Workshop

Rise of Atmospheric Drought
Integrating Across Scales and Disciplines to Boost Plant Resilience

December 15, 2023, 8:30–17:00

Organized by

Walid Sadok
Senior Fellow 2023–2024

This workshop seeks to bring together prominent experts to identify ways to integrate knowledge across scales and disciplines to improve plant adaptation towards drought. The speakers will represent a range of key disciplines, including molecular biology, crop physiology, plant breeding, plant ecology, soil physics and climate science. The main focus of this workshop is on the effects of global atmospheric drying, a phenomenon that has major implications on plant productivity. The effects of rising atmospheric drying at different organizational scales, from the gene to the landscape will be covered by topical presentations followed by open and long-form discussions. These will attempt to identify critical knowledge gaps and potential avenues to improve plant resilience in agricultural and ecological contexts, in order to ensure sustainable food systems and ecosystems.

Program

08:50	Opening and welcome remarks Walid Sadok & Andrea Carminati
09:00	Direct and Indirect Drought Effects on Forest Dynamics And Functioning Andreas Rigling
09:30	Effects of Soil Drought and VPD on Grasslands and Forests –What We Learned From the Swiss FluxNet Liliana Scapucci
10:00	Coffee break
10:30	Traits Mediating Vpd Effects on Crop Yields Walid Sadok
11:00	Starch Metabolism in Stomatal Guard Cells Diana Santelia
11:30	Standing lunch & student poster session with students of the course Soil Plant Water Relations
13:00	Potential Phenotyping Methods To Improve Droughttolerance of Swiss Wheat Andreas Hund & Achim Walter
14:00	Beech Trees in Central Valais Rely on Water Resources From Very Deep Soil Layers Lorenz Walthert
14:30	Soil Water Fluxes in Forest Ecosystems: Briding Scales Through Isotope Enabled Modelling Katrin Meusburger & Fabian Bernhard
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Global Influence of Soil Texture On Ecosystem Water Limitation Fabian Wankmüller
16:00	Stable Isotopes as Tools To Assess Tree Functioning Arthur Gessler
16:30	Summary and Outlook

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Integrating Across Scales and Disciplines to Boost Plant Resilience

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Opening and welcome remarks

Direct and Indirect Drought Effects on Forest Dynamics And Functioning

Effects of Soil Drought and VPD on Grasslands and Forests
–What We Learned From the Swiss FluxNet

Coffee break

Traits Mediating Vpd Effects on Crop Yields

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Direct and Indirect Drought Effects on Forest Dynamics And Functioning

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Traits Mediating Vpd Effects on Crop Yields

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Soil Water Fluxes in Forest Ecosystems: Briding ScalesThrough Isotope Enabled Modelling

Coffee break

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Summary and Outlook

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