Project

Mountain regions are especially affected by climatic changes and mountain forests expected to be exposed to increasing drought stress. This project aims at analysing if and how drier conditions

influence carbon and water balances from tree to forest level,

change plant stress responses and interactions with microbial communities, and

affect ecosystem services.

The project, funded by the doc.funds program of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, is based on eight PhD theses focusing on closely interlinked aspects at cellular, tree and forest level. The PhD students are supervised in teams and embedded in the Doctoral College “Alpine Ecology and Global Change” and the internationally recognised Research Area “Mountain Regions” of the University of Innsbruck.

For a detailed project description see the following video:

ppt-Video

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Contact

Research Area Mountain Regions
Innrain 52
6020 Innsbruck/Austria

mountainforests@uibk.ac.at +43512507-54442

Project

 

Mountain regions are especially affected by climatic changes and mountain forests expected to be exposed to increasing drought stress. This project aims at analysing if and how drier conditions influence carbon and water balances from tree to forest level, change plant stress responses and interactions with microbial communities, and affect ecosystem services.

The project, funded by the doc.funds program of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, is based on eight PhD theses focusing on closely interlinked aspects at cellular, tree and forest level. The PhD students are supervised in teams and embedded in the Doctoral College “Alpine Ecology and Global Change” and the internationally recognised Research Area “Mountain Regions” of the University of Innsbruck.

For a detailed project description see the following video:

ppt-Video

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Team

 

The project is led by the management team given below, and the scientific team formed by the following board members of the University of Innsbruck and PhD students. Research activities are planned in close cooperation with the scientific partners listed below.

Project management

 

Cooperation partners

Henrik Hartmann,  Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena

Christine Foyer, University of Birmingham

Choimaa Dulamsuren, University of Freiburg

Alex Dumbrell, University of Essex

Sean Michaletz, University of British Columbia

Mirco Migliavacca,European Commission Joint Research Centre Ispra

Alex Guenther, University of California

Rupert Seidl, Technical University Munich

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