Projects

BayForDemo
Advancing demographic forest models using data-assimilation.
Case study: Bavaria.

Chestnut mortality
Analyzing spatiotemporal patterns and trends of Castanea sativa decline during the last decades in Southern Switzerland.

CNDD
We explore conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) in dynamic processes to understand the role of CNDD for biodiversity.

Demographic range models
We use integral projection models (IPMs) to explore the potential of demographic rates to constrain the distribution of Pinus edulis.

Natural beech dynamics
Characterizing the contribution of demographic processes to structural continuity in a primeval beech forest.

Tree mortality modeling
This is an ongoing activity with the aim to improve the prediction of tree mortality in dynamic vegetation models.