11:04 a.m.
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.
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*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
https://youtu.be/vdAXQ8CibKA
Seminar #5: Lisa Hülsmann - Tree mortality modeling – a tool for
ecological inference and a challenge for projecting forest dynamics
https://youtu.be/Yzsa0p7lq7c
Seminar #6: Craig D Allen - The global emergence of hotter-drought
drivers of forest disturbance tipping points
https://youtu.be/5NlkIQOzl2Y <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NlkIQOzl2Y>
Seminar #7: Yude Pan - Impacts of disturbances on leaf area index and
productivity of terrestrial ecosystems
https://youtu.be/mhHxGPVZXXE <https://youtu.be/mhHxGPVZXXE>
Seminar #8: Viacheslav Kharuk - Conifer decline and mortality in Siberia
https://youtu.be/2X4ZoUQa8jA <https://youtu.be/2X4ZoUQa8jA>
Seminar #9: Barbara Bentz - Recipes for Climate-Induced Bark
Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality
https://youtu.be/ddjMbYvuX6I <https://youtu.be/ddjMbYvuX6I>
*Visit us at:*
https://www.tree-mortality.net/
https://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/tree-mortality-patterns/
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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 <mailto: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/