Stoffel Markus

Temporal FLUCtuations in the responses of old TREE populations to climate variability(FLUCTREE)

Project Number: CH-6751
Project Type: Research_Project
Project Duration: 01/01/2020 - 10/31/2022 project completed
Funding Source: other ,
Leading Institution: Université de Genève
Project Leader: Prof. Markus Stoffel
Full Professor
Climate Change Impacts and Risks in the Anthropocene (C-CIA)
Institut des Sciences de l`Environnement
Université de Genève
Boulevard Carl Vogt 66
1205 Genève
Phone: +41 (0) 79 340 39 89 ; +41 (0) 22 379 06 89
FAX: +41 (0) 22 379 32 10
e-Mail: markus.stoffel(at)unige.ch
http://www.dendrolab.ch;https://c-cia.ch/

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Research Areas:
Biodiversity

Disciplines:
general biology


Abstract:
Ongoing climate change is pushing forest ecosystems to important structural and functional changes. Interestingly, the new conditions are assumed to be stationary and constant across tree communities altough rising evidence points to important differences in the response of trees to the environment, either at the population or the community levels. In this project we aim at evaluating whether growth responses in a set of selected trees desynchronize and synchronize in time following environmental triggers such as global warming, enhanced drought, changes in snow, etc. We hypothesize that warming can be a major forcing for growth synchronization and thus whole tree populations might be at risk if every tree individual becomes vulnerable to the same climatic constraints. To address the research question we will create networks of 10-yr windows to assess modularity (presence of modules or groups of trees) which would be indicative of tree growth responses differing among tree individuals. If we then project this static picture into a moving window, we can evaluate those periods in which growth synchronizes and therefeore also study potential triggers of this synchronization.

Publications:
Madrigal-Gonzalez J., Stoffel M. 2022. Temporal FLUCTuation in the responses to climatic variability in old TREE populations (FLUCTREE). Université de Genève. pdf report


Last update: 11/24/22
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