Yesterday, our lab headed to Landeck-Zams for our annual retreat. Today, we had the chance to explore the beautiful, gentle mountains of Radurschl, near Pfunds in Tirol. We were deeply impressed by the elegant Swiss stone pines growing in all their glory, defining the Alpine timberline.

New synthesis paper led by @cecileremy.bsky.social et al., out in @ecography.bsky.social, highlighting how the combination of paleoecological data and approaches with forest landscape modeling can improve our understanding of past and future forest disturbance regimes. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com: Increasing forest disturbance enhances habitat suitability for Europe’s large herbivores. Great work led by Julian Oeser and @tkuemmerle.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Will climate change increase global forest deadwood carbon stocks (because of increasing tree productivity and mortality) or decrease it (because of increased deadwood decomposition)? Find out in the new paper by Edelmann et al., out now in @commsearth.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s432...

Climate change is shifting the competitive balance between tree species. The result: Up to 25% of Europe’s forests could experience a change in the dominant tree species in the 21st century. New insights from a deep learning-based meta-model trained on 135 million data points doi.org/10.1038/s432...

We are hiring! Interested in doing a PhD and excited about forest management, ecosystem services, simulation modeling and beta diversity? Come work with us @edfm-tum.bsky.social at @tum.de, full job ad here: cloud.edfm.ls.tum.de/index.php/s/...

Together with @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social & @monicagturner.bsky.social, we synthesized studies on post-disturbance forest reorganization. Key insight: Self-replacement is common across biomes, i.e., disturbances act as catalysts of change only under specific conditions doi.org/10.1111/geb....

@wernerrammer.bsky.social et al. have developed a cool new tool to visualize forest simulation output. EcoViz offers both photorealistic and symbolic visualizations of future forest trajectories. Looking forward to using this in science communication! @ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Forests are reorganizing in their composition and structure in response to climate change - will they be able to maintain their carbon? Turns out: yes - they even sequestered more carbon than resilient forests! New paper out in Global Biogeochemical Cycles 🔄💎 @agu.org dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Central Europe has seen unprecedented forest disturbances recently, but how are forests recovering? We surveyed disturbance hotspots in 10 countries 3-5 years after disturbance, finding ample tree regeneration and no signs of forest loss (median 4750 stems/ha), but... 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Yesterday, our PhDs visited the Šumava National Park, the Czech neighbor to our Bayerischer Wald NP 🇨🇿🇩🇪 Together they cover an impressive area of >900 km² fittingly dubbed "borderless wilderness" - a great reminder of the privilege of getting to do "borderless science" in a "borderless team"! 🏞️

Spring drought could be more detrimental for tree regeneration than summer drought, particularly as climate warms and tree phenology shifts. Results from an experiment in walk-in climate chambers, investigting four contrasting tree species. Led by @munozmazon.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Gentle reminder to fill in the survey on forest disturbance change (below). We have *a lot* of great responses already (thank you!) covering all continents and biomes, but the survey will be open for a few more days! Thanks for making the time, your disturbance expertise is highly appreciated!

Rupert Seidl@rupertseidl.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Patterns and drivers of post-disturbance forest recovery differ considerably across the Alps: Warmer temperatures relax thermal limitations and facilitate recovery in the C and E Alps, but inhibit recovery in the SW Alps. Led by @lisa-mandl.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

In C Europe, there is a push to align forest management more closely with natural processes, but is this "closer-to-nature" management able to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services? Great synthesis led by @anastritih.bsky.social with input from many leading experts! doi.org/10.1007/s407...

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

What is the effect of increasing disturbances in C European forests on insect diversity, and how does salvage logging modulate it? We found an overall positive response for both cleared and uncleared sites, with a stronger signal for taxonomic vs phylogenetic diversity doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Disturbed areas are preferential habitat for red deer throughout the day, because they combine forage with safety. Great insights from combining remotely sensed disturbance data with GPS collar data in Berchtesgaden National Park, led by J. Eggers and R. Reiner, doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

Global, multi-scale standing deadwood segmentation in centimeter-scale aerial images. Important work by J. Möhring, @cmosig.bsky.social, T. Kattenborn et al. in detecting dead trees across biomes from high resolution aerial images. doi.org/10.1016/j.op...

#2: Landscape context modulates the effect of local canopy cover on forest multidiversity across elevations by T. Richter doi.org/10.1111/1365... Thanks to @sebseibold.bsky.social and many others for their contributions, looking forward to continue our efforts to better understand biodiv change!

Great to see the results of our massive biodiversity assessment at Berchtesgaden Natl. Park pour in! Cool insights on patterns & drivers of multidiversity! #1 Macro- and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes by L. Geres. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Great new paper led by @knowlton.bsky.social with @ttkeller.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social (and me!) Still so much to learn from #Yellowstone about #fire, #forests & #climatechange. #NSFfunded #JFSPfunded

ESA Journals@esajournals.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🆕 in Ecosphere's "Vegetation Ecology" track: A hot & dry future may shake up Yellowstone forests—think fewer spruce, more fire-tolerant neighbors 📄Simulated postfire tree regeneration suggests reorganization of Greater Yellowstone forests during the 21st century doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Yippie, my paper is now out in Global Ecology and Biogeography! Basically, we tried to destroy (simulated!) forest landscapes And despite increasing disturbances 100-fold and decreasing regeneration by 99% - we didn't manage to! (in most cases anyways) Find out more at doi.org/10.1111/geb....

How forest disturbances can lead to tipping points in the wood value chain. Great work coming out of the RESONATE project, led by T. Boiger and T. Stern from @uni-graz.at doi.org/10.1007/s110...

We're once again hosting the "Smart Forest" conference in Freising from March 12th-13th 2026! 🌳🎯💻 If you're excited about digitalization of forestry and bringing together theory and practice, apply now at smartforest.ai/en/home-engl... @wernerrammer.bsky.social @johannesmohr.bsky.social

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New paper in Ecological Applications! Management that mimics historical mosaics of fire severity could promote postfire tree regeneration under future climate change. Thanks to co-authors @monicagturner.bsky.social @rupertseidl.bsky.social @christinadollinger.bsky.social @knowlton.bsky.social

Can fire exclusion zones enhance postfire tree regeneration? A simulation study in subalpine conifer forests

Climate change and novel fire regimes increasingly challenge stewardship of forests adapted to infrequent, stand-replacing fire. Novel fire regimes may disrupt mechanisms that sustained postfire rege...

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Had an amazing time at FoWiTa in Freiburg 🌲🌳 ✅ new connections ✅ reconnecting to (science) friends ✅ hosted my first session ✅presenting my two core PhD chapters ✅ insightful excursion ✅ new fodder for thoughts Great @edfm-tum.bsky.social representation with @johannesmohr.bsky.social 🚀

Our research in the National Park Berchtesgaden - both in the field and in silico - was reported on by NANO. The segment is in German and starts at minute 7:37 www.zdf.de/play/magazin... @rupertseidl.bsky.social @wernerrammer.bsky.social @christinadollinger.bsky.social

Overtourism und Klimakrise: Alpen unter Druck

NANO vom 25.09.: Skipisten oberhalb der Waldgrenzen können Lawinen auslösen. Die Bergidylle gerät aus dem Gleichgewicht. Können die Alpen dem Klimawandel trotzen?

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