Dr. Flurin Babst

Funktion

Gastwissenschafter

Walddynamik

Dendrowissenschaften

Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Standort

Birmensdorf Bi HL C 39.1

Scientific record

Google Scholar

ResearchGate

Researcher ID (Web of Science): C-5651-2017

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4106-7087

Research interests

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My primary research activities focus on small to large scale influences of (a)biotic factors on forest growth. I investigate spatial and temporal trends in the climate response of forests and quantify the resulting changes in biomass accumulation and resource allocation. While my background is in dendrochronology, I use tree rings in conjunction with other observational (e.g. eddy-covariance data, forest inventories, earth observations) and computational sources to address environmental change questions. Tree rings thereby enable the contextualization of shorter-term data streams and recent extreme events. I am further interested in natural and anthropogenic disturbances on forest growth. My work contributes to reducing uncertainties in terrestrial carbon and water cycling in light of the ongoing and predicted climate change.

Academic memberships

Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR)

European Geosciences Union (EGU)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Hudson, A.R.; Alfaro-Sanchez, R.; Babst, F.; Belmecheri, S.; Moore, D.J.P.; Trouet, V., 2019: Seasonal and synoptic climatic drivers of tree growth in the Bighorn Mountains, WY, USA (1654–1983 CE). Dendrochronologia, 58: 125633 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125633

Lu, X.; Liang, E.; Wang, Y.; Babst, F.; Leavitt, S.W.; Julio Camarero, J., 2019: Past the climate optimum: recruitment is declining at the world's highest juniper shrublines on the Tibetan Plateau. Ecology, 100, 2: e02557 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ecy.2557

Babst, F.; Bouriaud, O.; Poulter, B.; Trouet, V.; Girardin, M.P.; Frank, D.C., 2019: Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth. Science Advances, 5, 1: eaat4313 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aat4313

Babst, F.; Bodesheim, P.; Charney, N.; Friend, A.D.; Girardin, M.P.; Klesse, S.; Moore, D.J.P.; Seftigen, K.; Björklund, J.; Bouriaud, O.; Dawson, A.; DeRose, R.J.; Dietze, M.C.; Eckes, A.H.; Enquist, B.; Frank, D.C.; Mahecha, M.D.; Poulter, B.; Record, S.; ... Evans, M.E.K., 2018: When tree rings go global: challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight. Quaternary Science Reviews, 197: 1-20. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.009

Klesse, S.; Babst, F.; Lienert, S.; Spahni, R.; Joos, F.; Bouriaud, O.; Carrer, M.; Di Filippo, A.; Poulter, B.; Trotsiuk, V.; Wilson, R.; Frank, D.C., 2018: A combined tree ring and vegetation model assessment of European forest growth sensitivity to interannual climate variability. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32, 8: 1226-1240. doi: 10.1029/2017GB005856