The Project Aims.
To understand the effects of climate (droughts, heatwaves) and forest management on the productivity, resilience, biodiversity and carbon storage of forests.
To develop climate-smart forest management tools to make sustainable management operational.
The Approach.
- We quantify the tree and soil responses in a forest experiment from by using an all-resource-perspective, that is by quantifying nutrient, water and carbon cycling within forests.
- We test remote sensing techniques for monitoring forest disturbance dynamics and forest stress responses in real time at national and continental scale by calibrating drone- and satellite data against ground-measurements.
- We develop a mechanistic forest model that integrates resource cycling within soils- and trees, and calibrate this model against forest experimental data.
- We develop and promote two Climate Smart Forestry tools: (1) a learning-app to train foresters and students, and (2) a decision support tool to guide forest users in formulating their CSF-management.
This project is financed by the Dutch Research Council, in Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek.
Climate Smart Forestry 