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The International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests) was launched in 1985 under the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (Air Convention, formerly CLRTAP) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
ICP Forests monitors forest condition at two monitoring intensity levels:
The Level I monitoring is based on 5706 observation plots (as at 2023) on a systematic transnational grid of 16 x 16 km throughout Europe and beyond to gain insight into the geographic and temporal variations in forest condition.
The Level II intensive monitoring comprises 640 plots (as at 2022) in selected forest ecosystems with the aim to clarify cause-effect relationships.
At present 42 countries in Europe and beyond participate in ICP Forests. All data are available upon request.
On 25 September 2024, 13:00 - 13:45 CET, our Chairman Marco Ferretti will share his experience of the challenges of leading the ICP Forests network (among other topics) as part of the CLEANFOREST interview series.
The interview series is hosted by the COST Young Researchers Community. It is open to all interested researchers and practitioners.
The registration link to listen to the interview and further information can be found here:
https://cleanforest.eu/news/fifth-interview-energizing-coffee-with-marco/
Please sign up via the registration link BEFORE the interview.
Posted by Michelle Dörner on September 19, 2024 at 10:30
The 9th Meeting of the Heads of the Laboratories will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 17 to 19 September 2024.…
ContinuePosted by Michelle Dörner on August 9, 2024 at 13:17
Earlier this year, a group of scientists from our ICP Forests Community discussed the EU proposal for a forest monitoring framework in a position paper published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121875).
Based on this article, Stefan Fleck, Arthur Gessler, Marco Ferretti and Michèle Kaennel Dobbertin have produced a short text in German, English and French and made it available on…
ContinuePosted by Michelle Dörner on July 18, 2024 at 10:34
At the IUFRO in Stockholm, some ICP Forests members presented their research and thus contributed to the international discourse on forests and society towards 2050.
Among others, ICP Forests chaired a thematic session with eight oral and nine poster presentations on trends and implications of nitrogen deposition on forest ecosystem services in a changing climate. The session included presentations focusing on the overall spatial and temporal trends (mainly across Europe) as well as presentations in which researchers focused on specific case studies.
In the oral session, Dr. Arne Verstraeten showed, with the exception of a limited number of plots, a steady but slow decline of the nitrogen deposition across the ICP Forests Level II network in Europe. Dr. Peter Waldner compared the critical limits for nitrate leaching and soil…
ContinuePosted by Michelle Dörner on July 9, 2024 at 13:07
If you attend the IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm next week, we would like to invite you to:
(1) Tuesday, 25 June, 18:15 (CEST): ICP Forests group photo: Please meet on Tuesday, 25 June, at 18:15 in front of Victoria Hall.
(2) Thursday, June 27, 16:00 - 18:00 (CEST: ICP Forests session on "Nitrogen Depositions in a changing climate: Trends and Implications on Forest Ecosystem Services" T1.23
(3) Friday, June 28, 12:30 - 13:15 (CEST), Poster Stand 8: ICP Forests poster session on "Nitrogen Depositions in a changing climate: Trends and Implications on Forest Ecosystem Services" [Poster session 1] - T1.23
(4) Friday, June 28, 13:30 - 14:20 (CEST): Short presentation by Marco Ferretti on "The new age of forest monitoring: A common European forest monitoring…
Posted by Alexa Michel on June 21, 2024 at 15:00
Next year, ICP Forests celebrates its 40th anniversary. The PCC is pleased to announce that the Anniversary FORECOMON Conference as well as the Task Force Meeting will be held in Dresden, Germany, 19-23 May, 2025.
The motto of the FORECOMON will be “On the pulse of European Forests: 40 years of forest monitoring – from air pollution to climate change”. As part of the conference, there will be an excursion to the Ore Mountains.
We are happy to welcome researchers, experts and politicians to Dresden next year!
More information will follow.
Photo: Michelle Dörner
Posted by Michelle Dörner on June 19, 2024 at 13:30
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