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

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

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

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

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

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