Timberline – Legacy effects after summer and winter drought
We aim to improve our knowledge of combined stress effects, counter strategies and legacy effects, spatial hydraulic and stress patterns within timberline trees, and of the effects of different stress intensities on tree hydraulics.
Research activities focus on
- Monitoring hydraulic efficiency and safety in stressed timberline trees
- Evaluation of recovery mechanisms (refilling and wood formation)
- Assessment of remaining hydraulic limitations after recovery
- Hydraulic architecture and patterns of species growing at the timberline
- Development of methods to study bole hydraulic traits
- Water uptake from different soil horizons
- Effects of stress duration and intensity
Funding
Austrian Science Fund (FWF), P 32203, Pl Stefan Mayr
Personnel involved
Stefan Mayr
Michael Bahn
Andreas Bär
Florian Oberleitner
Birgit Dämon
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