Projects

Methodological development in monitoring

• Next step in the development of new digital bark beetle traps - Simon Kärvemo, department for ecology. 
  
  
• Estimating moose dung pellet density in young pine stands using UAV-based multispectral imaging - Lukas Graf, department of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre. 
  
  
• Potential short-term effects of thinning on drought stress mitigation - Amanda de Castro Segtowich, department of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
  
  
• New digital traps to facilitate monitoring and research of the spruce bark beetle - Simon Kärvemo, department of Ecology.
  
  
• Monitoring risk for crown fire on remote sensing data - Inka Bohlin, department of Forest Resource Management.
  
  
• More efficient counting of bark beetles in our monitoring program - Mats Jonsell, department of Ecology.
  
  
• From NFI data to cervid food estimates, bridging the gap amid research on dwarf shrubs and practice - Laura Juvany, department of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
  
  
• Early drought stress detection in trees using high time resolved water potential measurements - Leonie Schönbeck, department of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
  
  
• Assessing Dutch Elm Disease and Ash Dieback within the NILS inventroy - Henrik Hedenås, department of Forest Resource Management.
  
  
• Realtime pollen and spore- detection with AI and DNA within two national monitoring networks - Karl Lundén, department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment
  
  

Research projects

• Forest companies advice and services to non-industrial private forest owners regarding forest damage - Tomas Kronholm, Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology.
• Damage caused by Lophodermium and other pine needle diseases in clear-cut free regimes: risks, uncertainties and implications for forest management - Mikolaj Lula, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
• Boring against biodiversity: how is damage of the pine shoot beetle Tomicus piniperda affecting biodiversity benefits of prescribed burning? - Therese Löfroth, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.
• Data collection for developing remote sensing of forest drought damage - Langning Huo, Department of Forest Resource Management.
• A comparison of nursery and SE-seedlings in continuous cover and clear-cut forest regeneration sites - Adriana Puentes, Department of Ecology.
• Surveying pest damage and insect biodiversity of Swedish forests: a metabarcoding approach - Donnie Peterson, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
• Evidence-based damage data and models for continuous cover forests (EDAMC) - Jeanette Eggers, Department of Forest Resource Management.

Research projects

Ecology

• Reproductive success of the spruce barkl beetle during different outbreak phases - Martin Schroeder, Department of Ecology
• There is always two sides of the coin? Bark beetle outbreaks and promotion of biodiversity - Simon Kärvemo, Department of Ecology
• Ungulate grazing, habitat structure, and predation pressure on pest insects - Michelle Nordkvist, Department of Ecology
• Predicting susceptibility for attack by Spruce bark beetle – validation of the susceptibility index - Maartje Klapwijk, Department of Ecology

Forest Biomaterials and Technology

• Non-industrial private forest owners' knowledge and views on management of multi-damaged forest - Thomas Kronholm, Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology
• Effect of climate change on the potential importance of invasive blue stain fungi on wood quality - Geoffrey Daniel, Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology

Forest Ecology and Management

• Assessing drought tolerance and foliar fungal diversity in Scots pine planted stands - Rosario García Gil, Department of Forest Ecology and Management
• A new model to predict and breed for spring frost damage - Rosario García Gil, Department of Forest Ecology and Management

Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology

• Fast sexual/asexual form identification and population diversity investigation of Cronartium pini - Ke Zhang, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
• Breeding-without-breeding a new tool in seed orchard management for improved C. pini resistance? - Malin Elfstrand, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology Resistance screening method for Scots pine blister rust - Berit Samils, Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi
• Identification of risk factors behind the current outbreaks of Cronartium pini in northern Sweden - Berits Samils, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
• Infection biology and management of emerging diseases in tree seedling production - Audrius Menkis, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology
• Plants for planting – Plant health in production storage and planting - Åke Olson, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology

Forest Resources Management

• Developing and implementing a drought index in Heureka - Jeanette Eggers, Department of Forest Resources Management
• Forest damage sampling simulator - Anton Grafström, Department of Forest Resources Management
• MoMoMo: Moose Damages in Heureka – Models, Monte Carlo simulation and Robust Optimization - Lars Sängstuvall, Department of Forest Resources Management
• Joint modelling of forest damages using presence-absence data - Cornelia Roberge, Department of Forest Resources Management
• “Flying tree healthy analyser”: drone-based hyperspectral imagery for early detection of bark beetle infestation - Langning Huo, Department of Forest Resources Management

Forest Economics

• Coping with forest damages: evidence and adaptation strategies - Francisco X Aguilar, Department of Forest Economics

School for Forest Management

• Development of alternative measures to control liverworts infections during seedling cultivation and storage - Daniel Gräns, School for Forest Management

Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

• Implementing Monte Carlo based random storm generator in Heureka Decision Support System - Narayanan Subramanian, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
• Modelling of forest fuel and weather effects on fire spread in Southern Sweden (FF-SPREAD) - Igor Drobyshev, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
• Testing seed treatments to reduce damage by pathogenic fungi in conifer seeds - Iva Franic, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
• Electronic root rot detection - Iryna Matsiakh, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
• Safeguarding Scots pine using nanopore sequencing for the detection and diagnosis of pathogens - Patrick Sherwood, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
• Browsing repellents for protecting Scots pine in northern Sweden - Urban Nilsson, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
• Rädda Asken: breeding for resistance in European ash - Michelle Cleary, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
• Samband mellan klövviltets täthet, deras foder och betesskador i produktionsskogen - Annika Felton, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

• Pest management and forest biodiversity in the selection system - Therese Löfroth (Adam Ekholm), Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies
• Can continuous cover forestry reduce the risk of damage by forest pests and browsing ungulates? - Anne-Maarit Hekkala, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies
• Future Yields- impacts of browsing on stand structure, forest growth and revenue in forestry - Fredrik Widemo, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies
• Landscape utilization of large and long-lived herbivore in multifunctional forestland - Wiebke Neumann, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

Courses

• Considering Uncertainty in Forest Management Planning
  Irene de Pellegrin Llorente, Institutionen för skoglig resurshushållning
• Forest Change detection with Google Earth
  Engine Rubén Valbuena, Institutionen för skoglig resurshushållning

Data structuring

• Making data from the long term monitoring of spruce bark beetle available - a work of restructuring datafiles
  Mats Jonsell, Institutionen för ekologi

Expert support

• Expert support to authorities, forest organisations and private forest owners about the spruce bark beetle
  Martin Schroeder, Institutionen för ekologi

Symposia

• Breaking new grounds in Forest pathology
  Nils Högberg, Institutionen för skoglig mykologi och växtpatologi

Study trips

• Research visit to FGI for “Flying tree healthy analyzer”: dronebased hyperspectral imagery for early detection of bark beetle infestations
  Langning Huo, Institutionen för skoglig resurshushållning

Research projects

Species Information Centre

• En generell mobil inrapporteringsmodul för systemet 'Skogsskada' -  Holger Dettki, epartment of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.  

Ecologi

• Preparation for long term contribution to the Forest Damage Centre at Ecology - Maartje Klapwijk & Adriana Puentes, Department of Ecology.
• Utvärdering av systemet SkogsSkada och alternativa systemlösningar - Mats Jonsell, Department of Ecology.     
• Expertstöd och övervakningsinsatser kopplat till pågående barkborreutbrott - Martin Schroeder, Department of Ecology.     
• Långsiktig övervakning av granbarkborre - Mats Jonsell, Department of Ecology. 2020, 2021, 2022 
• Övervakning av granbarkborrens förökningsframgång i dödade träd - Martin Schroeder, Department of Ecology.   
• Förekomst av fiender till granbarkborre i skyddade områden och produktionsskog - Simon Kärvemo, Department of Ecology.     
• Vilka bestånd och ståndorter är mest utsatta för angrepp av granbarkborre - Maartje Klapwijk, Department of Ecology.    
• Effekten av bekämpningsmetoden Sök och Plock på granbarkborrens fiender - Martin Schroeder, Department of Ecology.     
• Monitoring of prioritized biotic pests and pathogens –pilot study with a proposal for long-term monitoring - Maartje Klapwijk, Department of Ecology.

Field-based Forest Research

• Pilot study-trapping of black bark beetle (Hylastes) from fresh and one-year old clearcuttings - Charlotta Erefur & Kristina Wallertz, Unit for Field-based Forest Research.
• Spormonitoring vid de skogliga försöksparkerna - Charlotta Erefur, Unit for Field-based Forest Research.
• Pest management and forest biodiversity in selection systems - Charlotta Erefur & Adam Ekholm, Unit for Field-based Forest Research.
• Förstudie och analys av kunskapsläget angående skaderisker i olika skogsskötselsystem och tillhörande ekonomiska jämförelser - Charlotta Erefur, Unit for Field-based Forest Research. 

Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology

• Ecotypic  variation  of  tradeoffs  between  growth  and  defense: The  role of lignin and associated metabolites in Scots pine and Norway spruce - M Rosario García-Gil, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology. 

Soil and Environment

• Soil properties related to forest damage - Johan Stendahl, Department of Soil and Environment.

Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology

• Review and workshop on conifer resistance breeding - Malin Elfstrand & Berit Samils, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.  
• Collection of ash dieback-tolerant ash material for research and restoration - Rimvis Vasaitis, Audrius Menkis & Jan Stenlid, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.   
• Forest regeneration: nursery diseases - Åke Olson & Audrius Menkis      
  Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.
• “Stress biology” – Interactions between Diplodia sapinea and Melampsora pinitorqua on pine - Jan Stenlid, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.
• Comparative genomics analysis of pathogenicity traits in Russulales - Mikael Brandström Durling, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.   
• Assembly of knowledge and tentative recommendations on conservation of high nature conservation values after damages - Anders Dahlberg, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.
• Detection and monitoring of airborne fungal spores - Åke Olson, Audrius Menkis & Karl Lundén, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.
• Review on forest pests and diseases from the east - Rimvis Vasaitis, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.
• Multiskadad skog - Jan Stenlid, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.
• Molekylär övervakning av svampskadegörare, förstudie - Åke Olson, Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology.

Skogens biomaterial och teknologi

• Systemanalys av drivningsarbete vid bekämpning av granbarkborre - Björn Edlund & Thomas Norfjell, Institutionen för skogens biomaterial och teknologi. 
• Effect of climate change on the potential importance of invasive blue stain fungi on wood quality; a preliminary study - Geoffrey Daniel, Institutionen för skogens biomaterial och teknologi.

Forest Ecology and Management

• Fotografering och tolkning av Riksskogstaxeringens provytor för klassning av bränsletyper - Anders Granström, Department of Forest Ecology and Management.    
• Studying the Dynamics of Forest Canopy Gaps a Part of an Early-Warning System of imminent Forest Damage - Arne Pommerening, Department of Forest Ecology and Management.
• Betydelsen av brandhårdhet och ett varmare klimat på föryngring av tall och gran - Marie-Charlotte Nilsson Hegethorn, Department of Forest Ecology and Management.
• Pilotprojekt - Utveckling av riskkartor för skogsskador / Development of risk maps for forest damage - Anneli Ågren, Department of Forest Ecology and Management.
• En samlad svensk databas för vegetationsbränder - Anders Granström, Department of Forest Ecology and Management.

Forest Economics

• Economic effects of moose damage - Peichen Gong, Department of Forest Economics.
• Value chain of timber prodcuts - Anders Roos, Department of Forest Economics.
• Perceptions of forest damage - Francisco Aguilar, Department of Forest Economics.
• Governance of forest damage - Camilla Widmark, Department of Forest Economics.

School for Forest Management

• Inventering av forskningsbehov för att kontrollera skadegörare i skogsplantskolor - Daniel Gräns, School for Forest Management.   
• Kontroll av levermossa och rotpatogener i skogsplantskolor - Daniel Gräns, School for Forest Management.

Environmental Communication

• Scientific discourse on wildfires and perceptions of risk among Swedish forest owners and managers - Sara Holmgren, Division of Environmental Communication.

Forest Resource Management

• Sammanfatta kunskapsläget runt vilka skaderisker klimatförändringar för med sig på lång sikt - Jeanette Eggers, Department of Forest Resource Management.
• Hantering av risker i olika beslutsstödsystem i andra länder - Karin Öhman, Department of Forest Resource Management.     
• Testa och validera stormriskindex i PlanVis - Karin Öhman, Department of Forest Resource Management.    
• Overarching project to show the potential of mapping forest damage from remote sensing data - Eva Lindberg, Department of Forest Resource Management.      
• Detection of spruce bark beetle infestations from remote sensing data - Huo Langning, Department of Forest Resource Management.     
• Skattning och kartläggning av stormskador med radarfjärranalys - Johan Fransson, Department of Forest Resource Management.     
• Riksskogstaxeringen/NRS; ungskogsinventering metodtester - Sören Wulff, Department of Forest Resource Management.
• Kan Riksskogstaxeringens ÄBIN-ytor utgöra en resurs för studier av hur skogsstillståndet utvecklas i förhållande till graden av älgbetesskador? - Jonas Fridman, Department of Forest Resource Management.     
• Modellera olika typer av skogsskador simultant - Magnus Ekström, Department of Forest Resource Management.
• Forest Damage Database - a possibility for remote sensing applications - Henrik Persson & Eva Lindberg, Department of Forest Resource Management.     

Southern Swedish Forest Research

• BarkBin: första steget i utvecklingen av ett nationellt övervakningsprogram för viltskada på bark i produktionsskogen - Annika Felton, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
• Long-term monitoring of multispecies ungulate communities in reference areas - Annika Felton,  Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.   
• SKOGSBRAND: forskning, övervakning och integrering i ett planerat Forest Damage Centre (FDC) för att bilda ett SLU-nätverk, genomföra workshops, och att identifiera behov och prioriterade insatsområden - Igor Drobyshev, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre. 
• Monitoring forest responses and recovery to catastrophic pathogen-induced tree loss - a resurvey of elm and ash forest stands after 30 years - Jörg Brunet & Adam Felton, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
• Spread of larger fires in Sweden: what are the forest stand properties, which predict fire spread? (FireSpread-H) - Igor Drobyshev, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.     
• Nanopore MinION sequencing as a new tool for rapid detection and identification of tree pathogens - Michelle Cleary, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre. 
• Forest damage in the perception of scientists – problem conceptualization, driving mechanisms and practical implications for the Swedish forestry - Vilis Brukas, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
• Enabling Heureka model to generate random storm events - Narayanan Subramanian & Jorge Aldea, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.
• Electronic root rot detection adjusted for Scots pine - Iryna Matsiakh, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre.

Plant Protection Biology

• Mixed-forest resilience for insect pests and biodiversity under climate change: effects of semiochemical and landscape diversity - Mattias Larsson , Department of Plant Protection Biology.

Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

• Geografisk skala för samförvaltning älg-skog - Fredrik Widemo,  Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.
• Betydelsen av fodertillgång och betestryck i fält och buskskikt för skador - Fredrik Widemo, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.      
• Betydelsen av vinter –och sommarbete för tillväxt av skog - Fredrik Widemo, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.
• Älgbetets påverkan på tillväxt och virkeskvalitet hos tall/ Långtidseffekter av betestryck på biomassa och virkeskvalitet - Tomas Nordfjell, Fredrik Widemo & Göran Ericsson, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.
• Validering av måltal inom samförvaltningen av klövvilt-tall - Fredrik Widemo, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.        
• Rörelse och risk för betesskada från klövvilt / Predicting browsing risk by ungulates - Wiebke Neumann, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.   
• Finansieringsbehov SLU-WRAM inom Skogsskadecentrum 2021 - Holger Dettki, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.      
• Pilot- och utvecklingsprojekt Balanserade klövviltstammar - övervakning och analys av klövviltets inverkan på svenska skogsekosystem - Fredrik Widemo & Göran Ericsson, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies.     

Here you find a list with publications on forest damage