oaks can live up to a thousand years and grow to trees of impressive magnitude. They are of great importance, economically and ecologically. Oak wood is hard and resistant and
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Investigating European forests’ vulnerability to climate change
New FORWARDS project will work with RESONATE to support European forests and societies to transform, adapt, and mitigate climate-induced changes With a total budget of €14m funded by the European Commission’s HorizonEurope (plus additional funding by Switzerland and the UK) and more than 19 partners (incl. European Forest Institute) involved, the FORWARDS project (ForestWard Observatory to Secure Resilience of European Forests) will provide timely and detailed information on...
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New paper: operationalizing social-ecological resilience of forests
Several RESONATE researchers published this paper in the Journal for Environmental Management: A balancing act: Principles, criteria and indicator framework to operationalize social-ecological resilience of forests Against a background of
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Projecting the future of our forests: documentary and policy brief
The future of our forests is uncertain, especially with disturbances, like windstorms, wildfires and bark beetles, which are increasing due to climate change. In the I-Maestro project, researchers investigated how we can adapt our
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‘Europe’s forests increasingly under pressure from climate-driven disturbances
Media and policy attention underline that we urgently need more knowledge and sound research results on how disturbances develop, how they impact European forests and the so-called “ecosystem services” they
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Increasing aridity causes larger and more severe forest fires across Europe
Climate change leads to ever greater challenges for Europe’s forests, with drought and heatwaves expected to increase the risk of forest fires. For the first time, researchers at the Technical
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Is European forest management out of alignment with natural patterns in disturbances?
European forests are in trouble. “Not because they’re being lost,” says University of Vermont scientist William Keeton. “Europe, actually, is greener and more heavily forested now than it has been
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