Two inspiring days of discussions to better understand forests' adaptive capacity to disturbances! 🌳🔥🪲💨 Grateful for the inspiring group, the motivation, and the ideas we exchanged! Thanks to @dfg.de for funding and to @edfm-tum.bsky.social for being part of the journey. Excited for what's ahead! 🚀

⭐️Shortlisted for the 2024 Haldane Prize! ⛈️Julien Barrere investigates how #forest composition influences resilience to storms, the most important disturbance in Europe 🌎🧪 functionalecologists.com/2025/03/25/j...

🆕 in Ecological Applications: New insect-tree interactions that arise thanks to pine & eucalypt plantations grown around the globe 📄Novel associations among insect herbivores and trees: Patterns of occurrence and damage on pines and eucalypts esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌲 The SafeNet project kicks off—in dreamy Tuusula, Helsinki!🌲 We are building a network to safeguard forests, starting with a thread (literally) to show how we are all connected. Because protecting trees starts with loving them, frostbite and all! ❄️🌍 #Biodiversity #Carbonrich #OldgrownForests