They represent an outstanding example of relatively undisturbed, complex temperate forests and exhibit a wide spectrum of comprehensive ecological patterns and processes of pure and mixed stands of ...

A separate study analysing the contrasting patterns of water use efficiency and annual radial growth among European beech forests along the Italian peninsula found that these forests adapt ...

The scientists used a unique empirical dataset, taking data from 40 plots of mature European beech forests across the state of Lower Saxony in Germany. The research team combined data from 11 ...

This transnational property includes 93 component parts in 18 countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age, European Beech spread from a few isolated refuge areas in the Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, ...

The future of beech in Europe does not look bright. It will be severely affected by climate change, according to a new study by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research ...

received slightly less of the labeled carbon than European beech, a native species. "This could mean that in forests mixed with Douglas fir, ectomycorrhizal fungi may be less abundant," said ...