New Policy Brief out now How can we increase the sustainability and resilience of our European forests and related value chains in times of climate change? I-Maestro (Innovative forest management strategies for a resilient bioeconomy under climate change and disturbances) launched a policy brief that seeks to identify challenges and their respective solutions to better manage the
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The increasing need of finding ways to adapt forest ecosystems and the forest value chain to cope with the challenge of climate-induced disturbances and stressors has prompted us researchers to develop a common framework for assessing resilience. To make this framework as inclusive as possible, we have been looking for a common procedure to be
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Recently, RESONATE researchers Martin Jankovský and Sandra García presented the RESONATE approach to wood value chains as part of the virtual summer school “Bioeconomy for PhD education and research” organized by Warsaw University of Life Sciences. The first course, on Forest bioeconomy, was hosted by prof. Miroslav Hajek and colleagues from the Faculty of Forestry
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The urgently needed adaptation of forests and forestry to climate change will occupy keep us busy for a long time to come. The Scientific Advisory Council for Forest Policy (WBW), which supports the German Federal Government in shaping the framework conditions for sustainable forest management, published an expert opinion on this topic in October. Since
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The ONEforest H2020 project seeks to adapt European forests to the climate crisis for the long-term provision of Forest Ecosystem Services. ONEforest is developing a multi-criteria decision support system for common forest management to strengthen forest resilience, harmonize stakeholder interests and ensure sustainable wood flows. Thus, forest owners will be able to assess which way of forest
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How can forests and their products and services best contribute to climate change mitigation? This is probably the most controversial question one can currently ask when discussing the role of forests to combat climate change – and even scientists tend to disagree here. Some say we should manage our forest and use wood for construction
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How will our forests look like in 20, 50 or even 80 years? Nobody knows for sure, but we forest researchers try to imagine how they will, could or should look like. This forecasting has been done for hundreds of years by forest practitioners with different methods to secure sustainable wood use. Today, in light
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New Nature Communication on the impact of the 2018 heatwave on trees growing across Central and Atlantic Europe published
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In recent weeks, the RESONATE project’s Twitter has explored different definitions for forest resilience. Some of them sounded rather similar, some very different and all of them might have left the reader with more questions: “But what does this mean in practice?”. Our researcher Laura Nikinmaa tries to enlighten the mysterious and sometimes headache-inducing world of resilience.
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Together with more than 30 junior and senior researchers from all over Europe and more than 40 additional virtual participants we had the first project meeting of the RESONATE project from 4th – 6th October in Kostelec nad Černými lesy (Czech Republic). One of the most exciting parts of the event was the excursion, where we could see the effects of recent large scale bark beetle outbreaks.
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After seeing thousands of hectares of spruce forest die after disturbances all over Europe in the past years, it seems like spruce is our problem child – at least in Central and Eastern Europe. Spruce died in monocultures, but was also more affected than other species by e.g. storm and bark beetle damages in mixed forest stands. This had and still has both significant ecological as well as financial impacts because spruce is an economically important species.
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After several virtual exchanges, we held a very stimulating first RESONATE project meeting in Kostelec near Prague on 4th to 6th October. We planned this as a hybrid meeting, and met with around 30 people in Czech Republic, and around 40 people joining remotely. The online participation was apparently also more pleasant than an ordinary Teams meeting, as the interactions in Kostelec offered more diverse input than only monitor screens.
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