A new ForestPaths study, written by project partners Lund University and Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke),  alongside 21 other universities and institutions spanning across 11 countries, shows the importance of Vegetation Demographic Models (VDMs) for simulating forest recovery, structure and competition dynamics, for projecting carbon cycling, with added implications for potential exploration of large-scale...

The 2025 Euroleague for Life Sciences Summer School will take place 10-16 May in Pieve Tesino, Italy. Participants will have the opportunity to gain knowledge from leading forestry experts, take part in field excursions, and engage in hands-on exercises with the EFISCEN-space model. This edition of the summer school focuses on adapting to increasing pressures from climate change and natural disturbances, as well as addressing the urgent need for...

ForestPaths released its 2025 highlights video, offering an overview of the project’s main achievements over the past year. 2025 was a busy and productive year for the project, marked by several important developments across research, tools, policy and communication. Important milestones include: The launch of version 0.5 of aiphoria  The release of the European Tree Genus Map as an open, early-access dataset The third edition...

ForestPaths wishes you and your loved ones a happy holiday season! Thank you for being a part of our journey for another year!

A ForestPaths paper by project partner VITO, together with RWTH Aachen University, Paul Scherrer Institute and Leiden University, proposes a major step forward in integrating time into Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The study introduces a framework that makes LCAs explicitly reflect when processes happen and how technologies change over time.  Traditional...

ForestPaths closes 2025 with the sixth edition of its biannual newsletter, providing you with project updates and developments from the past six months. Here are some highlights: The third ForestPaths Policy Lab, held in Berlin, Germany; ForestPaths’ Annual General Meeting, which took place in Brașov, Romania, in October The latest episode of the ForestChats podcast; The release of the new version of aiphoria; Updates...

Tree mortality is a crucial process in dynamic vegetation models, yet the representation of major mortality agents has often been limited. A ForestPaths research team at Lund University aims to address this gap through a new study published in Geoscientific Model Development. The paper introduces and evaluates a model for simulating forest damage from European spruce bark beetle (SBB, Ips typographus) outbreaks within the LPJ-GUESS dynamic vegetation...

This press release has been published by EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo. ForestPaths’ Policy Lab 3 took place in Berlin, Germany, from 19–21 November, organised by project partners Prospex Institute and hosted by Oeko Insitute. The Lab brought together a diverse group of around 15 institutions, including public bodies, academic organisations, industry representatives and civil society actors...

ForestPaths partners from Lund University co-organised this year’s LPJ-GUESS training school that took place on 19 November. The event was dedicated to building practical skills in using the LPJ-GUESS process-based dynamic vegetation-terrestrial ecosystem model. This was the third in-person edition of the training school held at Beijing Normal University, aimed at PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. This year, the training school...

A research team from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA), led by ForestPaths researchers, published a new paper titled “Response of Global Forest Management to Changes in Wood Demand” in the Global Change Biology journal. The study projects how global wood demand, harvests and forest management intensity could change under different socioeconomic...

With ForestPaths releasing the European Forest Disturbance Atlas - a dataset of annual forest disturbance maps across 38 European countries - it is also now featured on the Forest Information System for Europe (FISE). FISE is an entry point for data, information and knowledge on European forests – gathered or derived through key forest-related policy drivers.  The maps, developed by project partner Technical University of Munich (TUM), extend...

The European Forest Institute’s Mediterranean Facility (EFIMED) published the latest issue of its newsletter at the end of October. The newsletter features updates from the field of forestry, including information on new projects, research outcomes, policy recommendations, and open calls. Recent developments from ForestPaths were also highlighted. The issue included a feature on the ForestPaths annual general meeting, which took place in Brașov,...