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Carbon and Timber stock of the German forest - Improvement of projections of current and future CO2 stock by means of ecophysiological and empirical forest growth models (KNOW)

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Project code: 2218WK09B4
Contract period: 01.03.2020 - 28.02.2022
Budget: 190,436 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: old growth wood, natural forest development, silviculture, wood growth

The project aims at estimating future forest development and timber supply potentials in Germany under the influence of progressive global warming. This will create a robust basis for management decisions and will help policymakers, administrations, associations and industry to select appropriate options for future management. For this purpose a process-based forest model (4C) and an empirical forest simulator (WEHAM) are coupled to generate climate-sensitive growth functions that will be used to estimate the climate sensitivity of carbon and timber simulations. For example, the WEHAM base scenario (which is currently used in policy, timber resource and forest management planning) will be evaluated under different regional climate scenarios (according to RCP2.6 to 8.5. In parallel, rare extreme weather conditions that have significant implications for tree growth and whose occurrence may be altered due to climate change, are identified. They will be taken into account in evaluations of the simulations, too.

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