OEKB301916 Climate-forest interactions (in Eng.)

Art
Vorlesung
Semesterstunden
2
Vortragende/r (Mitwirkende/r)
Schume, Helmut , Gratzer, Georg
Organisation
Waldökologie
Angeboten im Semester
Wintersemester 2025/26
Unterrichts-/ Lehrsprachen
Englisch
Lehrinhalt

Understanding how forest ecosystems as long-lived and tall vegetation forms are interacting with the atmosphere in terms of energy and matter exchange, thereby influencing the climate, and how in turn forests are impacted by disturbances caused by atmospheric phenomena.

Part 1 (Influence of forests on climate): energy partitioning into sensible heat and evapotranspiration – regional cooling, albedo effects of land-use changes, impact on water fluxes, sink-source relations for carbon, particulate matter absorption – filter effect, cloud formation and dimming as result of BVOC emissions.

Part 2 (Climate driven disturbances):
Basic forest management systems
Understanding disturbance regimes in forests.
Important disturbance agents in forests and the impact of climate change on disturbance frequency and intensity.
Basics in fire ecology
Post disturbance forest dynamics
Lehrziel

Students will have gained knowledge of how forest ecosystems as long-lived and tall vegetation forms are interacting with the atmosphere in terms of energy and matter exchange. Thereby they have learned about the different pathways and scales on which forests influence the climate, and how in turn forest ecosystems are influenced by atmospheric phenomena. More specifically they have got insight in sink-source relations for carbon, evapotranspiration and the associated cooling effect, albedo effects of different land-use forms or BVOC emissions and subsequent cloud formation. Students will have attained knowledge of basic forest management systems, patterns of natural succession and the effects of disturbances on energy and matter fluxes, particularly in the light of altered disturbance frequencies and intensities through global warming, e.g. by storms, drought, bark beetle attacks or fire.
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