{"id":4928,"date":"2021-01-20T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukazky.euweb.cz\/?page_id=4928"},"modified":"2025-07-03T11:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:06:38","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.natur.cuni.cz\/physgeo\/dendro\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Research projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Quantifying the effects of phenology, growth rate, and growth occurrence for annual wood formation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The radial growth of woody plants has a crucial effect on the carbon sequestration capacity of forest ecosystems. Therefore, understanding its responses to climatic instability on various temporal scales ranging from diurnal to multi-decadal is essential for forecasting climate-biosphere interactions. However, there is a general lack of understanding about the importance of growing season duration, mean growth rate, and occurrence of growth events during the year as predictors of total annual growth. We aim to address this question by combining empirical observations of intra-annual growth dynamics using dendrometers with indirect process-based modeling of wood formation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Principal investigator:<\/strong> Jan Tumajer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grantor:<\/strong> Czech Science Foundation (GA\u010cR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:<\/strong> 2024-2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant number:<\/strong> GA\u010cR 24-11757S<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Natural and Anthropogenic Georisks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The main research objective of this project is to understand natural and man-made threats, hazards, and risks in the Earth’s upper spheres, to explore their causes and to quantify their potential impacts on human society and infrastructures. Both natural and anthropogenic geohazards are inherently very complex processes and require a high degree of interdisciplinarity within the natural sciences. Thus, the project should result not only in a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of these processes, but also in a proposal of tools for their better monitoring, possible minimization of their effects and prediction, including mitigation of their negative effects on human society.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Principal investigator:<\/strong> Vojt\u011bch Ettler (Jan Tumajer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grantor:<\/strong> Programme Johannes Amos Comenius<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:<\/strong> 2024-2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant number:<\/strong> CZ.02.01.01\/00\/22_008\/0004605<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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DivLand: Landscape and Biodiversity Research Center<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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The Landscape and Biodiversity Research Center aims to develop and monitor indicators of biodiversity and landscape changes. In particular, our goal is to analyze trends in stem biomass of the main forest tree species in the Czech Republic. The trends of stem biomass are calculated based on a network of tree-ring chronologies and allometric equations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Principal investigator:<\/strong> Du\u0161an Romportl (V\u00e1clav Treml)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grantor:<\/strong> Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA\u010cR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:<\/strong> 2021-2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant number:<\/strong> TA\u010cR SS02030018<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Using dendrometers and modeling to quantify effects of phenology, growth rate, and growth occurrence for wood formation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Radial growth of woody plants has a crucial effect on the carbon sequestration capacity of forest ecosystems. Since wood formation responds sensitively to climate change, a significant redistribution of the radial growth rate and growth phenology might be expected during the recent decades. We aim to address spatial and temporal gradients in this redistribution by combining empirical observations of intra-annual growth dynamics using dendrometers with indirect process-based modeling of wood formation. The results will contribute to our understanding of tradeoffs between the climatic system and forest ecosystems.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fellowship holder:<\/strong> Jan Tumajer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grantor:<\/strong> Charles University – PRIMUS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:<\/strong> 2024-2027<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grant number:<\/strong> PRIMUS\/24\/SCI\/004<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Exploring the effect of seedling\u2019s drought vulnerability on treeline dynamics under climatic change using quantitative wood anatomy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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There is a lack of systematic observations to understand the causes of the differential response of treelines to global warming. The extent to which the treeline lags behind warming may be related to seedling survival. However, as temperature is considered the main limiting factor for the treeline, the role of seedling drought sensitivity as a driver of the differential response of the treeline to global warming is poorly understood. The project aims to investigate the effect of seedling drought susceptibility on treeline dynamics under climate change using quantitative wood anatomy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fellowship holder:<\/strong> Eunice Romero<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grantor:<\/strong> European Research Area (ERA), built on the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships action<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:<\/strong> 2023-2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Impacts of a changing climate on past and future tree growth at the treeline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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This research project focuses on the effects of climate change (temperature and water availability) on the growth of pines at different European treeline sites along a latitudinal gradient (polar and alpine treelines). Tree-ring width analysis and process-based modeling will be combined to better understand the climate-driven growth rate of pines in recent decades. Models will be refined using daily observations of stem growth from dendrometers and of microclimatic loggers. Analyses will be performed for different elevations, and a space-for-time approach will be used to estimate tree growth performance for the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fellowship holder:<\/strong> Francesco Marotta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grantor:<\/strong> Charles University Science Foundation (GAUK)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duration:<\/strong> 2023-2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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