Dear all, this publication and the efforts of the Task Force could be of great interest for you. For any questions please contact directly Prof Andreas Bolte (cc) Kindest regards, Sandra Luque -----Message d'origine----- De : Andreas Bolte [mailto:andreas.bolte@thuenen.de] Envoyé : vendredi 28 août 2020 08:46 À : Andreas Bolte <andreas.bolte(a)thuenen.de> Objet : IUFRO TF FLT, key paper on FLR successes and failures (TF online survey analyses), TF coordinators' VC next Monday Dear colleagues, hope this message finds you all well. It is my great pleasure to announce to you that our key publication with the first comprehensive analyses of the TF online survey has been published yestertday in "Forests" as OA paper (see attached). Many thanks to Markus as the main author, the collaborating authors and all of you who have responded and have promoted the TF online survey (that is by the way still waiting for additional data sets!). Without you this article would not exist! You will see that the 29-pages(!) paper is a big source of information, since it includes not only a survey evaluation, but also a review of more than 100 publications on FLR. Please hare it with your colleagues dealing with FLR and AFM. We TF coordinators will have a virtual meeting on the status and plannings within the different TFs, and more intensive collaborations between the TFs. I will keep you informed about the outcome of the meeting. Many thanks for keeping me updated with your activities in the activity groups 1 to 3, and sorry for some delayed response and input from my side. Our Thünen team is quite strongly occupied with the intesive preparation of our FLR project in Ethiopia, and, off course, with the ongoing and increasing forest damages in Germany that seems to have the potential to transform our forest landscape in many regions by eliminating step-by-step our by far most important commercial tree species Norway spruce. Despite this summer was less dry and warm as 2018 and 2019 we have had still drought and heat periods in different parts. Thus the spruce bark beetle is still out of control and our major broadleaved tree species European beech is getting also more and more in problems with beech bark and splendid beetles as well as fungies attacking trees pre-disposed by drought and heat. And I am sure that this will going on for the coming years. For me this could be a turning point in forests and forestry in Central Europe that I have expected for around 2040 and not for 2020. Thus, strong and fast forest (landscape) adaptation to climate change is more needed than ever. Thus we and our TF is perfectly established in "the eye of the hurricane". Take care and keep healtly, Andreas Bolte TF coordinator --------- Prof. Dr. Andreas Bolte Institutsleiter / Head of Institute Thünen-Institut für Waldökosysteme / Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems A.-Möller-Str. 1, Haus 41/42 D-16225 Eberswalde (Germany) Tel: +49 3334 3820-344 Fax: +49 3334 3820-354 Mail: andreas.bolte(a)thuenen.de Web: www.thuenen.de ResearcherID: www.researcherid.com/rid/A-3521-2009