May 2025
We initiated a project to study how drought legacy effects in mature trees might impact leaf bacterial communities and herbivores through changes in phytochemistry. The fieldwork was conducted at the KROOF site, in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich, the University of Jena, and the Helmholtz Institute.
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Call to participate in a global experiment ¶
We propose a global protocol to assess human impacts on forest ecosystems using experimental microcosms. The main question we aim to address is:
How do current and future climatic conditions, forest habitat degradation and management, influence biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in water filled microcosms worldwide?
Interested? Please contact Martin Gossner
The field season has started! ¶
In March, the insect traps for the Lothar projectwere installed so that early flying insects could also be detected.
The larch tortrix is back ¶
Nearly 40 year after the last major outbreak of the larch tortix (Zeiraphera griseana) in the Upper Engadine, large-scale defoliation of larches due to the larvae of the larch tortrix could be observed this year. Beat Wermelinger reported in Swiss television (in German).