Adrian Dănescu receives the 2019 Thurn und Taxis Forestry Prize

Dr. Adrian Dănescu of the Chair of Silviculture receives this year’s 6,000 euro Thurn und Taxis Forestry Prize. In his award-winning dissertation, he looked at the function of mixed and structurally rich forests, in which small and large trees of different species grow close together. Such forests are close to what nature intended and may be set to play an important role in adaptation to climate change. Dănescu investigated the influence of structural diversity on productivity, rejuvenation dynamics, and the growth of trees under drought stress, using the mixed mountain forests of the Black Forest, which mainly consist of spruce and fir.

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