Four days, 18 deep soil profiles down to a depth of three meters, and countless xylem samples—that's the result of the field campaign in France that took place this week as part of the sTREssE project “Understanding the effect of belowground hydrological processes and inter-individual interactions on tree water stress using coupled ecohydrological–plant hydraulic modeling,” a German-French collaboration (with INRAE - Avignon and INRA - Agroparistech). Doctoral students Ramona Riedel and Gregor Rickert, researchers from the IGÖ's Isodrones and TEE groups, spent the entire week in the Vosges mountains investigating stress effects depending on slope location and vegetation composition. As a reward, they enjoyed good food and certainly had a lot of fun, as the photos suggest.
