Context Forest landscapes worldwide are shaped by abiotic drivers such as fire, windstorms,
and drought, but also by biotic drivers like insect pests and pathogens. Although the effects …

We address the problem of how to integrate risk assessment into forest management and
therefore provide a comprehensive review of recent and past literature on risk analysis and …

Outbreaks of tree-killing insects are intensifying globally, affecting economies, human well-
being, and driving ecosystem transitions. The Czech Republic has recently become …

Natural disturbances like wildfire, windthrow and insect outbreaks are critical drivers of
composition, structure and functioning of forest ecosystems. They are strongly climate …

Recent studies projecting future climate change impacts on forests mainly consider either
the effects of climate change on productivity or on disturbances. However, productivity and …

The Canadian Sea Ice and Snow Evolution (CanSISE) Network is a climate research
network focused on developing and applying state of the art observational data to advance …

Storms represent the most important disturbance factor in forests of Central Europe. Using
data from long-term growth and yield experiments in Baden-Wuerttemberg (south-western …

Based on individual tree damage data dating back to the gale “Lothar”(winter 1999) in
Baden-Württemberg, Germany, a statistical model was developed to estimate the risk of …

In this study, survival of spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) trees in mixed-and mono-species
stands was analyzed using the database of Rhineland-Palatinate's forest damage survey …

Uneven-aged forests are assumed to have a high stability against storm damage but have
rarely been analysed for vulnerability to storm damage due to a lack of a sufficient empirical …