Acknowledgments
This study was carried out with financial support from the French
National Research Agency (ANR) in the frame of the Investments for the
Future Programme, within the Cluster of Excellence COTE (Continental To
coastal Ecosystems: evolution, adaptability and governance)
(ANR-10-LABX-45) and was further funded by the BNP Paribas Foundation as
part of its Climate & Biodiversity Initiative the citizen science
project Tree Bodyguards.
The authors warmly thank all the young European citizens and their
teachers who made this study possible. They also thank the professional
scientists who kindly agreed to participate in this study: Alexander
Kozel (Belarusian State Technological University and American
Psychological Association), Andreas Schuldt (Forest Nature Conservation,
Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, German), Aurélien Sallé
(Laboratoire de Biologie des Ligneux et des Grandes Cultures, INRAE,
Université d’Orléans), Chloe Mendiondo and Claire Colliaux (Department
of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Flakkebjerg Research Centre, DK-4200
Slagelse, Denmark), György Csóka (Department of Forest Protection, NARIC
Forest Research Institute, Mátrafüred, Hungary), Lars Opgennoorth
(Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Ecological Genetics, Swiss
Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland), Laurent
Augusto (INRAE, Bordeaux Sciences Agro), Marija Popović (Faculty of
Forestry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia), Mickael Pihain
(Research Unit “Ecosystèmes, Biodiversité, Evolution”, University of
Rennes 1/CNRS, 35042 Rennes, France), Olivier Bouriaud (Applied Ecology
Laboratory, Forestry Faculty, “Ștefan cel Mare, University of Suceava,
Suceava, Romania), Stefan K. Müller (Freie evangelische Schule Lörrach),
Tomas Roslin (Department of Ecology; Swedish University of Agricultural
Sciences), Valentin Queloz (Forest Entomology, Swiss Federal Research
Institute WSL) and Vojtech Lanta (Institute of Botany CAS, Dukelská 135,
37901 Třeboň, Czech Republic). They also thank Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
(Geobotany, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg) for the help
during the coordination of the research.