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"Effects of rising CO2 levels on carbon sequestration are coordinated above and below ground" in News and Views in Nature is out now! An analysis of experiments in which the air around terrestrial plants or plant communities was enriched with carbon dioxide reveals a coordination between the… [read more]

We offer a PhD position in Forest Ecology and Dendroecology with Dr. Christian Zang. The extreme 2018/19 drought resulted in large-scale vitality loss, partial crown dieback and tree mortality in European beech (Fagus sylvatica), the most important tree species of Central Europe’s natural forest… [read more]

Anja Rammig speaks about the future of forests  in the context of climate change on Bayern 2. Listen to the full show. [read more]

Allan Buras and the Forest Condition Monitor are in the TAZ newspaper! Allan Buras stresses the importance to fight the climate crisis and regarding forest conversion to focus on a broadly diversified tree species portfolio. [read more]

Our PhD candidate Ben Meyer has been awarded with the mayor's prize for an outstanding MSc thesis. Ben wrote his thesis about susceptibility of beech to drought in our group. You can watch the appreciation of the mayor of Freising here. Congratulations Ben! [read more]

Christian Zang speaks in Infranken.de about trends in the climatic water balance in the region of LK Bad Kissingen.  [read more]

Anja Rammig received the TUM Sustainability Award 2020 in recognition of her outstanding research in the field of land surface-atmosphere interactions. Watch her receive the award on TUM Dies Academicus 2020 online on tum.de/en/dies or on YouTube (from 1:43:00). [read more]