Steppe, Kathy

von der Crone, Jonas

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Long-term forest vitality assessment viareal-time growth and sap flow measurementsContact: Jonas von der Crone |  Laboratory of Plant Ecology |  Jonas.vonderCrone@UGent.be  |  www.plantecology.ugent.be               Jonas von der Crone & Kathy SteppeGhent University, Laboratory of Plant EcologyForests andClimate RegulationATMOSPHEREBesides providing dozens of economicaland sociocultural benifits, forests alsooffer valuable environmental ecosystemservices. They couple the soil with theatmosphere which makes them animportant link in climate regulation.Global change is directly and indirectlyimpacting these very important forestfunctions, for better or for worse?² Further development of the mechanisticSTACI model (Steppe et al. 2008).² Identification of hydraulic vitality indicators.² Creation of real-time and long-term vitality maps for forest vitality assessment.Sap flow + moreThe Sapflow+ sensor (Vandegehuchte etal. 2012) allows us not only to measure thesap flow, but also for example thevolumetric water content.Tree growthRobust high resolution point dendrometersprovide insight in the carbon relations oftrees by measuring the diel swelling andshrinking with high precision.ClimateSAPFLOW+SENSORDENDRO-METERReal-time monitoringContinuous, real-time and long-term treemeasuring and simulation by using thePhytoSense cloud service.UpscalingBy upscaling individual tree data it willbe possible to evaluate the vitality statusof a complete forest (ecosystem).Plant modellingUnderlying plant processes can be simulatedusing the powerful dynamic plant modellingsoftware PhytoSim.² Focus on beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and oak(Quercus robur L.) in LTER site ‘Gontrode’.² Six trees equiped with dendrometers, Sapflow+ sensors, stem psychrometers,stem water content sensors and soil moisture sensors.New Phytologist (2012) 196:306–317 Irrigation Science (2008) 26:505–517Frontiers in Plant Science (2016) 7:993 

Long-term forest vitality assessment via real-time growth and sap flow measurements

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Long-term forest vitality assessment via real-time growth and sap flow measurements

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