Europe-wide satellite data reveal disproportionate biomass losses following widespread droughts, windstorms and insect outbreaks in biomass-rich forests. The...

Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has caused widespread soil acidification in European forests, particularly on nutrient-poor sandy soils, reducing …

The protein kinase PtoCPK3 regulates drought adaptation by lignin metabolism in Populus.

Long-term carbon sequestration as woody biomass in oaks is decoupled from photosynthesis and more sensitive to climate change.

Canada’s forest disturbance costs have been rising quickly. This Comment proposes that silviculture must be reframed as a risk mitigation tool under an ‘avoided costs’ framework, as proactive investme...

Pre-announcement of a first FOREST Joint Call for proposals in 2026 FORESTPathways Building Knowledge and Solutions for Resilient Forests and Sustainable Forest-Based Futures The European Partnership ...

Dans un contexte de réchauffement et de perte de biodiversité, des associations réclament une baisse des prélèvements de bois. L’Office national des forêts défend la nécessité des coupes et trouve ces...

Plant community properties affect ecosystem functioning via energy fluxes in food webs, with the leaf and root resource economics of dominant tree species controlling soil food web multifunctionality.

Analyses of large-scale, multitaxa and long-term thermophilization patterns in forests, grasslands and alpine summits across Europe provide insight into shifts in community composition among different...

Using wood in cascading applications provides stronger near-term cooling benefits through material substitution than sending it directly to bioenergy, while also offering temporary carbon storage acco...

A fast-growing microbial community under elevated CO2 exacerbates microbial carbon and phosphorous limitation, intensifying plant-microbe competition and weakening carbon sequestration in mature fores...

The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union (EU), has long sought to improve the monitoring of one of Europe’s critical resources, its forests. Forests and the pressures they fac...

Wildfires, insect outbreaks, and storms cause large pulses of tree mortality. Climate change amplifies these forest disturbances, yet their future magnitude and extent remain uncertain. Here, we simul...

Scientific Data - XyloDensMap: a georeferenced dataset for the wood density of 110,000 trees from 156 European species in France

This study reported widespread declines in resilience after multi-year droughts and showed that biodiversity and climate strongly shape forest resilience after multi-year droughts, but human footprint...

Wooded environments release organic compounds that seem to improve respiratory health, but the magnitude and mechanism of the effect remains unclear.

The transport of aerosols from distant fires in deforested and savannah regions supplies phosphorus to undisturbed Amazon rainforests and influences their productivity, according to modelled phosphoru...

Microbes living in bark can process the greenhouse gases methane, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide

Recent studies suggest that microbes inhabit tree bark, yet little is known about their identities, functions, and environmental roles. Here we reveal, through gene-centric and genome-resolved metagen...

The extreme hot and dry conditions of 2023 reduced soil respiration and enhanced net forest carbon sequestration in Canada, offsetting wildfire emissions, according to satellite-based and in situ obse...

Le Conseil d’analyse économique dévoile une méthode permettant d’estimer le prix des multiples services rendus par la forêt, comme le rôle de puits de carbone ou la protection de la biodiversité. Ces ...

This Review highlights how terrestrial laser scanning is transforming forest research by enabling highly detailed 3D measurements of trees, supporting applications in forest ecology, carbon monitoring, and biodiversity assessment.

Evidence is provided for plasticity between symbiotrophic and saprotrophic lifestyles of the ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungus Piloderma croceum associated with Quercus robur L., indicating a role for deadw...

Climate parameters show negative correlations with B. burgdorferi infection prevalence but low impact on uninfected tick density.

Biodiversity-friendly landscapes help prevent species loss in farmland by inhibiting more than facilitating global change winners.

Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evalua...

A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...

In full sun, tropical leaves can become much hotter than the surrounding air. Their ability to cope can be a matter of life or death.

CARTE BLANCHE. L’historien Stéphane Van Damme salue, dans sa Carte blanche au « Monde », la publication d’une enquête collective, « Histoire de l’interdisciplinarité ». Un thème jusqu’ici peu exploré ...

Timber cities, using new engineered wood products for constructing homes and commercial buildings, could transform urban construction. This article looks at how demand for wood might impact current ha...

The degradation of dead wood by basidiomycete fungi relies on Fenton chemistry under aerobic conditions. Here, Röllig et al. show that these fungi can also thrive and degrade wood in anoxia, switching...

Up-recycling waste wood as a source for producing materials is crucial for sustainability. Here, the authors discover that in situ thermal curing of melamine formaldehyde resin with natural wood enhan...

Microplastic entering forest soil primarily originates from atmospheric deposition and litter fall, suggesting high diffuse input of microplastics in forest ecosystems, according to an analysis of soi...

Tree cover gains in the moist tropics (1982–2015) were 56% naturally regenerated forests and 27% managed tree systems, with forest type influencing carbon recovery. Effective forest restoration requir...

A global analysis reveals regional trends of net forest ageing but also that widespread stand-replacing disturbances, such as fire and harvest, are driving declining forest age in many areas, often ac...

Microbiome analyses of living trees show that a single tree can host approximately one trillion bacteria, with microbial communities distinctly partitioned between heartwood and sapwood and with minim...

In this Review, Franco and colleagues explore the structural and functional diversity of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), their mechanism of action, recent advances in AMP design and optimization, and t...

The golden oyster mushroom has gone rogue, displacing native fungi that live in dead trees

Many symbioses involve one host species having several mutualist partners, yet theory predicts that unrelated symbionts lead to destabilizing conflict through competition for host resources. We combin...

This study uses comparative genomics and phylogenetics to analyse the distribution and evolution of key enzymes involved in the catabolism of lignin-related aromatic compounds in the bacterial and fun...

Planting diverse forests is widely promoted as a way to counter climate change and improve ecosystem functioning. This study finds that the spatial arrangement of tree species matters: forests with hi...

A positive relationship between fine root carbon and soil organic carbon stocks is well established in grasslands, particularly at greater depths, but the relationship varies across forests, based on ...

Forests with higher tree species richness show greater photosynthesis by capturing more sunlight, highlighting the essential role of biodiversity in enhancing carbon uptake and supporting the global c...

Manipulative study on 118 soils shows that MAOC formation increases with existing MAOC concentration and saturation deficit.

Mycorrhizal symbioses are associated to tree diversity differently across latitudes and environments.

Inert mineral kaolinite and the energy/nutrient-rich olivine change microbial community structure, stimulate the antibiotic resistance genes, and regulate the degradation of complex organic matter, ac...