Program
A detailed program for the symposium "Shaping the Change: Water, Carbon, Forest Restructuring" will be published shortly!
You can look forward to exciting lectures, practical discussions and insights into the latest research results from two research projects(BENEATH and WAIKLIM). Whether in the lecture hall or directly in the forest - together we will shape the future of our forests.
| Time | Topic |
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| 11:00 | Registration |
| 12:00 | Opening Karsten Kalbitz / Natalie Orlowski |
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Session 1: Water balance of forests in climate change |
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| 12:30 |
Keynote |
| 13:10 | What can we do; what do we need to know? - Forest-water perspective from practice Rainer Petzold (Sachsenforst) |
| 13:40 |
Hidden waters of the forest: How trees and deadwood shape soil moisture dynamics |
| 14:10 | tba Anke Hildebrandt (University of Jena) |
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Break |
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| 15:30 | Almost a century of sap flow measurements from Tharandt - Where do we stand today? Bernhard Schuldt (TUD) |
| 16:00 | Forests in Transition: Water Balance from Sensors to Action Camila Zamora (TUD) |
| 16:30 | Poster Pitch / Poster Session |
| Time | Topic | |
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| Session 2: Carbon storage and deadwood for climate-stable forests | ||
| 8:40 | Keynote Deadwood in Disturbed and Evolving Forest Ecosystems Kenton Stutz (University of Freiburg) |
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| 9:20 | Soil carbon in forests: monitoring, assessment and perspectives for sustainable forest management Nicole Wellbrock (Thünen Institute) |
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| 9:50 |
Carbon storage in fine roots in a near-natural beech forest including soil moisture (BENEATH project) |
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| Break | ||
| 11:00 | Deadwood and soil moisture: Insights into the carbon storage of beech forests (BENEATH project) Patrick Wordell-Dietrich (TUD) |
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| 11:30 | Carbon balance of forest soils under climate change Felix Heitkamp (Northwest German Forest Research Institute) |
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| 12:00 | Possible causes and effects of beech calamity on the carbon balance in Central Germany Joscha Menge (ThüringenForst) |
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| Lunch break | ||
| Session 3: Forest conversion for the future | ||
| 14:00 | tba Dirk-Roger Eisenhauser (Sachsenforst) |
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| 14:30 | tba Andreas Bolte (Thünen Institute) |
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| 15:00 |
Recording, simulation and optimization of resource supply on the forest floor in spatially variable old-growth stands of European beech The effect of resource supply in old beech stands on increment and vitality of regeneration and old trees |
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| Break | ||
| 16:00 | Poster session | |
| 17:00 | Panel discussion | |
| 19:00 | Evening at the Bahnwärterhäuschen | |
Excursion to the study sites of the BENEATH and WAIKLIM research projects
| 8:00 | Departure from Tharandt |
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| 10:00 | Arrival Dübener Heide |
| 10:15 |
Group 1: BENEATH - area Group 2: WAIKLIM - Area |
| 13:00 |
Group 1: WAIKLIM - Area Group 2: BENATH - Area |
| 15:00-15:30 | Return journey |
| 18:00 | Arrival Tharandt |
Buchenwald mit Totholz
The focus is on the following questions:
- What role does deadwood play in the resilience of forests to drought and in carbon storage?
- How does climate change influence the water balance of beech forests and what effects can be expected for carbon storage?
- How can we convert our forests to make them fit for climate change?
- What options are there in the transition phase to maintain and promote the stability of old-growth stands and the vitality of pre-plantations in equal measure?