Silvicultural climatic turning point for European beech and sessile oak in Western Europe derived from national forest inventories

We expand the CTP concept that was until now based on natural competition by a “silvicultural” CTP that is contained in large-scale inventory data. It thereby implicitly incorporates the question how silviculture and social-cultural values impact the balance between species. Climate change projections indeed suggested that large parts of Western Europe will cross the silvicultural CTP.