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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 02/04/2026

The full project website of @trees4adapt.bsky.social is now live! Check it out at trees4adapt.eu to learn more about our activities - and subscribe to our newsletter! Thank you @erinninnovation.bsky.social for the great website! #NatureBasedSolutions #MissionClimateAdapt @mip4adapt.bsky.social

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 07/10/2025

Very cool field course on forest restoration (focus on deadwood+soils) last week. Organized by #Priodiversity project in Evo (also a CS area in @safenet-eu.bsky.social). Great to visit the Evo restoration experiment and Kotinen old-growth. My highlight: reactivating my soil knowledge (yay podzols)

Old-growth forest, dominated by mature spruce trees. A lot of downed deadwood and many young trees in the foreground.

A group of people wearing orange safety vests, standing in a birch forest and discussing

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 18/08/2025

That's pretty cool to see, just saw the northernmost point of that a few weeks ago!

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025

And importantly, big thank you to the colleagues from Transilvania University of Brașov who showed me their beautiful forests and interesting research sites. Most of them are not on BlueSky but @mihaidanielnita.bsky.social is and he deserves extra mention for taking some of the pictures I used here.

A selfie of three people on a mountain top in front of Romanian flag. Behind them a far view into a landscape and blue sky.

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025

Finally, if you work with forest data, models etc. but do not have a field component in your work, I encourage you to take any possible opportunity to get out in the forest with field-savvy people. Seeing forest dynamics with reality is essential to understanding what data and models tell you.

Two people next to very large tree which also has a dendrometer device installed.

A person on a ladder checking a wildlife observation camera on a tree while a second person secures the ladder

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025

And a question at the heart of @safenet-eu.bsky.social - how will all of this, together with human actions in surrounding managed areas affect forest-dwelling species and what could we do to support biodiversity in these forests?

A spruce seedling growing atop a polypore on a big downed log.

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025

Spruce bark beetle is present and benefiting from climate change, but there are also other complex factors (e.g. winter droughts) at work here, affecting all tree species, even the majestic old firs. Quite excited to see how these dynamics play out in the #iLand model, once we have it set up.

Several dead standing and lying spruce trees. Some living spruce trees one with a broken top. A forested slope in the background, with some dead trees.

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025

A rare field day, getting to know the forests of our @safenet-eu.bsky.social case study area in Romania, near Brasov. Impactful to see the shifts in species dominance already happening. Spruce and, crucially, Silver Fir are not doing well, Beech is gaining importance even at higher elevations.

A forest picture. A beech tree in sunlight, growing below a canopy of spruce and fir trees. Some dead spruces in the background. Ferns and other understorey plants in the foreground.

Two people descending a steep rocky slope in a forest

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025

Hey #plantecologists - question for you: I am pretty sure this is Veratrum album, which I thought is a species of open areas e.g. alpine meadows. Really surprised to see it in a closed canopy mature beech forest. Does it occur in forests too or what's up here? Location: Postăvarul massif, Romania.

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 11/06/2025

Great start to my short visit to beautiful Brasov as part of @safenet-eu.bsky.social - very excited to work on the data to set up a new iLand model landscape and even more excited to get to see the local forests!

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 28/02/2025

Published today in newly launched ForestsMonitor Journal: "Building virtual forest landscapes to support forest management: the challenge of parameterization" led by @marco-mina.bsky.social. A great resource for iLand users and landscape modellers more general! Read here: doi.org/10.62320/fm....

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 24/02/2025

Excited to have arrived at @safenet-eu.bsky.social Kick-Off and ready to meet colleagues from all over Europe. Not promising to bike to all the project meetings, but happy that it was possible here.

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Katharina Albrich @albrichk.eurosky.social · 24/01/2025

Jos näet, postaa eteenpäin omalla siltakuvallasi. #pyöräilytaivas Really not planning to use this account for non-work/science things - but I just cannot resist a #siltakerho

A drop-bar bicycle standing on a bridge, in the background a river and trees along the riverside.

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