LabForest

Reallabor Universitätsforst für nachhaltiges Verjüngungsmanagement im Klimawandel

a university-driven forest laboratory for sustainable regeneration management in a changing climate

Financing:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

Running period:
2024–2027

Contact and Project Staff:
Leah Vogelfänger
Sebastian Seibold
Katharina Tiebel
Dominik Thom

Project description:

Climate change requires conversion of forests, which are increasingly stressed by disturbances such as bark beetle outbreaks. Future management options have to take into account numerous interacting aspects with regard to nature and environmental protection, and economy. Within the joint project LabForest, in the LMU university forest near Landshut, we study how different management options after disturbances affect biodiversity (beetles, spiders, birds, plants, fungi) and what effects browsing/herbivory have on regeneration.

https://labforest.de/

Cooperation partners:

• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) - Department für Geographie
• Bayerische Landesanstalt für Wald und Forstwirtschaft (LWF) - Abteilung Waldschutz, Abteilung Waldbau
• Technische Universität München (TUM) - Professur für Holztechnologie, Professur für Waldinventur und nachhaltige Nutzung
• Bayerische Waldbauernschule
• Gräflich Arco-Zinneberg'sches Forstamt
• University of Alberta, Canada - Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences