Ingolf Profft

• Diplom
• Head of Department at Forstliches Forschungs- und Kompetenzzentrum Gotha/ThüringenForst

Im Projekt „BuVit MV Buchenvitalitätsschwäche in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern“ – AFZ-DerWald, Ausg. 11, 2022 [1] – konnte mithilfe einer großangelegten Forstamtsabfrage gezeigt werden, dass Buchenbestände unter anderem durch zu niedrigen Dichtstand im Alter ein höheres Risiko für Vitalitätsschwäche besitzen. Dennoch fanden sich auch einige sehr dichte Be...

Global warming poses a major threat to forest ecosystems around the world. In Central Europe, vitality losses and tree mortality have already been observed in various regions, especially after extreme drought episodes such as the 2018-2020 drought. European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), which is the dominating deciduous tree species in large parts of...

The recent drought overstressed the response capacity of many Central European forests, resulting in large disturbed areas in forest stands of Norway spruce. Reforestation strategies are needed to limit impacts on soil structure, loss of soil organic matter and nutrients. While the ecological benefits of leaving standing deadwood in place versus co...

Tree individuals in the high-altitudes need to cope with shorter vegetation periods, lower temperatures, and higher snow loads compared with their conspecifics in the lowlands. Adaptation through natural selection can lead to both heritable genetic and epigenetic changes, with accompanying phenotypic consequences. Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H....

The use of camera traps is a nonintrusive monitoring method to obtain valuable information about the appearance and behavior of wild animals. However, each study generates thousands of pictures and extracting information remains mostly an expensive, time-consuming manual task. Nevertheless, image recognition and analyzing technologies combined with...

Die Nationale Strategie zur Biologischen Vielfalt der Bundesregierung hat mit dem Ziel, 5% der deutschen Waldfläche bis 2020 einer natürlichen Entwicklung zu überlassen, die Frage nach der Klimaschutzwirkung eines Nutzungsverzichts in den Mittelpunkt vieler forst- und naturschutzfachlicher Diskussionen gerückt. In den meisten bisherigen Studien zu...

Climate change considerably influences forest ecosystems through the potential alteration of temperature and precipitation regimes as well as the intensity and frequency of disturbances. This chapter focuses on the analysis of the climatic requirements of spatially delimited forest habitat types following the definitions of the EU Habitat Directive...

Results for the management of spruce dominated forests and their ecosystems will be published in this leaflet. It will illustrate climate change effects and management options in regard to Natura 2000 management. Climate change considerably influences forest ecosystems through potential alterations of temperature and precipitation regimes as well a...

Sustainable forest use and forest protection have emerged to one of the most crucial issues of global resource management and environmental protection. Especially Europe’s natural, old-growth, mixed and beech forests are more and more part of conflicts and approaches of divergent forestry, conservation and climate policies.The objective of the stud...

In context of the project HABIT-CHANGE Central-and East-European partners conduct interdisciplinary research on potential impacts of climate change in protected areas. While the overall project considers the diversity of habitats, nature reserves and conservation categories in a transnational perspective, the research for Biosphere Reserve Vesserta...

Wutzler, T., Profft, I. & Mund, M. 2011. Quantifying tree biomass carbon stocks, their changes and uncertainties using routine stand taxation inventory data. Silva Fennica 45(3): 359–377. For carbon (C) trading or any other verifiable C reports, it would be reasonable to identify and quantify continuous changes in carbon stocks at regional scales w...

The final article completes a four-part series about new tree species recommendations for Thuringia. In addition to a complex vegetation model, a recently published map of the potential natural vegetation of Thuringia, previous tree species recommendations and various growth analyses have been used to develop this essential instrument for a prospec...

A federal working group of German forest research that was mandated by the Federal Forest Task Force (FCK) reports on the accordances and differences between the German states (Bundeslaender) regarding assessments of forest adaptation to climate change. Regarding the threats of climate change and the possibility of adaptation to it, responses were...

A federal working group of German forest research that was mandated by the Federal Forest Task Force (FCK) reports on the accordances and differences between the German states (Bundeslaender) regarding assessments of forest adaptation to climate change. Regarding the threats of climate change and the possibility of adaptation to it, responses were...

A federal working group of German forest research that was mandated by the Federal Forest Task Force (FCK) reports on the accordances and differences between the German states (Bundeslaender) regarding assessments of forest adaptation to climate change. Regarding the threats of climate change and the possibility of adaptation to it, responses were...

Wood products are considered to contribute to the mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions. A critical gap in the life cycle of wood products is to transfer the raw timber from the forest to the processing wood industry and, thus, the primary wood products. Therefore, often rough estimates are used for this step to obtain total forestry carbon balanc...

Forest ecosystems play a decisive role in the global and regional climate change debate. Forest ecosystems are the biggest terrestrial carbon sink, taking up significant quantities of carbon dioxide (CO 2) and storing the carbon for long periods of time in woody biomass and soil, thereby reducing levels of atmospheric CO 2 . These effects become ev...

Despite a long tradition, forestry and its associated research activities has hitherto been unable to provide sufficient and satisfactory information about mitigation and adaptation in terms of climate change.Because of the immediate need to develop Adaptation strategies for forestry, it is not viable to postpone decisions until more and better inf...

The use of forest specific climate parameters for tree species recommendation and other long term decisions, raises problems of data availability and questions of appropriate downscaling techniques. Based on an approach already in use in Thuringia, an effective, comprehensible and reproducible downscaling method for climate parameters like climatic...

Since the Pleistocene, climate conditions have been regarded as stable, despite slight variations occurring in Europe and elsewhere. However, climate change is expected to increase the variability of climatic frame conditions in the upcoming decades considering spatial and temporal temperature and precipitation patterns. Forestry has to take these...