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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]

The EGU 2022 took place in Vienna, Austria May 23 - 27. Dr. Laynara Lugli held a presentation at EGU with the title"The effects of elevated CO2 and phosphorous limitation shaping fine root functioning in Central Amazon forests": Since large parts of the Amazon forest grow in soils with low soil… [read more]

On February 14th, the 11th BLIZ Workshop took place via Zoom. During the last workshop in 2021, we debated the process of BLIZ scenarios. Since then we built narratives and a modeling protocol. After a round of general updates, each subproject showed its main achievements and presented the results… [read more]

In the second edition of Copernicus Newsletter Netzwerkbüro Wald, Februar 2022, is an interview by Dr. Allan Buras about the Forest Condition Monitor. The interview includes questions on  how the product came into being, who it is aimed at, how to use it, what the tool's background is and what the… [read more]