RESONATE research outputs are also available on CORDIS.
Scientific publications
Highlighted Publications
- Changes in planned and unplanned canopy openings are linked in Europe’s forests
Seidl, R., Senf, C. Changes in planned and unplanned canopy openings are linked in Europe’s forests. Nat Commun 15, 4741 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49116-0
- ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study
Lloret, F., Hurtado, P., Espelta, J.M. et al. ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study. Sustain Sci 19, 1579–1593 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01518-1
- Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950 – Patacca – Global Change Biology – Wiley Online Library
Patacca, M., Lindner, M., Lucas-Borja, M. E., Cordonnier, T., Fidej, G., Gardiner, B., Hauf, Y., Jasinevičius, G., Labonne, S., Linkevičius, E., Mahnken, M., Milanovic, S., Nabuurs, G.-J., Nagel, T. A., Nikinmaa, L., Panyatov, M., Bercak, R., Seidl, R., Ostrogović Sever, M. Z. … Schelhaas, M.-J. (2023). Significant increase in natural disturbance impacts on European forests since 1950. Global Change Biology 29, 1359-1376. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16531
- Increasing aridity causes larger and more severe forest fires across Europe
Marc Grünig, Rupert Seidl, Cornelius Senf: Effects of summer aridity on European forest fires. Global Change Biology 29, 1648-1659, 2023. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16547
- 2025
- Factors affecting the forest value chain resilience–a local economic perspective in five European countries
García-Jácome SP, Brudermann A, Stern T, Lindner M, Lloret F, Uzquiano S, Asada R, Picos J, Nuhlíček O, Vuletić D, Peltoniemi M, Baumbach L and Jankovský M (2025) Factors affecting the forest value chain resilience–a local economic perspective in five European countries. Front. For. Glob. Change. 8:1653665. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2025.1653665
- When forest disturbances hit wood value chains: simulating tipping points in roundwood markets
Boiger, T., Brudermann, A., Asada, R. et al. When forest disturbances hit wood value chains: simulating tipping points in roundwood markets. Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change 30, 69 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-025-10258-1
- No increased drought-related mortality after thinning: a meta-analysis
Willig, J., Schwarz, J., Comeau, P. et al. No increased drought-related mortality after thinning: a meta-analysis. Annals of Forest Science 82, 6 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-025-01278-7
- Understanding Europe’s Forest Harvesting Regimes
Suvanto, S., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Schelhaas, M.-J., Astigarraga, J., Astrup, R., Cienciala, E., Fridman, J., Henttonen, H.M., Kunstler, G., Kändler, G., König, L.A., Ruiz-Benito, P., Senf, C., Stadelmann, G., Starcevic, A., Talarczyk, A., Zavala, M.A., Pugh, T.A.M. (2025) Understanding Europe’s Forest Harvesting Regimes. Earth’s Future 13, e2024EF005225.
- Stakeholder views of adaptation measures to improve climate resilience: Case study evidence from European wood value chains
Annechien Dirkje Hoeben, Marie Lautrup, Julius Willig, Sandra P. García-Jácome, Martin Jankovský, Anne Toppinen, Dijana Vuletić, Mikko Peltoniemi, Tobias Stern, Stakeholder views of adaptation measures to improve climate resilience: Case study evidence from European wood value chains,
Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 170, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103379. - Forest value chain resilience from a local perspective in five European countries: analysis of predictors and co-drivers
Sandra P. García Jácome, Martin Jankovský, Annechien Dirkje Hoeben, Marcus Lindner, Sara Uzquiano, Tobias Stern, Ondrej Nuhlí, Dijana Vuletić, Hrvoje Marjanović, Juan Picos, Mikko Peltoniemi, Lukas Baumbach and Francisco Lloret.
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 07 January 2025
Sec. People and Forests
Volume 7 – 2024 | https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1461932 - 2024
- Landscape configuration and storm characteristics drive spatial patterns of wind disturbance in boreal forest landscapes
Kulha, N., Heikkinen, J., Holder, J. et al. Landscape configuration and storm characteristics drive spatial patterns of wind disturbance in boreal forest landscapes. Landsc Ecol 39, 119 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01916-x
- Connecting gender balance, crisis resistance and innovativeness in the forestry sector: Women in leadership and management
Alice Ludvig, Barbara Öllerer, Tatjana Aubram, Connecting gender balance, crisis resistance and innovativeness in the forestry sector: Women in leadership and management, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 161, 2024, 103890, ISSN 1462-9011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103890.
Corrigendum to “Connecting gender balance, crisis resistance and innovativeness in the forestry sector: Women in leadership and management” [Environ. Sci. Policy, vol. 161, (2024) 103890]
- Deadwood and Tree-related Microhabitat’s abundance and diversity are determined by the interplay of drought-induced die-off and local climate
Faqrul Islam Chowdhury, Francisco Lloret, Luciana Jaime, Jordi Margalef-Marrase, Josep Maria Espelta, Deadwood and Tree-related Microhabitat’s abundance and diversity are determined by the interplay of drought-induced die-off and local climate, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 563, 2024,
121989, ISSN 0378-1127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121989. - The interacting effect of climate change and herbivory can trigger large-scale transformations of European temperate forests
Laura Dobor, Marco Baldo, Lukáš Bílek, Ivan Barka, František Máliš, Petr Štěpánek, Tomáš Hlásny.
Global Change Biology, Volume 30, Issue 2, 22 February 2024, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17194
- A harmonized database of European forest simulations under climate change
Marc Grünig, Werner Rammer, Katharina Albrich, Frédéric André, Andrey L.D. Augustynczik, Friedrich Bohn, Meike Bouwman, Harald Bugmann, Alessio Collalti, Irina Cristal, Daniela Dalmonech, Miquel De Caceres, Francois De Coligny, Laura Dobor, Christina Dollinger, David I. Forrester, Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo, José Ramón González, Ulrike Hiltner, Tomáš Hlásny, Juha Honkaniemi, Nica Huber, Mathieu Jonard, Anna Maria Jönsson, Fredrik Lagergren, Mats Nieberg, Marco Mina, Frits Mohren, Christine Moos, Xavier Morin, Bart Muys, Mikko Peltoniemi, Christopher PO Reyer, Ilié Storms, Dominik Thom, Maude Toïgo, Rupert Seidl,
Volume 54, 2024, 110384, ISSN 2352-3409, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110384.
- Increasing climate-related resilience in the forest-based value chains? A policy perspective
Alice Ludvig, Blasius Schmid, Barbara Öllerer, Laura Nikinmaa, Pilar Hurtado, Montserrat Rodriguez-Ogea, Anne Toppinen, Increasing climate-related resilience in the forest-based value chains? A policy perspective, Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 168, 2024, 103314, ISSN 1389-9341.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2024.103314. - Resilience and vulnerability: distinct concepts to address global change in forests
Judit Lecina-Diaz, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, Francisco Lloret, Rupert Seidl,
Resilience and vulnerability: distinct concepts to address global change in forests, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2024, ISSN 0169-5347, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.03.003. - Shaping and enhancing resilient forests for a resilient society
Cantarello, E., Jacobsen, J.B., Lloret, F. et al. Shaping and enhancing resilient forests for a resilient society. Ambio 53, 1095–1108 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02006-7
- Forest storm resilience depends on the interplay between functional composition and climate – Insights from European-scale simulations
Julien Barrere, Björn Reineking, Maxime Jaunatre, Georges Kunstler, Functional Ecoloigy (2024), https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14489
- 2023
- RECCAP2 Future Component: Consistency and Potential for Regional Assessment to Constrain Global Projections
Jones, C. D., Ziehn, T., Anand, J.,Bastos, A., Burke, E., Canadell, J.G., et al. (2023). RECCAP2 futurecomponent: Consistency and potentialfor regional assessment to constrainglobal projections. AGU Advances,4, e2023AV001024. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023AV001024
- Which demographic processes control competitive equilibria? Bayesian calibration of a size-structured forest population model
Lukas Heiland, Georges Kunstler, Vladimír Šebeň, Lisa Hülsmann.
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue, 04 July 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10232
- Forestry in the Face of Global Change: Results of a Global Survey of Professionals
Himes, A., Bauhus, J., Adhikari, S. et al. Forestry in the Face of Global Change: Results of a Global Survey of Professionals. Curr. For. Rep. 9, 473–489 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-023-00205-1
- Competition-induced tree mortality across Europe is driven by shade tolerance, proportion of conspecifics and drought
Niko Kulha, Juha Honkaniemi, Julien Barrere, Susanne Brandl, Thomas Cordonnier, Kari T. Korhonen, Georges Kunstler, Carola Paul, Björn Reineking, Mikko Peltoniemi.
Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 10, 23 August 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14184
- Beyond mean fitness: Demographic stochasticity and resilience matter at tree species climatic edges
Arnaud Guyennon, Björn Reineking, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Jonas Dahlgren, Aleksi Lehtonen, Sophia Ratcliffe, Paloma Ruiz-Benito, Miguel A. Zavala, Georges Kunstler.
Global Ecology and Biogeography, Volume 32, Issue 4, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16630
- Resilient forest-based value chains? Econometric analysis of roundwood prices in five European countries in the era of natural disturbances
Raphael Asada, Elias Hurmekoski, Annechien Dirkje Hoeben, Marco Patacca, Tobias Stern, Anne Toppinen.
Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 153, 2023, 102975, ISSN 1389-9341, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.102975. - When intentions do not matter: Climate change mitigation and adaptation innovations in the Forest-based sector
Ana Slavec, Annechien D. Hoeben, Miguel Moreno-Torres, Lea Primožič, Tobias Stern.
Forest Policy and Economics, Volume 157, 2023, 103074, ISSN 1389-9341, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2023.103074. - A Review of Potential Innovation Pathways to Enhance Resilience in Wood-Based Value Chains
Hoeben, A.D., Stern, T. & Lloret, F. A Review of Potential Innovation Pathways to Enhance Resilience in Wood-Based Value Chains. Curr. For. Rep. 9, 301–318 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-023-00191-4
- Effect of forest management choices on carbon sequestration and biodiversity at national scale
Mäkelä, A., Minunno, F., Kujala, H. et al. Effect of forest management choices on carbon sequestration and biodiversity at national scale. Ambio 52, 1737–1756 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01899-0
- Functional traits and climate drive interspecific differences in disturbance-induced tree mortality
Julien Barrere, Björn Reineking, Thomas Cordonnier, Niko Kulha, Juha Honkaniemi, Mikko Peltoniemi, Kari T. Korhonen, Paloma Ruiz-Benito, Miguel A. Zavala, Georges Kunstler.
Global Change Biology, Volume 29, Issue 10, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16630
Bozzolan, N., Grassi, G., Mohren, F., & Nabuurs, G.-J. (2023). Options to improve the carbon balance of the harvested wood products sector in four EU countries. GCB Bioenergy, 00, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.13104
- A balancing act: Principles, criteria and indicator framework to operationalize social-ecological resilience of forests
Nikinmaa, L., Lindner, M., Cantarello, E., Gardiner, B., Jacobsen, J.B., Jump, A.S., Parra Novoa, C., Plieninger, T., Schuck, A., Seidl, R., Timberlake, T., Waring, K., Winkel, G., Muys, B. (2023): A balancing act: principles, criteria and indicator framework to operationalize social-ecological resilience of forests. Journal of Environmental Management 331, 117039. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.117039
- 2022
- Enhancing resilience of European forests based on state-of-the-art disturbance evidence, disturbance scenarios and forest modelling approaches used in the I-Maestro and RESONATE projects
Lindner, M., Mahnken, M., Patacca, M., Schelhaas, M.-J., Reineking, B., Guyennon, A., Cordonnier, T., Vallet, P., Senf, C., Grünig, M., Rammer, W., Seidl, R.
DOI : 10.17180/5s85-dt11
Chapter in the book Forecasting and managing multi-risks in Mediterranean, temperate and boreal forests: comparison between North-American and European approaches: conference proceedings
- Embracing policy paradoxes: EU’s Just Transition Fund and the aim “to leave no one behind”
Sarkki, S., Ludvig, A., Nijnik, M. et al. Embracing policy paradoxes: EU’s Just Transition Fund and the aim “to leave no one behind”. Int Environ Agreements 22, 761–792 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10784-022-09584-5
- Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland
Junttila, V., Minunno, F., Peltoniemi, M. et al. Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland. Ambio 52, 1716–1733 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01906-4
- Warning: Natural and Managed Forests are Losing their Capacity to Mitigate Climate Change
Messier C, Potvin C, Muys B, Brancalion P, Chazdon R, Seidl R, Bauhus J.
The Forestry Chronicle, 23 November 2022, https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc2022-007
- EFISCEN-Space 1.0 model documentation and manual
Schelhaas, M.-J., Hengeveld, G., Filipek, S., König, L., Lerink, B., Staritsky, I., de Jong, A., & Nabuurs, G.-J. (2022). EFISCEN-Space 1.0 model documentation and manual. (Report / Wageningen Environmental Research; No. 3220). Wageningen Environmental Research. https://doi.org/10.18174/583568
- A new framework for prognosing forest resources under intensified disturbance impacts: Case of the Czech Republic
Tomáš Hlásny, Ivan Barka, Katarína Merganičová, Štěpán Křístek, Roman Modlinger, Marek Turčáni, Róbert Marušák, A new framework for prognosing forest resources under intensified disturbance impacts: Case of the Czech Republic, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 523,
2022, 120483, ISSN 0378-1127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120483. - Risk perception and political leaning explain the preferences of non-industrial private landowners for alternative climate change mitigation strategies in Finnish forests
Anni Vehola, Arttu Malkamäki, Anna-Kaisa Kosenius, Elias Hurmekoski, Anne Toppinen,
Risk perception and political leaning explain the preferences of non-industrial private landowners for alternative climate change mitigation strategies in Finnish forests, Environmental Science & Policy,
Volume 137, 2022, Pages 228-238, ISSN 1462-9011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.09.003. Miguel Ángel Blanco-Rodríguez, Josep Maria Espelta, Tree species composition and management influence short-term resilience to defoliation by Lymantria dispar L. in oak forests, Forest Ecology and Management, Volume 520, 2022, 120399, ISSN 0378-1127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120399.
Blanco-Rodríguez, M.A., Guitart, L., Gelabert, P., Riera, R., Rossell, M., Espelta, J.M. Efectos de la composición de especies y la gestión forestal en la resiliencia de bosques mixtos de Quercus a episodios de defoliación por Lymantria dispar L, Actas del 8 Congreso Forestal Español, Sociedad Española de Ciencias Forestales, 2022, ISBN 978-84-9416-95-6-4, 8cfe-1152.pdf (congresoforestal.es)
Policy briefs
- The Role of Biodiversity in Making Forests Resilient
Managing Forest Disturbances in a Changing Climate
- Enhancing climate resilience of forest value chains
- Policy-brief-Managing-bark-beetle-outbreaks-in-the-21st-century.pdf
- Significant increase in forest disturbances since 1950s
- Forests for the future: How can forest resilience
support Sustainable Forest Management?
RESONATE in the media
- Interview mit WBW-Mitglied Dr. Marcus Lindner
- Os efectos dos incendios nos montes galegos reduciríanse cunha xestión agrupada
- Los efectos de los incendios en los montes gallegos se reducirían con una gestión agrupada
- La gestión conjunta de montes permitiría cuadriplicar su rentabilidad económica
- Unha xestión agrupada do monte reduciría os incendios
- Menos incendios y más rentabilidad económica en los montes gallegos: la conclusión de un estudio de Forestais que apuesta por una gestión agrupada
- Projet RESONATE – Actions clés pour la résilience des forêts
- Aumentano i disturbi naturali nelle foreste europee sempre più sotto pressione
- Wachsende Waldbrandgefahr in Europa
- Diverse forests of slow-growing trees more resilient to storms, study finds
- Major rise in forest disturbances over the past 70 years (europa.eu)
Deliverables
- D1.1 Inventory of forest resilience indicators and metrics reported in the literature with an assessment on their applicability to RESONATE case studies
- D1.2 Resilience indicators and metrics assessment
- D1.3 Trade-offs assessment
- D2.1 Online map of hotspots of disturbance at the continental scale
- D2.2 Europe’s forest disturbance regimes
- D2.4 Report on the potential management options to mitigate disturbances
- D3.2 Results of the statistical analysis of national and some regional forest-based value chains regarding historical resilience
- D3.3 Predictors and co-drivers associated with the resilience of forest value chains: a local perspective
- D5.2 Report on Policy Analysis for Forest Resilience
- D5.5 Synthesis report on integrated resilience assessment
- D5.6 Policy and practice recommendations for improving forest resilience
- D6.1 RESONATE Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Plan
- D6.2 Development of information material ‐ RESONATE visual identity and general project information
- D6.4 Updated DEC Strategy and first reporting
Resilience toolkits
Project flyer, posters and roll up
Videos
- Building resilient wood value chains
- What is resilience?
- Forest Management in the Tatra Mountains
- Activities and forest management of the Wienerwald Biosphere Reserve
- Looking at the historical effects of disturbances in the upper Rhein Valley forests
- Forest modelling in increased harvesting or protection scenarios in the Istrian forest
- How forest management and disturbances affect biodiversity and carbon in Southern Finland
- How disturbances affect the resilience of forests with high biodiversity value in the UK
- How diversity in species or size structure affects forest resilience after disturbances in Bauges
The challenge of promoting more resilient pine wood value-chains in cross-border forests
Exchange of knowledge is key to studying forest management against bark beetle outbreaks in Prague
Increasing the resilience of Catalonian forests with proper forest management
Selected readings
To complement our own research findings, we recommend here a few prominent articles that are close to the research carried out in RESONATE:
- Hlásny, T., König, L., Krokene, P., Lindner, M., Montagné-Huck, C., Müller, J., Qin, H., Raffa, K.F., Schelhaas, M.-J., Svoboda, M., Viiri, H., Seidl, R. (2021) Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Europe: State of Knowledge and Ways Forward for Management. Current Forestry Reports 7, 138–165. Doi 10.1007/s40725-021-00142-x.
- Nikinmaa, L., Lindner, M., Cantarello, E., Jump, A.S., Seidl, R., Winkel, G., Muys, B. (2020) Reviewing the Use of Resilience Concepts in Forest Sciences. Current Forestry Reports 6, 61-80. Doi 10.1007/s40725-020-00110-x.
- Senf, C., Seidl, R. (early view) Post-disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13406.
- Senf, C., Seidl, R. (2021) Mapping the forest disturbance regimes of Europe. Nature Sustainability 4, 63–70. Doi 10.1038/s41893-020-00609-y