Inside out

<!DOCTYPE html>   <html lang="en">  <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Inside out</title> <meta name="description" content="Inside out"> <meta name="author" content="Paweł Kapusta"> <meta name="keywords" content="tree, ecology">  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico">  <link href="bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">  <link href="fonts/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">  <link href="css/animations.css" rel="stylesheet">  <link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet">  <link href="css/custom.css" rel="stylesheet">  <link href="css/fonts.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> <body class="no-trans">   <div class="scrollToTop"><i class="icon-up-open-big"></i></div>   <header class="header fixed clearfix navbar navbar-fixed-top"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-3">   <div class="header-left">  <div class="logo smooth-scroll"> <a href="#banner"><img id="logo" src="images/logo.png" alt="Inside out"></a> </div>  <div class="site-name-and-slogan smooth-scroll"> <div class="site-name"><a href="#banner">Inside out</a></div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-md-9">   <div class="header-right">   <div class="main-navigation animated">   <nav class="navbar navbar-default" role="navigation"> <div class="container-fluid">  <div class="navbar-header"> <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbar-collapse-1"> <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> </button> </div>  <div class="collapse navbar-collapse scrollspy smooth-scroll" id="navbar-collapse-1"> <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"> <li><a href="#about">Project</a></li> <li><a href="#blog">News</a></li> <li><a href="#team">Team</a></li> <li><a href="#publ">Publications</a></li> <li><a href="#funding">Funding</a></li> <li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav>  </div>  </div>  </div> </div> </div> </header>    <div id="banner" class="banner"> <div class="banner-image"></div> <div class="banner-caption"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-9 col-md-offset-2 object-non-visible" data-animation-effect="fadeIn"> <h2>Inside out</h2> <h1 class="text-center">Linking intra-annual wood formation in mature trees to stand-level water and carbon cycling</h1> <p><img src="images/logo_ue.png"></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    <div class="section clearfix object-non-visible about" data-animation-effect="fadeIn"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h1 id="about" class="title text-center">Project</h1> <p class="lead text-center">Forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services and are considered a critical resource for mitigating climate change. Yet, we still do not fully understand, how trees function and how they respond to changes in their environment. As a consequence, the future growth and productivity of forests are uncertain. This interdisciplinary project brings together precise measurements of tree photosynthesis and growth with mechanistic modeling to provide deep insight in i) how trees invest resources in wood formation and ii) how this process changes with climate, stand characteristics, and management.</p> <div class="space"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4"> <h3>Background</h3> <p>Trees produce sugars through photosynthesis in their leaves and transport these sugars down the stem, where they are used as building blocks to form new wood cells. This fundamental process is – even after decades of research – not fully understood. How big is the portion of photosynthesis that is used for growth? And how does this "carbon allocation" depend on climate, forest management or other factors? Answering these seemingly questions is challenging, yet vitally important to anticipate environmental change impacts on forest ecosystems and resources.</p> <p>Importantly, we can only forecast future forest functioning and productivity, if we can mathematically describe the relevant processes that happen inside trees. For this, we need precise and highly resolved data on these processes, which are still not very common. A consequence is that current vegetation models can simulate the amount of carbon that forests invest in growth only roughly. This is problematic because these models play an important role in guiding political decisions related to climate change. Hence, there is urgent need to close existing knowledge gaps and provide a better scientific basis for predicting forest growth and carbon cycling in a warming world. This can only be achieved through interdisciplinary research initiatives like "Inside out".</p> <img src="images/2.jpg" style="margin: 20px 0 20px 0;"> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <img src="images/3.jpg" style="margin: 20px 0 20px 0"> <h3>Objectives</h3> <p>The overall goal of "Inside out" is to better understand and quantify the growth and carbon allocation dynamics in temperate European forests, using a novel combination of precise observations and mechanistic model simulations. We pursue a bottom-up approach to be able to scale our findings from the cell to the tree level, then to the stand level, and ultimately across larger regions. The information gained along the way will i) enhance the scientific basis of wood formation processes, ii) contribute to improving carbon allocation schemes in vegetation models, and iii) provide forest managers with a refined estimate of intra- and inter-annual forest growth, and how it varies with climate, competition, or other factors.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <h3>Study areas and approaches</h3> <p>We need two types of information to quantify carbon allocation: how much carbon (i.e. CO<sub>2</sub>) enters the forest through photosynthesis, and how much the trees grow over a given time period. Precise measurements of CO<sub>2</sub> uptake are only available at a small number of experimental forest sites, where so-called "flux-tower data" are available for the past ~20 years. This study focuses on three such sites located in Denmark, France, and Germany that are dominated by European beech (<em>Fagus sylvatica</em>), although existing data from additional flux-tower sites will also be considered.</p> <p>At each site, we apply a novel combination of methods to quantify and reconstruct tree growth with precision. These include quantitative wood anatomy to measure cell properties and wood density, tree-ring data to assess annual radial growth, and terrestrial LiDAR to quantify the volume of each tree and the entire stand. By integrating these observations with flux-tower data, we can study carbon allocation dynamics both within and between years. To generalize our observations across larger regions, we will combine them with a new mechanistic model of individual tree growth and verify the resulting simulations at independent test sites in Poland. Bringing together these temporal, spatial, and mechanistic perspectives enables us to cover the range of scales over which trees are shaped by their environment.</p> <img src="images/5.jpg" style="margin: 20px 0 20px 0"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    <div class="section blog"> <div class="container"> <h1 class="text-center title" id="blog">News</h1> <p class="lead text-center">Follow the progress of the project.</p> <div class="space"></div> <div class="row object-non-visible" data-animation-effect="fadeIn"> <div class="col-md-12">   <div class="isotope-container row grid-space-20"> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-22"> <img src="images/blog/blog-22.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">June 2020</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">New publication in Earth System Science Data</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-22" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-22-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-22m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>New publication in Earth System Science Data</h3> <p class="mod-date">June 2020</p> <p>We are happy to announce that a new paper with Inside out participation has just been published in the journal <em>Earth System Science Data</em> (Reyer et al. 2020). This paper presents a new and exceptionally rich database of ecosystem measurements called “PROFOUND”, that is intended to support the development of vegetation models. We contributed data from our core site in Sorø to this database in the hope that it will serve the environmental research community well.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-22-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-21"> <img src="images/blog/blog-21.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">May 2020</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Flurin co-chairs a session at the EGU conference</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-21" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-21-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-21m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>Flurin co-chairs a session at the EGU conference</h3> <p class="mod-date">May 2020</p> <p>In a remarkably quick and smooth effort, the European Geosciences Union has moved its annual meeting fully online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Flurin served as co-chair of the session “Interdisciplinary Tree-Ring Research”, where he moderated the first two hours of the virtual discussion. This session was attended by about 100 participants that contributed to a lively discussion on the uploaded presentations and posters. Thanks again for all of your contributions to the success of our session.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-21-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-20"> <img src="images/blog/blog-20.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">April 2020</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Inside out sends its best wishes from the home office</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-20" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-20-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-20m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>Inside out sends its best wishes from the home office</h3> <p class="mod-date">April 2020</p> <p>The Inside out team wishes everyone the best of luck, health, and positive spirits in these challenging COVID-19 times. It is times like this, when the dialogue between the scientific community, government agencies, and the public becomes even more important that it usually is. So, let’s keep communicating and let’s keep doing societally relevant research.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-20-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-19"> <img src="images/blog/blog-19.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">March 2020</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">The Inside out team runs a field campaign in Milicz forest</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-19" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-19-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-19m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>The Inside out team runs a field campaign in Milicz forest</h3> <p class="mod-date">March 2020</p> <p>In collaboration with our partner institute IBL, we conducted an extensive field campaign in Milicz forest (Lower Silesia, Poland) to collect terrestrial laser scanning, tree-ring samples, and forest inventory data. We sampled a total of 15 plots that were dominated by either Scots pine or European beech. The goal is to quantify and reconstruct the biomass growth of these two species across the managed forest district and over the past 50+ years. These data will serve as an independent test-bed for the vegetation model results from our core sites in Germany, Denmark, and France.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-19-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-18"> <img src="images/blog/blog-18.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">February 2020</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">New publication in Tree Physiology</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-18" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-18-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-18m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>New publication in Tree Physiology</h3> <p class="mod-date">February 2020</p> <p>We are pleased to announce that our research article “Axial changes in wood functional traits have limited net effects on stem biomass increment in European beech (<em>Fagus sylvatica</em>)” has been accepted for publication in the journal <em>Tree Physiology</em>. This study investigated changes in tree growth, wood density, and wood cell parameters along the stems of mature beech trees at our core site in Denmark. We thank all involved project partners for their support and valuable input to this exciting paper.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-18-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-17"> <img src="images/blog/blog-17.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">January 2020</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Visiting postdoc from Ghent University</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-17" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-17-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-17m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>Visiting postdoc from Ghent University</h3> <p class="mod-date">January 2020</p> <p>Richard Peters from the Laboratory of Plant Ecology at Ghent University (Belgium) has visited us for 10 days in Kraków. He specializes in the ecophysiological modeling of tree growth and his stay has resulted in several promising new ideas for collaboration with Inside out. We also worked on comparing local observations of tree growth with the suitability of the respective habitats for individual tree species. We look forward to pursue these exciting research avenues with Richard.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-17-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-16"> <img src="images/blog/blog-16.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">December 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Inside out welcomes a new project partner</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-16" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-16-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-16m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>Inside out welcomes a new project partner</h3> <p class="mod-date">December 2019</p> <p>We are happy to announce that Prof. Dr. Margaret Evans from the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona has joined our project as an external partner. Margaret’s research interests include the quantification and scaling of forest growth across large spatiotemporal domains. Inside out will greatly benefit from her expertise, which will help us to upscale our local findings and thereby further increase their relevance for science and society. Welcome on board, Margaret!</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-16-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-15"> <img src="images/blog/blog-15.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">November 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Jingshu begins with the sample preparation for quantitative wood anatomy</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-15" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-15-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-15m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>Jingshu begins with the sample preparation for quantitative wood anatomy</h3> <p class="mod-date">November 2019</p> <p>Upon completion of the tree-ring width measurements for the Hainich site, Jingshu moves towards more detailed assessments of tree growth using techniques of quantitative wood anatomy. In a first step, he selected ten candidate trees from each species for the production of stained and permanently fixed thin sections. This laborious work will result in high-quality digital images, from which Jingshu will extract information on the dimensions of each individual wood cell within each tree ring.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-15-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-14"> <img src="images/blog/blog-14.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">October 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">The Inside out database is growing</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-14" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-14-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-14m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo">photo: Pixabay</p> <h3>The Inside out database is growing</h3> <p class="mod-date">October 2019</p> <p>We are pleased to see the first datasets from our core sites approaching completion. Maria now has homogenized LiDAR point clouds from Hainich, Soro, and Hesse, from which she will extract precise information on tree volume. Jingshu has measured ring width and bulk wood density from all Hainich samples and is now ensuring that each tree ring is assigned to the correct calendar year. Together, these data will allow us to reconstruct tree and stand biomass over the past decades.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-14-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-13"> <img src="images/blog/blog-13.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">September 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Flurin attends a workshop on machine learning at WSL</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-13" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-13-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-13m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>Flurin attends a workshop on machine learning at WSL</h3> <p class="mod-date">September 2019</p> <p>Machine learning techniques, such as random forest, are becoming increasingly important tools to analyze large and diverse datasets. Our partner institute WSL organized a 1-week workshop on this topic that Flurin attended to get some hands-on experience with random forest analyses in R. This will come in handy towards the end of Inside out, when the tasks of integrating our various empirical and modeling datasets will become relevant.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-13-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-12"> <img src="images/blog/blog-12.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">August 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Jingshu moves to Switzerland for three months of lab work at WSL</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-12" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-12-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-12m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>Jingshu moves to Switzerland for three months of lab work at WSL</h3> <p class="mod-date">August 2019</p> <p>For the next three months, Jingshu will join the tree-ring laboratory of our project partner Georg at WSL. The primary goal of this stay is for Jingshu to be trained in the latest techniques of quantitative wood anatomy and to produce tree-ring and wood anatomical data for our core sites in Hainich National Park (Germany) and Sorø (Denmark). We wish Jingshu a great and instructive time in Switzerland!</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-12-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-11"> <img src="images/blog/blog-11.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">July 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">"Inside out" conducts a global survey of tree growth data at flux-tower sites</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-11" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-11-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-11m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"> </p> <h3>"Inside out" conducts a global survey of tree growth data at flux-tower sites</h3> <p class="mod-date">July 2019</p> <p>Maria, Jingshu, and Flurin are collecting information on past research activities at flux-tower sites that have aimed at measuring tree growth and forest productivity. The goal of this survey is to identify data gaps and evaluate the potential for future empirical research on carbon allocation dynamics in forest ecosystems. We are contacting the PIs of forested flux-tower sites around the world to gain an overview of the in-situ data situation and identify target sites and strategies for future work.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-11-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-10"> <img src="images/blog/blog-10.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">June 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">A second PhD student joins "Inside out"</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-10" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-10-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-10m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo">photo: Pixabay</p> <h3>A second PhD student joins "Inside out"</h3> <p class="mod-date">June 2019</p> <p>We are delighted to announce that Jingshu Wei has joined "Inside out" as a PhD student. Jingshu has recently obtained his Master degree from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He has a background in dendrochronology and quantitative wood anatomy. Within our project, he will assess tree growth within and between years, and link these measurements with eddy-covariance data to study carbon allocation. Welcome, Jingshu!</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-10-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-9"> <img src="images/blog/blog-9.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">May 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Maria attends ESA Living Planet Symposium</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-9" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-9-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-9m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"></p> <h3>Maria attends ESA Living Planet Symposium</h3> <p class="mod-date">May 2019</p> <p>The <em>Living Planet Symposium</em> organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) is held in Milano from May 13-17, 2019. Maria presents a poster at this meeting entitled <em>On the Relationship Between C-band SAR Backscatter Coefficient (sigma0) and Above Ground Biomass of Mountainous Mediterranean Forests with the Use of Sentinel-1 Satellite Data: a Preliminary Approach</em>.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-9-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-7"> <img src="images/blog/blog-7.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">May 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Flurin chairs a session at the ATR TRACE meeting</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-7" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-7-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-7m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"></p> <h3>Flurin chairs a session at the ATR TRACE meeting</h3> <p class="mod-date">May 2019</p> <p>The Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR) holds its annual meeting in San Leucio – Caserta near Naples from May 7-10, 2019. The organizers kindly invite Flurin to chair the session <em>Long-term climate variability as retrieved from the tree-ring archive</em>, with 10 oral and a number of poster presentations. In another session, Flurin also gives a talk on preliminary results from "Inside out", entitled <em>Axial changes in stem growth and wood density indicate dynamic carbon allocation in European beech</em>.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-7-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-8"> <img src="images/blog/blog-8.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">April 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Invited contribution to a workshop in Beijing</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-8" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-8-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-8m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"></p> <h3>Invited contribution to a workshop in Beijing</h3> <p class="mod-date">April 2019</p> <p>Flurin kindly receives an invitation from Peking University to attend the <em>International Workshop on Dynamics of Water-Limited Forests in a Drying Climate and Biophysical Feedbacks</em> (April 15-17, 2019). For time reasons and to save carbon emissions, Flurin decides not to fly to China, but to give his talk remotely via Skype. His contribution is entitled <em>Towards a Global Perspective on Tree Growth and its Drivers</em>.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-8-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-6"> <img src="images/blog/blog-6.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">April 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Flurin attends Foundation for Polish Science conference</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-6" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-6-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-6m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"></p> <h3>Flurin attends Foundation for Polish Science conference</h3> <p class="mod-date">April 2019</p> <p>Flurin presents a poster at the 3rd Interdisciplinary Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) Conference that was held in Warsaw on April 11-12, 2019. His poster provides a general introduction in the "Inside out" project and shows some preliminary results from our core site in Denmark. In addition, Flurin attends an informative workshop on international collaborations on the second day of the conference.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-6-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-5"> <img src="images/blog/blog-5.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">April 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Maria receives training at WSL</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-5" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-5-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-5m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"></p> <h3>Maria receives training at WSL</h3> <p class="mod-date">April 2019</p> <p>Maria is spending 6 weeks in Switzerland to receive training in the processing and analysis of LiDAR point clouds. Our project partner Christian is hosting her and provides access to all of WSL’s remote sensing facilities. In addition, Maria will spend some time in project partner Georg’s tree-ring laboratory to gain experience in the preparation and measurement of wood samples. We wish Maria an enriching and productive time.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-5-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-4"> <img src="images/blog/blog-4.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">March 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Fieldwork at the core site in Hainich National Park, Germany</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-4" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-4-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-4m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"></p> <h3>Fieldwork at the core site in Hainich National Park, Germany</h3> <p class="mod-date">March 2019</p> <p>The "Inside out" team is conducting fieldwork in Thuringia. Hainich is an exceptionally well-studied site with a long flux-tower record of gas exchange between the forest and the atmosphere. Underneath this tower, we establish an inventory plot, collect tree-ring samples from beech and oak trees, and scan the forest with a terrestrial LiDAR device. We expect to gain deep insight in carbon allocation to wood formation from these measurements. A big thank you to the National Park service for their support.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-4-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-3"> <img src="images/blog/blog-3.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">March 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">Visiting Postdoc from Switzerland</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-3" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-3-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-3m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo"></p> <h3>Visiting Postdoc from Switzerland</h3> <p class="mod-date">March 2019</p> <p>Richard Peters from our project partner institute WSL in Birmensdorf (Switzerland) is visiting Kraków for 2 weeks for a scientific exchange with "Inside out". Richard’s research focuses on measuring and modeling tree hydraulics and growth. He is interested in collaboration at two of our core sites (Sorø and Hainich) and we are looking forward to a fruitful exchange.</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-3-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-2"> <img src="images/blog/blog-2.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">March 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">"Inside out" welcomes a new PhD student</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-2" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-2-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-2m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo">photo: Pixabay</p> <h3>"Inside out" welcomes a new PhD student</h3> <p class="mod-date">March 2019</p> <p>We are excited to announce that Maria Karamihalaki has joined "Inside out" as a PhD student. Maria obtained her Master degree from Harokopio University of Athens (Greece) in 2017 and has a background in remote sensing. Within our project, she will integrate terrestrial LiDAR measurements with tree-ring data to quantify and reconstruct the biomass of European beech forests. Maria will also use satellite observations to upscale her findings from the site to the landscape scale. Welcome, Maria!</p> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-2-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3 isotope-item promo"> <div class="image-box"> <div class="overlay-container"> <a class="overlay" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#project-1"> <img src="images/blog/blog-1.jpg" alt=""> <p class="cal-date">February 2019</p> <hr> <p class="cal-title">"Inside out" research project by Flurin Babst receives funding</p> </a> </div> </div>  <div class="modal fade" id="project-1" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="project-1-label" aria-hidden="true"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg"> <div class="modal-content"> <div class="modal-body"> <img src="images/blog/blog-1m.jpg" alt=""> <p class="photo">photo: Pixabay</p> <h3>"Inside out" research project by Flurin Babst receives funding</h3> <p class="mod-date">February 2019</p> <p>Our project "Inside out" was among the 11 winning projects of the 5th HOMING programme competition by the Foundation for Polish Science. We are very grateful for this opportunity and look forward to some exciting research and a fruitful and productive two years!</p> <p>For further information on the HOMING call, please visit:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.fnp.org.pl/en/oferta/homing" target="_blank">HOMING programme</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.fnp.org.pl/en/homing-grant-winners-competition-52018" target="_blank">HOMING grant winners - Competition 5/2018</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="modal-header pro"> <h4 class="modal-title" id="project-1-label">Media</h4> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal"><span aria-hidden="true">Close</span><span class="sr-only">Close</span></button> </div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </div>  </div> </div> </div> </div>    <div class="section team"> <div class="container object-non-visible" data-animation-effect="fadeIn"> <h1 id="team" class="title text-center">Team</h1> <p class="lead text-center">Meet the people involved in the project.</p> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar-1.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Flurin Babst</h3> <p class="team-position">Project Leader</p> <p>Flurin is a researcher at the Department of Ecology, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also a guest scientist at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. Flurin leads and coordinates all research tasks, mentors junior team members, and handles the dissemination and promotion of the project outcome.</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar-8.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Jingshu Wei</h3> <p class="team-position">PhD student</p> <p>Jingshu is a PhD student in Inside out. He studies tree growth at intra-annual time scales using methods of Quantitative Wood Anatomy. By integrating wood cell parameters with eddy-covariance data of carbon and water fluxes, Jingshu assesses carbon allocation dynamics in trees and combines this insight with ecophysiological modeling. Jingshu produces and publishes research outcome, and disseminates project results to scientific and public audiences.</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar-7.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Maria Karamihalaki</h3> <p class="team-position">Adjunct PhD student</p> <p>Maria is a PhD student at the Department of Ecology, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences and a guest PhD student at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. She integrates terrestrial LiDAR, satellite remote sensing and tree-ring data to quantify and reconstruct forest biomass at the site and landscape scales. In combination with mechanistic carbon modelling, these observations help advance our understanding of carbon allocation dynamics in temperate forests. Maria produces and publishes research outcome and disseminates project results to scientific and public audiences.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="space"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar-10.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Grzegorz Krok</h3> <p class="team-position">Adjunct PhD student</p> <p>Grzegorz is a PhD student at the Forest Research Institute in Sękocin Stary, Poland. He specializes in the quantification of forest structure and biomass using terrestrial laser scanning and GIS applications. His ongoing work in Milicz forest (our primary validation site) offers important and valuable synergies with Inside out. We thus collaborate with Grzegorz on field work, data exploration, publication, and dissemination of our findings to our commercial partner State Forests Poland.</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar-2.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Georg von Arx</h3> <p class="team-position">Partner</p> <p>Georg is the leader of the Dendro Sciences Group at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. His role in the project is to support and guide the wood anatomical analyses, provide access to his excellently equipped laboratory, co-supervise the PhD student and participate in data exploration and publication.</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar-3.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Christian Ginzler</h3> <p class="team-position">Partner</p> <p>Christian is the leader of the Remote Sensing Group at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL. He supports and guides the analysis of terrestrial LiDAR data from the core sites, provides access to computational resources and infrastructure, co-supervises the PhD student and participates in data exploration and publication.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="space"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar-4.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Andrew Friend</h3> <p class="team-position">Partner</p> <p>Andrew is a reader at the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge. His role in the project is to guide the simulations of forest ecosystem processes with a new mechanistic model that was developed in his lab. Andrew also participates in data exploration and publication.</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Andreas Ibrom</h3> <p class="team-position">Partner</p> <p>Andreas is a senior researcher at the Department of Environmental Engineering at the Danish Technical University. He is also the PI of the flux-tower site in Sorø, Denmark. Andreas provides access to his long-term monitoring site and to auxiliary data from earlier projects. He also guides the analysis of eddy-covariance measurements and participates in data exploration and publication.</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar-6.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Krzysztof Stereńczak</h3> <p class="team-position">Partner</p> <p>Krzysztof is a senior researcher at the Forest Research Institute in Raszyn, Poland. He provides access to existing research plots and auxiliary data in Milicz forest, supports the fieldwork and guides the data collection of the PhD students, and participates in data exploration and publication.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> <img src="images/avatar-9.jpg" alt=""> <h3 class="team-member">Margaret Evans</h3> <p class="team-position">Partner</p> <p>Margaret is an Assistant Professor in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona. Her role in the project is to provide support and guidance to the research tasks related to ecological scaling and the projection of forest changes under climate warming. Margaret also advises students and participates in data exploration and publication.</p> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-4"> <div class="space"></div> <div class="team-body"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="space"></div> <div id="joboffer" class="space"></div> <div class="row" style="border-top:3px #444 solid; padding-top:10px; margin-top:20px"> <div class="col-md-12"> <div class="team-body"> <h3 class="team-member">Join us</h3> <p>Are you interested in our project? We are always open for discussion, suggestions, exchange and collaboration.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="space"></div> </div> </div>    <div class="section clearfix object-non-visible publ" data-animation-effect="fadeIn"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h1 id="publ" class="title text-center">Publications</h1> <p class="lead text-center">See the results of our work.</p> <div class="space"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12" style="text-align: center;"> <p>Klesse S, DeRose RJ, Babst F, Black BA, Anderegg LDL, Axelson J, et al. (2020) <em>Continental-scale tree-ring-based projection of Douglas-fir growth: Testing the limits of space-for-time substitution</em>. <strong>Global Change Biology</strong>, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15170. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15170" target="_blank">View at publisher</a></p> <p>* * *</p> <p>Reyer CPO, Gonzalez RS, Dolos K, Hartig F, Hauf Y, Noack M, et al. (2020) <em>The PROFOUND Database for evaluating vegetation models and simulating climate impacts on European forests</em>. <strong>Earth System Science Data</strong> 12: 1295-1320. <a href="https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/1295/2020/" target="_blank">View at publisher</a></p> <p>* * *</p> <p>Peters RL, von Arx G, Nievergelt D, Ibrom A, Stillhard J, Trotsiuk V, Mazurkiewicz A, Babst F (2020) <em>Axial changes in wood functional traits have limited net effects on stem biomass increment in European beech (</em>Fagus sylvatica<em>)</em>. <strong>Tree Physiology</strong> 40: 498–510. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaa002" target="_blank">View at publisher</a></p> <p>* * *</p> <p>Trotsiuk V, Hartig F, Cailleret M, Babst F, Forrester DI, Baltensweiler A, et al. (2020) <em>Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model-data fusion</em>. <strong>Global Change Biology</strong> 26: 2463-2476. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15011" target="_blank">View at publisher</a></p> <p>* * *</p> <p>Hudson AR, Alfaro-Sanchez R, Babst F, Belmecheri S, Moore DJP, Trouet V (2019) <em>Seasonal and synoptic climatic drivers of tree growth in the Bighorn Mountains, WY, USA (1654-1983)</em>. <strong>Dendrochronologia</strong> 58: 125633. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125633" target="_blank">View at publisher</a></p> <p>* * *</p> <p>Schurman J, Babst F, Björklund J, Rydval M, Bace R, Cada V, et al. (2019) <em>The climatic drivers of primary</em> Picea <em>forest growth along the Carpathian arc are changing under rising temperatures</em>. <strong>Global Change Biology</strong> 25: 3136-3150. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14721" target="_blank">View at publisher</a></p> </div> <div class="space"></div> </div> <div class="space"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    <div class="section clearfix object-non-visible funding" data-animation-effect="fadeIn"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h1 id="funding" class="title text-center">Funding</h1> <p class="lead text-center">This project is financed by the HOMING programme of the Foundation for Polish Science under the European Union Regional Development Fund, Measure 4.4 of the 2014-2020 Smart Growth Operational Programme.</p> <div class="space"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12" style="text-align: center;"> <p>Project value: <strong>839 795 PLN</strong> / EU grant value: <strong>839 795 PLN</strong></p> <p> </p> </div> <div class="space"></div> <div class="logoset col-md-12"> </div> </div> <div class="space"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div>    <div class="section clearfix object-non-visible contact" data-animation-effect="fadeIn"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h1 id="contact" class="title text-center">Contact</h1> <p class="lead text-center">Please do not hesitate to contact us with questions or comments.</p> <div class="space"></div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12" style="text-align: center;"> <p class="address">Address</p> <p>W. 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