Project
A network of high resolution stem-growth measurements across the Netherlands
In this long-term project, part of the Forest Reserve programme, dendrometers are placed on trees of different species in Nature Reserve areas across the Netherlands.
The intra-annual growth activity of these trees is monitored and compared to contemporary changes in climate factors. The project will run for at least a period of 10 years. Dendrometer measurements will be accomplished by cambial analysis and ring width analysis.
In the media
- Trees shrink during heatwaves (news item, January 20, 2022)
- The silent suffering of trees during the 2018 heatwave (blog, Nature Portfolio Ecology & Evolution Community, January 10, 2022)
- Scots pine and Douglas-fir did not grow because of drought 2018 (news item August 13, 2019)
- Forest Reserve Programme (in Dutch)
- Dutch forest profit by summer rains (news item in Dutch)
MSc thesis topics
- Fine resolution growth responses of Dutch tree species after droughts (vacant)
- Using dendrometers to examine water and growth components of intra-annual stem size variation - Rick van Meurs (completed 2015)
