%0 Report %T Adaptation of forest species to climate change analysis of the frequency and nature of health damage over the reinfforce arboreta %R Master thesis %X Understanding how forest tree species behave in different climatic conditions is essential to develop adaptation strategies to ongoing climate warming. This report analyses the sanitary state of some native and exotic tree species over a climatic gradient to understand the climate effects on their susceptibility to be attacked by some pests or diseases. The analysis was based on the REINFFORCE (“REsource INFrastructures for monitoring, adapting and protecting european atlantic FORests under Changing climatE”) arboreta network with the data collected for three native species, with three provenances each, and eight exotic species. We compared the probability of presenting different pests or diseases, depending on environmental conditions, species provenances in their distribution range, region of origin of the species (exotic vs. native) and existence of congeneric species in Europe for exotic species. Results show the importance of climatic conditions on biotic and abiotic damage suffered by the trees, mainly temperature variables (number of frost days or the mean temperature of the coldest month). We also found that native species are more susceptible to health damage than exotic ones, verifying the enemy release hypothesis (ERH). Finally, we showed that exotic tree species with congeneric native species in Europe are more likely to be attacked by biotic agents than exotic species with no native congeneric (spill-over hypothesis). This report is also an exploratory study, in which the REINFFORCE health assessment protocol was tested for a first assessment to ensure that it provides accurate information of the real health state. %G English %A Diez Iglesias, Natalia %D 09/2016