ACECZECHFOR
Funding institution:
Czech Science FoundationCoordinator:
IFER - Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research, Jílové u Prahy, Czech RepublicResponsible at IFER:
Emil Cienciala
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Project partners:
Czech Hydrometeorological Institut, Prague, Czech RepublicFaculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech RepublicDepartment of Ecology, Institute of Botany ASCR, Trebon, Czech RepublicGlobal Change Research Institute CASProject realization:
2013 - 2016
Description:
This project (Reg. No. 14-12262S) addresses the issue of changing growth environment on production and vitality of trees grown in the conditions of Czech forests and open landscape. The project builds on woody biomass and forest soil data collected in the pilot statistical landscape inventory in the country (2008-2009) and proposes a repeated inventory of trees grown in forest and open landscape. Repeated tree biomass inventory, complemented with dendrochronology and isotopic analysis (d13C, d18O), will provide quantitative data on current and recent changes in tree growth, production and vitality indices and water use efíiciency. These data will be analyzed using in-depth correlative approaches and modeling to discern the contribution of key environmental and site variables (N-deposition, climate, stand and soil characteristics). The project will bring a wealth of quantitative information on tree responses to changing environment and improve our understanding on actual contribution of individual factors in elevation gradient and conditions of the Czech landscape and practical forestry.
This project aims at analyzing and quantirying the effects of actual and recent changes of growth environment on tree and stand growth and vitality, discerning the relative contribution of N deposition, temperature and moisture in elevation gradient of the Czech statistical landscape inventory grid.