Project
Climate change and forest adaptation
Ongoing climate change is on a of the big challenges for the maintainance of productive forests. Climatic exterme events like drought, heat waves, storms and the acompanying occurrence of pathogens require a monitoring of forest development and an adaptation of forest and forest management.
Background and Objective
The studies are aimed at analysing and evaluating the most important impacts of climate change on forests. Based on the results, concepts for forest adaptation and adaptive forest management (AFM) shall be developed and brought to application.
Approach
Data of the forest monitoring and additional studies will be used to identify the most importat drivers for forest vitality and productivity change. With international networking we will establish novel concepts and measures for an adaptive forest management (AFM) including assisted migration and varied silvicultural treatments of forest stands.
Preliminary Results
First approaches for an adaptive forest management (AFM) has been allready developed and published. In particular, the use of active and passive elements of adaptive management are intensively discussed.
More Information
Project status:
ongoing
Contact
- Phone
- +49 3334 3820 344
- andreas.bolte@thuenen.de
Head of the Institute
Publications
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Spathelf P, Bolte A (2025) Continuous-cover forestry - the appropriate concept for climate change adaptation of forests in Germany? Ciência Florestal 35:e90715, DOI:10.5902/1980509890715
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Spathelf P, Natkhin M, Thom D, Puhlmann H, Bolte A, Sass-Klaassen U, Bauhus J, Sanders TGM (2025) Fakten zum Thema: Wald und Wassermangel. AFZ Der Wald 80(1):36-40
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Schmeddes J, Muffler L, Barbeta A, Beil I, Bolte A, Holm S, Karitter P, Klisz M, Löf M, Nicolas M, Penuelas J, Vitasse Y, Weigel R, Kreyling J (2024) High phenotypic variation found within the offspring of each mother tree in Fagus sylvatica regardless of the environment or source population. Global Ecol Biogeogr 33(3):470-481, DOI:10.1111/geb.13794
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Bose AK, Doležal J, Scherrer D, Altman J, Ziche D, Martínez-Sancho E, Bigler C, Bolte A, Colangelo M, Dorado-Liñán I, Drobyshev I, Etzold S, Fonti P, Gessler A, Kolár T, Konasová E, Korznikov KA, Lebourgeois F, Lucas-Borja ME, Menzel A, et al (2024) Revealing legacy effects of extreme droughts on tree growth of oaks across the Northern Hemisphere. Sci Total Environ 926:172049, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172049
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Rukh S, Sanders TGM, Krüger I, Schad T, Bolte A (2023) Distinct responses of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) to drought intensity and length - A review of the impacts of the 2003 and 2018-2019 drought events in Central Europe. Forests 14(2):248, DOI:10.3390/f14020248
