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Impacts on and damage to European forests from the 2018–2022 heat and drought events
Florian Knutzen
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Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Paul Averbeck
iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), Forststraße 7, 76829 Landau, Germany
Caterina Barrasso
Chair of Computational Landscape Ecology, Technische Universität Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) Dresden/Leipzig, Germany
Laurens M. Bouwer
Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Institute of Geography, University of Hamburg, Bundesstraße 55, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Barry Gardiner
Chair of Forestry Economics and Forest Planning, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacherstr. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany
José M. Grünzweig
Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
Sabine Hänel
Faculty of Agriculture/Environment/Chemistry, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Pillnitzer Platz 2, 01326 Dresden, Germany
Karsten Haustein
Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Institute for Meteorology, Leipzig University, Stephanstr. 3, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Marius Rohde Johannessen
School of Business, University of South-Eastern Norway, PO Box 4, 3199 Borre, Norway
Stefan Kollet
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften, Agrosphäre (IBG-3), Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany
Mortimer M. Müller
Institute of Silviculture, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria
Joni-Pekka Pietikäinen
Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Karolina Pietras-Couffignal
Eberswalde Forest Competence Centre (LFE), Landeskompetenzzentrum Forst Eberswalde (LFE), Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, Alfred-Möller-Straße 1, 16225 Eberswalde, Germany
Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, ul. Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
Joaquim G. Pinto
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Troposphere Research (IMKTRO), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Diana Rechid
Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Efi Rousi
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Member of the Leibniz Association, PO Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Ana Russo
Faculdade de Ciências, Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL), Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal
CEF – Forest Research Centre, Associate Laboratory TERRA, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Laura Suarez-Gutierrez
Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, CNRS, 75005 Paris, France
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Sarah Veit
Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS), Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Fischertwiete 1, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Institute of Geography and Geoecology (IFGG), Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Julian Wendler
Chair of Computational Landscape Ecology, Technische Universität Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Elena Xoplaki
Department of Geography and Center for International Development and Environmental Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Senckenbergstr. 1, 35390 Giessen, Germany
Daniel Gliksman
Chair of Computational Landscape Ecology, Technische Universität Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Institute for Hydrology and Meteorology, Chair of Meteorology, Technische Universität Dresden, Pienner Str. 23, 01737 Tharandt, Germany
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Our research, involving 22 European scientists, investigated drought and heat impacts on forests in 2018–2022. Findings reveal that climate extremes are intensifying, with central Europe being most severely impacted. The southern region showed resilience due to historical drought exposure, while northern and Alpine areas experienced emerging or minimal impacts. The study highlights the need for region-specific strategies, improved data collection, and sustainable practices to safeguard forests.
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