Symposium 'Climate change, plants and ecosystems'
- For whom
- Students , Employees
- When
- 03-02-2021 from 09:30 to 11:30
- Where
- Livestream
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Ghent University ERC project FORMICA
- Contact
- pieter.defrenne@ugent.be
- Website
- https://webappsx.ugent.be/eventManager/events/FORMICAVirtualSymposium
Workshop on climate change impacts on plants and ecosystems such as tropical forests, temperate forests and alpine tundra.
Program
- 09:30-09:40 Introduction
- 09:40-09:55 Pieter De Frenne (Ghent University): Microclimatic buffering below forest canopies
- 09:55-10:10 David Coomes (University of Cambridge): The impacts of climate change on tropical forests
- 10:10-10:25 Paul Kardol (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences): Plants and soil biota – thresholds and tipping points in ecosystem responses to global warming
- 10:25-10:40 Emma Sayer (Lancaster University): Life after death – forest floor processes and the potential impacts of global change in forest ecosystems
- 10:40-10:55 Stefan Dullinger (University of Vienna): Climate-driven redistribution of alpine plants: temporal lag vs. spatial scale
- 10:55-11:15 Questions and closing remarks