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 on April 26, 4 pm CEST,
with:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Bolte,
Thünen Institute, Germany
Title: Forest mortality dynamics
in Germany – how can we cope with it?
Abstract: In the last years forests in
Germany have faced vitality decreases and
mortality dynamics never seen before. About 25%
of German forests are projected to be at risk
for extensive disturbance events and ecosystem
service losses within the next 30 years; their
transformation to future resilient forests will
cost billions of Euros. Based on an analysis of
ongoing mortality dynamics and options for an
adaptive forest management, solutions for future
forest management will be discussed.
Bio: Andreas Bolte is a forest
ecologist. He is head of the Thünen Institute
of Forest Ecosystems, and Associated Professor
for forest ecology at Göttingen University.
For more than 20 years he is studying climate
change impacts on forests and options to adapt
them to future climate and site conditions.
Please register for the Zoom Webinar:
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
Seminar #10: Ana Bastos - Climate
variability, extremes, and attribution of
high-impact ecological events: challenges
and ways forward
Seminar #11: Bonaventure
Ntirugulirwa - Mortality of Afrotropical trees
in a temperature manipulation experiment:
Result from the Rwanda TREE project