Important contribution by Kranti Navare on how to widen the circularity concept to products and processes from the Bioeconomy at sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Methodological advances by Pau Brunet et al. shed new light on the fossil substitution effects of wood products and practically mark our window of opportunity sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new Stuart globe lab paper Koenraad Van Meerbeek is out in Functional Ecology based on the #FunDivEUROPE exploratory platform A nice collaboration with Bart Muys Helge Bruelheide ellen desie Paul Kardol Dr. Karen Vancampenhout 🦋 @fonsvanderplas Juan Zuo et al.

New article: Pedogenic Threshold in Acidity Explains Context-Dependent Tree Species Effects on Soil Carbon frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

Congratulations to Tobias Fremout for his PhD title at KU Leuven, obtained yesterday with a thesis entitled "Supporting climate-smart restoration of tropical dry forests: a toolbox for guiding diversity-oriented decision making". kuleuven.be/doctoraatsverd…

Relevant news for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: PhD of Dr. Tobias Fremout contributed to operational DiversityForRestoration tool diversityforrestoration.org/tool.phpsuppor… , supporting species-diverse climate-smart dry forest restoration Bioversity International

Biodiversity–productivity relationships are key to nature-based climate solutions | Nature Climate Change nature.com/articles/s4155…

Local ecological knowledge has great potential to inform species selection decisions for ecological restoration, especially in tropical dry forests, where species trait databases still show large knowledge gaps, read more at dx.doi.org/10.1111/rec.13…

What is the status of forest biodiversity in Europe? What do we know about the drivers affecting it? Which actions science recommends? Our new science-policy brief on such important subject: efi.int/sites/default/…

📢Enrollment now open for our brand new edX course on #Sustainable #Trade! 🌱Learn from academic experts how to make trade sustainable & what role voluntary sustainability standards #VSS play Course start: 25 January 👉More info: edx.org/course/sustain… United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards #UN

Proud to announce our 1️⃣ Policy Brief on the topic of European forest biodiversity in our new series 👇

Today is #BiodiversityDay at #COP27 -- for anyone interested in #forest #biodiversity in #Europe, head over to our website to read our recent report on the topic! doi.org/10.36333/fs13

The #EFIMedForum kicks off with the launch of the Mediterranean Forest Research Agenda 2030! The Agenda aims to involve stakeholders in making Mediterranean #forests more #resilient in the face of #ClimateChange & demographic challenges! Explore it 👇 doi.org/10.36333/rs5

At the #EFIMedForum 2022, Bart Muys, from KU Leuven, is presenting the many interconnected challenges that #Mediterranean & its #forests are currently facing: 🔹 #ClimateChange, 🔹 Land use & land use change, 🔹 #Biodiversity levels, 🔹 The fresh #water issue, 🔹 & #fire!

“Cicular #bioeconomy for well-being opens many new #opportunity for win-wins in the #Mediterranean landscape” Bart Muys, from KU Leuven, at the #EFIMedForum 2022!

"Warning: Natural and Managed Forests are Losing their Capacity to Mitigate Climate Change" by Christian Messier, Catherine Potvin, Bart Muys, Pedro Brancalion, Robin Chazdon, Rupert Seidl, and Jürgen Bauhus Access the full Editorial here: lnkd.in/gF2z66-k

🆕In this exciting #RestorationStory, Wageningen U&R's Ajdin Starcevic takes us on a journey through the #SUPERB demo in Serbia🇷🇸, aka the European Amazon One of his 🔑 takeaways? Learning to trust local knowledge, expertise & new insights they bring to #science 🔗forest-restoration.eu/restoring-the-…

Another animated map from the series "the world, in many ways, is actually getting better": Europe today is more densely forested than it was 100+ years ago.

Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought: a new #TreeDivNet synthesis paper led by Haben Blondeel is out in Journal of Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

🎙️ Bart Muys from KU Leuven joins the 8th #MedForestWeek to discuss climate-smart #ForestManagement at the landscape scale, incorporating #biodiversity protection and #wildfire prevention. 🌡️ Participants are also hearing his insights on assisted migration at #8MFW!