Rupert Seidl (forest scientist)

Rupert Seidl (born May 5, 1979 ) is an Austrian forest scientist. He is the deputy head of the Institute for Silviculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU).

Life

Seidl completed a degree in forest sciences from 1999 to 2004. From 2004 to 2008 he was a PhD student in soil culture. He then did postdoctoral research at Oregon State University (2009–2011) and at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2011–2012). Since then he has been working at BOKU, first as a research assistant (2012–2013), then as an assistant professor (2013–2015) and finally as an associate professor. In 2016 he was accepted into the Young Academy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences .

Act

In his research, Seidl examines the possibility of progressive tree death . Together with Cornelius Senf , he was able to use the analysis of satellite images to prove that 3000 square kilometers of forest are lost in Central Europe every year, which corresponds to the common area of Vienna and Vorarlberg. Austria and the Czech Republic were particularly hard hit. The causes are therefore, due to climate change , increased winter storms and the spread of bark beetles . On the occasion of the publication of the results, foresters warned urgently against the failure of the two-degree target agreed in the Paris Agreement , as otherwise unpredictable consequences for the Austrian forests would arise.

Seidl takes an active part in the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis . In guest contributions, for example, he discussed the evidence he had provided by means of simulation models that forests had a cooling effect on the climate.

Publications (selection)

Rupert Seidl, Mart-Jan Schelhaas , Werner Rammer , Pieter Johannes Verkerk (2014). Increasing forest disturbances in Europe and their impact on carbon storage. Nature Climate Change , 4 (9), 806. doi: 10.1038 / nclimate2318
Rupert Seidl, Dominik Thom , Markus Kautz , Dario Martin-Benito , Mikko Peltoniemi , Giorgio Vacchiano , Jan Wild , Davide Ascoli , Michal Petr , Juha Honkaniemi , Manfred J. Lexer , Volodymyr Trotsiuk , Paola Mairota , Miroslav Svoboda , Marek Fabrika , Thomas A. Nagel , Christopher PO Reyer (2017). Forest disturbances under climate change. Nature Climate Change , 7 (6), 395. doi: 10.1038 / nclimate3303
Cornelius Senf , Dirk Pflugmacher , Yang Zhiqiang , Julius Sebald , Jan Knorn , Mathias Neumann, Patrick Hostert , Rupert Seidl (2018). Canopy mortality has doubled in Europe's temperate forests over the last three decades. Nature Communications , 9 (1), 4978. doi: 10.1038 / s41467-018-07539-6

Individual evidence

↑ BOKU INSIGHT. (PDF) Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Rupert Seidel at BOKU. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
↑ Rupert Seidel at the OeAW. Austrian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 19, 2019 .
↑ Michaela Seiser: How climate change affects forestry. FAZ , January 5, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2019 .
^ Rupert Seidl, Werner Rammer: The simulated forest. Der Standard , December 6, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Seidl, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian forest scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 5th 1979

[1] BOKU INSIGHT. (PDF) Retrieved January 19, 2019 .

[boku-seidl-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Rupert Seidel at BOKU. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .

[3] Rupert Seidel at the OeAW. Austrian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 19, 2019 .

[4] Michaela Seiser: How climate change affects forestry. FAZ , January 5, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2019 .

[5] Rupert Seidl, Werner Rammer: The simulated forest. Der Standard , December 6, 2018, accessed January 19, 2019 .