Publikationen

Peer-reviewed paper

• Putzenlechner, B., Grieger, S., Czech, C., Koal, P. (2025): Post-disturbance treatment effects on microclimate and vegetation recovery on Norway spruce calamity areas from in situ and UAV-based monitoring.Forest Ecology and Management. 597, 123131, 20 p. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123131
• Grieger, S., Kappas, M., Karel, S., Koal, P., Koukal, T., Löw, M., Zwanzig, M., Putzenlechner, B. (2025): Impact of forest disturbance derived from Sentinel-2 time series on Landsat 8/9 land surface temperature: The case of Norway spruce in Central Germany.ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 228, p. 388-407, 20 p. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2025.07.006
• Steinebrunner, F., Tischer, A., Medicus, T., Huth, F., & Bernhardt-Römermann, M.(2025). The effects of deadwood on tree regeneration and microsites: A systematic review. Forest Ecology and Management, 596, 123096. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123096
• Putzenlechner, B., Bevern, F., Koal, P., Grieger, S., Kappas, M., Koukal, T., Löw, M., Filipponi, F. (2024): Accuracy assessment of LAI, PAI and FCOVER from Sentinel-2 and GEDI for monitoring forests and their disturbance in Central Germany. European Journal of Remote Sensing. 57, 1, 19 p. https://doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2024.2422323

Preprint

• Putzenlechner, B., Zwanzig, M., Bässler, C., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Ebert, J., Grieger, S., Koal, P., Oechler, H., Peter, D., Profft, I., Spalek, S., Steinebrunner, F., Tischer, A., Thorn, S., Wehnert, A., Zhou, X., Huth, F. (2025): Reforestation under climate change - a cross-regional deadwood retention experiment to develop multifunctional forests on disturbed Norway spruce areas.bioRxiv 2026.01.12.698939; https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.12.698939

Poster

• Zhou, X. & Zwanzig, M. (2025): Simulation der Wiederbewaldungsdynamik auf Störungsflächen im Klimawandel. Workshop des AK Waldökologie der GfÖ, 22 – 24 September 2025, Eisenach.
• Putzenlechner, B., Grieger, S., Ramin, L., Czech, C., Lehmann, T., Kappas, M., Koal, P. (2025): Post-disturbance treatment effects on vegetation recovery in forests of Central Germany from 3 years of UAV and satellite remote sensing. ESA Living Planet Symposium, 23 – 27 June 2025, Wien, Österreich.
• Grieger, S., Kappas, M., Karel, S., Koal, P., Koukal, T., Löw, M., Zwanzig, M., Putzenlechner, B. (2025): Assessing Effects of Forest Disturbance on Land Surface Temperature in Low Mountain Ranges of Central Germany Using Google Earth Engine and the Landsat Archive. ESA Living Planet Symposium, 23 – 27 June 2025, Wien, AT.
• Putzenlechner, B., Bässler, C., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Grieger, S., Huth, F., Koal, P., Peter, D., Steinebrunner, F., Thorn, S., Tischer, A., Xinying, Z., Zwanzig, M., Profft, I. (2023): Wegbereiter Wiederbewaldung – Regionales Flächenmanagement zur Entwicklung multifunktionaler Wälder auf gestörten Fichtenflächen (ResEt-Fi). Deutscher Kongress für Geographie (DKG), 20 – 23 September 2023, Frankfurt am Main.
• Grieger, S., Wyss, D., Koal, P., Profft, I., Blume, L., Putzenlechner, B. (2023): Towards an automated workflow for assessing effects of forest disturbance on land surface temperature in low mountain ranges of Central Germany using GEE and the Landsat archive. 5th Virtual Geoscience Conference, 20 – 22 September 2023, Dresden.
• Zwanzig, M., Brock, M., Zhou, X., Huth, F., Putzenlechner, B., Grieger, S., Tischer, A., Peter, D., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Steinebrunner, F., Bässler, C. Oechler, H., Thorn, S., Ebert, J., Koal, P., Profft, I. (2023): Reforestation under climate change: A supra-regional field trial in Thuringia/Germany to test different management options for the development of multifunctional forests on disturbed spruce areas.52nd Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 12 - 16 September 2023, Leipzig.
• Zhou, X. & Zwanzig, M. (2023): Simulation der Wiederbewaldungsdynamik gestörter Fichtenflächen unter dem Einfluss verschiedener Bewirtschaftungsmaßnahmen: Ausblick auf ein Teilvorhaben des Projekts ResEt-Fi.Forstwissenschaftliche Tagung 2023, 11 - 13 September 2023, Dresden.
• Zhou, X. & Zwanzig, M. (2023): Modelling how management options for disturbed spruce areas affect reforestation dynamics: a predictive ecology approach for a supra-regional field trial in Thuringia.9th European Conference on Ecological Modelling, 4 - 8 September 2023, Leipzig.

Talks

• Submitted: Grieger, S., Karel; S., Koal, P., Zwanzig, M., Putzenlechner, B. (2026): Landsat 9 and Skybee-1 for assessing effects of forest disturbance and management on LST and microclimate: A comparison. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 9 – 14 August 2026, Washington, D.C., USA.
• Ebert, J., Thorn, S. (2026): Partielles Belassen von Störungsflächen erhält Vogelbiodiversität nach Sanitärhieben. Deutscher Rat für Vogelschutz (DRV) Workshop „Wald – Zukunftsperspektiven im Vogelschutz“, 21 – 22 März 2026, Muhr am See.
• Zhou, X. & Zwanzig, M. (2025): Adaptive reforestation strategies for post-disturbance Norway spruce forests under climate change: insights from the iLand model.The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2025, 19 – 23 October 2025, Kashiwa, Japan.
• Grieger, S., Koal. P., Profft, I., Zwanzig, M., Putzenlechner, B. (2025): Fernerkundung zur Regionalisierung der Effekte praxisrelevanter Varianten des Schadflächenmanagements ehemaliger Fichtenflächen auf biophysikalische Parameter und Mikroklima.Forstwissenschaftliche Tagung 2025, 30 Sep - 2 Oct 2025, Freiburg.
• Ebert, J., Thorn, S. (2025): Partielles Belassen von Störungsflächen erhält Vogelbiodiversität nach Sanitärhieben. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Ornithologischen Gesellschaft (DOG), 17 – 21 September 2025, Erfurt.
• Ebert, J., Thorn, S. (2025): Effects of high stump retention and partially cleared stands on bird and saproxylic beetle diversity after bark beetle outbreak. 54rd Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), 01 – 05 September 2025, Würzburg.
• Zwanzig, M., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Christ, J., van der Maaten, E. (2024): A developmental perspective on phenotypic plasticity of tree xylem traits: how life history trajectories in the species’ morphospace define opportunities and risks for tree acclimatization.53rd Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 9 - 13 September 2024, Freising.
• Zhou, X., Huth, F., Seidl, R., Rammer, W., Wehnert, A., Profft, I., Berger, U., Tischer, A., Zwanzig, M. (2024): Enhancing reforestation success through scale-adapted spatiotemporal coordination of natural and artificial regeneration: insights from simulation experiments with the iLand model.53rd Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 9 - 13 September 2024, Freising.
• Putzenlechner, B., Grieger, S., Koal, P., Karel, S., Ramin, L., Blume, L., Lehmann, T., Kappas, M., Profft, I. (2024): Biogeophysical Effects of Forest Cover Loss and the Role of Forest Management: Multi-scale Optical and Thermal Monitoring of Disturbance Plots in Central Germany. EARSeL Symposium, 17 – 20 June 2024, Manchester, UK.
• Grieger, S., Blume, L., Kappas, M., Karel, S., Koal, P., Putzenlechner, B. (2024): Assessing Effects of Forest Disturbance on Land Surface Temperature in Low Mountain Ranges of Central Germany using GEE and the Landsat Archive. EARSeL Symposium, 17 – 20 June 2024, Manchester, UK.
• Putzenlechner, B., Koal, P., Grieger, S., George, S., Blume, L., Kappas, M., Lehmann, T., Profft, I. (2023): Integrated remote sensing of management variants on forest disturbance plots in Central Germany: Implications for microclimate and soil conditions. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie (DKG), 20 – 23 September 2023, Frankfurt am Main.

Abschlussarbeiten

• Großgott, H. (2025).  Impact of Fine Woody Debris Enrichment on Vegetation and Microclimate in Managed Post-Disturbance Areas after Spruce Dieback [Master thesis, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena]
• Schmidle, L. (2025). Vergleichende Vegetationsaufnahmen in der Region Neuhaus: Der Einfluss verschiedener Managementvarianten auf gestörte Fichtenflächen [Bachelorarbeit, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena]
• Luding, N. (2024). Einfluss von Mikrohabitaten auf die Bodenfeuchte und die kleinräumigen Standortbedingungen von Pflanzen [Bachelorarbeit, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena]
• Probst, J. (2025). Effects of microclimate and fungal diversity on deadwood decomposition of four tree species in disturbed spruce stands” [B.Sc., Universität Bayreuth]
• Wolf, M. (2025). Effects of forest dieback and deadwood removal on microbial diversity and decomposition dynamics of carrion and dung in temperate spruce forest ecosystems [B.Sc., Universität Bayreuth]
• Werner, K. (2025). Pilzfruchtkörpervielfalt in gestörten Fichtenbeständen im Thüringer Schiefergebirge: Auswirkungen verschiedener Bewirtschaftungsoptionen [B.Sc., Universität Bayreuth]