A Tree-Centered Approach to Assess Impacts of Extreme Climatic Events on Forests

Ute Sass-Klaassen; Patrick Fonti; Paolo Cherubini; Jožica Gričar; Elisabeth M R Robert; Kathy Steppe; Achim Bräuning

doi:10.3389/fpls.2016.01069

A Tree-Centered Approach to Assess Impacts of Extreme Climatic Events on Forests

Front Plant Sci. 2016 Jul 21:7:1069. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01069. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Ute Sass-Klaassen¹, Patrick Fonti², Paolo Cherubini², Jožica Gričar³, Elisabeth M R Robert⁴, Kathy Steppe⁵, Achim Bräuning⁶

Affiliations

¹ Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University Wageningen, Netherlands.
² Landscape Dynamics Unit, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
³ Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia.
⁴ CREAFCerdanyola del Vallès, Spain; Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Vrije Universiteit BrusselBrussels, Belgium; Laboratory of Wood Biology and Xylarium, Royal Museum for Central AfricaTervuren, Belgium.
⁵ Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Department of Applied Ecology and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University Ghent, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Geography and Geosciences, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Erlangen, Germany.

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Keywords: climate change; future forests; intra-annual resolution; long-term monitoring; mechanistic understanding; resilience; structure-function relationships; tree.