The study reviews scientific literature on the topic of old-growth forests and held a workshop with around 20 external scientific experts in February 2021 to discuss preliminary findings. The experts
Climate change poses a major challenge for European forests, demonstrated by recent extreme events and forest disturbances of unprecedented intensity. As climate change continues, adverse impacts on
Based on a large international TreM database (2052 plots; 70,958 individual trees; 78 tree species), we evaluated both the significance and the magnitude of TreM co-occurrence on living trees for 11
Stefanie Linser together with 4 other SoEF2020 lead authors have jointly published a paper in Forest Policy and Economics where they analysed forest relevant targets in EU policy instruments and
This open access article show that the negative effects of insect herbivory on shoot growth likely intensify under warmer thermal conditions, but that increasing precipitation can counteract these
A solid and holistic understanding of the different roles forests play is necessary to be able to design policies that help to maximize synergies and minimize trade-offs between the different forest
