Prof. Dr. Christian Zang

Forests and Climate Change

+49 8161 71-5915

Porträt von Christian Zang, Professor an der HSWT.

Adresse: F9.421
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 3
85354 Freising
Fakultät: Fakultät Wald und Forstwirtschaft

Publikationen

Wissenschaftliche Artikel
- Vincent Riedel, Pierre-André Waite, Britt Kniesel, Roman Link, Lukas Gunkel, Randolf Schirmer, Joachim Hamberger, Emilie Isasa, Christian Zang, Bernhard Schuldt
  
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  Radial growth response of Douglas-fir provenances during extreme drought across a climatic gradient in Central Europe (2026) Forest Ecology and Management 608 , S. 123391. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123391
  
  Extreme droughts are occurring more frequently in Central Europe, resulting in elevated tree mortality and the need for reforestation and forest conversion. While Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is considered a potential candidate for future climate-resilient forests, in the past this non-native crop tree species was selected for productivity rather than stress resistance. Here, we performed dendrochronological analyses in mature trees from 50 Douglas-fir provenances across six sites in Southern Germany, covering a precipitation gradient of 542 mm yr−1. Because the provenances were not equally distributed across the gradient, they were divided into three groups according to their climate at origin. We observed high variability both in radial increment and radial growth patterns between the provenances, which were lowest for the northern-interior provenances but unrelated to the precipitation gradient. As expected, the extreme drought events in 2003 and 2018 significantly reduced the radial growth of all provenances, with the northern-interior provenances showing strongest reductions and therefore lowest growth resistance. However, the recovery of radial growth was equal to the coastal origins after 2003 and even higher after 2018. This combination of low resistance and high recovery is consistent with a higher tree-ring plasticity. Furthermore, we found a positive relationship between resilience and resistance, in contrast to the general trend reported for conifers. In conclusion, northern-interior provenances showed a higher plastic growth response to extreme drought. While Douglas-fir appears to be a promising candidate for future climate-resilient forests, at least at our relatively wet sites, further validation is needed to confirm whether interior provenances are better drought adapted than coastal provenances
- Julia Rieder, Anja Žmegač, Roman Link, Konstantin Köthe, Tobias Ullmann, Dominik Seidel, Julian Fäth, Christian Zang, Bernhard Schuldt
  
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  Tree size, neighbourhood composition and structure affect individual tree vitality of European beech following extreme drought (2026) Forest Ecology and Management 599 , S. 123293. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123293
  
  The severe drought of 2018/19 caused widespread early discoloration, defoliation and tree mortality in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), although local drought responses varied strongly among coexisting trees. To identify potential drivers, we investigated 520 mature beech trees across 20 forest sites dominated by European beech in Southern Germany, Central Europe. We recorded crown health conditions and described the small-scale variability in the topographic, edaphic, structural and competitional status of individual trees, complemented by dendrochronological sampling. Overall, tall trees growing on sites with more available soil water and higher predrought growth showed highest defoliation rates, supporting global findings that larger trees are more susceptible to drought-induced tree mortality. In the ordered beta-regression model, including forest sites as random effect, pre-existing canopy gaps significantly improved vitality during drought and beech tended to show lower defoliation in mixed stands with Scots pine. These findings highlight canopy and neighbourhood structure as a possible buffer against drought stress. By contrast, the influence of tree size and soil water availability could not be detected in the model due to a large variability across sites. A substantial portion of the remaining small-scale variation in defoliation could not be explained by our fixed effects, but rather by site effects, underlining the complexity of drought responses in beech forests. We conclude that for future-proofing our forests, selective thinning of large European beech trees in non-drought years appears to be an appropriate silvicultural measure to strengthen the drought resilience of neighbouring trees, which deserves further testing. Furthermore, silvicultural management actions should account for species mixtures while explicitly considering species-specific drought response strategies, for example by combining species with contrasting hydraulic strategies or rooting systems.
- Leonie Hahn, Markus Schmidt, Anja Rammig, Christian Zang
  
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  Ecophysiologically driven irrigation scheduling for safeguarding reforestation efforts in drought-prone calamity areas in Central Europe (2025) Ecological Indicators 178 , S. 113969. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113969
  
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- Roberto Serrano-Notivoli, Jernej Jevšenak, Edurne Del Castillo, Katarina Čufar, Nina Škrk-Dolar, Giovanna Battipaglia, Jesus Camarero, Andrew Pain, Alistair Jump, Renzo Motta, Paola Nola, Momchil Panayotov, Ion Petritan, Andrei Popa, Ionel Popa, Catalin-Constantin Roibu, Miroslav Svoboda, Christian Zang, Tzvetan Zlatanov, Angela Balzano, Franco Biondi, Vojtech Čada, Dimitar Dimitrov, Jožica Gričar, Pavel Janda, Srdjan Keren, François Lebourgeois, Guangqi Li, Luis Longares, Ivan Lukić, Maks Merela, Stjepan Mikac, Klemen Novak, Any Petritan, Peter Prislan, Ana-Maria Roibu, Alvaro Rubio-Cuadrado, Miloš Rydval, Miguel Saz, Ernesto Tejedor, Willy Tegel, Roberto Tognetti, Elvin Toromani, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Daniel Turcu, Martin de Luis
  
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  A single-tree approach to determine climate-growth patterns of European beech and their seasonality in the species southern distribution area (2025) Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 371 , S. 110644. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110644
  
  Dry and warm climate conditions in southern Europe represent clear limits for European beech (Fagus sylvatica) growth near the species southern distribution limit, but it is unclear how aridification and changes in seasonal precipitation regimes will affect these forests at the individual level. We explored climate-growth relationships and the seasonality of peak climate signals in European beech using daily climate data and a large collection of tree-ring width series from southern and southeastern Europe through Generalised Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs). In most cases we found a positive and significant influence of precipitation on tree growth, and a significant negative effect of maximum temperature. Predictions from the GLMMs revealed a positive impact of precipitation during an 88 day window from spring to early summer (mid-April to mid-July), for an average tree across our network. This critical growing time window ranged from 75 days in warmer and drier conditions, and extended up to 100 days in areas with mild temperatures and moderate summer precipitation. Maximum temperatures negatively affected trees for an average of 27 day window in summer (June-July). This period was reduced to
- Benjamin Meyer, João Darela-Filho, Konstantin Gregor, Allan Buras, Qiao-Lin Gu, Andreas Krause, Daijun Liu, Phillip Papastefanou, Sijeh Asuk, Thorsten Grams, Christian Zang, Anja Rammig
  
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  Simulating the drought response of European tree species with the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS (v4.1, 97c552c5) (2025) Geoscientific Model Development 18 (14), S. 4643–4666. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-18-4643-2025
  
  Due to climate change, severe-drought events have become increasingly commonplace across Europe in recent decades, with future projections indicating that this trend will likely continue, posing questions about the continued viability of European forests. Observations from the most recent pan-European droughts suggest that these types of “hotter droughts” may acutely alter the carbon balance of European forest ecosystems. However, substantial uncertainty remains regarding the possible future impacts of severe drought on the European forest carbon sink. Dynamic vegetation models can help to shed light on such uncertainties; however, the inclusion of dedicated plant hydraulic architecture modules in these has only recently become more widespread. Such developments intended to improve model performance also tend to add substantial complexity, yet the sensitivity of the models to newly introduced processes is often left undetermined. Here, we describe and evaluate the recently developed mechanistic plant hydraulic architecture version of LPJ-GUESS and provide a parameterization for 12 common European forest tree species. We quantify the uncertainty introduced by the new processes using a variance-based global sensitivity analysis. Additionally, we evaluate the model against water and carbon fluxes from a network of eddy covariance flux sites across Europe. Our results indicate that the new model is able to capture drought-induced patterns of evapotranspiration along an isohydric gradient and manages to reproduce flux observations during drought better than standard LPJ-GUESS does. Further, the sensitivity analysis suggests that hydraulic process related to hydraulic failure and stomatal regulation play the largest roles in shaping the model response to drought.
- Huth Franka, Tischer Alexander, Nikolova Petia, Feldhaar Heike, Wehnert Alexandra, Hülsmann Lisa, Bauhus Jürgen, Heer Katrin, Vogt Juliane, Ammer Christian, Berger Uta, Bernhardt-Römermann Markus, Böhme Manuela, Bugmann Harald, Buse Jörn, Demant Laura, Dörfler Inken, Jörg Ewald, Feldmann Eike, Fichtner Andreas, Gossner Martin M., Grams Thorsten E. E., Häberle Karl-Heinz, Hagge Jonas, Hartmann Henrik, Herzog Sven, Kahmen Ansgar, Kohnle Ulrich, Krabel Doris, Krämer-Klement Klara, Kreyling Jürgen, Manthey Michael, Meyer Peter, Mölder Andreas, Muffler-Weigel Lena, Ohse Bettina, Opgenoorth Lars, Rewald Boris, Andreas Rothe, Ruehr Nadine, Scharnweber Tobias, Scherer-Lorenzen Michael, Schmeddes Jonas, Schmerbeck Joachim, Markus Schmidt, Seidel Dominik, Thomas Frank M., Tiebel Malin, von Oheimb Goddert, Wagner Sven, Weigel Robert, Wilmking Martin, Christian Zang, Schuldt Bernhard
  
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  Ecological assessment of forest management approaches to develop resilient forests in the face of global change in Central Europe (2025) Basic and Applied Ecology 86 , S. 66-100. DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2025.05.001
  
  The effects of global change pose major challenges for both practical forest management and forest ecological research if European forests are to be managed in such a way that they can continue to provide their many services to people in the future. The number of studies on impacts of global change on forest ecosystems has increased enormously over the last decade, but the evidence on how to improve the resilience and resistance of forests is of varying quality and in some cases contradictory. For that reason a group of experts from the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfOe), Section Forest Ecology decided to review the relevant scientific information and to assess its degree of confidence to provide guidance for future forest adaption options. Our review of research on the impact of global change on European forests and associated forest management strategies to adapt forests identified 35 scientific statements that were grouped into the following thematic priorities: (1) selection of tree species and promoting diversity, (2) genetics, (3) forest structures, (4) forest functions, ecosystem services and nature’s contribution to the lives of people, (5) silvicultural systems, (6) natural regeneration, successional processes and wildlife management, and (7) future research and monitoring methods. Our analyses showed that most of the statements reflect validated research findings. However, many of them were incomplete and would not yet allow transfer to broad application in the form of silvicultural adaptation strategies. Future studies should focus on the identification of climate-resilient tree species and provenances, their regeneration processes and their resistance to pathogens and pests under drought conditions. Species- and site-specific scientific findings must be translated into silvicultural techniques/ measures such as the determination of tree species mixtures, thinning and harvesting intensities and tree regeneration methods. We identified significant gaps in the application of forest monitoring practices needed to obtain reliable information on the provision of ecosystem goods and services. This review provides ahensive basis to develop a roadmap for future forest adaptation research to improve our level of confidence for science-based management recommendations.
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- Phillip Papastefanou, Thomas Pugh, Allan Buras, Katrin Fleischer, Thorsten Grams, Thomas Hickler, David Lapola, Daijun Liu, Christian Zang, Anja Rammig
  
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  Simulated sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest to extreme drought (2024) Environmental Research Letters 19 (12), S. 124072. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad8f48
  
  The Amazon rainforest is highly biodiverse and has the largest extent of the remaining intact tropical forests in the world. To this day, undisturbed tropical forests act as a carbon sink by taking up about 15% of anthropogenic carbon emissions per year. However, in the past decades, a declining trend in the carbon sink capacity in the Amazon rainforest has been observed due to increased carbon losses and tree mortality. The causes are disputed, but increasing temperatures and more frequent severe droughts are potentially major drivers. We employ a novel modeling framework and hypothesize that previously rare, extreme droughts in the Amazon, such as the ones in 2005 and 2010, constitute the main cause behind the decline of the net carbon sink in aboveground biomass. Our dynamic vegetation model simulates process-based plant hydraulics and drought-induced mortality, and accounts for the diversity of strategies in plant responses to drought based on observed hydraulic vulnerability curves. The simulated impact of the 2005 drought event temporarily turned the annual Amazon net carbon sink to a carbon source of about 0.25 Mg C . In contrast to other dynamic vegetation models our model simulated an increasing trend in carbon losses and a declining trend in the Amazon carbon sink over the past 25 years (net sink rate of −0.015 Mg C or −0.18 Mg C per decade) which corresponds well with long-term forest monitoring data (net sink rate of −0.016 Mg C ). We show that this trend is entirely attributable to drought-induced forest mortality during extreme years. The simulations show a threshold-like behavior between drought intensity and biomass loss, which is due to xylem vulnerability, indicating the potentially high sensitivity of Amazon forests to extreme drought. Further increases in the severity and frequency of droughts might thus lead to greater carbon release and tree mortality than previously assumed.
- Stefan Klesse, Richard Peters, Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez, Vincent Badeau, Claudia Baittinger, Giovanna Battipaglia, Didier Bert, Franco Biondi, Michal Bosela, Marius Budeanu, Vojtech Čada, J. Julio Camarero, Liam Cavin, Hugues Claessens, Ana-Maria Cretan, Katarina Čufar, Martin de Luis, Isabel Dorado-Liñán, Choimaa Dulamsuren, Josep Maria Espelta, Balazs Garamszegi, Michael Grabner, Jožica Gričar, Andrew J. Hacket-Pain, Jon Kehlet Hansen, Claudia Hartl, Andrea Hevia, Martina Hobi, Pavel Janda, Alistair S. Jump, Jakub Kašpar, Marko Kazimirović, Srdjan Keren, Jürgen Kreyling, Alexander Land, Nicolas Latte, François Lebourgeois, Christoph Leuschner, Mathieu Lévesque, Luis Alberto Longares, Edurne Martinez Del Castillo, Annette Menzel, Maks Merala, Martin Mikoláš, Renzo Motta, Lena Muffler, Anna Neycken, Paola Nola, Momchil Panayotov, Any Mary Petritan, Ion Catalin Petritan, Ionel Popa, Peter Prislan, Tom Levanič, Catalin-Constantin Roibu, Álvaro Rubio-Cuadadro, Raul Sánchez-Salguero, Pavel Šamonil, Branko Stajić, Miroslav Svoboda, Roberto Tognetti, Elvin Toromani, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Astrid Vanoppen, Ivana Vašíčková, Georg von Arx, Martin Wilmking, Robert Weigel, Tzvetan Zlatanov, Christian Zang, Allan Buras
  
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  No Future Growth Enhancement Expected at the Northern Edge for European Beech due to Continued Water Limitation (2024) Global Change Biology 30 , S. e17546. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17546
  
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- Julia Rieder, Roman Link, Konstantin Köthe, Dominik Seidel, Tobias Ullmann, Christian Zang, Bernhard Schuldt
  
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  TreeCompR: Tree competition indices for inventory data and 3D point clouds (2024) Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15 , S. 2198–2208. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14414
  
  In times of more frequent global change-type droughts and associated tree mortality events, competition release is one silvicultural measure discussed to have an impact on the resilience of managed forest stands. Understanding how trees compete with each other is therefore crucial, but different measurement options and competition indices (CI) leave users with a difficult choice, as no single competition index has proven universally superior. To help users with the choice and computation of appropriate indices, we present the open-source TreeCompR package, which handles 3D point clouds and classical forest inventory data, enabling the calculation of both innovative point cloud-based indices and traditional distance-dependent indices. It serves as a centralized platform for exploring and comparing different CIs, allowing users to test and select the most suitable CI for their specific research questions within a common interface. To evaluate the package, we used TreeCompR to quantify the competition situation of 307 European beech trees from 13 sites in Central Europe. Based on this dataset, we discuss the interpretation, comparability and sensitivity of the different indices to their parameterization and identify possible sources of uncertainty and ways to minimize them. The compatibility of TreeCompR with different data formats and different data collection methods makes it accessible and useful for a wide range of users, specifically ecologists and foresters. Due to the flexibility in the choice of input formats as well as the emphasis on tidy, well-structured output, our package can easily be integrated into existing data-analysis workflows both for 3D point cloud and classical forest inventory data.
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- J. Julio Camarero, Liam Cavin, Hugues Claessens, Ana‐Maria Cretan, Katarina Čufar, Martin de Luis, Isabel Dorado‐Liñán, Choimaa Dulamsuren, Josep Maria Espelta, Balazs Garamszegi, Michael Grabner, Jožica Gričar, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Jon Kehlet Hansen, Claudia Hartl, Andrea Hevia, Martina Hobi, Pavel Janda, Alistair S. Jump, Jakub Kašpar, Marko Kazimirović, Srdjan Keren, Juergen Kreyling, Alexander Land, Nicolas Latte, François Lebourgeois, Christoph Leuschner, Mathieu Lévesque, Luis A. Longares, Edurne Martinez Del Castillo, Annette Menzel, Maks Merela, Martin Mikoláš, Renzo Motta, Lena Muffler, Anna Neycken, Paola Nola, Momchil Panayotov, Any Mary Petritan, Ion Catalin Petritan, Ionel Popa, Peter Prislan, Tom Levanič, Catalin‐Constantin Roibu, Álvaro Rubio‐Cuadrado, Raúl Sánchez‐Salguero, Pavel Šamonil, Branko Stajić, Miroslav Svoboda, Roberto Tognetti, Elvin Toromani, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Ernst van der Maaten, Marieke Van Der Maaten‐Theunissen, Astrid Vannoppen, Ivana Vašíčková, Georg von Arx, Martin Wilmking, Robert Weigel, Tzvetan Zlatanov, Christian Zang, Allan Buras, Stefan Klesse, Richard L. Peters, Raquel Alfaro‐Sánchez, Vincent Badeau, Claudia Baittinger, Giovanna Battipaglia, Didier Bert, Franco Biondi, Michal Bosela, Marius Budeanu, Vojtech Čada
  
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  No Future Growth Enhancement Expected at the Northern Edge for European Beech due to Continued Water Limitation (2024) Global Change Biology 30 (10), S. e17546. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17546
  
  ABSTRACT With ongoing global warming, increasing water deficits promote physiological stress on forest ecosystems with negative impacts on tree growth, vitality, and survival. How individual tree species will react to increased drought stress is therefore a key research question to address for carbon accounting and the development of climate change mitigation strategies. Recent tree‐ring studies have shown that trees at higher latitudes will benefit from warmer temperatures, yet this is likely highly species‐dependent and less well‐known for more temperate tree species. Using a unique pan‐European tree‐ring network of 26,430 European beech ( Fagus sylvatica L. ) trees from 2118 sites, we applied a linear mixed‐effects modeling framework to (i) explain variation in climate‐dependent growth and (ii) project growth for the near future (2021–2050) across the entire distribution of beech. We modeled the spatial pattern of radial growth responses to annually varying climate as a function of mean climate conditions (mean annual temperature, mean annual climatic water balance, and continentality). Over the calibration period (1952–2011), the model yielded high regional explanatory power ( R 2 = 0.38–0.72). Considering a moderate climate change scenario (CMIP6 SSP2‐4.5), beech growth is projected to decrease in the future across most of its distribution range. In particular, projected growth decreases by 12%–18% (interquartile range) in northwestern Central Europe and by 11%–21% in the Mediterranean region. In contrast, climate‐driven growth increases are limited to around 13% of the current occurrence, where the historical mean annual temperature was below ~6°C. More specifically, the model predicts a 3%–24% growth increase in the high‐elevation clusters of the Alps and Carpathian Arc. Notably, we find little potential for future growth increases (−10 to +2%) at the poleward leading edge in southern Scandinavia. Because in this region beech growth is found to be primarily water‐limited, a northward shift in its distributional range will be constrained by water availability.
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Zeitschriftenartikel
- Allan Buras, Benjamin Meyer, Christian Zang
  
  Wie geht es den deutschen Wäldern? (2020) Ländlicher Raum, 02/2020 , S. 14-16.
  
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- Steffen Taeger, Christian Zang, Mirko Liesebach, Volker Schneck, Annette Menzel
  
  Wie reagieren verschiedene Herkünfte der Kiefer auf Trockenheit? (2014) LWF aktuell 98 , S. 44-48.
- Christoph Dittmar, Karl-Heinz Lieber, Andreas Rothe, Christian Zang
  
  Wachstum unter warm-trockenen Bedingungen: Tanne im Weinbauklima (2012) AFZ-Der Wald 67 (3), S. 4-7.
- Andreas Rothe, Christoph Dittmar, Christian Zang
  
  Tanne – vom Sorgenkind zum Hoffnungsträger (2011) LWF-Wissen 66 , S. 59-62.
  
  Hohe Schwefeleinträge haben in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts die Vitalität der Tanne in Süddeutschland massiv beeinträchtigt. Jahrringanalysen zeigen deutlich den damit verbundenen Zuwachsrückgang. Nach dem Rückgang der Schwefeleinträge ab den 1980er Jahren hat sich die Tanne erholt und auch Extremereignisse wie den Hitzesommer 2003 gut überstanden. Die Ergebnisse eines neuen Forschungsprojektes, indem an zahlreichen Standorten in Bayern Jahrringmessungen durchgeführt wurden, belegen, dass die Tanne auf Trockenereignisse deutlich schwächer reagiert als die Fichte. Damit ist die Tanne auf vielen Standorten eine interessante Ersatzbaumart für die Fichte im Hinblick auf die prognostizierten Klimaveränderungen. Dies gilt insbesondere für submontane bis montane Regionen mit ausreichendem Niederschlag während der Vegetationszeit, dagegen stoßen auch gesunde Tannen in kollinen Gebieten mit warm-trockenen Klimabedingungen an ihre Grenzen.
Buchbeiträge
- Christian Zang
  
  Wachstumsreaktion von Baumarten in temperierten Wäldern auf Sommertrockenheit: Erkenntnisse aus einem Jahrringnetzwerk (2012) Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologischen Gesellschaft 97 , S. 29-46.
Konferenzbeiträge
- Leonie Hahn, Markus Schmidt, Samuli Junttila, Andreas Rothe, Carsten Lorz, Christian Zang
  
  Determining the irrigation scheduling of tree saplings from a low-cost thermal camera to safeguard efforts in drought-prone areas (2025) Poster auf der forstwissenschaftlichen Tagung „Wald – Neu – Denken“ am 29.09.-02.10.2025 in Freiburg im Breisgau .
  
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- Markus Schmidt, Leonie Hahn, Andreas Rothe, Carsten Lorz, Christian Zang
  
  Notfall-Bewässerung von Forstkulturen als Pflegemaßnahme zur Waldverjüngung im Klimawandel-getriebenen Waldumbau (2025) Poster auf der forstwissenschaftlichen Tagung „Wald – Neu – Denken“ am 29.09.-02.10.2025 in Freiburg im Breisgau .
  
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- Markus Schmidt, Leonie Hahn, Andreas Rothe, Carsten Lorz, Christian Zang
  
  Bewässerung von Forstkulturen auf Kalamitätsflächen: Praxis-Erfahrungen mit Notfallbewässerung im Frankenwald (2025) Workshop „Handlungsoptionen und Priorisierung von Maßnahmen bei der Wiederbewaldung von Großkalamitätsflächen“ am 22.-24.09.2025 in Marksuhl/ Gotha .
  
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- Christian Zang
  
  Baumvitalität unter Klimastress - Forschung und Praxislösungen im Spannungsfeld von Trockenheit und Anpassungsbedarf (2025) Fachtagung der Bayerischen Akademie für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege „Naturschutz - von der Forschung in die Praxis - Wassermanagement“ am 23.9.2025 in Freising .
  
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- Christian Zang
  
  Baumvitalität unter Klimastress: Forschung und Praxislösungen im Spannungsfeld von Trockenheit und Anpassungsbedarf (2025)
- Markus Schmidt, Leonie Hahn, Carsten Lorz, Andreas Rothe, Christian Zang
  
  Dendrometers as valuable tools in drought stress monitoring - challenges of tree water deficit normalisation (2025) Poster auf dem 6. Xylem International Meeting am 18.-20.30.2025 in Sevilla .
  
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- Markus Blaschke, Kirsten Krüger, Thomas Kudernatsch, Andreas Rothe, Christian Zang, Jörg Ewald
  
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  Understanding Forest Dynamics under Climate Change: Insights from Strict Forest Reserves in Bavaria (2024) Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Ökologie, Die Zukunft einer nachhaltigen Landnutzung der Ökosysteme, Landschaften und Biome, 9.-13.9.2024 in Freising .
- Leonie Hahn, Markus Schmidt, Carsten Lorz, Andreas Rothe, Anja Rammig, Christian Zang
  
  Safeguarding reforestation efforts on former spruce plantations: Exploring forest irrigation to mitigate drought stress (2024) 53. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Ökologie (GfÖ) am 11.09.2024 in Freising .
  
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- Markus Blaschke, Kirsten Krüger, Thomas Kudernatsch, Andreas Rothe, Christian Zang, Jörg Ewald
  
  Understanding Forest Dynamics under Climate Change: Insights from Strict Forest Reserves in Bavaria (2024)
- Jörg Ewald, Andreas Rothe, Markus Blaschke, Kirsten Krüger, Thomas Kudernatsch, Christian Zang
  
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  Comparing drought effects on vegetation of natural forest reserves and adjacent managed forests in Southern
  Germany (2024) IUFRO World Congress Forests and Society Towards 2050, Stockholm .
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Sonstige Veröffentlichungen
- Christian Zang
  
  treeclim - An R package for modelling tree/climate relationships (2020)
  
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- Christian Zang
  
  Dendrobox - An Interactive Tree-Ring Data Exploration Tool (2015)
- Christoph Dittmar, Christian Zang, Claudia Hartl-Meier, Andreas Rothe
  
  Wachstum und Stabilität von Bergwaldökosystemen im Nationalpark Berchtesgaden (2011) Abschlussbericht zum Forschungsprojekt FO 03/5/16 des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Umwelt, Verbraucherschutz und Gesundheit .
- Christian Zang, Andreas Rothe
  
  Baumarteneignung bei verstärkter Trockenheit in Folge von Klimawandel (2010) Abschlussbericht zum Forschungsprojekt E45 des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten .
Vorträge
- Christian Zang
  
  Wie geht es den Wäldern in Deutschland und Bayern? (2024) Vortragsreihe Wälder in der Klimakrise, Bund Naturschutz in Bayern e.V., 18.03.2024 .
- Markus Schmidt, Leonie Hahn, Andreas Rothe, Carsten Lorz, Christian Zang
  
  Erste Erfahrungen mit einem Tropfbewässerungs-System auf einer Wiederaufforstungsfläche im Frankenwald (2024) Vortrag auf dem 2. Workshop „Bewässerung von Aufforstungen“ am 07.03.2024 in Veitshöchheim (Fa. Netafim; Landesanstalt für Wein und Gartenbau) .
- Christian Zang
  
  Tree growth in a changing climate - From data to model and back again (2024) Vortrag beim Geographischen Seminar, Universität Erlangen, 31.01.2024 .
- Leonie Hahn, Markus Schmidt, Andreas Rothe, Carsten Lorz, Christian Zang
  
  Bewässerung von Forstkulturen: Früherkennung des Bewässerungsbedarfs und praxistaugliche Bewässerunsgmethoden (2023) Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Forstliche Standorts- und Vegetationskunde (AFSV e.V., Sektion im DVFFA) am 11.10.2023 in Lehesten/Frankenwald .
- Markus Schmidt, Leonie Hahn, Christian Zang, Andreas Rothe, Carsten Lorz
  
  Bewässerungsversuch „Käferholz“: Vitalität nach dem Extrem-Sommer 2022 - Erste Ergebnisse (2023) Vortrag auf dem Workshop „Bewässerung von Aufforstungen“ am 01.03.2023 in Veitshöchheim (Fa. Netafim; Landesanstalt für Wein und Gartenbau) .
Forschungsdaten
- P. Morley, D. Donoghue, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen, Christian Zang, Alistair S. Jump
  
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  Post-drought forest inventory and tree canopy health data, Rhӧn Biosphere Reserve, Germany, 2021 (2023) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre . DOI: 10.5285/4df17a8f-9854-4b6e-8578-d99fbefb1352
  
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Medienbeiträge
- Text Medienbeitrag, Christian Zang, Markus Schmidt
  
  Mit den Fingern am Puls der Bäume (2025) Interview in der Frankenpost am 27.09.2025 .
- Audio Medienbeitrag, Markus Schmidt, Leonie Hahn, Christian Zang
  
  Waldbewässerung im Beitrag Wachsende Wüsten - Sternschnuppen – Waldbewässerung (2024) Podcastbeitrag in WDR 5 Quarks – Wissenschaft und mehr, vom 11.12.2024, ab 1:12:00 .
- Audio Medienbeitrag, Christian Zang
  
  Die Fichte - Immergrün ohne Zukunft? (2023) Mitwirkung beim Radiobeitrag vom 09.02.2023 bei BR radioWissen .
  
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- . Medienbeitrag, Christian Zang
  
  Bad Brückenau: Das Wasser wird weniger (2021) Mitwirkung in Artikel zur Wasserknappheit in der Rhön in der Mainpost. .
  
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- . Medienbeitrag, Christian Zang
  
  BR-Rundschau (2019) TV-Beitrag über Forschungen zum Buchensterben in Franken in der BR-Rundschau .
- . Medienbeitrag, Christian Zang
  
  Jetzt heißt es wieder Waldsterben (2019) Mitwirkung in Artikel zu Dürreschäden an Bäumen in der ZEIT .
  
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- . Medienbeitrag, Christian Zang
  
  Was die Dürre mit den Fasanerie-Buchen macht (2019) Artikel über Forschungsarbeiten an dürregeschädigten Buchen im Main-Echo .
  
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- Christian Zang, Mustapha Gorai
  
  Forest adaptation and mitigation of climate change – from research to teaching and back again (2022)
  
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Forschungsprojekte

Laufzeit: 01.02.2026 – 31.01.2028

Schwerpunkt: Landnutzung
Regionale Wege zu klimaneutralen Hochschulen - Teilprojekt 2: Digitaler Zwilling (REKLINEU II)
REKLINEU II verfolgt das Ziel der Etablierung einer „Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit“ an den beteiligten Hochschulen und rückt dabei insbesondere die Bestandsaufnahme, Vermeidung, Reduktion und …
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- Projektleitung HSWT: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schauberger, Prof. Dr. Christian Zang
Laufzeit: 01.01.2026 – 31.12.2030

Schwerpunkt: Klimawandel
Smarte Lösungen für die resiliente Wiederbewaldung zur Sicherung essentieller Ökosystemleistungen im Klimawandel (SmartReForest)
Das Projekt adressiert Herausforderungen intakter Waldökosysteme und entwickelt ein wissenschaftlich fundiertes und praxistaugliches Konzept zur klimaresilienten Wiederbewaldung. …
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- Projektleitung HSWT: Prof. Dr. Florian Haselbeck, Prof. Dr. Christian Zang

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Zeitraum: 01.11.2022 – 31.03.2027
Growth response to climate extremes in managed vs. unmanaged forests
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Zeitraum: 15.04.2020 – 23.07.2025

Status: Abgeschlossen
Dynamic modelling of legacy effects of late-frost and drought in European beech forest ecosystems
Promovierende Person: Benjamin Meyer
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