Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Canopy mortality has doubled in Europe’s temperate forests over the last three decades

  • Cornelius Senf,
  • Dirk Pflugmacher,
  • Yang Zhiqiang,
  • Julius Sebald,
  • Jan Knorn,
  • Mathias Neumann,
  • Patrick Hostert,
  • Rupert Seidl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07539-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Increases in tree mortality can signal changes in forest health, but large-scale tree mortality is difficult to quantify. Here Senf et al. show large-scale increases in forest mortality in Central Europe over the past 30 years, which were related to increasing growing stocks and temperature.