The long-term aim of our project is to compare Central European beech forests (Fagus sylvatica L.) and central Patagonian southern beech forests (Nothofagus spp.) and their responses to climate change, extreme events and disturbances.
The comparison of responses will be used to derive sustainable forest management strategies for maintaining and restoring temperate forest ecosystems at different spatial scales.
The temperate deciduous forests of Central Europe have already been intensively studied along elevation gradients in the NEMKLIM project that investigated forest change along a temperature and moisture gradient. The KLIMNEM project now transfers this approach to the Southern Hemisphere and the forests of central Patagonia/Argentina.
