Resilience pathways of below-ground and above-canopy water relationships
How do water fluxes in forests differ depending on structure, hydroclimatic conditions and species composition? And can we estimate tree-specific water use derived from thermal imaging with UAV? In subproject "Water Content and Uptake", Matthias Beyer and Steffen Dohmen from TU Braunschweig aim at providing site-specific and high-resolution estimates of the forest water balance by a combined monitoring of below-ground and above-canopy water status and fluxes in order to assess the resilience of mixed forests. This will allow them to integrate spatio-temporally high-resolution observations of water transport processes with both smaller and larger-scale measurements and enable truly rigorous process descriptions and quantifications of the relationships between the soil and plant water balances.
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