Are northern German Scots pine plantations climate smart? The impact of large-scale conifer planting on climate, soil and the water cycle

Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

(2021) Ulf Büntgen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Belowground consequences of converting broadleaf to conifer forest: Comparing the fine root systems of European beech and Scots pine

(2021) Agnes Förster et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests

(2021) Stef Haesen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Atmospheric aridity and apparent soil moisture drought in European forest during heatwaves

(2020) Eva M. Lansu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Forest age and water yield

(2020) Adriaan J. Teuling et al.   NATURE

A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

(2020) Bernhard Schuldt et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Drought Primarily Reduces Canopy Transpiration of Exposed Beech Trees and Decreases the Share of Water Uptake from Deeper Soil Layers

(2020) Dietmar Lüttschwager et al.   Forests

Climate-Smart Forestry: the missing link

(2020) P.J. Verkerk et al.   FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

What is Climate-Smart Forestry? A definition from a multinational collaborative process focused on mountain regions of Europe

(2020) Euan Bowditch et al.   Ecosystem Services

Thinned northern German Scots pine forests have a low carbon storage and uptake potential in comparison to naturally developing beech forests

(2020) Agnes Förster et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Have product substitution carbon benefits been overestimated? A sensitivity analysis of key assumptions.

(2019) Mark E Harmon   Environmental Research Letters

Meeting GHG reduction targets requires accounting for all forest sector emissions

(2019) Tara W Hudiburg et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Serious mismatches continue between science and policy in forest bioenergy

(2019) Michael Norton et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Realizing Mitigation Efficiency of European Commercial Forests by Climate Smart Forestry

(2018) Rasoul Yousefpour et al.   Scientific Reports

Do forests best mitigate CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere by setting them aside for maximization of carbon storage or by management for fossil fuel substitution?

(2017) Anders Taeroe et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Observational evidence for cloud cover enhancement over western European forests

(2017) Adriaan J. Teuling et al.   Nature Communications

Agricultural land use changes – a scenario-based sustainability impact assessment for Brandenburg, Germany

(2015) C. Gutzler et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Will climate change increase irrigation requirements in agriculture of Central Europe? A simulation study for Northern Germany

(2014) Jan Riediger et al.   Environmental Sciences Europe

Soil C and nutrient stores under Scots pine afforestations compared to ancient beech forests in the German Pleistocene: The role of tree species and forest history

(2013) Christoph Leuschner et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

(2010) Adriaan J. Teuling et al.   Nature Geoscience

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effect of tree species on carbon stocks in forest floor and mineral soil and implications for soil carbon inventories

(2008) Catharina J.E. Schulp et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT