Applications are now open for the Summer School “Forests for the Future: Strategies for Carbon Sequestration”! Date: 16–21 August 2026 Location: Congressi Stefano Franscini at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland Application Deadline: 30 April 2026 The Summer School is organized by the ETH-Domain Joint Initiative SCENE – Swiss Center of Excellence on Net Zero Emissions, the TriNational...
By Silvester Boonen, with Jonas Simons, Yannick De Win and Raghav Sharma In Belgium, we say, “meten is weten”, which translates to measuring is knowing. That idea quietly guided us on a crisp January morning in the Sonian Forest, where local researchers, forest managers, and practitioners gathered for a training event organised within the context...
It was a dark and murky evening as I paved my way through Harcourt Street in Dublin. That’s when I suddenly found myself in a pub – not the kind where a lad or lass would sing a folk song – but rather a cosy, wooden, meeting room turned pub, where I’d stumble across familiar...
70-year-old experimental plantation in Copera (Southern Alps, Switzerland) where the resilience to drought of more than 50 native and non-native tree species can be tested and compared with the surrounding near-natural and highly species-rich mixed forests (photo by A. Rigling, ETH Zürich) A recently published article examines how rising climate uncertainty is reshaping forest management...
Forests are under growing pressure – from climate extremes and invasive pests to rising wood demand and biodiversity loss. In a new article, Prof. Dr. Andreas Rigling (ETH Zurich) explains how integrated forest management can help forests navigate these changes while still providing vital ecosystem services. Rather than relying on either multifunctional or segregative strategies...
Im Gemeindewald Kopstal (Luxemburg) wurde eine Bestandsaufnahme von Baummikrohabitaten durchgeführt. Als Basis für die Aufnahmen wurde eine, an die 6-Baum-Stichprobe angepasste, Stichprobeninventur sowie der Katalog der Baummikrohabitate des European Forest Institute (EFI) verwendet. Ziel der Untersuchung war es, die Verteilung und Häufigkeit dieser Strukturen zu erfassen und ihren Zusammenhang mit dem Baumdurchmesser (BHD) zu analysieren....
“We have the need to improve biodiversity on every scale”, says Dr. Frank Krumm, researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research and co-editor of the book How to balance forestry and biodiversity conservation: A view across Europe (2020). “This is what we know from research. It’s one of our tasks. But we also...
From left to right: Alexander Tolentino Santiago, Mehmet Furkan Kahye and Prof. Luis Miranda /Credits: Ritik Gill Guest Article by Mehmet Furkan Kahye, Forest Engineer and currently enrolled in an M.Sc. in Forest IT 📍 Haselberg, Brandenburg, Germany In the heart of a Marteloscope near Haselberg close to the Polish border, a set of researchers...
Tree-related Microhabitats (TreMs) are crucial for biodiversity since they host thousands of species. TreMs are discrete habitat patches borne by trees and cover a wide range of lifespans, from days to decades to centuries. The taxa associated with such discrete and sometimes highly temporary habitat patches are likely to be sensitive to spatial distribution because...
A new article was published by Jan Kadavý from the Department of Forest Management and Applied Geoinformatics, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno (Brno, Czech Republic) and his colleges, addressing the use of marteloscopes for teaching and training related to the application retention forestry. In the following paragraph we present the...
