What would you do if you inherited a #forest you'd never asked for? Most new landowners do nothing, and #wildfire risk spreads to whole communities. New research by Cecilia Fraccaroli (@efieuropeanforest.bsky.social) maps 80 ways to turn inaction into stewardship! 🌲🔥 efi.int/article/what...

From inaction to stewardship: incentives to cut wildfire risk

Rural abandonment has left land unmanaged and wildfire risk rising. EFI-led research maps the economic incentives that turn neglect into stewardship.

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I hope this will be picked up widely - such a relief to be able to see colours despite my deficiency!

Loukas Theodosiou@bioinformatician.bsky.social · 2w ago

After four years, several updates and a handful of CRAN releases, 𝗹𝘁𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲 𝗥-𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗮𝗴𝗲, reached a version I feel genuinely good about sharing with the community. github.com/loukesio/ltc...

Fresh perspective article: Priority actions for the conservation of primary and old-growth forests in Europe. In the article, we examine how the recently adopted Nature Restoration Regulation could strengthen the long-term conservation of Europe’s remaining primary and old-growth forests.

Priority actions for the conservation of primary and old-growth forests in Europe - Wildcard

Blogpost by Lyla O'Brien

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Important findings! disturbance - wildlife interactions will be very important, affecting future #forest #resilience

Tobias Kuemmerle@tkuemmerle.bsky.social · last mo.

Disturbances are forecasted to intensify. 👉 can support wildlife & biodiversity ⚠ but will also increase browsing pressure & conflicts with forestry Forest & wildlife management must jointly plan disturbance dynamics under climate change

Forests and wood use are important for climate change mitigation. However, there are different views on how to assess these contributions, leading to contradictory recommendations for forest policy and management. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Deadwood is shelter, food, and corridor. It is continuity. A blog post and video from LIFE SPAN suggests: build networks of habitat, learn to see microhabitats, and let managed forests carry more of the forest’s full life cycle – standing, falling, and returning. resilience-blog.com/2026/04/29/l...

Life in Deadwood - Resilience Blog

Blogpost by Gesche Schifferdecker and Andrea Barzagli “Today, there is no longer discussion about the general value of deadwood. Now the discussion is only about

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New study highlights the value of systematic conservation planning and spatial optimization for supporting informed, context-sensitive decisions in forest landscape management and biodiversity conservation. doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 1/6

New study highlights the value of systematic conservation planning and spatial optimization for supporting informed, context-sensitive decisions in forest landscape management and biodiversity conservation. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

🤔 Do we know what Europe's wood ends up being used for? A new study from the @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social and @vito.be mapped the full flow of wood across all 27 EU member states in 2021 - from forest harvest all the way to end-of-life. forestpaths.eu/news/what-wo...

What is wood used for in Europe? A ForestPaths analysis of wood flows across the EU

Wood plays a vital role in the EU's transition to a climate-neutral and circular economy. However, the climate mitigation potential of wood products depends on their final uses - something that has hi...

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Various policies have high expectations on forests, as carbon sinks, as biodiversity habitats, as source of renewal resources for the bioeconomy - future disturbance regimes will strongly affect all of these! Check out both the Science paper and our policy brief!

Rupert Seidl@rupertseidl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Policy implications: Together with @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social, we’ve also published a summary for policy makers alongside the scientific paper, highlighting important implications for European forest policy wrt forest planning, monitoring and management (7/10) Link: doi.org/10.36333/pb20

Insights 3: Disturbance change impacts Europe’s forest demography, reducing the share of old forests and increasing the share of young forests on the landscape. This could have profound implications for ecosystem services and biodiversity, and needs to be accounted for in forest policy. (6/10)

Insight 2: Fire is the main driver of increasing future disturbance, and the Mediterranean is particularly affected. However, future disturbance hotspots emerged across biomes, from Finland to Germany and Spain, in our simulations. Disturbance change is thus a challenge at the European scale. (5/10)

The policy brief will be online friday morning... This is crucial evidence for several European policies!

Rupert Seidl@rupertseidl.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Policy implications: Together with @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social, we’ve also published a summary for policy makers alongside the scientific paper, highlighting important implications for European forest policy wrt forest planning, monitoring and management (7/10) Link: doi.org/10.36333/pb20

Insight 1: In the coming decades, disturbances will continue to increase regardless of emissions pathway. If we effectively reduce emissions, we reach peak disturbance by mid century with declines thereafter. If emissions continue unabated, however, disturbances will continue to soar. (4/10)

Methodology 2: Key advances of our new approach are that amplifying interactions between individual disturbance agents are explicitly accounted for, and that climate - disturbance – vegetation feedbacks are explicitly simulated. (3/10)

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...

We are living in a different world now re: forest disturbance risks! Check this new Science paper out for state-of-the-art forest disturbance scenario projections! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵1/8) Shaping Future Forests: How can ecophysiology support climate-smart forest management? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

☀️Hotter and drier conditions under ongoing climate change are causing tree mortality events and altering forest dynamics worldwide. 🧑‍💻Learn more in the webinar: ☀️Limits and opportunities in predicting drought-induced forest mortality 🗓️24 March 2026; 🕓4:00 pm CET 🔗 zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Postdoctoral position in Forest Genetics at @uni-freiburg.de with a focus on local adaptation and/or stress reaction of trees. The position combines research and teaching (4 SWS), and offers the opportunity to develop an independent research profile (4+ years).

We need to shift from reactive response to an Integrated Fire Management to enhance forest and landscape resilience

European Forest Institute@efieuropeanforest.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🔥 A fire‑resilient Europe needs a new approach EFI’s latest Policy Brief calls for a shift toward Integrated Fire Management, as extreme wildfires continue to escalate with over 1 million hectares burned in the EU in 2025. 📄 Read the full Policy Brief: https://doi.org/10.36333/pb19

#ForestSoils are more than dirt beneath our feet: they regulate water, store carbon, & support #biodiversity 🌱 On 18 November, the #HoliSoils Webinar Series continues with a session dedicated to understanding & mapping forest soils across Europe! Sign up now ➡️ holisoils.eu/holisoils-we...

HoliSoils Webinar Series - Introductory lecture on forest soils, monitoring and mapping - HoliSoils

Don’t miss the HoliSoils webinar on 22 October (14:00–15:00 CEST) on monitoring forest soil biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, and microbial responses to management.

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Excellent resource!

ForestPaths Project@forestpaths.eu · 9mo ago

🌲 The European Forest Disturbance Atlas by ForestPaths is now on Forest Information Systems for Europe! Using Landsat data (1985–2023), the maps track fires, storms, bark beetles & harvesting across 38 countries — open-source & updated annually. 🔗 Explore more: forestpaths.eu/news/forestp...

The Forest Information System for Europe (FISE) is an entry point for data, information and knowledge on European forests – gathered or derived through key forest-related policy drivers. EFI and @w-u-r.bsky.social have been working on updating the site! 🔗 Explore the website: forest.eea.europa.eu

Geospatial data from the Integrate Network Database (270 marteloscope sites in 27 European countries with more than 100,000 recorded trees) can now be accessed through an interactive map. resilience-blog.com/2025/10/06/n...?

New features on interactive map reveal forest complexity: European-wide tool launches to help navigate geospatial data from the Integrate Network Database  - Resilience Blog

Marteloscopes are a key tool of the Integrate Network Multi-Donor-Trust-Fund. Since the start of Integrate + in 2013, the network’s forerunner project*, this didactic training…

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New paper in Nature Climate Change! What are the costs of increasing disturbances? Find out in this amazing contribution by @johannesmohr.bsky.social! Great to see this out and congrats Johannes on such a nice first PhD paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rising cost of disturbances for forestry in Europe under climate change - Nature Climate Change

Climate change will raise the severity and frequency of forest disturbance, damaging the economic value of timber. Researchers show Europe’s timber-based forestry could lose up to €247 billion, yet in...

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Connecting recreational experience with knowledge on Integrative Forest Management. Nice blog post related to the #TRANSFORMIT project (transformforests.eu/about/) resilience-blog.com/2025/08/26/j...?

Jogging through the forests of our future: How Europe is headed towards Integrative Forest Management - Resilience Blog

Article written by Florian Schnabel (University of Freiburg) I often go running in the hills surrounding Freiburg, Germany. The jogging trails stretch from the Rhine valley to…

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What happens when forests are valued not just for timber, but for clean water, biodiversity, and climate resilience? 🍃💧🦌 WWF Bulgaria , runs a pilot model for Payments for Ecosystem Services shows how nature can be part of the economic equation. Full story: intercede-project.eu/payments_fes...

Payments for ecosystem services transform forest management

Pilot project in the Western Stara Planina region demonstrates how Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) can transform forest management

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very interesting study! Vaia is such a prominent wind storm case study. Very much appreciate that ungulate browsing was studied so widely, as forest resilience of the future stand will be strongly affected by high ungulate densities!

Enrico Tomelleri@etomelleri.bsky.social · last yr.

Five years after VAIA: – Norway spruce dominates regeneration (67%), but only 26% of plots meet targets. – Browsing affects 25% of seedlings, especially Rowan, Willow, and Silver fir. Management should promote species diversity and control browsing. doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

Researchers identify five steps to successful nature restoration - the need for policy coherence & adequate financial support to make Nature Restoration happen is clear yet the Commission have proposed an MFF/CAP that seem to deliver neither www.google.com/amp/s/phys.o...

Researchers identify five steps to successful nature restoration

Many European ecosystems—whether it's forests, rivers, fields, or meadows—are in poor condition. Despite all conservation efforts, biodiversity continues to decline. However, experts are hopeful that ...

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