In this blog post, author Sofia Etzold – a researcher at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape – discusses the research article Decreasing water availability reduces productivity in Swiss forests along an altitudinal gradient, which was recently published in Functional Ecology. Sofia explores whether emerging trends in forest productivity can already be linked to climatic changes, and shares the challenges of … Continue reading Sofia Etzold | The slow fade of forest vitality — What decades of monitoring reveal