Researchers calculated how disturbances like #wildfires, storms, and #barkbeetles, fueled by #climatechange, could transform Europe’s forests by 2100. #ForestDamage could increase, especially in Southern and Western Europe: http://go.tum.de/187640
📷R. Seidl
@DavidSD yes. Very interesting paper : #droughtstress and #barkbeetles caused in 2018-2020 a strong tree mortality and thus a widespread #ForestDisturbance across Central Europe. The authors observed post-disturbance regeneration in nearly 900 plots across 10 countries : the good news: recovery was robust. The bad news : 75% of the regenerating seedlings are projected to be **outside of their climatic niche** by the end of the century under even moderate #climatechange (RCP4.5)
This suggests to me that "leaving forests alone" is not the best way to adapt them to #ClimateChange. There is just not sufficient local #Biodiversity
Just came out : #droughtstress and #barkbeetles caused in 2018-2020 a strong tree mortality and thus a widespread #ForestDisturbance across Central Europe. The authors observed post-disturbance regeneration in nearly 900 plots across 10 countries : the good news: recovery was robust. The bad news : 75% of the regenerating seedlings are projected to be **outside of their climatic niche** by the end of the century under even moderate #climatechange (RCP4.5) This suggests to me that "leaving forests alone" is not the best way to adapt them to #ClimateChange. There is just not sufficient local #Biodiversity https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70734 #Forests #AcademicChatter #PlantScience #UMRSilva because some colleagues participated :-)
#Fungi disarm #BarkBeetle chemical shields by converting their plant-derived toxins https://phys.org/news/2025-12-fungus-bark-beetle-chemical-shields.html https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525513122
"a bark beetle can co-opt a tree's defensive compounds to make defenses against its own enemies. However, since one of the enemies, the #fungus Beauveria bassiana, has developed the ability to detoxify these antimicrobial defenses, it can successfully infect the #BarkBeetles and thus actually help the tree in its battle against bark #beetles"
#FotoVorschlag 'löchrig // perforated, full of holes'
"LICHT-LÖCHER"
... sehen hübsch aus, sind aber leider das Werk von hungrigen #Borkenkäfer, die die Fichten-Monokulturen(!) schwer dezimiert haben. //
"LIGHT HOLES"
... look pretty, but unfortunately they are the work of hungry #barkBeetles, which have severely decimated the spruce monocultures(!)
#Forest #Bark #Nature #Wildlife #Environment #Outdoors #Tree #Trees #NaturePhotography
#trees #BarkBeetles #chainsaws #pine
A tale in a few pictures. My white pine(pinus strobus) in happier times. Dec last year
Just what we need, more stress on our #environment. #BarkBeetles are doing damage throughout the northern boreal #forests with the help of the #ClimateCrisis. In NY and PA (and likely further), ash trees have been decimated.
Forests across Europe, the US and Canada have been hard hit by drought, fires and bark beetles. Now scientists fear the northern hemisphere’s greatest carbon sink is nearing a tipping point
Some bark beetle art on a dead tree on the Black RIver Trail:
Five NEW #PestSurveyCards are out.
A #virus of #palms, two #pathogens of broadleaved #trees, a #scale of #citrus and two #BarkBeetles of #oaks.
And many more.
Check our gallery of cards!
https://efsa.europa.eu/plants/planthealth/monitoring/surveillance/gallery
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Plants_EFSA/status/1684828913438973952
Technische Universität München
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Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!
Willa has moved!! 
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