An assessment of forest vitality along an elevation gradient in the Czech Republic based on satellite products

0572268 - ÚVGZ 2024 eng A - Abstract
Kusbach, Antonín - Forkel, M. - Karthe, D. - Homolová, Lucie
An assessment of forest vitality along an elevation gradient in the Czech Republic based on satellite products.
[Building Bridges for the Next Generations. Dresden, 16.05.2023-17.05.2023]
Method of presentation: Přednáška
Event organizer: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
URL events: https://building-bridges-conference.eu/ 
R&D Projects: GA TA ČR(CZ) TO01000345
Institutional support: RVO:86652079
Keywords : remote sensing * forest productivity * modis * net primary productivity
OECD category: Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Healthy forests provide ecosystem services that are crucial for the society-nature interactions. Moreover, they play an important role in biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks to the climate system. In recent decades, a rising concern and interest regarding their health status has come into attention in central Europe, mainly in Forest ecology and related research fields, economy and social sectors. The importance of having access to vital and productive forests has gradually become greater in the context of rapid climate change and its consequences on forest ecosystems. Large scale clear-cutting, landscape fragmentation and biodiversity loss due to unfavorable climate conditions and related anthropogenic activities are examples of indisputable disturbances that take place in the Czech Republic nowadays.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0343019