“…The discussion about the cause and effect of the local and regional anthropogenic overprint on the ecosystem’s functionalities, fuelled by global climate change feedbacks, has been reinforced by the strong gradient of continental European flood and drought spells (Ciais et al, 2005 ; Harris, 2010 ; Herrmann & Hutchinson, 2005 ; Lin et al, 2020 ; Zahradníček et al, 2015 ). Particularly, the severe drought episodes in 2003, 2010, between 2018 and 2020 (and this year, 2022), and followed by dramatic flooding events across Europe in summer 2021 have entered the political and economic debate (Brun et al, 2020 ; Büntgen et al, 2021 ; Cramer et al, 2018 ; Dirmeyer et al, 2021 ; Hanewinkel et al, 2022 ; Hari et al, 2020 ; Kahle et al, 2022 ; Kempf & Glaser, 2020 ). Temperature is constantly increasing across Europe and particularly over terrestrial surfaces.…”