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Overview

Volodymyr Trotsiuk is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research spans several interconnected areas within environmental science, focusing extensively on forest ecology, plant water relations, and the impact of climate on forest productivity.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests (2022, Communications Biology)
  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model-data fusion (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Historical Disturbances Determine Current Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity of Saproxylic Beetle Communities in Temperate Primary Forests (2020, Ecosystems)
  • Accuracy, realism and general applicability of European forest models (2022, Global Change Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Volodymyr Trotsiuk include Miroslav Svoboda, Vojtěch Čada, Pavel Janda, Martin Mikoláš, and Marcus Schaub. These collaborations have contributed to a focused body of work across multiple facets of forest and environmental science.

Volodymyr Trotsiuk publishes regularly in several venues, most notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with emphasis on these subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Insect Science
  • Plant Science

Key research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest Management and Policy

Best Publications

  • Forest disturbances under climate change

    Rupert Seidl;Dominik Thom;Markus Kautz;Dario Martin-Benito;Dario Martin-Benito

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

    Edward R. Cook;Richard Seager;Yochanan Kushnir;Keith R. Briffa

  • A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

    Maxime Cailleret;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Elisabeth M. R. Robert;Lucía Desoto

  • Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests

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  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests

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  • Age structure and disturbance dynamics of the relic virgin beech forest Uholka (Ukrainian Carpathians)

    Volodymyr Trotsiuk;Volodymyr Trotsiuk;Martina L. Hobi;Martina L. Hobi;Brigitte Commarmot

  • Age, competition, disturbance and elevation effects on tree and stand growth response of primary Picea abies forest to climate

    Irantzu Primicia;Jesús Julio Camarero;Pavel Janda;Vojtĕch Čada

  • Early-warning signals of individual tree mortality based on annual radial growth

    Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Vasilis Dakos;Steven Jansen;Elisabeth M.R. Robert;Elisabeth M.R. Robert

  • The historical disturbance regime of mountain Norway spruce forests in the Western Carpathians and its influence on current forest structure and composition.

    Pavel Janda;Volodymyr Trotsiuk;Martin Mikoláš;Radek Bače

  • Landscape‐level variability in historical disturbance in primary Picea abies mountain forests of the Eastern Carpathians, Romania

    Miroslav Svoboda;Pavel Janda;Radek Bače;Shawn Fraver

  • When a tree dies in the forest: Scaling climate-driven tree mortality to ecosystem water and carbon fluxes

    William R. L. Anderegg;Jordi Martinez-Vilalta;Maxime Cailleret;Jesus Julio Camarero

  • Contrasting effects of environmental change on the radial growth of co-occurring beech and fir trees across Europe.

    Michal Bosela;Martin Lukac;Daniele Castagneri;Róbert Sedmák

  • More ways than one: Mixed-severity disturbance regimes foster structural complexity via multiple developmental pathways

    Garrett W. Meigs;Robert C. Morrissey;Radek Bače;Oleh Chaskovskyy

  • A mixed severity disturbance regime in the primary Picea abies (L.) Karst. forests of the Ukrainian Carpathians

    Volodymyr Trotsiuk;Volodymyr Trotsiuk;Miroslav Svoboda;Pavel Janda;Martin Mikolas

  • Large‐scale disturbance legacies and the climate sensitivity of primary Picea abies forests

    Jonathan S. Schurman;Volodymyr Trotsiuk;Radek Bače;Vojtěch Čada

  • Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model─data fusion

    Volodymyr Trotsiuk;Florian Hartig;Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst

  • Ecosystem dynamics and management after forest die-off: a global synthesis with conceptual state-and-transition models

    Richard C. Cobb;Katinka X. Ruthrof;Katinka X. Ruthrof;David D. Breshears;Francisco Lloret

  • The climatic drivers of primary Picea forest growth along the Carpathian arc are changing under rising temperatures

    Jonathan S. Schurman;Flurin Babst;Jesper Björklund;Jesper Björklund;Miloš Rydval

  • Primary forest distribution and representation in a Central European landscape: Results of a large-scale field-based census

    Martin Mikoláš;Karol Ujházy;Marián Jasík;Michal Wiezik

  • Accuracy, realism and general applicability of European forest models

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  • A Combined Tree Ring and Vegetation Model Assessment of European Forest Growth Sensitivity to Interannual Climate Variability

    S. Klesse;S. Klesse;S. Klesse;F. Babst;F. Babst;F. Babst;S. Lienert;S. Lienert;R. Spahni;R. Spahni

  • Profile of tree-related microhabitats in European primary beech-dominated forests

    Daniel Kozák;Martin Mikoláš;Marek Svitok;Radek Bače

Frequent Co-Authors

Miroslav Svoboda
Miroslav Svoboda Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Thomas A. Nagel
Thomas A. Nagel University of Ljubljana
Flurin Babst
Flurin Babst University of Arizona
David I. Forrester
David I. Forrester Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Marcus Schaub
Marcus Schaub Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich
Thomas Kitzberger
Thomas Kitzberger National University of Comahue

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