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Mediterranean forests confront certain vulnerabilities in the face of climate change, including threats from drought and wildfire. However, forests are also an important tool in global climate mitigation strategies: they play a key role in maintaining a humid mesoclimate and rainfall recycling, as well as in carbon storage, and forest resources that could be essential in providing renewable solutions to shift our reliance away from fossil-based resources.

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EUFORGEN Webinars: ash dieback and its impact on the species’ genetic diversity

Rising temperatures across Europe, extreme weather events, higher fire risk, or increased vulnerability to biotic disturbances such as pests and diseases are...
Forest near Viterbo

CMCC offers a Post Doc/Researcher position in climate change and forestry

The Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) is a scientific research center that works on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society,...
Wind and Trees 2023

Wind and Trees 2023 – The future is uncertain: wind resilient forests in a...

The 10th International Wind and Trees Conference will be hosted by the IUFRO Working Party 8.03.06, at Villa Bolasco in Castelfranco Veneto,...
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Landscape resilience in the Mediterranean

Faced with the growing impacts of climate change, our landscapes are increasingly vulnerable. Therefore, it is crucial to increase landscape resilience and...
Turkish natural landscape

Calibrating bioclimatic tolerance levels for three key Eastern Mediterranean species

Our first article from a planned series of 3 articles came out from Biodiversity and Conservation this fall: "Simulating the potential forest...
Participants at the meeting in Freising, Germany.

European projects join forces to tackle the impact of climate change on forests

Over 30 researchers from 8 EU-funded projects are working together to come up with strategies to fight climate change and deal with...
Cork forest

Supporting cork oak forests in tackling climate change

The Catalan Cork Institute Foundation is starting a demonstration project "Dissemination of new cork oak forest management techniques to improve its productivity...
Forest waterfall

PhD Fellowship opportunity on forest soil vulnerability

Originally posted on the HoliSoils website: The 2023 call for the INPhINIT fellowships is now open and includes 35 positions for early-stage...
EFIMED at COP27

The transition from knowledge to action at the heart of at COP27 Mediterranean Pavilion

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) is taking place from 6 to 18 November. On November 14, the European...
Forest soil

HoliSoils surveys on soil vulnerability to natural disturbances

Originally posted on the HoliSoils website: Holisoils launched a set of three surveys to collect expert opinions on how natural...

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EUSTAFOR calls on EU to promote global sustainable and multifunctional forestry

The FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2020 estimated that 420 million ha of forest was deforested between 1990 and 2020, with...

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