Monitoring for Resilient Forests - Needs, Gaps, and Way Ahead Ecology of Environmental Change

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Forests are exposed to multiple global change drivers, which can constrain their ability to continue providing several ecosystem services (including climate change mitigation). Assessing responses - and underlined mechanisms - at the whole ecosystem scale (including both soil and tree and their interactions) is paramount for a holistic understanding of forest response to global change.

Programme:

Forest monitoring: global assessment and policy perspectives

09h10-09h30 Regine Roncucci (EU Affairs Manager, European Parliament Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’)
09h30-09h50 Anssi Pekkarinen (FAO), Roman Michalak (UNECE)

Building synergies among different monitoring initiatives

10h00-10h15 Marco Ferretti (WSL, Switzerland – ICP Forests)
10h15-10h30 Simone Sabbatini (CMCC, Italy – ICOS)
10h30-10h45 Michael Mirtl (UFZ, Germany – eLTER)
11h20-11h35 Ruben Valbuena (SLU, Sweden – FORWARDS)
11h35-11h50 Tiina Törmänen (Luke, Finland – Benchmarks and Holisoils)

Linking ground-based monitoring and remote sensing to support policy

12h00-12h15 Philippe Cias (IPSL, France)
12h15-12h30 Marta Galvagno (ARPA Valle d’Aosta, Italy)
12h30-12h45 Pedro Pinho (CE3C, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
13h00-13h15 Closing the morning session

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