Outcomes

Project outcomes & Media coverage

  • Media coverage: SRF Nachrichten (15 Uhr vom 17.8.21, min. 2:02); Radiogiornale RSI (7.00 Uhr vom 18.8.21, min 6:49 mit Alessandra Bottero); RTS online und Sendung Le Journal horaire / 17.8.21 à 15:00 (min. 2:38); Swissinfo; Blick online; Uzwil24; Arcinfo; La Liberté; Le Nouvelliste
  • Using silviculture to prepare managed Norway spruce and silver fir forests for drought | News WSL (Languages: English, German, Italian, French)
  • Bottero, A., Forrester, D. I., Cailleret, M., Kohnle, U., Gessler, A., Michel, D., Bose, A. K., Bauhus, J., Bugmann, H., Cuntz, M., Gillerot, L., Hanewinkel, M., Lévesque, M., Ryder, J., Sainte-Marie, J., Schwarz, J., Yousefpour, R., Zamora-Pereira, J. C., & Rigling, A. (2021). Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts. Global Change Biology, 27(18), 4403–4419. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15737
  • Zamora-Pereira, J.C., Yousefpour, R., Cailleret, M., Bugmann, H., & Hanewinkel, M. (2021). Magnitude and timing of density reduction are key for the resilience to severe drought in conifer-broadleaf mixed forests in Central Europe. Annals of Forest Science 78, 68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-021-01085-w
  • European Network of climate-smart forestry projects in Europe | The Sumforest – ForRISK project
  • Workshop with the stakeholders 2020 | Sumforest – ForRISK workshop
  • XXV IUFRO World Congress | oral presentation “Relative importance of climate, thinning and light use efficiency on drought vulnerability of Norway spruce and silver fir in central European mixed forests”
  • XXV IUFRO World Congress | oral presentation “How does magnitude and timing of forest density reduction influence drought resilience in a Norway Spruce – Silver fir mixed forest in Central Europe?”
  • Gennaretti, F., Ogée, J., Sainte-Marie, J., & Cuntz, M. (2020). Mining ecophysiological responses of European beech ecosystems to drought. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 280, 107780. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.107780
  • SwissForestLab Science Day 2018 | Sumforest – ForRISK poster
  • IV Italian National Congress of Silviculture 2018 | oral presentation
  • Freiburger Institut für Forstwissenschaften Seminarreihe Sommersemester 2018 ‘Drought impacts on forests – potential adaptation strategies’ | Sumforest – ForRISK seminar
  • IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress 2017 | Sumforest – ForRISK poster