... This approach could help overcome major barriers to EU environmental policy implementation while promoting synergies among forest resource use policies.
First PhD paper of Fabio Castelli @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
6/6
Collaborative planning will be key to social acceptability and long-term success. We encourage policymakers and land managers to adopt systematic conservation planning to better coordinate action across scales and strategically direct public investments and incentives toward priority areas. 5/6
Our results show clear trade-offs. Although wilderness-oriented scenarios maximize spatial compactness, they tend to represent fewer areas of high ecological value. The policy-based pathway captures more areas of high ecological value but requires substantial involvement of private forests. 4/6
We used North Rhine–Westphalia (NRW), Germany as case study and developed two pathways - prioritizing either large wilderness areas or habitat representation— implemented through five scenarios that differ in ownership structures, conservation objectives, and existing economic incentives ... 3/6
How to design spatially coherent and socially feasible strategies to expand strict forest protection under real-world ownership and policy constraints? We used systematic conservation planning to evaluate alternative scenarios for achieving the EU 10% strict protection target in forest areas. 2/6
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...
1/6
...This approach could help overcome major barriers to EU environmental policy implementation while promoting synergies among forest resource use policies.
First PhD paper of Fabio Castelli @efieuropeanforest.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 6/6
Collaborative planning will be key to social acceptability and long-term success. We encourage policymakers and land managers to adopt systematic conservation planning to better coordinate action across scales and strategically direct public investments and incentives toward priority areas. 5/6
Our results show clear trade-offs. Although wilderness-oriented scenarios maximize spatial compactness, they tend to represent fewer areas of high ecological value. The policy-based pathway captures more areas of high ecological value but requires substantial involvement of private forests.
we used North Rhine–Westphalia (NRW), Germany as case study and developed two pathways - prioritizing either large wilderness areas or habitat representation— implemented through five scenarios that differ in ownership structures, conservation objectives, and existing economic incentives ... 3/5
How to design spatially coherent and socially feasible strategies to expand strict forest protection under real-world ownership and policy constraints? We used systematic conservation planning to evaluate alternative scenarios for achieving the EU 10% strict protection target in forest areas. 2/5
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...
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!
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)
Thanks, @rupertseidl.bsky.social, Marc Grünig, @wernerrammer.bsky.social
@corneliussenf.bsky.social and the whole RESONATE team for pulling this off! It was a pleasure to work with this great team!
The policy brief will be online friday morning...
This is crucial evidence for several European policies!
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...
Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century
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/...
Fig. 2 Conceptual model of the expected role of dryland mechanisms along a climatic gradient from cool and moist towards hot and dry conditions (x-axis), and their relevance for climate-smart forestry (CSF, y
✨ 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
#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...
Excellent resource!
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