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The study analyzed terpene emissions from Pinus sylvestris using NIR and compared them with the EN 16516 method. Prediction models for α-pinene and 3-carene showed good results.

The effect of changing climates on wood exposed in-ground

The publication in Environment International of 24.09.2024 describes dose-dependent positive effects of pine emissions on disease parameters of atopic dermatitis and dysbiosis.

New review on the potential of nitrogen-enriched lignins and wood fibres as peat substitutes in horticultural substrates

Green City – Favourite Places in Hamburg. Under this motto, the NDR reported in its well-known series "Rund um den Michael" about the arboretum of the Thünen Institute in Bergedorf, a green oasis in the middle of the city.

The Thünen Institute of Wood Research and the University of Hamburg present their current research results at the most important European wood chemistry congress.

Forensic biologists from eleven countries learn wood species identification at the Thünen Institute of Wood Research in Hamburg

A publication entitled "Charcoal in Anaerobic Digestion: Part 1-Characterization of Charcoal" was published in the C - Journal of Carbon Research on 26.08.2024.

Continuation of monitoring the test areas on the upper deck of Gorch Fock

Timbers of the future – silvicultural and wood technological considerations

Outcome of a comparative study with wood from Germany, Slovenia, Romania, France, and the United States

Results from a degradation experiment with beech, English oak and black locust

Thünen Institute of Wood Research represents current fields of research at the IUFRO World Congress

This year's conference of the International Research Group on Wood Protection took place in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2024, four presentations from the field of wood protection were from Hamburg.

Outcome of a comparative study with wood from Ghana

Every four years, when the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany and the DBU invite people to the "Woche der Umwelt", an independent jury selects the exhibitors - and Wood Anatomy was there!

Interview on the topic of alternatives to sulfuryl difluoride with Prof. Dr. Andreas Krause on the program “Klimazeit” on Tagesschau24

In Dresden, the results of a comparison of heat treatments were presented that could be an alternative to the fumigation of export logs with sulfuryl fluoride (SF).

The publication describes how the annotated data set was generated and the first machine learning systems were trained.