[IUFRO Div 8] ITMN Online seminar on July 5, 4 pm CEST with Dr. David Galbraith on the Sensitivity of the Amazon forests to climate change

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 on *July 5, 4 pm CEST*, with: *Dr. David Galbraith* *Title: How does sensitivity to climate change vary across Amazon forests?  Insights from ecophysiology, forest dynamics, remote sensing and modelling.* _Abstract_: There is a pressing need to better understand and predict the impacts of climate change on Amazon forests, given their important role in the Earth System. In this talk, I present new results that reveal how the sensitivity of Amazon forests to climate stressors varies across the Basin, drawing upon new plant functional trait data collection, forest inventory data analyses, remote sensing and ecosystem modelling. _Bio_: David Galbraith is Professor of Terrestrial Ecosystem Science at the School of Geography, University of Leeds. His research focuses on better understanding how global environmental change affects the biogeochemical cycling and dynamics of tropical forests, with a particular focus on the sensitivity of tropical ecosystems to water stress and high temperatures. He leads a multidisciplinary team of researchers that employ methodological approaches that encompass field-based ecophysiological measurements, forest inventory analysis, climate change experiments, remote sensing and modelling approaches. *Please register for the Zoom Webinar:* https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6116563382462/WN_3cURJ0PySYy7bwIBkSps4A 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 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 Seminar #7: Yude Pan - Impacts of disturbances on leaf area index and productivity of terrestrial ecosystems https://youtu.be/mhHxGPVZXXE Seminar #8: Viacheslav Kharuk - Conifer decline and mortality in Siberia https://youtu.be/2X4ZoUQa8jA Seminar #9: Barbara Bentz - Recipes for Climate-Induced Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality https://youtu.be/ddjMbYvuX6I Seminar #10: Ana Bastos - Climate variability, extremes, and attribution of high-impact ecological events: challenges and ways forward https://youtu.be/jhTwbQ6cffA Seminar #11: Bonaventure Ntirugulirwa - Mortality of Afrotropical trees in a temperature manipulation experiment: Result from the Rwanda TREE project https://youtu.be/n0CnDXudLf0 Seminar #12: Andreas Bolte - Forest mortality dynamics in Germany – how can we cope with it?t https://youtu.be/fSEMIp3_gSs -- -- --- 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/