A5005280844- Forest ecology and management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Allergic Rhinitis and Sensitization
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
2015-2025
World Economic Forum
2022
Amt für Umwelt
2022
GeoInformation (United Kingdom)
2022
Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies
2018
Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
2018
Joint Research Centre
2018
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
2018
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2018
University of Copenhagen
2016
The response of forest ecosystems to increased atmospheric CO2 is constrained by nutrient availability. It thus crucial account for limitation when studying the climate change. objectives this study were describe nutritional status main European tree species, identify growth-limiting nutrients and assess changes in nutrition during past two decades. We analysed foliar data collected 1992-2009 on intensive monitoring plots ICP Forests programme. Of 22 significant temporal trends that observed...
Summary Forest microclimate is crucial for the growth and survival of tree seedlings understorey vegetation. This high ecological relevance contrasts with poor functional quantitative understanding how properties forest ecosystems influence microclimate. In a long‐term (1998–2011) trial, we investigated temporal patterns below sparse dense canopy related to those nearby open areas this relationship was influenced by soil moisture seasonality. Air temperature ( T ), vapour pressure deficit...
Atmospheric deposition to forests has been monitored within the International Cooperative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects Forests (ICP Forests) with sampling analyses bulk precipitation throughfall at several hundred forested plots for more than 15 years. The current inorganic nitrogen (nitrate ammonium) sulphate is highest in central Europe as well some southern regions. We compared linear regression Mann–Kendall trend analysis techniques often used detect...
Abstract Litterfall is a major, yet poorly studied, process within forest ecosystems globally. It important for carbon dynamics, edaphic communities, and maintaining site fertility. Reliable information on the nutrient input from litterfall, provided by litter traps, relevant to wide audience including policy makers soil scientists. We used litterfall observations of 320 plots pan‐European monitoring network “International Co‐operative Programme Assessment Monitoring Air Pollution Effects...
Abstract. Despite the importance of vegetation uptake atmospheric gaseous elemental mercury (Hg(0)) within global Hg cycle, little knowledge exists on physiological, climatic, and geographic factors controlling stomatal Hg(0) by tree foliage. We investigate controls foliar combining measurements 3569 foliage samples across Europe with data species' traits environmental conditions. To account for accumulation over time, we normalized concentration life period from simulated start growing...
Abstract Human activities have greatly increased the reactive nitrogen in biosphere, thus profoundly altering global cycling. The large increase deposition over past few decades has led to eutrophication natural ecosystems, with negative effects on forest health and biodiversity. Recent studies, however, reported oligotrophication constraining their capacity as carbon sinks. Here we demonstrate widespread biological transformation of atmospheric canopies European forests by combining...
SUMMARY Surveys of ground layer vegetation are a reliable tool for monitoring spatial and temporal variations the forest environment. In 1991, 47 plots first sampled in 1972 Lorraine Plain, North‐East France, were resampled. This beech–oak had both acidic calcareous soils depending on thickness alluvial deposits above bedrock. The mean number species per sample increased from 32 to 39 during this period frequency nitrophilic throughout forest. On soils, acidophilic frequency, while there no...
Portable chlorophyll fluorometry measurements, providing plant photosynthetic efficiency (PE) data, were carried out at two contrasting Swiss forests experiencing high nitrogen (N) deposition. Fluorometry data obtained in conjunction with controlled N treatment applications within forest canopies to more realistically simulate deposition of plant-available species. At the Novaggio oak forest, growing season canopy caused increases PE and other measures. Similar Lägeren mixed beech spruce...
Central Europe has been experiencing unprecedented droughts during the last decades, stressing decrease in tree water availability. However, assessment of physiological drought stress is challenging, and feedback between soil vegetation often omitted because scarce belowground data. Here we aimed to model Swiss forests' availability 2015 2018 by implementing mechanistic soil-vegetation-atmosphere-transport (SVAT) LWF-Brook90 taking advantage regionalized depth-resolved information. We...
Abstract Key message Exceedance of critical limits in soil solution samples was more frequent intensively monitored forest plots across Europe with loads for acidity and eutrophication exceeded compared to other from the same network. Elevated inorganic nitrogen concentrations tended be related less favourable nutritional status . Context Forests have been exposed elevated atmospheric deposition acidifying eutrophying sulphur compounds decades. Critical identified, below which damage due...
The input of nitrogen (N) into forests through atmospheric deposition has been determined for the main forest types within ICP Forests Level II monitoring network and Swedish Throughfall Monitoring Network (SWETHRO) since 1990s from measured concentrations in continuously collected precipitation (bulk deposition) throughfall (below tree canopy) samples. Recently, aggregated data sets have created, containing gap-filled monthly annual bulk depositions (including stemflow beech stands) more...