The Integrated Science Lab invites you to join the conversation at the third Lunch Pitch of the season. Hjalmar Laudon will give a pitch about declining forest growth in Sweden, and Jurgen Schleucher will pitch about past and future forest CO2 exchange.
To encourage cross pollination of ideas between researchers from different disciplines, IceLab hosts interdisciplinary research lunches with the vision of allowing ideas to meet and mate. During the Lunch Pitch Season, the creative lunches take place at KBC (Glasburen) on a Wednesday.
Register to come to the pitch and reserve your lunch by Monday, 10 March at 10am.
Note! From now on the default lunch option is vegan. You can choose an alternative lunch in a separate form that will be emailed to you once you have registered.
Following an almost century-long increase, forest growth in Sweden has abruptly decreased during the last decade. Lower than expected forest growth trajectories threaten national targets for carbon sequestration and bioeconomy. While climate-related drought is the most likely cause, the critical question is now whether this recent growth decline is transient, or the beginning of a new normal where conventional management actions risk further losses of resilience to water stress.
Interested in: Connecting with the modeling community so that we together can better understand and predict future trajectories of forest growth.
Increasing atmospheric CO2 should in principle increase plant growth and hence buffer Global Change. But for forests globally, a large expected “CO2 fertilization” conflicts with a lack of biomass increase. In annual plants, we have observed that increasing CO2 has increased photosynthesis over past decades, in agreement with short-term lab experiments. But results for broad-leaved trees suggest that their photosynthesis increased much less, we want to elucidate if this may be caused by increases in leaf temperatures.
Interested in: Connecting with researchers interested in plant ecophysiology and biophysics, ranging from current experiments to analysis of historic data sets.
KBC Glasburen, near the KBC café. Find your way to the venue (mazemap link)
IceLab Lunch Pitches are made possible through funding from KBC for the venue and lunches and from Stress Response Modeling at IceLab for their coordination.
