🌲 Less needles, more leaves? Our new #OptFORESTS blog by Simone Bianchi (@luke.fi) explores how increasing broadleaves like birch could boost resilience, biodiversity & carbon storage in Nordic forests.
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🌱Seeds are key to forest renewal, but not all can cope with warmer and drier conditions. Germination depends on temperature, moisture and dormancy...but #climatechange is disrupting these cues.
Discover how OptFORESTS is filling critical knowledge gaps 👇 #HorizonEU
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🌱 Working with seeds, seedlings or planting stock?
Help identify strengths and gaps in current forest reproductive material traceability systems by completing a short survey led by @optforests.bsky.social. #HorizonEU
Your experience matters!
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For long-lived, sessile organisms like trees, the ability to adjust their distribution ranges and maintain healthy populations depends on a crucial process: forest renewal. This process begins long be...
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When you picture Nordic forests, you might imagine an endless sea of conifers. But is that about to change?
Are you working with forest reproductive material? Share your experience through a short survey to help strengthen provenance information and improve future FRM traceability systems.
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🌳The upgraded #EUFGIS platform is now live! 💻
It offers enhanced tools, updated datasets and improved usability for monitoring forest genetic resources across Europe. The system provides harmonised data on more than 3,500 conservation units.
More info here: www.euforgen.org/about-us/new...
🌲Discover the new #EUFGIS platform! Join us on 16 December for a live demo of the upgraded system developed with @forgenius-eu.bsky.social.
Discover new tools, a refreshed interface & expanded data to support forest genetic resource conservation across Europe: www.euforgen.org/about-us/new...
🌲We have launched a Europe-wide stakeholder survey to help strengthen forest #resilience. Scientists, policymakers & #forest practitioners are invited to share insights on genetic diversity and forest reproductive material.
👉 Have your say for Europe’s forests!
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How do we avoid planting forests that fail in future climates?🌱
By using diverse, well-adapted seed sources. #OptFORESTS supports low-input breeding to build forests that can cope with uncertainty.🌳
Explore a new blog story on our website! #HorizonEU
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How can Europe plant forests resilient to future climate risks? OptFORESTS promotes low-input, high-diversity seed sources to support adaptable, productive forests through nature-based breeding a...
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OptFORESTS invites forest scientists, policymakers and practitioners to share insights through a new stakeholder survey, helping strengthen Europe’s forest resilience through genetic diversity and bet...
New roots for future forests 🌳 The OptFORESTS common garden in southern France brings together oaks and pines from across Europe to study climate adaptation...despite rain, rocks and tortoises! Find out more 👇 #ForestScience #HorizonEU #INRAE #ClimateAction
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🌱 New year, new stories from #OptFORESTS!
Why does forest reproductive material matter? Our latest blog explains how nurseries, regulation and cooperation shape climate-resilient #forests!
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Bruno Fady and Carine Dublineau (INRAE URFM, Avignon) describe their adventures in planting seedlings for a provenance test in southern France's Maures Mountains.
🌱 Do you work with forest reproductive material #FRM?
Share your experience in a short survey to help strengthen provenance information and improve FRM traceability across Europe.
Your input supports resilient forests and high-quality regeneration. 👉 Take part: www.optforests.eu/news-and-med...
Are you working with forest reproductive material? Share your experience through a short survey to help strengthen provenance information and improve future FRM traceability systems.
