Dr. Timo Gebhardt

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since 2022	PostDoctoral Researcher at the Assistant Professorship of Forest and Agroforest Systems, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
2020-2022	PostDoctoral Researcher at the Professorship of Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions, Group of Ecophysiology of Plants (TUM)
2019-2020	PostDoctoral Researcher at the Professorship of Ecophysiology of Plants (TUM)
2018-2019	PostDoctoral Researcher, Group of Forest Ecology for Temperate Zones (Georg August University of Göttingen) and the Professorship of Ecophysiology of Plants (TUM)
2008-2018	Doctoral student , Group of Forest Management and Forest Ecology for Temperate Zones, Georg-August-University of Göttingen, (Dissertation title: „ Picea abies and climate change- does increasing thinning intensity prevent drought stress”)
2002-2008	Dipl. Ing. silv. Univ., M.Sc. of Forestry, (Thesis title: „13C/12C- Markierung von CO2 im Boden-Methodenentwicklung und Nachweis im CO2-Efflux des Stammes an Picea abies“)

Publications

Gebhardt T, Hesse B, Hikino K, Kolovrat K, Hafner B, Grams T, Häberle K (2023) Repeated summer drought changes the radial xylem sap flow profile in mature Norway spruce but not European beech. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 329: 109285. 10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109285

Hesse B, Gebhardt T, Hafner B, Hikino K, Reitsam A., Gigl M., Dawid C, Häberle K, Grams, T (2023). Physiological recovery of tree water relations upon drought release—response of mature beech and spruce after five years of recurrent summer drought. Tree Physiology, 43(4), 522–538. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpac135

Hesse B D, Hikino K, Gebhardt T, Buchhart C, Dervischi V, Goisser M, Pretzsch H, Häberle K, Grams T E E (2024). Acclimation of mature spruce and beech to five years of repeated summer drought – The role of stomatal conductance and leaf area adjustment for
water use. Science of the Total Environment, 951, 175805, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175805

Hikino, K., Hesse, B. D., Gebhardt, T., Hafner, B. D., Buchhart, C., Baumgarten, M., Häberle, K. ‐H., & Grams, T. E. E. (2025). Drought legacy in mature spruce alleviates physiological stress during recurrent drought. Plant Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70039