by Rachel Jenkins, Woolhope Naturalists Field Club Oak tree health was a key theme at the recent Hereford Parklands Conference held in Hereford, UK. It was organised by the Woolhope Naturalists Field Club as part of their 175th anniversary celebrations.…
Report by Andreas Prinzing, University of Rennes. Photos by Sven Finnberg Spring phenology of temperate forests is widely understood as a temperature-driven process. As a result of global warming, buds are expected to be sprouting around 3 days earlier per…
Report and photos by Laurent Saint-André, INRAE Chantilly Forest, north of Paris in France, is being used as an open-air laboratory to study forest adaptation including fire prevention, carbon flux and monitoring. A field campaign involving the collection of samples…
Report and photos by Carrie Brady, University of the West of England The annual Festival of Nature is the UK’s largest free celebration of the natural world. It takes place each June across Bristol and Bath and attracts between 10,000…
Francisco J. Ruiz Gómez and Felipe Pérez Martín report on the Spanish oaks breeding programme. Holm oak and cork oak are the most representative trees of the Iberian Peninsula. These two species cover more than half of the forest territory…
In the UK this year there was a warm spell of weather in April which encouraged bud burst in quite a number of oak trees. In May we had some couple of consecutive nights of frost, which resulted in shrivelling…
In the UK we have also noticed very severe external Armillaria symptoms on oak trees (Quercus robur). The causal species is Armillaria gallica. In the gallery below the first two images show an old, blackened lesion spreading up the stem…
Oak enthusiasts joined our webinar on Wednesday 25 February 2026 from across the world, united by their concerns for how our changing climate is impacting oak trees. The webinar included three speakers who have been monitoring and trying to manage…
On Tuesday 27 January 2026 the OAK-HOPE network gathered online for a webinar exploring management strategies for oak resilience. The audience, which peaked at around 70, was truly international, with participants calling in from all over Europe and even South…
By Steffen Bien, Jonas Niemöller, Björn Hoppe, Frederik Stein, Gritta Schrader, and Gitta Langer Acute Oak Decline (AOD) was first described in England, but there have been increasing reports of this disease and the associated bacteria on the European mainland.…