Konstantin Köthe

Oct 23, 2024 | besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Julia Rieder |Roman M. Link |Konstantin Köthe |Forest Ecology

1 INTRODUCTION In the wake of climate change-driven mass tree mortality events in Europe (Schuldt et al., 2020) and elsewhere (Hammond et al., 2022), there is a growing interest in the biotic and abiotic factors that influence tree vitality (Cailleret et al., 2017; Chakraborty et al., 2017). This is particularly true for competition, which is directly amenable to silvicultural measures such as thinning and therefore important for forest management (cf. Bose et al., 2021).

Mar 27, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Julia Rieder |Roman Mathias Link |Dominik Seidel |Konstantin Köthe

AbstractIn times of more frequent global-change-type droughts and associated tree mortality events, competition release is one silvicultural measure discussed to have an impact on the resilience of managed forest stands. Understanding how trees compete with each other is therefore crucial, but different measurement options and competition indices leave users with the agony of choice, as no single competition index has proven universally superior.