Dr. Brigitte Rohner

Function

Scientific staff member

Forest Resources and Management

Resource Analysis

Contact

brigitte.rohner(at)wslto make life hard for spam bots.ch

+41 44 739 25 53+41 44 739 25 53

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Site

Birmensdorf Bi HP C 63

Research interests

Statistical modeling of forest dynamics

Climatic influences on growth and mortality of trees and forests

Combination of data with differing resolutions - from tree rings to forest inventories

Curriculum vitae

Since 2015	Scientific staff member, Swiss NFI
2012 - 2015	PostDoc at WSL, Project KliWaWa
2009 - 2012	Ph.D. thesis in the Forest Ecology Group, ETH Zurich
2009 - 2011	Advanced Studies in Applied Statistics at the Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zurich
2003 - 2008	Bachelor and Master Studies in Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich Major: Forest and Landscape Management

FURTHER INFORMATION

Projects

Partitioning of resources between beech trees during drought

We will examine whether recent drought events shifted the partitioning of growth among tree size classes of beech trees and use this information to develop thinning strategies for mitigating drought impacts in lowland and montane Swiss beech forests

N-DEPEND - Is there a "Nitrogen Deposition Penalty" for Forests under Drought?

This project intends to test the "N-penalty" hypothesis for the Swiss forests. By statistical modeling and quasi-experimental analyses based on N deposition estimates, drought indices and NFI data, we assess interacting effects of N deposition and drought on forest health and productivity.

DivScaling

The main objective of this project is to elaborate how different diversity components in Swiss forest change with increasing area and how they depend on changing heterogeneity.

Datengrundlage für Biomassefunktionen

Adaptation of trees to extreme climate events

Extreme climate events are expected to become more frequent with climate warming. We test genetic differentiation in resistance to late frost and drought in silver fir populations planted in the 1980s in Swizterland and abroad.

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Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Zweifel, R.; Pappas, C.; Peters, R.L.; Babst, F.; Balanzategui, D.; Basler, D.; Bastos, A.; Beloiu, M.; Buchmann, N.; Bose, A.K.; Braun, S.; Damm, A.; D'Odorico, P.; Eitel, J.U.H.; Etzold, S.; Fonti, P.; Freund, E.R.; Gessler, A.; Haeni, M.; ... Sterck, F., 2023: Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring - a white paper. Science of the Total Environment, 872: 162167 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162167

Portier, J.; Zellweger, F.; Zell, J.; Alberdi Asensio, I.; Bosela, M.; Breidenbach, J.; Šebeň, V.; Wüest, R.O.; Rohner, B., 2022: Plot size matters: toward comparable species richness estimates across plot‐based inventories. Ecology and Evolution, 12, 6: e8965 (12 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ece3.8965

Bose, A.K.; Rohner, B.; Bottero, A.; Ferretti, M.; Forrester, D.I., 2021: Did the 2018 megadrought change the partitioning of growth between tree sizes and species? A Swiss case-study. Plant Biology, 24, 7: 1146-1156. doi: 10.1111/plb.13380

Rohner, B.; Kumar, S.; Liechti, K.; Gessler, A.; Ferretti, M., 2021: Tree vitality indicators revealed a rapid response of beech forests to the 2018 drought. Ecological Indicators, 120: 106903 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106903

Portier, J.; Wunder, J.; Stadelmann, G.; Zell, J.; Abegg, M.; Thürig, E.; Rohner, B., 2021: 'Latent reserves': A hidden treasure in National Forest Inventories. Journal of Ecology, 109: 369-383. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13487

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Further scientific publications

Rohner, B.; Lanz, A.; Cioldi, F.; Meile, R.; Thürig, E.; Ferretti, M., 2020: Kronenzustand und Zuwachs in Schweizer Buchenwäldern während der Trockenheit 2018. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 171, 5: 306-309.

Rohner, B.; Braun, S.; Weber, P.; Thürig, E., 2016: Wachstum von Einzelbäumen: das Klima als Baustein im komplexen Wirkungsgefüge. 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. 137-155.

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.

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