Tag Archives: Forests

Forest fire risk in Brandenburg increases

By | August 26, 2025
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A study by the Technical University of Berlin shows that climate change is significantly increasing the risk of forest fires in Brandenburg, particularly due to monoculture coniferous forests and human influences. The research, published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, analyzes forest fire sensitivity under current and future climatic conditions. The study, conducted by a team led by master's graduate Katharina Horn, used geodata such as […] Climate change increases… Read more »

Industrial forests as fire accelerants: New study shows increased risk of megafires

By | August 21, 2025
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A recent study by the University of Utah, the University of California, Berkeley, and the United States Forest Service shows that industrially managed forests pose a significantly higher risk of severe wildfires than public forests. The probability of megafires is almost one and a half times higher on privately owned industrial land, due to denser tree stands and continuous vegetation. These conditions promote rapid… Read more »

Forests can “think”: Trees control their coexistence for optimal coexistence

By | February 27, 2025
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Credits: Valeria Boltneva, pexels

Why so many tree species coexist in species-rich forests and how this relates to specific spatial patterns of tree species has long been a subject of discussion in ecology. Clarifying this question is important because it allows for valuable conclusions to be drawn about the stability of species-rich forests. An international team of scientists led by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has discovered unexpected patterns in… Read more »

Confirmed again: Species-rich forests bind more CO2 than monoculture forests

By | February 26, 2025
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Credits: Chakkree_Chantakad, pixabay

Forests with a diversity of tree species exhibit greater aboveground carbon storage and carbon fluxes compared to monocultures, according to an international study led by the University of Freiburg. For the study, published in Global Change Biology, researchers analyzed data from the world's longest-running experiment on the diversity of tropical tree species. Forests with a diversity of tree species can significantly… Read more »