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................................................... Dear Colleague, we would like to draw your attention to the session "BG2.2: TREE MORTALITY AND FOREST VULNERABILITY ACROSS DIFFERENT BIOMES AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS: THE NEED OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES AT VARIOUS SCALES " (see session description below) at the upcoming EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, April 7th -12th 2019. This session aims at promoting a lively discussion on the issue of forest vulnerability caused by climate changes, with an integrated multi-scale, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary approaches. Taking into account your research interests, please consider the option of presenting any recent results in this session. Also, please feel free to forward this e-mail to anyone whom you think may be interested. ** THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 10TH JANUARY 2018 AT 13:00 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME** Please visit HTTPS://MEETINGORGANIZER.COPERNICUS.ORG/EGU2019/SESSION/32154 [1] to initiate a submission. THIS YEAR IT'S A PLEASURE TO HAVE CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKER: JORDI MARTINEZ-VILALTA (CREAF, Univeristy of Barcelona, Spain) CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS EGU SESSION ARE WELCOME TO SUBMIT YOUR FULL MANUSCRIPT TO THE OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL _FORESTS_ (IF 1.956) SPECIAL ISSUE "DIEBACK ON DROUGHT-PRONE FOREST ECOSYSTEMS". CONTRIBUTOR FROM EGU WILL ENJOY SPECIAL DISCOUNTS. MORE DETAILS HERE: HTTPS://WWW.MDPI.COM/JOURNAL/FORESTS/SPECIAL_ISSUES/DIEBACK_DROUGHT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 14 JULY 2019 We look forward to seeing you in Vienna. Sincerely Francesco Ripullone (University of Basilicata, Italy) Giovanna Battipaglia (University of Campania, Italy) Veronica De Micco (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Jesus Julio Camarero (Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Spain) SESSION DESCRIPTION BG2.2 "TREE MORTALITY AND FOREST VULNERABILITY ACROSS DIFFERENT BIOMES AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS: THE NEED OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES AT VARIOUS SCALES" CONVENERS: Francesco Ripullone, Giovanna Battipaglia, Veronica De Micco, Jesus Julio Camarero The assessment of forest vulnerability and resilience in the sight of global ecological, social and economic changes is a relevant issue. In recent decades, forest vulnerability is rapidly increasing worldwide and forecasting changes in tree health is becoming a challenge. Forest dieback episodes have been recorded in all biomes affecting different tree and shrub species. These dieback cases are revealing the high vulnerability of some species, particularly conifers, manifested as a loss in tree vigour, growth decline and sometimes tree death. Tree mortality commonly involves multiple, interacting factors, ranging from drought to insect pests and diseases, often making the determination of a single cause unrealistic. The need of understanding and predicting changes in forest structure and composition, tree mortality, growth and recruitment rates in response to dieback is essential to improve vegetation and C cycle models. There is a common agreement on the key role of interdisciplinary research and the combined use of complementary tools to improve the monitoring and projection of forest vulnerability and dieback. This session focuses on efforts to improve our understanding on: i) causes and mechanisms related to forest vulnerability and dieback ii) potential changes in tree species composition, forest structure and extent of dieback under current and future climate change scenarios; iii) evaluation of which functional traits and hydraulic properties make some tree species or stands and tree populations more prone to environmental-induced dieback and decline. iv) assessment of the role and interaction of insect disease and other abiotic factors on mortality; v) how trees die from drought and how to quantitatively assess tree mortality rates and the magnitude of tree mortality episodes associated to climate change events. Contributions will focus on an integrated multi-scale (from cells to plant communities, ecosystems and global approaches), multi-temporal (from xylogenesis to long-term forecasting) and interdisciplinary (microscopy and individual Plant physiology to remote sensing) frameworks. -- ********************************* Dr. Raúl Sánchez-Salguero Dpto. Sistemas Físicos, Químicos y Naturales Universidad Pablo de Olavide Ctra.Utrera Km 1, 41013 Ed. 22, 4ª pl., Desp. 1c Sevilla, SPAIN Phone: +34 954349535 Fax: +34 954977305 Email: rsanc...@upo.es ********************************** Links: ------ [1] https://correo.upo.es/#NOP
