Excited to share our new review paper on "Effect of global change drivers on carbon fluxes and resilience of European forests", co-authored by our team member Alena Havrdová. In this paper we synthesise current knowledge on how global change drivers (e.g., elevated CO2, drought, heatwave, nitrogen deposition, and understudied extremes) affect forest carbon fluxes (CO2 and CH4) and resilience. We identify key knowledge gaps and discuss priorities for future research and monitoring.

We are happy to announce that our new project has been funded by the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR). It focuses on the ongoing ruderalization of temperate oak forests – habitats that host some of the highest understorey plant diversity in the temperate zone, yet are increasingly threatened by drying and eutrophication.

We are excited to share the publication of three innovative articles that showcase our team’s cutting-edge research. Häusler et al. (2025) explore how managing light and nutrients can restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands, offering promising strategies for habitat recovery. Eusebio and Douda (2025) take a deep dive into ancient forests, using mid-Pliocene insights to predict future climate impacts, while Havrdová et al. (2025) reveal the challenges posed by an introduced pathogen and environmental change through a study of declining herbaceous species richness in wetland forests. Together, these studies underscore our commitment to advancing ecological understanding and developing sustainable conservation practices.

Rveg is an open-source package extension for the R statistical programming language, designed to facilitate the efficient and straightforward digitization of phytosociological relevés (vegetation plot observations) into plain comma-separated values (CSV) format. This format is easily importable into the R environment for data editing and analysis.