in Villers les Nancy – Domaine de l’Asnée – Meurthe et Moselle

In fact, the current episode of mortality and dieback is exceptionally severe, although it is manifested in various forms. Spruce trees with bark beetles, beech and fir tree mortality, oaks weakened by the processionary or by the chafer, etc., their link with climate change is often plausible, but sometimes indirect or even difficult to establish.

Against the backdrop of accelerated awareness of the impacts of climate change, these phenomena are perceived in a very different way from the episodes that occurred prior to the year 2000: they are now readily interpreted as the manifestation of an irreversible evolution, in the face of which managers feel all the more helpless since their efforts to renew stands are coming up against increasingly frequent failures.

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