Europäische Wälder stehen unter zunehmendem Druck durch die durch globalen Wandel bedingte Zunahme von Invasionen und Epidemien durch Insekten und Krankheiten | European forests are under increasing pressure from global change-driven invasions and accelerating epidemics by insects and diseases
2025
Hartmann, Henrik | Battisti, Andrea | Brockerhoff, Eckehard, G | Bełka, Marta | Hurling, Rainer | Jactel, Hervé | Oliva, Jonàs | Rousselet, Jerome | Terhonen, Eeva | Ylioja, Tiina | Melin, Markus | Olson, Åke | de Prins, Freja | Zhang, Ke | Stein Åslund, Matilda | Davydenko, Kateryna | Menkis, Audrius | Elfstrand, Malin | Zúbrik, Milan | Kunca, Andrej | Galko, Juraj | Paulin, Márton | Csóka, György | Hoch, Gernot | Pernek, Milan | Preidl, Sebastian | Fischer, Rico | Georg-August-University of Göttingen = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd) | Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL | Poznan University of Life Sciences (Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu) (PULS) | Northwest German Forest Research Institute | Biodiversité, Gènes & Communautés (BioGeCo) ; Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Universitat de Lleida | Zoologie forestière (URZF) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) | Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences = Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU) | National Forest Centre - Národné lesnícke centrum [Zvolen] | University of West Hungary [Sopron] | Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW) | Croatian Forest Research Institute | Julius Kühn-Institut - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. <div><p>Rising temperatures attributed to anthropogenic climate change have held a firm grip on European forests for over two decades now and disturbances have increased substantially, mainly from insects and pathogens. Empirical evidence suggests a direct linkage between rising temperatures and increasing damage from native insects. Although the rapid spread of non-native invasive pests and pathogens is mainly driven by globalized trade and lacking tree species adaptation to locally new threats, climate change favors rapid range expansion of some invasive pests. Here, we present some examples of tree-insect-pathogen interactions in native and non-native systems that have experienced climate change-induced severe outbreak dynamics. We document the spread of damaging insects and pathogens into previously climatically unsuitable regions and underscore the severe forest damages such species distribution shifts can cause. Although systematic assessments are still pending, the information provided here by multiple independent empirical evidences is highly valuable for identifying some of the most pressing issues in European forest protection. Our work can guide for-est protection agencies in preparing mitigating strategies for upcoming decades.</p></div>
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