Fore(st)cast is a joint project of WSL and SDSC It combines the advantages of machine learning methods with the ecological knowledge produced with forest monitoring infrastructure Forests host about 90%…

Publication in Scientific Reports by Tumajer et al, with TreeNet contribution Dendrometers challenge the ‘moon wood concept’ by elucidating the absence of lunar cycles in tree stem radius oscillation Wood…

Stillberg reforestation site becomes TreeNet’s newest partner Text and photo Esther Frei As part of the EU project FORWARDS (funded by SERI), which aims to prototype a future European observatory…

BIRMENSDORF/ZÜRICH: WASSERDEFIZITE IM WALD BRAUCHEN ZEIT UM WIEDER BEHOBEN ZU WERDEN Sofia Pignatelli TreeNet zusammen mit LWF und Waldlabor in TELE Z aktuell vom 28.08.2023: Der Wald leidet an den…

Dead trees around the world are shocking scientists Forests once deemed resilient are suffering surprising die-offs. To predict the fate of the world’s woods in the face of climate change,…

When is a tree considered dead? This question renders over 35 000 results with a popular search engine. From amateur gardeners to lawmakers, it is of practical concern to many,…

New publication in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Towards monitoring stem growth phenology from space with high resolution satellite data by Jan Eitel et al https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109549   Abstract Radial stem growth…

Daytime stomatal regulation in mature temperate trees prioritizes stem rehydration at night By Richard Peters et al. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18964 Summary Trees remain sufficiently hydrated during drought by closing stomata and reducing…

New article in the journal Science of The Total Environment on the need to network existing forest monitoring infrastructure to enable near real-time forest condition reporting (nowcasting). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162167 Highlights •…

Reconstructing radial stem size changes of trees with machine learning by Mirko Luković (EMPA), Roman Zweifel (WSL), Guillaume Thiry (ETHZ), Ce Zhang (ETHZ) and Mark Schubert (EMPA) Publication in the Journal of the…

The conference On June 27/28, 2022, the TreeNet 10-year anniversary conference was taking place in the Basel region in Switzerland. The conference focused on the assessment of tree growth with different experimental…