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02 December 2024, 3:15 PM

Speaker: Prof. Xiuchen Wu

Title: Responses of forest growth to intensified extreme drought

Date: 2024-12-05

Time: 13:30-15:00 

Room: ES354

Tencent Meeting ID: 748-5683-7998

Abstract:

The warming-induced intensifying extreme climate events have already exerted critical impacts on terrestrial ecosystems. However, there is still a lack of systematic understanding of the vulnerability and resilience of forest ecosystems to the intensifying extreme drought events. In this lecture, we will first discuss the vulnerability of forest growth to pre-growing-season water availability and the crucial compensation effects of winter snow on tree growth. We then talk about the temporal shift in dominant drivers governing the resilience of forest growth to extreme drought. Finally, we highlight the devastating effects of increasing extreme drought exposure on the forest mortality, which in turn has significant consequences on ecosystem stability and service.

Biography：

Dr. Wu received the PhD degree in Physical Geography in 2011 from Peking University. He then worked as a MPI Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany (2012) and a postdoctoral fellow at LSCE in France (2013-2014). His research interests mainly focus on global climate change and environmental impacts and ecosystem resilience to extreme climate. He has published more than 140 papers in high-profile international academic journals, including Science, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, etc. He is the PI of several stand-alone research projects funded by the NSFC and The Ministry of Science and Technology of China.