Oliver BrendelOct 16

Yesterday the official presentation of the **Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda** for the forthcoming **European Research and Innovation Partnership on Forests and Forestry for a Sustainable Future** has been taken place in Brussels. This strategic agenda has been based on a co-creation process involving participants from the different stakeholder groups across Europe, from foresters, forest owners to representatives from forest industries, NGOs, public, governmental and EU organisations as well as scientists from fundamental to applied disciplines.

#ClimateChange and #Biodiversity are central themes in this research agenda across all four chapters

I’m honoured to have been able to contribute and am able to share now the official link for those interested :

https://efi.int/publications-bank/strategic-research-and-innovation-agenda-sria-european-forest-based-sector

and also :
https://doi.org/10.36333/rs12

#AcademicChatter #ForestResearch #EUFORE #EuropeanResearchArea #horizonteurope #Forests

Oliver BrendelOct 15

Been today at the official presentation of the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of the forthcoming European
Research and Innovation Partnership on
Forests and Forestry for a Sustainable Future. The SRIA has been developed by the EUFORE consortium in a Europe wide, bottom-up co-creative process, in which I'm quite honoured to have been involved

#AcademicChatter #ForestResearch #EUFORE #EuropeanResearchArea #horizonteurope

Oliver BrendelOct 14
Just sitting in the annual meeting of the EUFORE EU project on the European Forest Research and Innovation Ecosystem. The project being in its last year, we are discussing the exciting outputs and disseminations that are upcoming
https://eufore.eu/
#AcademicChatter
#EUFORE
#ForestResearch
EUFORE - EUFORE

Building a sustainable, trans-national and co-creative environment to define, implement, and evaluate an R&I agenda and roadmap for the entire

EUFORE. The European Forest Research and Innovation Ecosystem
Maikel de BakkerOct 14
A patch of green and splashes of red and white.

Taken with my Canon 5DsR and Sigma Art 24–70 in Surea, between Gilze and Oosterhout — a gray day, yet the forest was alive with colour and quiet stories. On a bed of moss and fallen leaves stood a single Amanita muscaria — the fly agaric — but not as we usually know it. Its brilliant red cap was covered in a delicate white layer that resembled a dusting of snow. Only later did I realize: this wasn’t weather, but another fungus growing upon it. A fungus infecting a fungus — a rare and fascinating encounter.

In mycology, such infections occur when parasitic species like Hypomyces invade the fruiting body of another mushroom, spreading their hyphae through its tissues. They slowly consume the host’s nutrients, altering its colour, texture, and even shape. This quiet struggle plays out unseen, yet it’s part of the forest’s endless cycle of decay and renewal — nothing in nature is truly wasted.

I crouched low in the moss to capture it, trying to show not just a mushroom, but a story of resilience, interdependence, and the hidden wars of the microscopic world.

#AmanitaMuscaria #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography #FungalInfection #FungiOnFungi #Canon5DsR #SigmaArt2470 #Surea #BrabantNature #NatureReserve #ForestFloor #MossLovers #Mycology #WildNetherlands #Ecology #MicroEcosystem #DutchNature #AutumnForest #ForestMagic #Biodiversity #MacroWorld #PhotographyAndScience #CloseUpNature #NaturalWonder #InterspeciesConnection #RareFind #FungalDiversity #InTheField #NatureStories #Mycophile #HiddenWorlds #MushroomLovers #FlyAgaric #ForestResearch #NatureEducation #StoryInLight #MacroLife #ForestDetails #EcoBalance #ByMaikelPhotography
Oliver BrendelOct 8

Been participating to a two day workshop of the TriNational ForestLab, a Swiss-German-French network that combines research and practice in the field of forestry and forest management and creates a space for exchange between scientists, decision-makers and practitioners. Very interesting scientific workshops, practitioner workshops as well as student summer schools will be happening during the next three years

https://trinational-forestlab.wsl.ch/de/

#ForestResearch #TriNationalForestLab #NFZforestnet #SwissForestLab #Waldwissendotnet #Waldwissennet #Forests
#AcademicChatter

Trinational Forestlab

Das TriNational ForestLab ist ein europäisches Netzwerk, das Forschung und Praxis im Bereich Wald und Forstwirtschaft miteinander verbindet.

D-USYS ETH ZurichMay 26

🌳 💦 Research by Marius Floriancic at ETH Zurich's "Waldlabor" confirms the "old water paradox": The majority of water in forest soils is surprisingly old! Five years of unique hydrology experiments reveal water's hidden journey. #Hydrology #ForestResearch

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/05/old-water-new-insights.html

Old water, new insights

Five years ago, an experiment began at ETH Hönggerberg: researchers set up an outdoor laboratory in the forest near the campus. They used sensors positioned in trees, the soil and in a stream to study water dynamics and the “old water paradox”. ETH News accompanied the head of the experiment, Marius Floriancic.

ETH Zurich
Peter CockJan 20

Pleased to see this published (and open access) - I’ve been contributing to this #ForestResearch / #HuttonInstitute led project for over 5 years (with most of the co-authors even longer):

Green et al (2025) The prevalence of Phytophthora in British plant nurseries; high-risk hosts and substrates and opportunities to implement best practice https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.14044

#EnvironmentalDNA #eDNA #metabarcoding #ITS1

Show threadPeter CockMay 6, 2024

Our second blog post https://www.hutton.ac.uk/blog/edna-in-the-spotlight-the-second-instalment/ profiling #HuttonInstitute scientists and close collaborators working with #EnvironmentalDNA (#eDNA) is now live.

This time featuring Beth Moore, Eulyn Pagaling, David Roberts, and from #ForestResearch, Sarah Green.

eDNA in the spotlight – the second instalment - James Hutton Institute

The second instalment of a series of blog posts highlighting Hutton scientists and collaborators using environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques.

James Hutton Institute
AoB PLANTSApr 30, 2024

🌳🔬 New article in @AoBP addressing the effects of reduced throughfall and severe summer drought on stem CO2 efflux in oak and hornbeam forests.

Full #openaccess
👉 https://bit.ly/3UA5mUb

#Botany#PlanScience #ForestResearch #ClimateChange

Does lower water availability limit stem CO2 efflux of oak and hornbeam coppices?

Recent changes in water availability can be crucial for the development, growth and carbon budget of forests. We investigated the response of stem growth a

OUP Academic
PineconeClareNov 17, 2022
The oldest English Oak #tree at Whytham woods Oxfordshire, about 600 years old and is having its genome mapped as a reference for research by #RBGKew #trees #forestry #forestresearch #whythamwoods #treesofmastodon