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ICP Forests
Planned activities
27th Meeting of the Task Force
15-19 May 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark
69 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 WGE
Agreement: Contributions to Medium-term Workplan in 2012
Evaluation: Co-operation with expired EU LIFE+ project
„Further development and implementation of an EU-level forest monitoring“
(FutMon)
Plans for time after FutMon
Monitoring, database
Data analyses, publications
New LIFE-proposal
ICP Forests
Planned activities
FutMon
Revision of monitoring system
Large-scale (Level I)
Forest ecosystem scale (Level II)
Level I
Merging 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 Forests
Planned activities
FutMon
Revision of the monitoring system
Large-scale (Level I)
Forest ecosystem scale (Level II)
Level II
From previous 850 ICP Forests Level II plots
200 Level II Standard Plots
100 Level II Core Plots
200 Standard Plots
Crown 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 Forests
Planned activities
FutMon
Revision of the monitoring system
Large-scale (Level I)
Forest ecosystem scale (Level II)
Level II
From previous 850 ICP Forests Level II plots
200 Level II Standard Plots
100 Level II Core Plots
100 core plots plots
Surveys 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 Forests
Planned activities
Benefits of the revision
More information per plot
Ecosystem scale (Level II)
Better insight into cause-effect relationships
Modelling approaches
Large scale (Level I)
More comprehensive description of variation
Possibility of up-scaling from ecosystem to large scale
Management of the monitoring data?
ICP Forests
Planned 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 Forests
Planned activities
Data base management
Under ICP Forests
FutMon data
taken over
merged with
ICP Forests data
Data base management
continued
Data analyses fostered
ICP Forests
Planned activities
Data analyses (short term)
Proposals for 2012 Medium Term Workplan
Report 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 Forests
Planned activities
Data analyses (long term)
Planned
Programme Co-ordinating Centre (PCC)
Programme Coordinating Group (PCG)
Task Force
Workshop on modelling
24-25 October 2011
at vTI
in Hamburg, Germany
PCG meeting
25-26 October 2011
Preparation of decisions by the Task Force
Future monitoring
Future data analyses
Financing
ICP Forests
Planned activities
Financing
FutMon
Budget:
EU-co-financing:
expired June 2011
€ 34 Mio
€ 16 Mio
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 Forests
Planned 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 Forests
Planned activities
Reaction of ICP Forests
Reasoning: Need for
Integration of
Large-scale monitoring (NFI, Level I)
Forest ecosystem monitoring (Level II)
Effects-oriented approach
Modelling and upscaling
Lobbying
Co-operation with devoted MEP
Workshop in Brussels with MEP
Participation in ad hoc WG of SFC of EC
Policy briefs