icp forests planned activities 27th meeting of the task force 15-19 may 2011 in copenhagen, denmark...
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ICP ForestsPlanned activities
27th Meeting of the Task Force
15-19 May 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark69 experts from 27 countries, incl.
ICP Modelling and Mapping (Anne-Christine Le Gall)ICP Integrated Monitoring (Lars Lundin)ICP Vegetation (Sabine Braun)
Adoption: Report for submission to WGEAgreement: Contributions to Medium-term Workplan in 2012Evaluation: Co-operation with expired EU LIFE+ project„Further development and implementation of an EU-level forest monitoring“(FutMon)Plans for time after FutMon
Monitoring, databaseData analyses, publicationsNew LIFE-proposal
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
FutMon
Revision of monitoring systemLarge-scale (Level I)Forest ecosystem scale (Level II)
Level IMerging of Level I and NFI plots
Possibility to analyse on the same plots: forest health (crown condition, damage factors) damaging agents (insects, fungi, dought, storm etc.) forest soil condition (carbon pools) forest growth (carbon pools) ground vegetation (biodiversity)
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
FutMon
Revision of the monitoring systemLarge-scale (Level I)Forest ecosystem scale (Level II)
Level IIFrom previous 850 ICP Forests Level II plots
200 Level II Standard Plots100 Level II Core Plots
200 Standard PlotsCrown condition (annually)Foliar chemistry (every 2 years)Tree growth (every 5 years)Ground vegetation (every 5 years)Soil condition (every 10 years)Deposition (continuously)Meteorology (continuously)
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
FutMon
Revision of the monitoring systemLarge-scale (Level I)Forest ecosystem scale (Level II)
Level IIFrom previous 850 ICP Forests Level II plots
200 Level II Standard Plots100 Level II Core Plots
100 core plots plotsSurveys of the standard plots Litterfall (continuously)Phenology (several times each year)Ambient air quality (continuously)Ozone injury (continuously)Soil solution (continuously)Soil water (continuously)
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
Benefits of the revision
More information per plotEcosystem scale (Level II)
Better insight into cause-effect relationshipsModelling approaches
Large scale (Level I)More comprehensive description of variationPossibility of up-scaling from ecosystem to large scale
Management of the monitoring data?
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
Data base management
Under FutMon Establishment of database
management system Online data submission Data validation
automated (validation reports to data providers)
by experts (in bilateral contacts with data providers)
Online data access for authorised users
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
Data base management
Under ICP Forests FutMon data
taken over merged with
ICP Forests data Data base management
continued Data analyses fostered
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
Data analyses (short term)
Proposals for 2012 Medium Term WorkplanReport on forest soil condition at the European-wide scale (update)Report on relationships between exceedance of critical limits and forest vegetation response (update)Report on the development of forest biodiversity under different deposition scenarios (update)Epiphytic lichen diversity in relation to atmospheric deposition
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
Data analyses (long term)
PlannedProgramme Co-ordinating Centre (PCC)Programme Coordinating Group (PCG)Task Force
Workshop on modelling24-25 October 2011at vTIin Hamburg, Germany
PCG meeting25-26 October 2011Preparation of decisions by the Task Force
Future monitoringFuture data analysesFinancing
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
Financing
FutMon Budget: € 34 Mio EU-co-financing: € 16 Mio expired June 2011
In 2011/12: Rely on resources Countries vTI
For 2012-2016: Proposal of FutMon follow-up project Environmental Forest Monitoring (EnForMon)
Chances for EnForMon grant?
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
Chance for EnForMon grant
European Commission (DG Env) Plans forest monitoring
aiming at large-scale representative information based on National Forest Inventoires (NFIs) (maybe in co-operation with ICP Forests at Level I?)
Considers Level II as research politically less relevant
(lacking large-scale representativeness)
ICP ForestsPlanned activities
Reaction of ICP Forests
Reasoning: Need forIntegration of
Large-scale monitoring (NFI, Level I)Forest ecosystem monitoring (Level II)
Effects-oriented approachModelling and upscaling
LobbyingCo-operation with devoted MEPWorkshop in Brussels with MEPParticipation in ad hoc WG of SFC of ECPolicy briefs