Dr. Sophia Etzold

Function

scientific staff member

Forest Dynamics

Ecophysiology

Contact

sophia.etzold(at)wslto make life hard for spam bots.ch

+41 44 739 24 32+41 44 739 24 32

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

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Birmensdorf Bi HL D 27

Research activities

My research interest ranges from the small scale of tree physiological processes to the large scale of forest ecosystem carbon budgeting, concerning changing climatic conditions.

Currently, I am studying responses of forest ecosystems to changing environmental conditions using Swiss and European long-term monitoring data. Some of the topics I am investigating are:

The impact of air quality (N deposition and ozone) and climate change on forest growth in European monitoring plots (ECLAIRE)

The impact of drought on tree mortality in Swiss forests (Relative mortality)

The carbon allocation in trees during mast and non-mast years in Europe (Seeds-C)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Etzold, S.; Ferretti, M.; Reinds, G.J.; Solberg, S.; Gessler, A.; Waldner, P.; Schaub, M.; Simpson, D.; Benham, S.; Hansen, K.; Ingerslev, M.; Jonard, M.; Karlsson, P.E.; Lindroos, A.; Marchetto, A.; Manninger, M.; Meesenburg, H.; Merilä, P.; Nöjd, P.; ... De Vries, W., 2020: Nitrogen deposition is the most important environmental driver of growth of pure, even-aged and managed European forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 458: 117762 (13 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117762

Burri, S.; Haeler, E.; Eugster, W.; Haeni, M.; Etzold, S.; Walthert, L.; Braun, S.; Zweifel, R., 2019: How did Swiss forest trees respond to the hot summer 2015?. Erde, 150, 4: 214-229. doi: 10.12854/erde-2019-420

Van Sundert, K.; Radujković, D.; Cools, N.; De Vos, B.; Etzold, S.; Fernández‐Martínez, M.; Janssens, I.; Merilä, P.; Peñuelas, J.; Sardans, J.; Stendahl, J.; Terrer, C.; Vicca, S., 2019: Towards comparable assessment of the soil nutrient status across scales - review and development of nutrient metrics. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.14802

Rigling, A.; Etzold, S.; Bebi, P.; Brang, P.; Ferretti, M.; Forrester, D.; Gärtner, H.; Gessler, A.; Ginzler, C.; Moser, B.; Schaub, M.; Stroheker, S.; Trotsiuk, V.; Walthert, L.; Zweifel, R.; Wohlgemuth, T., 2019: Wie viel Trockenheit ertragen unsere Wälder? Lehren aus extremen Trockenjahren. In: Bründl, M.; Schweizer, J. (eds), 2019: Lernen aus Extremereignissen. Forum für Wissen 2019: Lernen aus Extremereignissen, Davos, Switzerland. 39-51.

Etzold, S.; Ziemińska, K.; Rohner, B.; Bottero, A.; Bose, A.K.; Ruehr, N.K.; Zingg, A.; Rigling, A., 2019: One century of forest monitoring data in Switzerland reveals species- and site-specific trends of climate-induced tree mortality. Frontiers in Plant Science, 10: 307 (19pp.). doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00307

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Further scientific publications

TreeNet. Daten und Analysen der ersten fünf Messjahre

TreeNet ist ein Netzwerk zur Erfassung von Baumwachstums- und Baumwasserdefizit-Indikatoren und generiert laufend aktuelle Informationen über den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltfaktoren und den physiologischen Prozessen von Einzelbäumen.

WSL Berichte 72

2018

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Etzold, S.; Wunder, J.; Braun, S.; Rohner, B.; Bigler, C.; Abegg, M.; Rigling, A., 2016: Mortalität von Waldbäumen: Ursachen und Trends. In: Pluess, A.R.; Augustin, S.; Brang, P.; Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU,Bern; Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald,Schnee und Landschaft WSL,Birmensdorf (eds), 2016: Wald im Klimawandel. Grundlagen für Adaptationsstrategien. Bern, Stuttgart, Wien, Haupt. 177-197.

Boley, H.; Grütter, R.; Zou, G.; Athan, T.; Etzold, S., 2014: A Datalog⁺ RuleML 1.01 architecture for rule-based data access in ecosystem research. In: Bikakis, A.; Fodor, P.; Roman, D. (eds), 2014: Rules on the web. From theory to applications. 8th international symposium, RuleML 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-20, 2014. 112-126. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-09870-8_8