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Square in the Geneva suburb of Lancy: the trial took place on these eight plane trees. (Photo: Christoph Bachofen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the sun is blazing, urban trees cool the environment by evaporating water through their leaves. In view of the expected increase in heatwaves, as predicted by climate models, they make a decisive contribution to keeping cities liveable. However, trees also reach their limits at some point: if leaf temperatures rise above 30 to 35 \u00b0C, photosynthesis no longer works - the leaf pores close to prevent water loss.<\/p>\n

A research team from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and EPFL has now specifically investigated how plane trees behave under extreme conditions - with surprising results: even at temperatures above 39 \u00b0C, the trees continued to evaporate much more water than expected and thus effectively cooled the environment. Study leader Christoph Bachofen and his team installed measuring devices on eight plane trees in the Geneva suburb of Lancy in spring 2023. The sensors recorded the sap flow in the trunks, which allowed conclusions to be drawn about the amount of water evaporated and thus the cooling capacity. That summer of all summers, Geneva experienced two heatwaves with record temperatures of up to almost 40 \u00b0C.<\/p>\n

How trees react to extreme conditions<\/h3>\n

Contrary to expectations, the trees did not stop their water flow - on the contrary: as the heat increased, it even increased, even though the air was extremely dry at the same time. \"Obviously, we have not yet fully understood how trees react to extreme conditions,\" explains Bachofen. The researchers suspect that deep-seated water reserves in the soil helped the plane trees, among other things.<\/p>\n

The extent of the water flow was surprising and raises important questions: If trees react differently to heat than previously thought, predictions of their cooling effect will also be inaccurate- and the models used to predict future heat distribution in cities would be unreliable.<\/p>\n

The fact that trees evaporate a lot of water even in extreme heat is good news for the urban climate. \"Days with temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius are becoming more frequent,\" says Bachofen. The next important step for research is now to find out how effectively other tree species also transpire under extreme heat. This would make it possible to develop recommendations as to which species can cope not only with air pollution and road salt, but also with extreme heat. After all, cooling capacity is just one of the many tasks that urban trees perform - but it will become increasingly important in the future.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wenn die Sonne brennt, k\u00fchlen Stadtb\u00e4ume die Umgebung, indem sie Wasser \u00fcber ihre Bl\u00e4tter verdunsten. Angesichts der zu erwartenden Zunahme von Hitzewellen, wie Klimamodelle vorhersagen, tragen sie entscheidend dazu bei, St\u00e4dte lebenswert zu halten. B\u00e4ume stossen jedoch irgendwann auch an ihre Grenzen: Steigen die Blatttemperaturen \u00fcber 30 bis 35 \u00b0C, funktioniert die Fotosynthese nicht mehr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":24419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3314],"tags":[6600,6601,6599],"class_list":["post-24418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-safety","tag-baeume","tag-beschattung","tag-extremhitze"],"acf":[],"hkrextid":null,"publication":null,"issue":null,"workflow":null,"startPage":null,"spitzmarke":null,"_posts_by_tag_page_fields":null,"_at_widget":null,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"3314","_yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input":null,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":null,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":null,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":null,"enclosure":null,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":null,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":null,"_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":null,"_wp_old_slug":null,"_yoast_wpseo_title":null,"_yoast_wpseo_canonical":null,"yoast_head":"\nStadtb\u00e4ume k\u00fchlen auch bei extremer Hitze - 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