The FOR research group investigates major trends in global forests, ecology and functioning of forest ecosystems, transition to sustainable forest management, biophysical and economic assessment of ecosystem functions and services, impact of global changes on the forest, forestry and forest sector within the paradigm of co-evolution of humanity and nature.
The FOR group is developing and running several models, including Global Forest Model (G4M) , Biogeochemical model with management (BGC-MAN), wildfire model (FLAM), Full and Verified Carbon Account of Forest. The focus of the research is on development of the integrated modeling cluster, including various management options, climate change impacts and disturbances. Besides own results on carbon stock, increment and harvest potential, the models provide inputs to other CLR and ESM models, incl. GLOBIOM, BeWhere, etc.
FOR has recently contributed to various international studies on climate and land-use change, including assessment of the impact of forests on the Earth System; strategy and science plans of a number of international initiatives (PEEX, NEFI) etc.
FOR 2019 YSSP students
Choi, Yuyoung
Research Assistant
Ecosystems Services and Management +43(0) 2236 807 714
CHEZ Project
Hu, Xikun
Research Assistant
Ecosystems Services and Management
+43(0) 2236 807 656
Ovsepyan, Lilit
Research Assistant
Ecosystems Services and Management +43(0) 2236 807 648
IMGAR Project
Smith, Gabriel
Research Assistant
Ecosystems Services and Management +43(0) 2236 807 713
Schulze, Katharina
Research Assistant
Ecosystems Services and Management
+43(0) 2236 807 651
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Phone: (+43 2236) 807 0 Fax:(+43 2236) 71 313