Climate change-induced drought and extreme events are exerting increasing pressure on forest persistence and resilience. This pressure manifests across biological, spatial and temporal scales, from trees adjusting physiological processes and resource allocation under limiting water conditions to changes in interactions among individuals, species and their environment. These responses can translate into altered growth and functioning, increased mortality, and shifts in population dynamics and community structure.
A major challenge is to understand how processes and responses observed at one organizational scale relate to those emerging at others. This requires integrating complementary perspectives.
This session welcomes research connecting two or more scales of tree-to-forest responses, from biochemical and ecophysiological processes to, populations, communities and landscapes. We invite contributions using stable isotopes, tree rings, ecophysiological measurements, experiments, long-term forest observations, remote sensing, demographic approaches aimed at understanding the processes of forest resilience in a rapidly changing climate.