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The Professorship LSAI organized the Cross-project Modeling Meeting on November 16-18, 2022, attended by nearly 40 scientists from the EU-funded projects ForestPaths, CLIMB-Forest, FORECO, WildE, Holisoils, FORWARDS, RESCUE and ForMII to identify future synergies between the projects and to discuss… [read more]

In the beginning of December the LSAI team rented a cabin in the Bavarian Forest for an internal retreat. For two days we had discussion rounds regarding synergies and internal organization processes. Improvements and new ideas could be developed. In team building activities, such as a cooking event… [read more]

On October 24th the 13th BLIZ Workshop took place in Iffeldorf as a hybrid event. As usual, we debated each subproject's status updates. Getting closer to the final steps of BLIZ, we continued discussing the BLIZ scenarios and the next steps. We set the next deadlines for the synthesis. Thanks to… [read more]

Allan Buras had been invited to Bad Kissingen by Dr. Galuska, founder of Heiligenfeld Kliniken. In the "Leben lieben" series of events, he spoke about the effects of the warm summer with low precipitation on our forests and individual tree species. In order to meet the challenges of climate change… [read more]

Dr. Allan Buras was talking about the alarming situation on Germany's forests and his monitoring work with the Forest Condition Monitor on Deutschlandfunk on September 21st. You can download or listen to it here. [read more]

This summer, our PhD candidate Konstantin Gregor is working as a visiting scholar in Trevor Keenan's group at the University of California at Berkeley. During that time, they are working together to combine ecosystem modeling approaches with ground measurement data from FluxNet sites. This helps… [read more]

On Wednesday, July 27, the LSAI-team went on a summer excursion bicycle trip. Our first stop was the KROOF project in Kranzberger Forest. The Ecophysiology group showed us around explaining former (e.g. Drought Stress Resilience of European Beech and Norway Spruce) and current projects (e.g.… [read more]

As part of the Amazon-FLUX project, we travelled to the heart of the Amazon forest, near Manaus, Brazil (Figure 1, Figure 2) during the month of June and July 2022 aiming to investigate the importance of compounds released by fine roots in supporting forest functioning in areas with low soil… [read more]

The 12th BLIZ Workshop took place on 23.06.2022 in Iffeldorf and on Zoom. We started the workshop updating everyone with organizational information and incentives regarding the BLIZ final steps. Each subproject gave updates on their status of work. We finished discussing the synthesis process with… [read more]

The EGU 2022 took place in Vienna, Austria May 23 - 27. PhD student Konstantin Gregor held a presentation at EGU with the title "Trade-offs in strategies for climate-smart forestry in Europe" He showed how forests in Europe could be managed with regard to many ecosystem services, taking into… [read more]