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StartClim2011.D: Survey and utilisation of the potential capacity of Austrian native tree species to perform under actual and future climatic stress
Subproject of: StartClim2011 – scientific coordination (StartClim2011)
- Project Leader
- Karrer Gerhard, BOKU Project Leader
- Duration:
- 15.11.2011-11.12.2013
- Programme:
- StartClim
- Type of Research
- Basic Research
- Project partners
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Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses, Giessergasse 6/7, 1090 Wien, Austria.
Contact person: PD Dr. Wolfgang Willner;
Function of the Project Partner: Partner
- BOKU Research Units
- Institute of Botany
- Institute of Forest Ecology
- Funded by
- StartClim, Austria
- Abstract
- Instead of immediate and unreflecting utilisation of foreign (non-European) tree species for silviculture in Austria the potential capacity of native trees to scope with the challanges of future climate (longer periods of drought or very high or low temperatures). In this project we want to analyse the bioclimatic amplitudes of native tree species valuable from the economic as well as the ecological point of view. Any available measurement of water balance of forest sites will be utilized as well as indirect estimates of environmental resources by calculation of averages and ranges of indicator values on the base of vegetation surveys. By this means we want to identify populations of trees that are highly resistant against relatively longer drought periods and more intense periods of high or low temperature. Consequently, such populations can be used predominantly for the propagation of trees in nurseries as well as for direct seeding. Threads of native biodiversity by such cultivation material can be supposed to be lower than in case of planting foreign species. Additionally, this projekt is linked to a collaborative project of German and Russian scientist on the analysis of bioclimatic envelopes of conspecific Russian trees and the options for their cultivation in Middle Europe.
- Keywords
- plant ecology; plant sociology; climatology; hydrology; forest ecology; silviculture;
- Publications
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Bassler, G., Karrer, G., Willner, W. (2013): Österreichische Forstwirtschaft im Klimawandel: Suche nach trockenheitsangepasstem forstlichen Vermehrungsgut.
In: Climate Change Centre Austria, Klima- und Energiefonds, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Tagungsband: 14. Österreichischer Klimatag: Klimawandel, Auswirkungen und Anpassung sowie Vermeidung, Wien: p. 79-80 ccca.boku.ac.at/veranstaltungen/klimatag2013
[14. Klimatag 2013 - Klimawandel, Auswirkungen und Anpassung sowie Vermeidung, Vienna, Austria, 04.04.2013 - 05.04.2013] -
Karrer, G. (2012): StartClim2011D: Bäume.
Kromp-Kolb, H., Schwarzl, I. (eds.): StartClim2009 Adaptation to Climate Change: Contributions for the development of a policy paper for adaptation to climate change in Austria Final Report , 11-13; 26-29 FullText -
Karrer, G. (2012): StartClim2011D: Bäume.
In: Kromp-Kolb, H., Schwarzl, I (eds.), StartClim2009 Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Beiträge zur Erstellung einer Anpassungsstrategie für Österreich. Kurzfassung, 4-5; online-Publ., Wien FullText
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