Linking Forest Productivity and Tree Growth through Remote Sensing and Tree Ring Analyses

Dear Colleagues,

The intensity and severity of extreme climate events such as droughts are increasing under the influence of ongoing climate warming. As a consequence, forest ecosystems are being impacted in terms of productivity and forest growth, often showing dieback episodes, increased mortality, and decreased forest productivity, with important implications for the global carbon balance. Traditionally, tree ring data are often utilized in the assessment of the forest response to climate at annual to centennial and stand to continent scales. However, these approaches are often local in extent and spatially discontinuous, which makes upscaling to regional and broader levels challenging. Alternatively, remote sensing data allow enhancing spatial evaluations of climate condition–tree growth relationships, from local to global scales. However, there remain many research gaps on how to better link tree ring and remote sensing data, which deserve more attention. Therefore, novel research approaches should aim to fill these existing gaps. This Special Issue titled “Linking Forest Productivity and Tree Growth through Remote Sensing and Tree Ring Analyses” aims to build a stronger consensus of ecological mechanisms encompassed in remote sensing and tree ring proxies of drought or other climate events. Both research and review papers on this topic are welcomed.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Dendroecological studies carried out at multiple spatial and temporal scales;
• Observational approaches for disentangling tree ring and remote sensing associations;
• Advancement of UAV technology applied to tree ring analyses;
• Linking dendrosciences to remote sensing data to improve drought proxies;
• Vegetation dynamics under multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Dr. Marín Pompa-García
Dr. Jesús Julio Camarero
Dr. Peter Z. Fule
Guest Editors

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