Plant Regeneration Ecology
- Data Manager:
- thomas_wohlgemuth-wsl_ch
We study the importance of extreme events such as drought, storms, forest fires or clearings for the forest dynamics. In the frame of such disturbances we focus on:
resistance to disturbance: the potential to resist; we experimentally test the drought resistance of regenerating trees resilience after disturbance: the potential to regenerate; we monitor severely disturbed forests on the basis of systematic or stratified samples functional traits of forest plant species
Both the strong climate warming and a growing demand of forest goods (timber, fuel) will result in a general increase of disturbances. We elaborate basic knowledge for an adaptive forest management.
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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape (WSL)
- Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
- Community Ecology
- Research Unit Forest Resources and Management (FoReMa)
- Forest Dynamics
- Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry
- Forest health and biotic interactions
- Mountain Hydrology and Mass Movements (GebirgsHydrologie)
- Land Change Science
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF)
- National data and information center for the fungi of Switzerland (SwissFungi)
- SwissLichens
- WSL Publications (Web & Print)