Forest disturbances are increasingly understood as social-ecological phenomena involving diverse actors. Here, we focused on one of the Europe’s largest recent disturbances—the drought-triggered bark beetle outbreak in Central Europe (2017–2022). Based on a survey of 165 respondents, we examined perceived disturbance drivers, response actions, and the alignment between them as an indicator of a value-action gap that is often p...

Central Europe has been a hotspot of forest disturbance during 2018–2020, with large pulses of tree mortality from drought and bark beetles. Post‐disturbance recovery is crucial for forest resilience and the continued provision of ecosystem services. We surveyed 849 plots in disturbance hotspots across 10 Central European countries to assess the state of early (3–5 years) post‐disturbance tree regeneration. Our specific object...

Ongoing shifts in climate and land use have altered interactions between trees and insect herbivores, changing biotic disturbance regimes. However, as these changes are complex and vary across host species, insect taxa, and feeding guilds, they remain poorly understood. We compiled annual records of forest insect disturbance from 15 countries in temperate and boreal Europe, spanning the period from 2000 to 2022. The dataset co...