In just one year (2019), 118 million cubic meters of spruce were killed by the spruce bark beetle. This is 10-times more than Norway's annual logging. The attack was triggered by the extreme ...

Led by Dr. Samuli Junttila, associate professor of forest health and Earth observation, a team of researchers conducted dendrometer measurements of 26 bark beetle-infested and 31 healthy spruce ...

Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before any visible signs of tree mortality appear, a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. Led by Dr Samuli Junttila ...

Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before any visible signs of tree mortality appear, a recent study shows.