Forest Structure and Microclimate

Work program 1

Assessment of tree regeneration

Work program 2

3D laser scanning: Monitoring forest structural dynamics and microclimate

Work program 3

Structural heterogeneity and microclimate

Work program 4

Analyses and drafting manuscripts

Team

Prof. Dr. Christian Ammer

Georg-August-University Goettingen
Silviculture and forest ecology of temperate zones

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schuldt

TU Dresden
Institute of Forest Botany and Forest Zoology

Email: bernhard.schuldt@tu-dresden.de

Prof. Dr. Dominik Seidel

Georg-August-University Goettingen
Spatial structures and digitization of forests

Email: dseidel@gwdg.de

Dr. Kerstin Pierick

Georg-August-University Goettingen
Spatial structures and digitization of forests / silviculture and forest ecology of temperate zones.

Email: kerstin.pierick@forst.uni-goettingen.de

Postdoc

Objectives

Overall, this subproject aims at quantifying (i) the change of stand structure and structural properties over time that have been induced by the ESBC treatments, including the establishment, growth and composition of natural regeneration. The forest structural measures serve as important co-factors for explaining the biodiversity patterns explored in the other subprojects of the RU. In dissimilarity modelling of β-diversity, distance matrices of forest structural measures replace the 15-factorial setup of the ESBC experiment.

In this SP, we will further (ii) examine to what extent the diversity of stand structures on the landscape level can explain variation in complex spatial microclimate and (iii) whether measures of structural complexity could serve as proxies for microclimate attributes when it comes to explain β-diversity.

In phase 2, the repeated inventory of all trees on all patches will (iv) provide above ground biomass productivity data for the quantification of multi-functionality in SP 9.

Sanderring

Röntgenring Hubland Nord Hubland Süd Campus Medizin