Pascal Renaud-Bernath

1 Introduction Climate-related disturbances in European forests are increasing (Lindner et al. 2010). Storms, droughts, heat, bark beetle calamities and other natural events (Patacca et al. 2023), in combination with past and current forestry and land-use practices (Seidl and Senf 2024), have led to widespread forest damages over recent decades and years.