📢 Insect-driven tree mortality is rising in Europe. Heat & drought favours bark/wood borers–especially in conifers–while moth defoliation declines across host types. Warm, dry regions are hit hardest by all feeding guilds. #GCB link: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #Forests #ClimateChange #TreeMortality

Presentation of The Forest Risk Research Centre

Scientific seminar: Forests under pressure: addressing disruptions, boosting resilience, and guiding policy, during the 2025 EFI Annual Conference in Prague #EFI #foresthealth
@CZUvPraze

📢NEW ARTICLE: Perspectives: State of national forest damage survey programmes in Europe
and ways toward improved harmonization and data sharing. authors.elsevier.com/c/1li4y_8cEV...

Field trip in the Kostelec nad Černými lesy during EarthBridge Summer School - Remote sensing of Forest. earthbridge.eu/summer-school/ #foresthealth

Little looking back at the inaugural symposium of the Forest Invasion Synthesis Centre in Prague.

I finally got the group photo, so here it is.

More severe damage to a young Norway spruce by Lirula macrospora. Hysterothecia for spore production are on the upper right. #foresthealth #fungi #tree

With nowadays heroes in the back

NEW ARTICLE 🔊Ectomycorrhizal response to bark beetle attack: a comparison of dead and surviving trees #trees #forest #barkbetle #fungi www.frontiersin.org/journals/for...

Two days of enriching presentations and fruitful discussion at Forest Protection Colloquium 2025 organized by Gernot Hoch from the Austrian Research Centre for Forests BWF Viena #forest #foresthealth

NEW ARTICLE 📣 Spectral signatures discrimination of Norway spruce trees under experimentally induced drought and acute thermal stress using hyperspectral imaging. FEM www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...