Warmer springs lead to reduced plant growth in summer and autumn
Plants start growing earlier in the spring but contrary to popular belief, this results in considerably less photosynthesis throughout the following summer and autumn. This is shown in a study published by Nature from Wolfgang Buermann, Matthias Forkel, Andrew Richardson and colleagues.
(2018-10-03).
About
Matthias Forkel is an environmental scientist who uses satellite observations to study how climate affects ecosystems and vice versa. Thereby Matthias develops and applies remote sensing methods, global ecosystem models, and machine learning approaches. He is a PostDoc in the Climate and Environmental Remote Sensing Group at TU Wien.
News
July 2019 | I'm hiring a PhD candidate
I'm searching for a PhD candidate with experiences in optical or microwave remote sensing, data analysis (R or Python), and interest in vegetation-related questions. Working place will be the Technical University Dresden, Germany. Apply until 29. July 2019! Details: English | German
June 2019 | New publication
We show how changes in climate, human population and vegetation contribute to changes in global fire occurrence in a newly published paper.
May 2019 | Living Planet Symposium
Matthias will present Constraining Dynamic Global Vegetation Models With Multiple Satellite Observations at the Living Planet Symposium of the European Space Agency in Milan, Italy.
May 2019 | New papers in discussion
A new global long-term vegetation dataset from microwave satellites 1988-2018 now in discussion at Earth System Science Data.
Improving a global vegetation-fire model with satellite observations in discussions at Geoscientific Model Development.
In the media and outreach
Apr 2019 | Contribution to exhibition in museum
- Matthias gave an interview and contributed material for a new exhibition about "Plants and Humans" in the German Hygiene Museum Dresden.
- The exhisbition will be open from 19. April 2019 until 19. April 2020.
Oct 2018 | Media reports about our Nature study
- Our recent study published in Nature was covered by several media in Austria, Germany and the UK: Austrian TV, Der Standard, Die Presse, Bild der Wissenschaft, FAZ, The Scotsman
- A poem about our work.
- Matthias was also interviewed: With Shorter Winters, Plants Bloom Early and Die Young.
Jul 2016 | Greening of the Earth
- "Die Erde wird grüner" Matthias was interviewed about the greening of the Earth: VDI Nachrichten and fluter.
Family
Matthias Forkel is father of two small children. We are a German-Czech family in Austria = Europe. We spend our free time in our garden, at playgrounds in Vienna, or in forests around Vienna, in eastern Czechia, in the Zittau mountains, in Germany, or somewhere else in Europe.
Das Klima der Erde ...
... is a German website about basics of climatology for teachers and students. Matthias created and maintained the website until 2015.