Simple Summary Xyleborus beetles are tiny insects that impact forests and agriculture.
These beetles burrow into trees and crops, causing damage that affects both the …

We studied long-term effects of forest fires on the dynamics of soil fungal community along a
post-fire chronosequence in hemiboreal Scots pine stands in north-western Estonia. Effects …

Short-rotation forestry on former agricultural soils is a novel silvicultural system for producing
woody biomass and mitigating climate change through CO 2 uptake. However, tree …

Elms are important amenity trees in the European part of Russia, incl. the St. Petersburg and
Leningrad Region. The native species Ulmus glabra and U. laevis mainly grow there, on the …

The populations of European ash and its harmless fungal associate Hymenoscyphus
albidus are in decline owing to ash dieback caused by the invasive Hymenoscyphus …

Herbaria are a promising but still poorly applied information source for retrospective
microbiological studies. In order to find any evidence of the virulent European origin of ash …

In 2023, branches of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) were placed on 24 different study
sites within beech stands in the Czech Republic to study the distribution of the beech bark …

Palaeoecological studies on lake sediments and peat archives have provided fundamental
knowledge about past environments, nevertheless, a lot remains to be learned. In this thesis …

In Japan, three bark beetle species, namely Scolytus esuriens, S. chikisanii, and S.
japonicus, have been recently identified as new vectors of Dutch elm disease (DED) …

Scolytus esuriens is a vector of Dutch elm disease (DED) in Japan. However, small holes
that were presumed to be irruption or flight holes of bark beetle species other than S …