The SwissForestLab Science Day is taking place at the University of Basel, on February 14th, 2025.
This year's theme is "Forests in the Face of Accelerating Environmental Change - Quantifying, Monitoring, and Predicting Climate Change Impacts."
Program
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome | ||
| Session 1 | Chair: Hoch, Günter | ||
| 09:00-09:30 | 1.0 | Buras, Allan
| Keynote: Studying the climate-change resilience of forest ecosystems in space and time |
| 09:30-09:45 | 1.1 | Floriancic, Marius G.
| Revealing The Origin, Age And Seasonality Of Streamflow, Soil Waters And Transpiration |
| 09:45-10:00 | 1.2 | Steger, David N. | Drought Effects on Root Water Uptake Depth of Temperate Trees – Findings from a Two-year Rain Exclusion Experiment |
| 10:00-10:15 | 1.3 | Dups, Raphael | Drought Vulnerability in a Temperate Forest Stand: A Comparison of Conspecific Mature and Juvenile Trees |
| 10:15-10:30 | 1.4 | Schaub, Marcus | VPDrought – a Novel Approach to Disentangle Atmospheric and Soil Drought in a Natural Scots Pine Fores |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00-11:15 | 1.5 | Zhorzel, Tobias | Relevance of Osmotic Adjustment During Drought in Mature Temperate Trees |
| 11:15-11:30 | 1.6 | Braun, Sabine | Recent Drought Effects on Beech, Oak and Spruce compared to four decades of Intercantonal Long-term Forest Observation |
| 11:30-11:45 | 1.7 | Marano, Gina | Simulating the recent drought- induced mortality of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) in German forests |
| 11:45-12:00 | 1.8 | Lukovic, Mirko | Virtual Trees |
| 12:00-12:15 | 1.9 | Beloiu Schwenke, Mirela | TreeAI: A High-resolution Global Dataset for Advancing AI-based Forest Monitoring |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch Break and poster session | (posters of Session 1 & 2) | |
| Session 2 | Chair: Vitasse, Yann | ||
| 13:30-14:00 | 2.0 | Grendelmeier, Alex
| Spotlight: Impact of climate change and extreme events on Swiss (forest) birds |
| 14:00-14:15 | 2.1 | Kurath, Dave
| Leaf Spectroscopy Reveals Drought Response Variation in Fagus Sylvatica Saplings from Across the Species’ Range |
| 14:15-14:30 | 2.2 | Schneider, Pascal | Flush to Crush: The Paradox of Favourable Springs Leading to Tree Mortality |
| 14:30-14:45 | 2.3 | Luo, Yunpeng | The Underlying Physiological Reasons Cause Delayed Spring Photosynthesis Resumption |
| 14:45-15:00 | 2.4 | Deluigi, Janisse | Photosynthetic and Respiratory Acclimation Cannot Compensate Reduced Plant-level Carbon Uptake in Beech and Oak Saplings Under Prolonged Warming and Drought |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | 2.5 | Bottero, Alessandra
| Keynote: Mountain Forests in a Changing Climate: Challenges, Insights, and Adaptation Strategies |
| 16:00-16:15 | 2.6 | Hunziker, Stefan | Tree crown defoliation and tree mortality in Swiss forestry |
| 16:15-16:30 | 2.7 | Marande, Camille | Drought Resilience of 14 Native and Non-native Tree Species in the Longterm Experimental Plantation Copera, Based on Treering Analyses and Quantitative Wood Anatomy |
| 16:30-16:45 | 2.8 | de Boer, Maaike | Enhancing Resilience of Temperate European Forests by Promoting Rare Native Tree Species (RareSpec Project) |
| 16:45-17:00 | 2.9 | Heubel, Sina | Assessing Forest Dynamics Tools for Tackling Emerging Challenges in Forest Management |
| 17:00-18:00 | Apéro and poster session | (posters of Session 1 & 2) | |