As a result of climate change, interactions between forest disturbances are becoming more and more frequent. These so-called compound disturbances can alter the dynamics of post-disturbance recovery compared to an individual disturbance alone, leading to unpredictable outcomes, therefore, they represent a threat for forest resilience. A recent example of such interacting disturbances is an extremelyContinue reading “Multiple dimensions of forest resilience to compound disturbances – new paper published!”
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Prediction of post-disturbance forest recovery in the Alps – new paper published!
We investigated post-disturbance forest recovery in the Alps using satellite remote sensing from Landsat and Sentinel-2, covering the period from 1990 to 2021. and applying a state-of-the-art technique called temporally generalized synthetic spectral unmixing, which allows to disentangle the land cover types within each pixel, giving us accurate tree cover fractions.
Recovery and resilience of European temperate forests to large and severe disturbances – new article published!
We investigated the resilience of European temperate forests to large and severe disturbances (i.e. creating contiguous patches larger than 1ha) using ground-based inventories of regeneration, in collaboration with several other European research groups. Furthermore, we leveraged on large bioclimatic and topographic datasets to assess the impact of environment and forest management on the recovery process.