{"id":6647,"date":"2025-12-05T17:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T16:06:05","slug":"outbreaks-of-european-spruce-bark-beetle-dramatically-altered-norway-spruce-dominated-stands-with-implications-for-volant-wildlife-in-the-bialowieza-forest-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2025\/12\/05\/outbreaks-of-european-spruce-bark-beetle-dramatically-altered-norway-spruce-dominated-stands-with-implications-for-volant-wildlife-in-the-bialowieza-forest-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbreaks of European spruce bark beetle dramatically altered Norway spruce-dominated stands with implications for volant wildlife in the Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest, Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-05_Carr-A.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6648 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-05_Carr-A-230x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-05_Carr-A-230x300.png 230w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-05_Carr-A-640x836.png 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-05_Carr-A.png 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>Key message\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">An outbreak of the European spruce bark beetle (<i>Ips typographus<\/i>\u00a0L.) in spruce (<i>Picea abies<\/i>\u00a0L.)\u00a0dominated forest stands in the Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest, Poland, has led to fundamental changes in forest characteristics. The species composition of regenerating stands now differs from earlier records findings, with oak, birch and rowan becoming dominant, while hornbeam numbers have decreased and Norway spruce is now sporadic, suggesting an ongoing period of reorganisation. Among the forest attributes showing the greatest degree of change are canopy architecture and sheltering opportunities\u2014factors known to be most influential for volant-dependent wildlife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nPest infestation; Primeval forest; Canopy; Regeneration; Saplings; Structure<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-025-01301-x'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nCarr, A., Apozna\u0144ski, G., Dobrowolska, D.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0Outbreaks of European spruce bark beetle dramatically altered Norway spruce-dominated stands with implications for volant wildlife in the Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest, Poland.\u00a0<i>Annals of Forest Science<\/i>\u00a082, 29 (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01301-x\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01301-x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data availability\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nThe data set is available for viewing and downloading at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.15150480\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.15150480<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling editor<\/strong><br \/>\nAndreas Bolte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key message\u00a0 An outbreak of the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus\u00a0L.) in spruce (Picea abies\u00a0L.)\u00a0dominated forest stands in the Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest, Poland, has led to fundamental changes in forest characteristics. The species composition of regenerating stands now differs from earlier records findings, with oak, birch and rowan becoming dominant, while hornbeam numbers have decreased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,109,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-non-classe","category-open-access","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-1-id","cat-109-id","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6654,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions\/6654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}