Biotic threats for 23 major non-native tree species in Europe

Elisabeth Pötzelsberger^{1

2}, Martin M Gossner^{3

4}, Ludwig Beenken⁵, Anna Gazda⁶, Michal Petr⁷, Tiina Ylioja⁸, Nicola La Porta^{9

10}, Dimitrios N Avtzis¹¹, Elodie Bay¹², Maarten De Groot¹³, Rein Drenkhan¹⁴, Mihai-Leonard Duduman¹⁵, Rasmus Enderle¹⁶, Margarita Georgieva¹⁷, Ari M Hietala¹⁸, Björn Hoppe¹⁹, Hervé Jactel²⁰, Kristjan Jarni²¹, Srđan Keren^{6

22}, Zsolt Keseru²³, Marcin Koprowski^{24

25}, Andrej Kormuťák²⁶, María Josefa Lombardero²⁷, Aljona Lukjanova²⁸, Vitas Marozas²⁹, Edurad Mauri³⁰, Maria Cristina Monteverdi³¹, Per Holm Nygaard³², Nikica Ogris¹³, Nicolai Olenici³³, Christophe Orazio^{34

35}, Bernhard Perny³⁶, Glória Pinto³⁷, Michael Power³⁸, Radoslaw Puchalka^{24

25}, Hans Peter Ravn³⁹, Ignacio Sevillano⁴⁰, Sophie Stroheker⁵, Paul Taylor⁴¹, Panagiotis Tsopelas⁴², Josef Urban^{43

44}, Kaljo Voolma⁴⁵, Marjana Westergren¹², Johanna Witzell⁴⁶, Olga Zborovska⁴⁷, Milica Zlatkovic⁴⁸

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Silviculture, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Peter-Jordan Str. 82, 1190, Wien, Austria. elisabeth.poetzelsberger@boku.ac.at.
² European Forest Institute, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113, Bonn, Germany. elisabeth.poetzelsberger@boku.ac.at.
³ Forest Entomology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
⁴ ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵ Forest Protection, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
⁶ Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture, Al. 29 Listopada 46, 31-425, Kraków, Poland.
⁷ Forest Research, Forestry Commission, Northern Research Station, Roslin, EH25 9SY, Great Britain.
⁸ Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke, Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790, Helsinki, Finland.
⁹ FEM Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige, Italy.
¹⁰ The EFI Project Centre on Mountain Forests MOUNTFOR, Via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige, Italy.
¹¹ Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter, Vassilika, 57006, Greece.
¹² Walloon Public service (SPW), 23 av Maréchal Juin, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium.
¹³ Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vecna pot 2, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
¹⁴ Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006, Tartu, Estonia.
¹⁵ Faculty of Forestry, "Ștefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Universității Street 13, 720229, Suceava, Romania.
¹⁶ Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forests, Julius Kuehn Institute (Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants), Messeweg 11/12, 38104, Braunschweig, Germany.
¹⁷ Department of Entomology, Phytopathologyy and Game fauna, Forest Research Institute - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, St. Kliment Ohridski 132, 1756, Sofia, Bulgaria.
¹⁸ Department of Fungal Plant Pathology in Forestry, Agriculture and Horticulture, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Innocamp Steinkjer, skolegata 22, 7713, Steinkjer, Norway.
¹⁹ Institute for National and International Plant Health, Julius Kuehn Institute (Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants), Messeweg 11/12, 38104, Braunschweig, Germany.
²⁰ Biodiversité, Gènes et Communautés (BioGeCo), French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), University Bordeaux, F-33610, Cestas, France.
²¹ Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Vecna pot 83, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
²² Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka, Bulevar vojvode Stepe Stepanovica 75A, 51000, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
²³ Forest Research Institute, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Farkassziget 3, H-4150, Püspökladány, Hungary.
²⁴ Department of Ecology and Biogeography, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lwowska 1, PL-87-100, Toruń, Poland.
²⁵ Centre for Climate Change Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lwowska 1, PL-87-100, Toruń, Poland.
²⁶ Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology SAS, Akademicka 2, P. O. Box 39A, SK-950 07, Nitra, Slovakia.
²⁷ Unidade de Xestión Ambiental e Forestal Sostible, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus de Lugo, 27002, Lugo, Spain.
²⁸ Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Akadeemia tee 23, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia.
²⁹ Faculty of Forest Science and Ecology, Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Studentu 11, Akademija, 53361, Kaunas, Lithuania.
³⁰ Mediterranean Facility, European Forest Institute, Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, Sant Antoni M. Claret 167, 08025, Barcelona, Spain.
³¹ Centro di Ricerca Foreste e Legno, Council for agricultural research and analysis of the agricultural economy (CREA), Viale Santa Margherita, 80, 52100, Arezzo, Italy.
³² Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), P.O. Box 115, NO-1431, Ås, Norway.
³³ "Marin Drăcea" National Research-Development Institute in Forestry, Station Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Calea Bucovinei, 73bis, 725100, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania.
³⁴ EFI Atlantic, European Forest Institute, 69, Route de Arcachon, F-33610, Cestas, France.
³⁵ IEFC Institut Européen de la Forêt Cultivée, 69, Route de Arcachon, F-33610, Cestas, France.
³⁶ Department of Forest Protection, Austrian Federal Research Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg 8, 1131, Vienna, Austria.
³⁷ Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal.
³⁸ Coillte Unit 27, Coillte Forest, Danville Business Park, Kilkenny, R95 YT95, Ireland.
³⁹ Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958, Frederiksberg C., Germany.
⁴⁰ UCD Forestry, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, UCD Forestry, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8, Dublin, Ireland.
⁴¹ Forest Research, Forestry Commission, Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9SY, Great Britain.
⁴² Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems, Hellenic Agricultural Organization "Demeter"-, Terma Alkmanos, 11528, Athens, Greece.
⁴³ Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University, Zemědělská 3, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁴⁴ Siberian Federal University, Svobodnyy Ave, 79, 660041, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
⁴⁵ Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, EstonianUniversity of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006, Tartu, Estonia.
⁴⁶ Southern Swedish Forest Research Center, PO Box 49, SE-230 53, Alnarp, Sweden.
⁴⁷ Polissya Branch, Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration, Neskorenych st. 2, Dovzhik, Ukraine.
⁴⁸ Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment (ILFE), University of Novi Sad, Antona Cehova 13d, 21 000, Novi Sad, Serbia.

PMID: 34362931
PMCID: PMC8346479
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-00961-4

Biotic threats for 23 major non-native tree species in Europe

Elisabeth Pötzelsberger et al. Sci Data. 2021.

. 2021 Aug 6;8(1):210.

doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00961-4.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Silviculture, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Peter-Jordan Str. 82, 1190, Wien, Austria. elisabeth.poetzelsberger@boku.ac.at.
² European Forest Institute, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 7, 53113, Bonn, Germany. elisabeth.poetzelsberger@boku.ac.at.
³ Forest Entomology, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
⁴ ETH Zurich, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵ Forest Protection, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
⁶ Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture, Al. 29 Listopada 46, 31-425, Kraków, Poland.
⁷ Forest Research, Forestry Commission, Northern Research Station, Roslin, EH25 9SY, Great Britain.
⁸ Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke, Latokartanonkaari 9, 00790, Helsinki, Finland.
⁹ FEM Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige, Italy.
¹⁰ The EFI Project Centre on Mountain Forests MOUNTFOR, Via E. Mach 1, 38010, San Michele all'Adige, Italy.
¹¹ Forest Research Institute, Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter, Vassilika, 57006, Greece.
¹² Walloon Public service (SPW), 23 av Maréchal Juin, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium.
¹³ Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vecna pot 2, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
¹⁴ Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006, Tartu, Estonia.
¹⁵ Faculty of Forestry, "Ștefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Universității Street 13, 720229, Suceava, Romania.
¹⁶ Institute for Plant Protection in Horticulture and Forests, Julius Kuehn Institute (Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants), Messeweg 11/12, 38104, Braunschweig, Germany.
¹⁷ Department of Entomology, Phytopathologyy and Game fauna, Forest Research Institute - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, St. Kliment Ohridski 132, 1756, Sofia, Bulgaria.
¹⁸ Department of Fungal Plant Pathology in Forestry, Agriculture and Horticulture, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Innocamp Steinkjer, skolegata 22, 7713, Steinkjer, Norway.
¹⁹ Institute for National and International Plant Health, Julius Kuehn Institute (Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants), Messeweg 11/12, 38104, Braunschweig, Germany.
²⁰ Biodiversité, Gènes et Communautés (BioGeCo), French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), University Bordeaux, F-33610, Cestas, France.
²¹ Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Vecna pot 83, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
²² Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka, Bulevar vojvode Stepe Stepanovica 75A, 51000, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
²³ Forest Research Institute, National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Farkassziget 3, H-4150, Püspökladány, Hungary.
²⁴ Department of Ecology and Biogeography, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lwowska 1, PL-87-100, Toruń, Poland.
²⁵ Centre for Climate Change Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lwowska 1, PL-87-100, Toruń, Poland.
²⁶ Institute of Plant Genetics and Biotechnology SAS, Akademicka 2, P. O. Box 39A, SK-950 07, Nitra, Slovakia.
²⁷ Unidade de Xestión Ambiental e Forestal Sostible, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus de Lugo, 27002, Lugo, Spain.
²⁸ Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Akadeemia tee 23, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia.
²⁹ Faculty of Forest Science and Ecology, Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Studentu 11, Akademija, 53361, Kaunas, Lithuania.
³⁰ Mediterranean Facility, European Forest Institute, Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site, Sant Antoni M. Claret 167, 08025, Barcelona, Spain.
³¹ Centro di Ricerca Foreste e Legno, Council for agricultural research and analysis of the agricultural economy (CREA), Viale Santa Margherita, 80, 52100, Arezzo, Italy.
³² Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), P.O. Box 115, NO-1431, Ås, Norway.
³³ "Marin Drăcea" National Research-Development Institute in Forestry, Station Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Calea Bucovinei, 73bis, 725100, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania.
³⁴ EFI Atlantic, European Forest Institute, 69, Route de Arcachon, F-33610, Cestas, France.
³⁵ IEFC Institut Européen de la Forêt Cultivée, 69, Route de Arcachon, F-33610, Cestas, France.
³⁶ Department of Forest Protection, Austrian Federal Research Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg 8, 1131, Vienna, Austria.
³⁷ Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) & Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal.
³⁸ Coillte Unit 27, Coillte Forest, Danville Business Park, Kilkenny, R95 YT95, Ireland.
³⁹ Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958, Frederiksberg C., Germany.
⁴⁰ UCD Forestry, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, UCD Forestry, School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, D04 V1W8, Dublin, Ireland.
⁴¹ Forest Research, Forestry Commission, Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9SY, Great Britain.
⁴² Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems, Hellenic Agricultural Organization "Demeter"-, Terma Alkmanos, 11528, Athens, Greece.
⁴³ Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University, Zemědělská 3, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁴⁴ Siberian Federal University, Svobodnyy Ave, 79, 660041, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
⁴⁵ Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, EstonianUniversity of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 5, 51006, Tartu, Estonia.
⁴⁶ Southern Swedish Forest Research Center, PO Box 49, SE-230 53, Alnarp, Sweden.
⁴⁷ Polissya Branch, Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration, Neskorenych st. 2, Dovzhik, Ukraine.
⁴⁸ Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment (ILFE), University of Novi Sad, Antona Cehova 13d, 21 000, Novi Sad, Serbia.

PMID: 34362931
PMCID: PMC8346479
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-021-00961-4

Abstract

For non-native tree species with an origin outside of Europe a detailed compilation of enemy species including the severity of their attack is lacking up to now. We collected information on native and non-native species attacking non-native trees, i.e. type, extent and time of first observation of damage for 23 important non-native trees in 27 European countries. Our database includes about 2300 synthesised attack records (synthesised per biotic threat, tree and country) from over 800 species. Insects (49%) and fungi (45%) are the main observed biotic threats, but also arachnids, bacteria including phytoplasmas, mammals, nematodes, plants and viruses have been recorded. This information will be valuable to identify patterns and drivers of attacks, and trees with a lower current health risk to be considered for planting. In addition, our database will provide a baseline to which future impacts on non-native tree species could be compared with and thus will allow to analyse temporal trends of impacts.

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Number of entries in the biotic threats database by country.

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Biotic threats for 23 major non-native tree species in Europe

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