Project
FitForClim
Procurement of highly-productive and suitable forest reproductive material for future forests under climate change
Timber is an important raw material with the positive property of sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2). The joint project lays the foundation for a sustainable supply of markets with high-quality forest reproductive material (FRM). FRM needs to show a sufficient genetic diversity, in order to secure productivity in stable and adaptable stands, even under novel conditions due to a changing climate. Apart from an increased productivity (carbon sequestration) the project also aims at enhancing wood-quality. This is a precondition for a cascade utilization of timber, which means that it is used one or several times materially before it is used for energy generation.
Background and Objective
Within the subproject the work on the species Douglas-fir and Scots pine will be coordinated, including a joint analysis of long-term field trial data. Plus trees of Douglas-fir, Norway spruce, Scots pine, larch, oak and sycamore maple will be selected in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and on test sites of the Thünen-Institute, and subsequently reproduced and bred. Single tree progeny testing of Scots pine will be initiated. Another focal point of the project is the accompanying genetic investigation of plus trees and stands of Douglas-fir.
Approach
This aim can be achieved on the basis of joint, inter-institutional analyses of data from long-term field trials. Valuable information for the revision of provenance recommendation and for the establishment of breeding zones can be obtained from such analyses. Furthermore, the selection of plus trees and their subsequent reproduction for the establishment of seed orchards can be based on such information. Forest owners, forestry enterprises, decision-makers and multipliers will be informed via a new web portal. Synergies and the remaining capacities in the field of forest tree breeding will be used efficiently due to the intensive networking of the partners in the joint project.
Results
The main results of the project are:
- 216 trial sites of the Thünen Institute, the Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg (LFB) and the Landesforsten Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (LFoA-MV) with a total of approximately 86,000 data sets were processed for the project.
- The evaluation of the trials led to applications for approval or approvals of basic material for Scots pine, sessile oak and European larch.
- For Douglas fir, 3 breeding and deployment zones were defined, and for Scots pine 4 breeding and deployment zones.
- For Douglas fir and Scots pine, 913 and 726 plus trees, respectively, were selected in test sites and stands. Of these, 823 plus trees of Douglas fir and 550 of Scots pine were successfully vegetative propagated for the establishment of the breeding populations, and genotyped.
- A progeny test was established with 120 open pollinated families at 3 sites in Brandenburg (2) and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1).
- Conclusions and recommendations for the approval of basic material for the production of forest reproductive material of Douglas fir, but also of other stand-forming and wind-pollinated tree species in Germany, were derived from the comparison and evaluation of the analysis results of different sized approved stands with Douglas fir, mixed stands and seed orchards.
- In a 160-year-old stand with sessile oak a selection of mother trees and the resulting natural regeneration were analyzed by molecular makers. It turned out that the stand can be assumed to be naturally regenerated for several generations. Furthermore, the natural regeneration between the individual collection points is very heterogeneous and has a spatial-genetic structure.
Involved Thünen-Partners
Involved external Thünen-Partners
- Nordwestdeutsche Forstliche Versuchsanstalt (NW-FVA)
(Göttingen, Hann. Münden, Deutschland) -
Bayerisches Amt für forstliche Saat- und Pflanzenzucht (ASP)
(Teisendorf, Deutschland) -
Staatsbetrieb Sachsenforst, Kompetenzzentrum Wald und Forstwirtschaft
(Pirna, Graupa, Deutschland) -
Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg, Landesstelle für Forstliches Vermehrungsgut
(Waldsieversdorf, Deutschland) -
Landesforst Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (FVI)
(Schwerin, Deutschland)
Funding Body
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Federal Ministry of Food und Agriculture (BMEL)
(national, öffentlich)
Duration
1.2014 - 4.2019
More Information
Project funding number: 22WB400704 (vorm. 28W-B-4-007-04)
Funding program: Waldklimafonds (Programmbestandteil des Sondervermögens Energie- und Klimafonds)
Project status:
finished
Publications
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Liesebach H, Liepe KJ, Bäucker C (2023) Neue Samenplantagen für Deutschland - Empfehlungen auf Basis internationaler Erkenntnisse. Thünen Rep 105:274-281
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Pakull B, Wojacki J, Eusemann P, Fussi B, Ahnert D, Liesebach H (2023) Sexual reproduction in two mixed stands of coastal and interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) in Germany. Eur J Forest Res 142(1):175-182, DOI:10.1007/s10342-022-01514-z
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Liepe KJ, van der Maaten E, van der Maaten-Theunissen M, Liesebach M (2022) High phenotypic plasticity, but low signals of local adaptation to climate in a large-scale transplant experiment of Picea abies (L.) Karst. in Europe. Front Forests Glob Change 5:804857, DOI:10.3389/ffgc.2022.804857
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Eusemann P, Liesebach H (2022) Verjüngung der Traubeneiche in naturnahen Beständen. AFZ Der Wald 77(5):24-28
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Liesebach M (2021) Forstpflanzenzüchtung gewinnt an Bedeutung. In: Seeling U (ed) Forst Holz & Jagd Taschenbuch 2022. München: Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverl, pp 211-215
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Pakull B, Eusemann P, Wojacki J, Ahnert D, Liesebach H (2021) Genetic diversity of seeds from four German Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) seed orchards. Eur J Forest Res 140:1543-1557, DOI:10.1007/s10342-021-01419-3
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Eusemann P, Liesebach H (2021) Small-scale genetic structure and mating patterns in an extensive sessile oak forest (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.). Ecol Evol 11(12):7796-7809, DOI:10.1002/ece3.7613
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Liesebach H, Liepe KJ, Bäucker C (2021) Towards new seed orchard designs in Germany - A review. Silvae Genetica 70(1):84-98, DOI:10.2478/sg-2021-0007
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Liepe KJ, Mittelberg HS, Liesebach M (2020) Der IUFRO-Fichtenherkunftsversuch von 1964/68 - Eine erste abschließende Auswertung der deutschen Flächen nach Herkunftsgruppen. Thünen Rep 76:60-72
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Rieckmann C, Schneck V, Liesebach M (2020) Ein Vergleich von Absaaten europäischer Hybridlärchen-Samenplantagen. Thünen Rep 76:100-118
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Liesebach H, Wojacki J, Pakull B, Eusemann P (2020) Genetische Diversität von Douglasiensaatgut aus zugelassenen Erntebeständen und Samenplantagen - Schlussfolgerungen für die Praxis. Thünen Rep 76:246-259
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Liesebach M, Liepe KJ (2019) Forstpflanzenzüchtung in Deutschland im Aufwind : Entwicklung und aktuelle Herausforderungen. ProWald(5):4-7
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Wojacki J, Eusemann P, Ahnert D, Pakull B, Liesebach H (2019) Genetic diversity in seeds produced in artificial Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) stands of different size. Forest Ecol Manag 438:18-24, DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2019.02.012
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Heimpold C, Rieckmann C, Liesebach M (2019) Neues aus der Forstpflanzenzüchtung für die Praxis : Sechste Tagung der Sektion Forstgenetik/Forstpflanzenzüchtung vom 16. bis 18. September in Dresden. Holz Zentralbl 145(44):962-964
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Liesebach M, Schneck V (2018) The German forest tree breeding concept - the base for new seed orchards. Thünen Rep 62:41-48
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Liesebach M, Schneck V (2017) Die Traubeneiche und ihre Herkünfte (Teil 1). Forstzeitung 128(6):16-17
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Liesebach M, Schneck V (2017) Die Traubeneiche und ihre Herkünfte (Teil 2). Forstzeitung(7):18-19
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Schröder J, Schneck V (2017) Regressionsanalytischer Ansatz zur versuchsübergreifenden Auswertung von Herkunfts-Versuchen mit Wald-Kiefer (Pinus sylvestris L.). Beitr Nordwestdt Forstl Versuchsanst 16:55-64
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Schröder J, Schneck V, Liesebach M (2017) Stärkung der Nutzfunktion durch Forstpflanzenzüchtung. Holz Zentralbl 143(4):109
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Janßen A, Konnert M, Liesebach M, Meißner M, Wolf H (2017) Waldklimafonds unterstützt Forstpflanzenzüchtung. AFZ Der Wald 72(10):15-16
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Liesebach M, Schneck V (2016) Ist die Einteilung der forstlichen Herkunftsgebiete in Deutschland noch zeitgemäß? Thünen Rep 45:15-20
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Liepe KJ, Schröder J, Wojacki J (2015) Neue Perspektiven der Züchtung für Douglasie und Waldkiefer. AFZ Der Wald 70(11):27-29
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Meißner M, Janßen A, Konnert M, Liesebach M, Wolf H (2015) Vermehrungsgut für klima- und standortgerechten Wald. AFZ Der Wald 70(11):24-26
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Liesebach M, Degen B, Grotehusmann H, Janßen A, Konnert M, Rau H-M, Schirmer R, Schneck D, Schneck V, Steiner W, Wolf H (2013) Strategie zur mittel- und langfristigen Versorgung mit hochwertigem forstlichem Vermehrungsgut durch Züchtung in Deutschland. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 78 p, Thünen Rep 7, DOI:10.3220/REP_7_2013