Modeling Forest Physiology under Climate Change
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Meteorology and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 149
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant physiology; vegetation modeling; carbon cycling; climate change; ecophysiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Plant physiology regulates forest functioning and modulates carbon, water, and energy fluxes. Climate change drivers such as rising CO2 concentrations, higher temperatures, and changing rainfall patterns are expected to affect plant physiological behavior. In addition, more frequent or intense extreme events such as droughts and heatwaves may have widespread and long-lasting impacts on future forest dynamics. Consequently, there is a strong need to understand how vegetation will respond to a changing climate and how these responses affect water, carbon, and energy fluxes as well as forest functioning and resilience in future environments. Models are useful tools for understanding and attributing observations to underlying processes, for investigating the effects of different drivers and the interactions among them, as well as for predicting the future state of forest ecosystems.
For this Special Issue, I invite contributions investigating a wide range of plant physiological responses to climate change in forests from the leaf to the global scale. All contributions that include theoretical, process-based, or data-based modeling approaches are welcome.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Photosynthesis;
- Plant gas exchange, stomatal functioning;
- Growth and carbon allocation, non-structural carbohydrates;
- Plant hydraulics and transpiration;
- Forest responses to stressors such as heat and drought;
- Forest responses to future climate conditions such as elevated CO2 and temperature;
- Effects on carbon, nutrient, water, and energy fluxes;
- Forest resilience and tree mortality.
Dr. Juergen Knauer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- plant physiology
- elevated CO2
- acclimation
- tree mortality
- plant–water relations
- extreme events
