Dear all,

The International Tree Mortality Network, an initiative of the IUFRO task force on monitoring trends and patterns in global tree mortality, continues the online seminar series join on February 15, 4 pm CET, with:

Dr. Ana Bastos

Title: Climate variability, extremes, and attribution of high-impact ecological events: challenges and ways forward

Abstract: Climate and weather extremes impact tree functioning directly and can further trigger forest disturbances, thus affecting forest functioning and dynamics over periods much longer than the extreme per-se. With increased frequency or intensity of extreme events projected in the coming decades, extreme events might cluster in periods shorter than recovery times, thereby amplifying impacts and potentially inducing degradation and mortality trajectories. Understanding the links between atmospheric variability controlling extreme event occurrence and downstream impacts on forests is, therefore, crucial to: (i) separate trends in disturbance/mortality events due to natural vs. anthropogenically forced climate variability, (ii) improve process understanding about the drivers of high-impact ecological events and (iii) increase the robustness of future projections of forest dynamics.

Bio: Ana Bastos is the Lead of the Climate-ecosystem-disturbance interactions group of the Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry. She specialises in climate-ecosystem interactions with an emphasis on the inter-annual to long-term variability in the global carbon-cycle.

Please register for the Zoom Webinar:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/4216438940390/WN_LtlBqI-FQCCj2nsaV82OGQ

Note that the talks might be recorded.

Previous seminars:
Seminar # 1: Matt Hansen - Global forest monitoring using satellite data
https://youtu.be/snUSGNb9bAQ

Seminar # 2: Flavia Costa - Tree mortality in the Amazon across local hydrological gradients: how water table depth may save or condemn trees as climate changes
https://youtu.be/5wmzX9ldn4Q

Seminar #3: Belinda Medlyn - Tree mortality in Australian ecosystems: past, present and future
https://youtu.be/T6S9VKklbyc

Seminar #4: Nate McDowell - Rising tree mortality in the Anthropocene

Seminar #5: Lisa Hülsmann - Tree mortality modeling – a tool for ecological inference and a challenge for projecting forest dynamics

Seminar #6: Craig D Allen - The global emergence of hotter-drought drivers of forest disturbance tipping points

Seminar #7: Yude Pan - Impacts of disturbances on leaf area index and productivity of terrestrial ecosystems

Seminar #8: Viacheslav Kharuk - Conifer decline and mortality in Siberia

Seminar #9: Barbara Bentz - Recipes for Climate-Induced Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality



 

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Dr. (habil.) Henrik Hartmann

Group leader

Plant Allocation

 

MPI for Biogeochemistry

Hans Knöll Str. 10

07745 Jena, Germany

 

 

Contact:  hhart@bgc-jena.mpg.de

Phone:    +49.3641.576294

Mobile:  +49.171.8188273

Website: https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgp/index.php/HenrikHartmann/HenrikHartmann

 

Initiatives:

International Tree Mortality Network

https://www.tree-mortality.net/

 

IUFRO Task Force on monitoring of global tree mortality patterns and trends

https://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/tree-mortality-patterns/