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Dr. Florian Schnabel

Lecturer / Senior scientist

Florian Schnabel

University of Freiburg

Chair of Silviculture

Tennenbacherstr. 4

79106 Freiburg Germany
 
Room No. 4071

Tel. +49 761 203 3679

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Research interests


I am fascinated by how we can understand biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships and use them for sustainable forest management in the face of global change. I am particularly interested in how climate extremes, such as droughts, affect forests and how we can manipulate their diversity, structure, and composition to enhance their stability, temperature buffering capacity, and provision of multiple ecosystem services. 

To address these questions, I work in different forest ecosystems, from temperate forests in Europe and Chile to (sub-)tropical forests in Panama and China. I focus especially on the planted tree diversity experiments of TreeDivNet. I use approaches from various fields including silviculture| forest ecology | dendroecology | functional ecology | microclimate ecology.

 

Short CV


Current
Lecturer, Chair of Silviculture, University of Freiburg, Germany

2023
Postdoctoral researcher, Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Leipzig University, Germany

2022
Postdoctoral researcher, International Research Training Group TreeDì, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Leipzig University, Germany

2018-2022
Doctoral researcher, International Research Training Group TreeDì, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig and Leipzig University, Germany

2015-2018 
M.Sc. Forest Sciences (Specialization International Forestry), University of Freiburg, Germany

2017 
Research fellow, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia

2016-2017 
Exchange semester, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Netherlands

2011-2015 
B.Sc. Environmental Sciences & B.Sc. in International Forestry, University of Freiburg, Germany

2014 
Research fellow, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Centre (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica

2013-2014 
Exchange year, University Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

 

Research profiles


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Publications (selection)


Schnabel, F., Purrucker, S., Schmitt, L., Engelmann, R.A., Kahl, A., Richter, R., Seele-Dilbat, C., Skiadaresis, G., Wirth, C. (2022) Cumulative growth and stress responses to the 2018–2019 drought in a European floodplain forest. Global Change Biology, 28(5): 1870-1883. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16028

Schnabel, F.*, Liu, X.*, Kunz, M., Barry, K.E., Bongers, F.J., Bruelheide, H., Fichtner, A., Härdtle, W., Li, S., Pfaff C.-T., Schmid, B., Schwarz, J.A., Tang, Z., Yang, B., Bauhus, J., von Oheimb, G., Ma, K.P., Wirth, C. (2021). Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment. Science Advances, 7(51). *Co-first authors. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abk1643

Messier, C., Bauhus, J., Sousa-Silva, R., Auge, H., Baeten, L., Barsoum, N., Bruelheide, H., Caldwell, B., Cavender-Bares, J., Dhiedt, E., Eisenhauer, N., Ganade, G., Gravel, D., Guillemot, J., Hall, J.S., Hector, A., Hérault, B., Jactel, H., Koricheva, J., Kreft, H., Mereu, S., Muys, B., Nock, C.A., Paquette, A., Parker, J.D., Perring, M.P., Ponette, Q., Potvin, C., Reich, P.B., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schnabel, F., Verheyen, K., Weih, M., Wollni, M., Zemp, D.C. (2022) For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let’s diversify planted forests! Conservation Letters, 15 (1): e12829. http://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12829

Schwarz, J.*, Schnabel, F.*, Bauhus, J. (2021) A conceptual framework and experimental design for analysing the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) in agroforestry systems. Basic and Applied Ecology, 55: 133-151. *Co-first authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.05.002

Wirth, C., Engelmann, R.A., Haack, N., Hartmann, H., Richter, R., Schnabel, F., Scholz, M., Seele-Dilbat, C. (2021) Naturschutz und Klimawandel im Leipziger Auwald. Biologie in unserer Zeit, 51(1): 55–65. https://doi.org/10.11576/BIUZ-4107

Madsen, C., Potvin, C., Hall, J., Sinacore, K., Turner, B.L., Schnabel, F. (2020) Coarse root architecture: Neighbourhood and abiotic environmental effects on five tropical tree species growing in mixtures and monocultures. Forest Ecology and Management, 460: 117851. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117851

Guillemot, J., Kunz, M., Schnabel, F., Fichtner, A., Madsen, C., Gebauer, T., Härdtle, W., von Oheimb, G., Potvin, C. (2020) Neighbourhood-mediated shifts in tree biomass allocation drive overyielding in tropical species mixtures. New Phytologist, 228(4): 1256-1268. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16722

Schwarz, J., Skiadaresis, G., Kohler, M., Kunz, J., Schnabel, F., Vitali, V., Bauhus, J. (2020) Quantifying Growth Responses of Trees to Drought—a Critique of Commonly Used Resilience Indices and Recommendations for Future Studies. Current Forestry Reports, 6: 185–200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-020-00119-2

Schnabel, F., Schwarz, J.A., Dănescu, A., Fichtner, A., Nock, C.A., Bauhus, J., Potvin, C. (2019) Drivers of productivity and its temporal stability in a tropical tree diversity experiment. Global Change Biology, 25(12): 4257-4272. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14792

Schnabel, F., De Melo Virginio Filho, E., Xu, S., Fisk, I. D., Roupsard, O., Haggar, J. (2018) Shade trees: a determinant to the relative success of organic versus conventional coffee production. Agroforestry Systems, 92(6): 1535-1549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-017-0100-y

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