Valentina Vitali
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
PostDoc at UQAM,
Montreal, Canada
Projekt
I completed my Doctorate at the University of Freiburg, Chair of Silviculture, focusing on the 'Drought tolerance of Douglas-fir, Norway spruce and Silver fir in the Black Forest region'. I am now a PostDoc in Forestry and Environmental Science at UQAM in Montreal, Canada.
Scientific production:
▪ Vitali V., Forrester, D.I., Bauhus J. 2018b “Know your neighbours – Drought response of Norway spruce, Silver fir, and Douglas fir in mixed forests depends on species identity and diversity of tree neighbourhoods.” Ecosystems, 10.1007/s10021-017-0214-0 .
▪ Vitali V., Büntgen U., Bauhus J. 2018a “Seasonal trends affect resistance to droughts and future tree species growth.” Dendrochronologia, 10.1016/j.dendro.2018.01.001 .
▪ Vitali V., Büntgen U., Bauhus J. 2017 “Silver fir and Douglas fir are more tolerant to extreme droughts than Norway spruce in south-western Germany.” Global Change Biology, 10.1111/gcb.13774 .
▪ Vitali, V.; Bauhus, J. 2016 “Weißtanne und Douglasie als Ersatzbaumarten für Fichte. Vergleichende Untersuchungen zur Resilienz entlang eines Höhentransekts vom Rheintal bis in die montanen Lagen des Schwarzwaldes.“ Hg. v. LUBW Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Messungen und Naturschutz Baden-Württemberg.
▪ Vitali V., Brang P., Cherubini P., Zingg A., Simeonova Nikolova P. 2016. “Radial growth changes in Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Kast.) after strip cutting in the Swiss Alps.” Forest ecology and management, 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.01.015 .
▪ Ecological Society of America meeting, 5th-10th August 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. "Resistance and resilience of German forests to droughts: the influence of drought-stress on radial growth of conifers species in Germany"
▪ 12th Annual Conference of the CFR 30th April -2nd May 2018, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. “The influence of drought-stress on radial growth in Norway spruce, Silver fir, and Douglas fir in the Black Forest”
▪ IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress, 18th – 22nd September 2017, Freiburg, Germany. “Drought response of individual tree species in mixed conifer stands”
▪ EURODENDRO 2017, 6th-10th September 2017 Tartu, Estonia. “Effects of past and future seasonal trends on species growth in the Black Forest, Germany”
▪ TRACE2016 conference, Tree rings in Archaeology, climatology and Ecology, 11th-15th May 2016, Bialowieza, Poland. “The influence of drought-stress on the radial growth of Norway spruce, Silver fir and Douglas fir in the Black Forest”
Thesis:
“Genesis, Evolution and Ecological Functions of Kettle Holes in Glacial Environments”
Press release
Der Schwarzwald im Klimawandel
http://www.pr.uni-freiburg.de/pm/2017/der-schwarzwald-im-klimawandel