Eighteenth webinar: Patterns of tree growth over the last years. Is it climate change causing trees to grow any slower or faster?

Tree growth is a process depending on natural resources, environmental conditions, and inter and intra-species competition. Most of those variables are site-specific and relatively constant over time. However, Climate change is causing a shift in species composition and climate variables. Tree species are adapting to these changes at different speeds and responses. The mechanisms of such adaptations are not clear or recorded. For example, a change in tree growth might be one of the fastest responses to changing conditions. While some authors have described a decrease in tree growth, there is a debate if such a decrease is specific to tree species, tree populations, or latitudinal gradients. Literature has also reported an increment of tree growth for some species cases. In addition to this problem, most of the studies that found “no effect” of climate change on tree growth might have gone unpublished or overlooked. Causing a gap in our interpretation of the scientific results. During my talk, I will present the main trends we have found reviewing the CLEANFOREST Cost Action database of WG2 and discuss the following steps to disentangle our confusion about the effect of climate change on tree growth and how to synthesize recorded observation into a global pattern.

Where:  https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/10e05685-5ed5-46e2-8fd2-38361d5a1b36@c715e6ac-7770-4e32-8741-3be9759766f0

Deadline: please sign up via the registration link above BEFORE the webinar.

Contact:

• Presenter: Carlos Miguel Landivar Albis (carlos.landivar@bfw.gv.at)
• Webinar co-convenor: Klaudia Ziemblinska (klaudiaziem@wp.pl)
• Webinar convenor: Andrei Popa (popa.andrei.dorna@gmail.com)