Very cool field course on forest restoration (focus on deadwood+soils) last week. Organized by #Priodiversity project in Evo (also a CS area in @safenet-eu.bsky.social).
Great to visit the Evo restoration experiment and Kotinen old-growth. My highlight: reactivating my soil knowledge (yay podzols)

That's pretty cool to see, just saw the northernmost point of that a few weeks ago!

And importantly, big thank you to the colleagues from Transilvania University of Brașov who showed me their beautiful forests and interesting research sites. Most of them are not on BlueSky but @mihaidanielnita.bsky.social is and he deserves extra mention for taking some of the pictures I used here.

Finally, if you work with forest data, models etc. but do not have a field component in your work, I encourage you to take any possible opportunity to get out in the forest with field-savvy people. Seeing forest dynamics with reality is essential to understanding what data and models tell you.

And a question at the heart of @safenet-eu.bsky.social - how will all of this, together with human actions in surrounding managed areas affect forest-dwelling species and what could we do to support biodiversity in these forests?

Spruce bark beetle is present and benefiting from climate change, but there are also other complex factors (e.g. winter droughts) at work here, affecting all tree species, even the majestic old firs. Quite excited to see how these dynamics play out in the #iLand model, once we have it set up.

A rare field day, getting to know the forests of our @safenet-eu.bsky.social case study area in Romania, near Brasov. Impactful to see the shifts in species dominance already happening. Spruce and, crucially, Silver Fir are not doing well, Beech is gaining importance even at higher elevations.

Hey #plantecologists - question for you: I am pretty sure this is Veratrum album, which I thought is a species of open areas e.g. alpine meadows. Really surprised to see it in a closed canopy mature beech forest. Does it occur in forests too or what's up here?
Location: Postăvarul massif, Romania.

Great start to my short visit to beautiful Brasov as part of @safenet-eu.bsky.social - very excited to work on the data to set up a new iLand model landscape and even more excited to get to see the local forests!

Published today in newly launched ForestsMonitor Journal: "Building virtual forest landscapes to support forest management: the challenge of parameterization" led by @marco-mina.bsky.social.
A great resource for iLand users and landscape modellers more general!
Read here: doi.org/10.62320/fm....

Excited to have arrived at @safenet-eu.bsky.social Kick-Off and ready to meet colleagues from all over Europe.

Not promising to bike to all the project meetings, but happy that it was possible here.

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Really not planning to use this account for non-work/science things - but I just cannot resist a #siltakerho