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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...

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....

Different forest management styles and their effects on biodiversity were central to discussions at the last ForestPaths’ annual meeting. Building off on these conversations, an interview on the topic was given by Carlijn Bos, researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and ForestPaths partner.  She began by noting that sustainable wood use involves understanding how much wood can be harvested over time...

Less than a year ago, aiphoria emerged as a new tool for dynamic wood material flow assessment and visualisation that was developed in conjunction with the ForestPaths project. Since then, its developers at the European Forest Institute and VITO have been working to improve upon the original design. This all feeds into aiphoria’s core objective of providing accessible, comprehensive and reliable data on wood and its carbon storage potential as...

ForestPaths partners participated in a recent study on the styles defining the harvesting of wood in Europe’s forests. In particular, Thomas Pugh from Lund University, Mart-Jan Schelhaas and Ajdin Starcevic from Wageningen Environmental Research Institute, and Cornelius Senf from the Technical University of Munich were among the experts who contributed to the paper wherein the investigation was laid out.  In...

In 2025, ForestPaths invites you to immerse yourself into the domain of forest research via a new medium - the ForestChats podcast. The series will explore outputs and findings surrounding the project, with expert interviews winding their way through the scientific results, technological innovations and policy pathways. All of this will familarise listeners with the core aim of ForestPaths – to help co-design a forward-oriented policy landscape...

The next generation of forest disturbance maps, updated as part of the ForestPaths project, can now be accessed via the Horizon Results Platform. The online repository, instituted as part of the Commission’s Funding and Tenders Portal, has positioned itself as a focal point when it comes to sharing EU-funded research and its innovations. As such, it will help enhance the public visibility of this crucial output and ForestPaths in general by exposing...

The releases submitted as part of the ForestPaths Features series have all been uploaded to the Horizon Results Platform (HRP). Devised as a focal point of ForestPaths’ outreach activities, the series aims to showcase the latest research and findings associated with the project in an accessible and visually appealing manner. The last two years have seen the arrival of the first three such features, each dedicated to distinct aspects of forest management...

This press release has been published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo.   To support its objective of advancing forest management practices in Europe with a focus on climate and biodiversity, the EU-funded ForestPaths project has published a new feature examining the current landscape of policies in the sector. At a time when both environmental challenges and the measures addressing them are growing in scope and complexity,...

ForestPaths partners European Forest Institute (EFI) and VITO have developed an open-source Python tool - aiphoria - with Cleo Orfanidou (EFI) leading the effort, along with Järvikylä (EFI) and Gustavo Ezequiel Martinez (VITO). The tool is designed to dynamically assess and visualise wood material flows using detailed Sankey diagrams. Developed to support ForestPaths' objectives, aiphoria enables a comprehensive dynamic wood material flow analysis...

ForestPaths member Amelie Müller, from VITO WET (Water and Energy Transition), in collaboration with Timo Diepers from RWTH Aachen University, Arthur Jakobs from Paul Scherrer Institute, and other researchers, have developed an open-source Python tool for time-explicit Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The tool, named bw_timex, provides a more accurate assessment method for environmental impacts by accounting for the timing of processes and emissions and...