Dr. Flurin Babst

Funktion

Gastwissenschafter

Walddynamik

Dendrowissenschaften

Kontakt

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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

Peters, R.L.; Von Arx, G.; Nievergelt, D.; Ibrom, A.; Stillhard, J.; Trotsiuk, V.; Mazurkiewicz, A.; Babst, F., 2020: Axial changes in wood functional traits have limited net effects on stem biomass increment in European beech (Fagus sylvatica). Tree Physiology, 40, 4: 498-510. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpaa002

Klesse, S.; DeRose, R.J.; Babst, F.; Black, B.A.; Anderegg, L.D.L.; Axelson, J.; Ettinger, A.; Griesbauer, H.; Guiterman, C.H.; Harley, G.; Harvey, J.E.; Lo, Y.; Lynch, A.M.; O'Connor, C.; Restaino, C.; Sauchyn, D.; Shaw, J.D.; Smith, D.J.; Wood, L.; ... Evans, M.E.K., 2020: Continental-scale tree-ring-based projection of Douglas-fir growth: testing the limits of space-for-time substitution. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.15170

Trotsiuk, V.; Hartig, F.; Cailleret, M.; Babst, F.; Forrester, D.I.; Baltensweiler, A.; Buchmann, N.; Bugmann, H.; Gessler, A.; Gharun, M.; Minunno, F.; Rigling, A.; Rohner, B.; Stillhard, J.; Thürig, E.; Waldner, P.; Ferretti, M.; Eugster, W.; Schaub, M., 2020: Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model-data fusion. Global Change Biology, 26, 4: 2463-2476. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15011

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