[HTML][HTML] Tamm review: Drought-induced Scots pine mortality–trends, contributing factors, and mechanisms

AK Bose, A Gessler, U Büntgen, A Rigling - Forest Ecology and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
A recent increase in the intensity and frequency of climate extremes under global warming is
likely to continue to cause unprecedented rates of forest dieback in different habitats around …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of tree crown allometry on community dynamics in mixed-species stands versus monocultures. A review and perspectives for modeling and …

H Pretzsch - Forests, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Many recent studies have shown that the structure, density, and productivity of mixed-
species stands can differ from the weighted mean of monospecific stands of the respective …

[HTML][HTML] The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe

M Pardos, M Del Río, H Pretzsch, H Jactel… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Despite growing evidence that diverse forests play an important role in ecosystem
functioning, ensuring the provision of different ecosystem services, whether such diversity …

[HTML][HTML] Species mixing reduces drought susceptibility of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Quercus robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.)–Site water supply …

M Steckel, M del Río, M Heym, J Aldea, K Bielak… - Forest Ecology and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Tree species mixing has been widely promoted as a promising silvicultural tool for reducing
drought stress. However, so far only a limited number of species combinations have been …

Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effect

M Del Río, H Pretzsch, R Ruiz‐Peinado… - Journal of Applied …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
The increasing disturbances in monocultures around the world are testimony to their
instability under global change. Many studies have claimed that temporal stability of …

Predicting tree species from 3D laser scanning point clouds using deep learning

D Seidel, P Annighöfer, A Thielman… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Automated species classification from 3D point clouds is still a challenge. It is, however, an
important task for laser scanning-based forest inventory, ecosystem models, and to support …

Tree species mixing can increase stand productivity, density and growth efficiency and attenuate the trade-off between density and growth throughout the whole …

H Pretzsch, G Schütze - Annals of Botany, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Many recent studies emphasize that mixed species is a
promising silvicultural option for sustainable ecosystem management under uncertain and …

[HTML][HTML] Tree species mixing begets admixture of soil microbial communities: Variations along bulk soil, rhizosphere soil and root tissue

Y Bai, H Wei, A Ming, W Shu, W Shen - Geoderma, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Tree species can substantially impact the structure and functioning of soil microbial
communities. However, how tree species mixing affects soil microbial communities along …

Can mixing Quercus robur and Quercus petraea with Pinus sylvestris compensate for productivity losses due to climate change?

S Vospernik, C Vigren, X Morin, M Toïgo… - Science of the Total …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The climate change scenarios RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5, with a representative concentration
pathway for stabilization of radiative forcing of 4.5 W m− 2 and 8.5 W m− 2 by 2100 …

[HTML][HTML] Tree species growth response to climate in mixtures of Quercus robur/Quercus petraea and Pinus sylvestris across Europe-a dynamic, sensitive equilibrium

S Vospernik, M Heym, H Pretzsch, M Pach… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Quercus robur/Quercus petraea and Pinus sylvestris are widely distributed and
economically important tree species in Europe co-occurring on mesotrophic, xeric and mesic …