Fundamental controls of wood formation processes on the size and resilience of the future forest carbon sink

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• Firstly
• I will use tree ring and national forest inventory data to create global maps of growth increment over the past 10 years globally, vital for global model validation. Secondly
• I will use cell-scale wood formation models and Bayesian calibration to explore different hypotheses of woody growth. This also creates a setup for simulating wood quality and quantity. 
Thirdly, with data and insights from above
• I will integrate wood formation into a DGVM. Finally
• I will evaluate this against the collected data, and study wood formation´s impacts of mortality and plant traits such as wood density on a global scale.Incorporating wood formation into a DGVM means that ring width and density will vary based on environmental factors and tree status. This enhances the realism of modelling the ecosystem´s carbon capture ability and resilience to local climate conditions. This project contributes to better understanding of vegetation carbon-pools, wood quality, and ecosystem resilience.