DRYTIP – Drought-Induced Tipping Points in Ecosystem Functioning
Pressures on terrestrial ecosystems are ever growing. Large-scale vegetation die-offs, biodiversity loss and loss in ecosystem services are resulting from unsustainable land use, climate change and extreme events, which, based on projections, will increase in the near future.
The impact of these on the global biosphere is still unknown since major knowledge gaps remain concerning the coping capacities of terrestrial ecosystems to extreme events.
DRYTIP aims at breaking new ground in relation to assessing and understanding extreme cases of vegetation instability by investigating a global set of historical drought-induced vegetation die-offs through coupled insights from vegetation modelling, Earth Observation and ecosystem science.
Funded by:
Grant: Young Investigator, No 37465
Period: 2021-2026
Contact
Project coordinator
Stéphanie Horion
Associate Professor
DRYTIP Team
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claus Beier | Professor | +4535334233 | |
| Stéphanie Horion | Associate Professor | +4535325878 | |
| Wim Verbruggen | Postdoc | ||
| Yan Cheng | Research Assistant | +4535322350 |