Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests

Natural disturbances imperil healthy and productive forests, but quantifying their effects at large scales is challenging. Here the authors apply machine learning to disturbance records and satellite data to quantify and map European forest vulnerability to fires, windthrows, and insect outbreaks th...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Forzieri, Marco Girardello, Guido Ceccherini, Jonathan Spinoni, Luc Feyen, Henrik Hartmann, Pieter S. A. Beck, Gustau Camps-Valls, Gherado Chirici, Achille Mauri, Alessandro Cescatti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21399-7