Drivers of seedling emergence and early growth of 12 European oak species: Results from a cross-continental experiment
2026, Leverkus, Alexandro B., Medina, María, Lázaro-González, Alba, Levy, Laura, Lorente-Casalini, Olivia, Reyes Martín, Marino P., Andivia, Enrique, Bizzarri, Alessandro, Böhlenius, Henrik, Cambria, Vito E., Cocozza, Claudia, Cvjetković, Branislav, de Dato, Giovanbattista, Ehrenbergerová, Lenka, Ferus, Peter, Gómez-Aparicio, Lorena, Hampe, Arndt, Hanssen, Kjersti Holt, Jakubowski, Marcin, Kerkez Janković, Ivona, Klisz, Marcin, Kowalkowski, Wojciech, Kremer, Klaus, Lazarevic, Jelena, Lazdiņa, Dagnija, Lingua, Emanuele, Löf, Magnus, Lucas-Borja, Manuel E., Łukowski, Adrian, Maia, Paula, Mairota, Paola, Maltoni, Alberto, Mariotti, Barbara, Marzano, Raffaella, Mondanelli, Lucia, Montagnoli, Antonio, Monteverdi, Maria Cristina, Navarro Reyes, Francisco B., Oliet, Juan A., Patrício, Maria S., Poduška, Zoran, Popovic, Vladan, Puchałka, Radosław, Robakowski, Piotr, Sewerniak, Piotr, Ureña-Lara, Carmen, Villar-Salvador, Pedro, Witzell, Johanna, Anselmetto, Nicolò, Bauhus, Jürgen, Benavides, Raquel, Bolzon, Paola, Carbonero Muñoz, María D., Castro, Jorge, Chiatante, Donato, Corticeiro, Sofia, De Sanctis, Michele, Devetaković, Jovana, Dūmiņš, Kārlis, Sundheim, Fløistad Inger, Jiménez Morales, M. Noelia, Jovanović, Sanja, Kanjevac, Branko, Kroon, Johan, La Montagna, Dario, Malik, Roman, Martiník, Antonín, Matías, Luis, McClory, Ryan, Meloni, Fabio, Merino Ceballos, Manuel, Moreno Llorca, Ricardo A., Nonić, Marina, Nunes, Luís, Plaza-Álvarez, Pedro Antonio, Proietti, Roberta, Puccinelli, Stefano, Rey Benayas, José María, Szczerba, Marek, Tomczak, Arkadiusz, Topalovic, Ana, Vendiņa, Viktorija
Local site conditions reduce interspecific differences in climate sensitivity between native and non-native pines
2023, Klisz, Marcin, Puchałka, Radosław, Jakubowski, Marcin, Koprowski, Marcin, Netsvetov, Maksym, Prokopuk, Yulia, Jevšenak, Jernej
Ex situ germination of European acorns: data from 93 batches of 12 Quercus species
2024, Medina, María, Reyes-Martín, Marino P., Levy, Laura, Lázaro-González, Alba, Andivia, Enrique, Annighöfer, Peter, Assaad, Farhah, Bauhus, Jürgen, Benavides, Raquel, Böhlenius, Henrik, Cambria, Vito E., Carbonero, María D., Castro, Jorge, Chalatashvili, Akaki, Chiatante, Donato, Cocozza, Claudia, Corticeiro, Sofia, Lazdina, Dagnija, De Dato, Giovanbattista, De Sanctis, Michele, Devetaković, Jovana, Drossler, Lars, Ehrenbergerová, Lenka, Ferus, Peter, Gómez-Aparicio, Lorena, Hampe, Arndt, Hanssen, Kjersti H., Heinze, Berthold, Jakubowski, Marcin, Jiménez, María N., Kanjevac, Branko, Keizer, Jan J., Kerkez-Janković, Ivona, Klisz, Marcin, Kowalkowski, Wojciech, Kremer, Klaus, Kroon, Johan, La Montagna, Dario, Lazarević, Jelena, Lingua, Emanuele, Lucas-Borja, Manuel E., Łukowski, Adrian, Löf, Magnus, Maia, Paula, Mairota, Paola, Maltoni, Alberto, Mariotti, Barbara, Martiník, Antonín, Marzano, Raffaella, Matías, Luis, Mcclory, Ryan W., Merino, Manuel, Mondanelli, Lucia, Montagnoli, Antonio, Monteverdi, Maria C., Moreno-Llorca, Ricardo, Navarro, Francisco B., Nonić, Marina, Nunes, Luís, Oliet, Juan A., Patrício, Maria S., Poduška, Zoran, Popovic, Vladan, Puchałka, Radosław, Rey-Benayas, José M., Robakowski, Piotr, Sewerniak, Piotr, Szczerba, Marek, Ureña-Lara, Carmen, Vendina, Viktorija, Villar-Salvador, Pedro, Witzell, Johanna, Leverkus, Alexandro B.
Abstract Key message We provide data on seedlot germination potential—a key trait related to regeneration—of 12 oak species. Germination was tested at the University of Granada following international protocols with 8985 acorns from 93 batches and 16 countries across Europe. Data on germination probability, acorn origin, mass, and moisture content measured on another 4544 acorns are available at https://doi.org/10.30827/Digibug.87318. Associated metadata are available at https://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/a742c6d8-bc37-4ca2-8b81-2447c5a8858d.
Spatiotemporal Variability of Dendroecological Indicators in Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur L.) Tree-Rings Across Europe in Relation to Species Distribution Models
2025, Popa, Andrei, Jevšenak, Jernej, Dyderski, Marcin, Puchałka, Radosław, Buras, Allan, Popa, Ionel, Wilmking, Martin, Kalisty, Aleksandra, Roibu, Catalin‐Constantin, Jakubowski, Marcin, Thurm, Eric, Šenfeldr, Martin, Smiljanić, Marko, van der Maaten, Ernst, Esper, Jan, Martinez del Castillo, Edurne, Treml, Vaclav, Tumajer, Jan, Zlatanov, Tzvetan, Matisons, Roberts, Florenta, Gheorghe, Florenta, Veronica, Netsvetov, Maksym, Grati, Vladislav, Burger, Andreas, Janecka, Karolina, Kostić, Saša, Pilch, Kamil, Jansone, Diāna, Liepiņa, Agnese, Prokopuk, Yulia, Sylenko, Oleksandr, Árvai, Mátyás, Bräuning, Achim, Marques, Cristina, Häusser, Martin, Horváth, Emil, Jeleń, Jakub, Kaczka, Ryszard, Kern, Zoltán, Kolář, Tomáš, Koprowski, Marcin, Metslaid, Sandra, Morgós, András, Khodosovtsev, Oleksandr, Potapov, Aleksei, Rybníček, Michal, Sochová, Irena, Sohar, Kristina, Budzhak, Vasyl, Zin, Ewa, Schneider, Tassilo, Gil, Wojciech, Klisz, Marcin
ABSTRACT Climate is a primary, but non‐stationary, driver of tree growth. Climate change is altering the sensitivity of forest growth to water availability and temperature over time. It is considered that pedunculate oak ( Quercus robur L.) will cope with the changing climatic conditions in Europe in the near future. However, while species distribution models project expansion zones, they also identify reductions in occurrence at the dry and warm distribution margins. Whereas species distribution models primarily rely on occurrence data, tree rings—given their long‐term perspective and their use in empirical models—can provide a mechanistic view of forest growth dynamics, including temporally changing climate responses. Increased climate sensitivity and growth synchrony are key dendroecological indicators of tree stress. Here, we used an unprecedented network of 150 Q. robur sites (over 3300 trees), covering the full projected range of contracting to persistent areas across Europe, to assess the dendroecological indicators over recent decades in relation to species distribution model predictions. We reveal that oaks in areas projected to experience range contraction exhibited greater sensitivity to current growing season climatic conditions, whereas those in persistence areas responded more strongly to previous season conditions. Growth synchrony among trees was higher in the contraction areas, but showed no significant increasing trend over the last 70 years, as expected from ecotone theory. Temporal shifts in climate sensitivity were stronger for temperature and vapor pressure deficit in the persistence areas, whereas the climatic water balance gained importance in the contraction zones. These findings suggest that Q. robur growth is not yet being severely affected by climate change, and that the species is currently coping well with the climate changes, even in regions with projected range contractions, thereby challenging statistically derived scenarios of range shift based on species distribution models.
Correction: Ex situ germination of European acorns: data from 93 batches of 12 Quercus species
2025, Medina, María, Reyes-Martín, Marino P., Levy, Laura, Lázaro-González, Alba, Andivia, Enrique, Annighöfer, Peter, Assaad, Farhah, Bauhus, Jürgen, Benavides, Raquel, Böhlenius, Henrik, Cambria, Vito E., Carbonero, María D., Castro, Jorge, Chalatashvili, Akaki, Chiatante, Donato, Cocozza, Claudia, Corticeiro, Sofia, Lazdina, Dagnija, De Dato, Giovanbattista, De Sanctis, Michele, Devetaković, Jovana, Drossler, Lars, Ehrenbergerová, Lenka, Ferus, Peter, Gómez-Aparicio, Lorena, Hampe, Arndt, Hanssen, Kjersti H., Heinze, Berthold, Jakubowski, Marcin, Jiménez, María N., Kanjevac, Branko, Keizer, Jan J., Kerkez-Janković, Ivona, Klisz, Marcin, Kowalkowski, Wojciech, Kremer, Klaus, Kroon, Johan, La Montagna, Dario, Lazarević, Jelena, Lingua, Emanuele, Lucas-Borja, Manuel E., Łukowski, Adrian, Löf, Magnus, Maia, Paula, Mairota, Paola, Maltoni, Alberto, Mariotti, Barbara, Martiník, Antonín, Marzano, Raffaella, Matías, Luis, Mcclory, Ryan W., Merino, Manuel, Mondanelli, Lucia, Montagnoli, Antonio, Monteverdi, Maria C., Moreno-Llorca, Ricardo, Navarro, Francisco B., Nonić, Marina, Nunes, Luís, Oliet, Juan A., Patrício, Maria S., Poduška, Zoran, Popovic, Vladan, Puchałka, Radosław, Rey-Benayas, José M., Robakowski, Piotr, Sewerniak, Piotr, Szczerba, Marek, Ureña-Lara, Carmen, Vendina, Viktorija, Villar-Salvador, Pedro, Witzell, Johanna, Leverkus, Alexandro B.
Abstract Key message We provide data on seedlot germination potential—a key trait related to regeneration—of 12 oak species. Germination was tested at the University of Granada following international protocols with 8985 acorns from 93 batches and 16 countries across Europe. Data on germination probability, acorn origin, mass, and moisture content measured on another 4544 acorns are available at https://doi.org/10.30827/Digibug.87318. Associated metadata are available at https://metadata-afs.nancy.inra.fr/geonetwork/srv/fre/catalog.search#/metadata/a742c6d8-bc37-4ca2-8b81-2447c5a8858d.
Incorporating high-resolution climate, remote sensing and topographic data to map annual forest growth in central and eastern Europe
2024, Jevšenak, Jernej, Klisz, Marcin, Mašek, Jiří, Čada, Vojtěch, Janda, Pavel, Svoboda, Miroslav, Vostarek, Ondřej, Treml, Vaclav, van der Maaten, Ernst, Popa, Andrei, Popa, Ionel, van der Maaten-Theunissen, Marieke, Zlatanov, Tzvetan, Scharnweber, Tobias, Ahlgrimm, Svenja, Stolz, Juliane, Sochová, Irena, Roibu, Cătălin-Constantin, Pretzsch, Hans, Schmied, Gerhard, Uhl, Enno, Kaczka, Ryszard, Wrzesiński, Piotr, Šenfeldr, Martin, Jakubowski, Marcin, Tumajer, Jan, Wilmking, Martin, Obojes, Nikolaus, Rybníček, Michal, Lévesque, Mathieu, Potapov, Aleksei, Basu, Soham, Stojanović, Marko, Stjepanović, Stefan, Vitas, Adomas, Arnič, Domen, Metslaid, Sandra, Neycken, Anna, Prislan, Peter, Hartl, Claudia, Ziche, Daniel, Horáček, Petr, Krejza, Jan, Mikhailov, Sergei, Světlík, Jan, Kalisty, Aleksandra, Kolář, Tomáš, Lavnyy, Vasyl, Hordo, Maris, Oberhuber, Walter, Levanič, Tom, Mészáros, Ilona, Schneider, Lea, Lehejček, Jiří, Shetti, Rohan, Bošeľa, Michal, Copini, Paul, Koprowski, Marcin, Sass-Klaassen, Ute, Izmir, Şule Ceyda, Bakys, Remigijus, Entner, Hannes, Esper, Jan, Janecka, Karolina, Martinez del Castillo, Edurne, Verbylaite, Rita, Árvai, Mátyás, de Sauvage, Justine Charlet, Čufar, Katarina, Finner, Markus, Hilmers, Torben, Kern, Zoltán, Novak, Klemen, Ponjarac, Radenko, Puchałka, Radosław, Schuldt, Bernhard, Škrk Dolar, Nina, Tanovski, Vladimir, Zang, Christian, Žmegač, Anja, Kuithan, Cornell, Metslaid, Marek, Thurm, Eric, Hafner, Polona, Krajnc, Luka, Bernabei, Mauro, Bojić, Stefan, Brus, Robert, Burger, Andreas, D'Andrea, Ettore, Đorem, Todor, Gławęda, Mariusz, Gričar, Jožica, Gutalj, Marko, Horváth, Emil, Kostić, Saša, Matović, Bratislav, Merela, Maks, Miletić, Boban, Morgós, András, Paluch, Rafał, Pilch, Kamil, Rezaie, Negar, Rieder, Julia, Schwab, Niels, Sewerniak, Piotr, Stojanović, Dejan, Ullmann, Tobias, Waszak, Nella, Zin, Ewa, Skudnik, Mitja, Oštir, Krištof, Rammig, Anja, Buras, Allan