A5039908695- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Environmental Science and Technology
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Medical and Health Sciences Research
Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development
2010-2024
University of Göttingen
2004-2024
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut
2010-2023
Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2015-2021
Henkel (Germany)
2012
Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt
2007
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
1995
Abstract Climatic warming may lead to increased or decreased future forest productivity. However, more frequent heat waves, droughts and storms accompanying pathogen attacks are also expected for Europe considered be increasingly important abiotic biotic stress factors forests. Adaptive forestry can help ecosystems adapt these new conditions in order achieve management goals, maintain desired ecosystem services reduce the risks of degradation. With a focus on central Europe, this paper...
Abstract Global climate change is expected to further raise the frequency and severity of extreme events, such as droughts. The effects droughts on trees are difficult disentangle given inherent complexity drought events (frequency, severity, duration, timing during growing season). Besides, might be modulated by trees’ phenotypic variability, which is, in turn, affected long‐term local selective pressures management legacies. Here we investigated magnitude temporal changes tree‐level...
Abstract Key message Climate change is posing a considerable challenge to foresters. The intensity of required adaptive measures and the relevance old-growth forests as benchmark for managed are debated. Forest managers need make decisions on stand treatment that based climatological biological parameters with high uncertainties. We provided conceptual basis forest management provide number case studies reflect options limitations ways coping climate change. examples derived from experience...
Recent studies have identified strong relationships between delayed recovery of tree growth after drought and mortality caused by subsequent droughts. These observations raise concerns about forest ecosystem services post-drought given the projected increase in frequency extremes. For quantifying impact extreme droughts on radial growth, we used a network tree-ring width data 1689 trees from 100 sites representing most distribution two tolerant, deciduous oak species (Quercus petraea Quercus...
A combined severe heatwave and drought, starting in 2018 lasting for several months, restarted the discussion on resistance of European beech to climatic changes, with growth reductions, early leaf senescence, browning, diebacks reported across Central Europe. These responses may result long-term impacts such as reduced vitality beech, especially under potential future drought periods. While 2003 caused crown damage defoliation a loss vitality, resulting insect fungal infestations subsequent...
Abstract Climate change threatens the role of European forests as a long-term carbon sink. Assisted migration aims to increase resilience forest tree populations climate change, using species-specific climatic limits and local adaptations through transferring seed provenances. We modelled assisted scenarios for seven main species analysed effects provenance selection, accounting environmental genetic variations, on annual above-ground sink regrowing juvenile forests. To resilience,...
Research Highlights: The global Forest Landscape Restoration ambitions could be impaired by projects that ignore key principles such as the engagement of local communities in decision making and implementation, equitable benefit sharing, monitoring for adaptive management. This entails danger continued degradation, disappointed stakeholders, ultimately, project failure. Other face technical problems related to tree establishment nursery production. Background Objectives: There are high hopes...
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of droughts heatwaves in Europe, leading effects on forest growth major dieback events due hydraulic failure caused by xylem embolism. Inter-specific variability embolism resistance has been studied detail, but little known about intra-specific variability, particularly marginal populations. We evaluated 15 European beech populations, mostly from geographically sites species distribution range, focusing populations dry...
European beech (Fagus sylvatica L., hereafter also beech), one of the major native tree species in Europe, is known to be drought sensitive. Thus, identification critical thresholds impact intensity and duration are high interest for assessing adaptive potential climate change its range. In a common garden experiment with one-year-old seedlings originating from central marginal origins six countries (Denmark, Germany, France, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Spain), we applied extreme stress...
From the 21st to 23rd June 2017, Herrenhausen castle in Hannover/Germany hosted a diverse and large crowd with more than 70 tree physiologists, forest ecologists, inventory experts, remote-sensing scientists, vegetation modelers. Participants from six continents 20 countries gathered discuss how improve scientific determination of global-scale patterns, drivers, trends threatening phenomenon: apparent emergence recent widespread mortality events forests around world. Continuing theme...
Forests are undergoing increasing risks of drought-induced tree mortality. Species replacement patterns following mortality may have a significant impact on the global carbon cycle. Among major hardwoods, deciduous oaks (Quercus spp.) increasingly reported as replacing dying conifers across Northern Hemisphere. Yet, our knowledge growth responses these to drought is incomplete, especially regarding post-drought legacy effects. The objectives this study were determine occurrence, duration,...
Continuous-cover forestry (CCF) is a largely coherent strategy for adapting to climate change, in particular if it following the concepts of adaptive forest management (AFM). The key distribute and reduce risk disturbance. A mixture tree species provenances with high functional diversity are most important levers. Active adaptation relevant young forests where specific ecosystem services pursued. However, measures serve improve presented silvicultural approach should be given attention,...
It is believed that European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) will increase its competitive ability at northern range margin in Scandinavia due to climate change. In mixed old-growth forests of and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) Siggaboda nature reserve (southern Sweden), stand structure characteristics were sequentially recorded the years 2004, 2005 2007 as well growth stem diameter using tree-coring analyses. Using these measurements, we studied effects on dynamics an extreme storm...
Abstract The demand for wood from short rotation coppice ( SRC ) plantations as a renewable energy source is currently increasing and could affect biodiversity in agricultural areas. objective was to evaluate the contribution of phytodiversity landscapes assessed species richness, species–area relationships, Shannon indices, detrended correspondence analysis on composition, Sørensen similarities, habitat preference proportions, proportions found only one land use. Vegetation surveys were...