Roman M. Link

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).