This press release has been published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. ForestPaths’ Policy Lab 3 took place in Berlin, Germany, from 19–21 November, organised by project partners Prospex Institute and hosted by Oeko Insitute. The Lab brought together a diverse group of around 15 institutions, including public bodies, academic organisations, industry representatives and civil society actors...

A research team from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA), led by ForestPaths researchers, published a new paper titled “Response of Global Forest Management to Changes in Wood Demand” in the Global Change Biology journal. The study projects how global wood demand, harvests and forest management intensity could change under different socioeconomic...

With ForestPaths releasing the European Forest Disturbance Atlas - a dataset of annual forest disturbance maps across 38 European countries - it is also now featured on the Forest Information System for Europe (FISE). FISE is an entry point for data, information and knowledge on European forests – gathered or derived through key forest-related policy drivers.  The maps, developed by project partner Technical University of Munich (TUM), extend...

The ForestPaths European tree genus map is now available as an open, early-access dataset. This map is the first to show the dominant tree genus across Europe at 10 m resolution and provides valuable information to complement existing land cover maps. It is developed by VITO, in collaboration with TUM, two research partners in the ForestPaths project.  Wall-to-wall information on tree genus or species distributions...

The latest episode of the ForestChats podcast features an engaging discussion between Dr. Hans Verkerk, ForestPaths’ coordinator at the European Forest Institute (EFI) and Dr. Alba Viana Soto, researcher at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Together, they delve into the newly updated Next-Generation Forest Disturbance Atlas — a tool that uses satellite data and artificial intelligence to monitor and understand forest disturbances across Europe. During...

Understanding changes in global landscape patterns is essential for identifying the drivers of land use and land cover (LULC) change and their broader impacts on the Earth System, as human activities continue to drive widespread habitat loss, fragmentation and environmental consequences such as carbon emissions and biodiversity decline. These changes affect both the composition (area) and configuration (spatial arrangement) of ecosystems,...

Over the past seven years, the European Network of Forest Extension Organisations (FOREXT) has been developing as a capacity-building hub for private forest owners that can offer expert advice and support. In practical terms, the Network’s activities thus revolve around “the exchange of knowledge, experience, expertise, best practices and developing and implementing relevant European projects”. In this context, ForestPaths was singled out as an initiative...

ForestPaths researchers from the University of Edinburgh have published a study in the Climate Policy journal examining how current carbon prices correspond to implied climate impacts. The paper, titled “Implying climate impact from carbon prices and consumption,” takes a market-based approach to assess how the Effective Cost of Carbon (ECC) - the average price placed on carbon emissions - relates to projected global temperature increases.  Traditionally,...

ForestPaths researchers headed a team of six authors in the publication of a new scientific paper that was published in the Global Change Biology Journal. The study is titled “A Global Assessment of Plant and Animal Community Responses to Forest Management Over Time” and was collaboratively drafted by representatives of three institutions - the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Wageningen Environmental...

As part of the ForestPaths project, researchers from the Technical University of Munich created the European Forest Disturbance Atlas (EFDA) and published a detailed paper on it in the Earth System Science Data journal. The publication documents the process of creating the atlas, examines its accuracy, describes the individual map products and discusses its possible role in forest monitoring.  The EFDA is based on data from the Landsat satellite...

Last year, ForestPaths partners from the Technical University of Munich delivered an update of the European Forest Disturbance Atlas (EFDA) as part of their work on the project. Significantly, this dataset thus made the full transition to an open-source platform whose new cause-attribution workflow can be actualised with the latest developments as often as needed. Furthermore, multiple disturbances per series can now be detected at the same time throughout...

This article is written and originally published by Wageningen University & Research. The future of the European forest depends on the success of the small trees, and they are struggling with the current drought. The future of the European forests is at risk due to our changing climate. To observe the effects of climate change, we often look at the large trees. But the young trees are the future of the forest and are also the most vulnerable....