Recreational use of urban forests vs. sustainability: OptFor-EU investigates on the struggle in its new paper
We are glad to announce the publication of a new scientific article, Mountain bike trails in urban forests: Meeting recreation demands in Vienna and Zurich, mainly authored by the OptFor-EU partner BOKU on Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. The paper investigates the struggles related to the recreational use of urban forests, focusing on illegal […]
New Framework by Optfor-EU allows for high-quality harmonised Forest-Climate Data
The latest OptFor-EU report “Development of an Open-Access Code to Harmonize Forest-Climate Data” introduces a powerful data harmonisation framework, ensuring that diverse forest and climate datasets can be integrated, compared, and applied effectively in forest management and climate modeling. This report presents a standardized approach to collecting and processing critical climate and forest data sets. […]
From Data to Action: A Comprehensive Database for Sustainable Forest Management outlined in the new optfor-EU report
We are pleased to announce the release of the latest OptFor-EU report: “Database Including Forest Types, Forest Ecosystem Services, and Management Practices in each case study area”. The report explains the OptFor-EU process for data collection regarding European Forest Types (EFT), Forest Ecosystem Services (FES), Forest Management Practices (FMP), and Socio-Economic indicators (SE) in each […]
New Report from OptFor-EU advances forest management with high-resolution land cover data
We are pleased to announce the publication of the new OptFor-EU report Methodology of Land Cover Datasets for Global and Regional Climate Models. This report represents a significant step forward in understanding and managing the relationship between Europe’s forests and its changing climate. This report presents the development of three new high-level datasets contributing to […]
Climate Change and Forests: New scientific papers from OptFor-EU Reveal Vulnerability and Resilience
OptFor-EU partners have just published three new scientific articles: Modelling branch surface area of Fagus sylvatica L., Early-successional species show higher tolerance of drought than late-successional species across Europe and Causes and Impacts of Flood Events in Emilia-Romagna (Italy) in May 2023. The three articles were mainly authored respectively by the OptFor-EU partners BOKU, INCDS and CNR […]
Looking for a summer read? OptFor-EU just published three new scientific papers on modeling and forests’ responses to climate change
OptFor-EU are glad to announce the publication of three new scientific articles. The three scientific articles, Stand Age and Climate Change Effects on Carbon Increments and Stock Dynamics, Predicted Future Changes in the Mean Seasonal Carbon Cycle Due to Climate Change and Stand age diversity (and more than climate change) affects forests’ resilience and stability, […]
OptFor-EU joins EGU2024 and sheds light on the forests’ capacities to mitigate climate change
Our project partners hosted a session at the General Assembly 2024 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) held at the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria and online, on April 15, 2024. In recent periods, carbon sequestration by forests has attracted much interest as a mitigation approach and as a valuable nature-based option to address climate change mitigation challenges, […]
What are the mechanisms enabling trees to survive droughts? OptFor-EU tries to give an answer in a new scientific paper.
We are glad to announce the publication of a new scientific article, Contrasting patterns of water use efficiency and annual radial growth among European beech forests along the Italian peninsula, mainly authored by the OptFor-EU partner CNR on Scientific Reports. The paper investigates the mechanisms enabling trees to withstand and survive droughts by studying four […]
New scientific article from OptFor-EU opens the possibility to investigate forests’ behaviour under climate and environmental variability over large areas
We are glad to announce the publication of a new scientific article, mainly authored by the OptFor-EU partner CNR on the European Journal of Remote Sensing. The paper presents the development of a methodology to investigate the forests’ behaviour under climate and environmental variability over large areas across highly variable ecological and bio-geographical heterogeneity of […]
New scientific article from OptFor-EU: Modelling branch surface area of Picea abies [L.] Karst
We are glad to announce the publication of our firts scientific article, authored by the OptFor-EU partner BOKU on the journal Taylor and Francis. The paper presents the development of allometric models to estimate the total surface area of over 3000 branches, as well as their number and diameters. Allometric models based on limited sub-samples are […]