Andreea Petronela Spinu

University of Freiburg | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg · Institute of Silviculture/Chair of Silviculture

Timber‐oriented forest management profoundly alters forest structure and composition, with complex effects on associated biodiversity. However, while species' responses to forest management and resulting structural characteristics have been the subject of numerous studies, direct and indirect effects that cascade through trophic levels are rarely d...

Tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) have been promoted as indicators of forest biodiversity and to guide conservation practices. Ensuring the provision of diverse TreMs in the long term is crucial for the survival of many forest-dwelling species. Yet, this task is challenging in the absence of information regarding TreM dynamics. We analysed the tem...

Selection of living habitat trees in the multiple-use forests of temperate Europe is commonly done on the basis of their tree-related microhabitats (TreMs). TreM occurrence is largely determined by the dimension, vitality and species identity of the habitat tree. Thus, TreM assemblages and associated forest-dwelling species will be affected by chan...

Retention of structural elements such as deadwood and habitat trees at the level of forest stands has been promoted to integrate biodiversity conservation into multiple-use forest management. The conservation value of habitat trees is largely determined by the presence, richness, and abundance of tree-related microhabitats (TreMs). Since TreMs are...

The European biodiversity and forest strategies rely on forest sustainable management (SFM) to conserve forest biodiversity. However, current sustainability assessments hardly account for direct biodiversity indicators. We focused on forest multi-taxon biodiversity to: i) gather and map the existing information; ii) identify knowledge and research...

Understanding temporal and spatial variations in historical disturbance regimes across intact, continuous, and altitudinally diverse primary forest landscapes is imperative to help forecast forest development and adapt forest management in an era of rapid environmental change. Because few complex primary forest landscapes remain in Europe, previous...

The European Dendroecological Fieldweek (EDF) is a one-week course that takes place every year at varying locations in Europe according to the principle “Bring tree-ring research to the people”. The EDF welcomes early-career to advanced researchers, but also forest service and other federal agency employees and private people interested in tree-rin...

Das im Zuge der jüngsten Dürrejahre beobachtete Absterben von Rotbuchen lässt befürchten, dass diese wichtige einheimische Baumart künftigen Trockenperioden nicht gewachsen ist. Um das Ausmaß des Absterbens in den Dürrejahren 2018 bis 2019 genauer zu quantifizieren und das Verständnis der Mortalitätsursachen zu verbessern, wurden im Jahr 2020 zahlr...

Retention of habitat trees is a common biodiversity conservation practice in continuous cover forests of temperate Europe. Commonly, living habitat trees are selected on the basis of their tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) such as cavities or crown deadwood. Owing to the increasing frequency and intensity of climate change-related disturbances, ha...

The impact of forest management on biodiversity is difficult to scrutinize along gradients of management. A step towards analyzing the impact of forest management on biodiversity is comparisons between managed and primary forests. The standardized typology of tree-related microhabitats (TreMs) is a multi-taxon indicator used to quantify forest biod...

The high tree mortality during the dry and hot years of 2018–2019 in Europe has triggered concerns on the future of European beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) forests under climate change and raised questions as to whether forest management may increase tree mortality. We compared long‐term mortality rates of beech between managed and unmanaged stands in...

Research Highlights: Past disturbances occurred naturally in primary forests in the Southern Carpathians. High-and moderate-severity disturbances shaped the present structure of these ecosystems, which regenerated successfully without forestry interventions. Background and Objectives: Windstorms and bark beetle outbreaks have recently affected larg...

The shift from shade‐intolerant species to shade‐tolerant mesophytic species in deciduous and mixed forests of the temperate zone is well described in studies from North America. This process has been termed mesophication and it has been linked to changes in fire regime. Fire suppression results in the cessation of establishment of heliophytic, fir...