The Chairman of ICP Forests and the team at the Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests wish all members and friends of ICP Forests

a happy holiday season and all the best in the new year.

We would like to specifically express again our sincere gratitude to everyone involved in the ICP Forests and especially to the participating countries for their ongoing commitment and co-operation in forest ecosystem monitoring across the UNECE region. Thank you!

The new report on "Review and revision of empirical critical loads of nitrogen for Europe" by the Coordination Centre for Effects of ICP Modelling and Mapping was published in late autumn. Several scientists and experts of the different ICPs were involved, including colleagues from ICP Forests. It features a 86 pages long chapter on "Effects of nitrogen deposition on forests and other wooded land" and provides updated numbers for empirical critical loads for different forests. Considering the new insights and literature of the last 10 years, several empirical critical loads were downsized, thus, indicating a higher sensitivity to N loads than supposed in the former report of 2011.

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Press release from the Coordination Centre for Effects…

Deadline for submitting manuscripts for the Plants Special Issue on "Advances in Forest Ecophysiology: Stress Response and Ecophysiological Indicators of Tree Vitality" is 31 October 2022.

Guest editor: Nenad Potočić, Chair of the ICP Forests Expert Panel on Crown Condition and Damage Causes

More information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/plants/special_issues/forest_ecophysiology

Biodiversa+ is a wide co-funded biodiversity partnership for research on biodiversity, policy and society.

The 2022-2023 Call has a clear acronym: "BiodivMon" open to research proposals on "Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society" covering terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments.

Transnational research projects (3-yrs) will address:

(1) Innovation and harmonisation of methods and tools for the collection and management of biodiversity monitoring data

(2) Addressing knowledge gaps on biodiversity status, dynamics, and trends to reverse biodiversity loss

(3) Making use of available biodiversity monitoring data

General target is: helping to better characterize, understand, report on the state and trends of biodiversity.

Eligible…

Leaf browning on deciduous broadleaved forest vegetation became visible already in August over several slopes in Ticino (Switzerland) and northern Italy (left), and even on the Mediterranean vegetation along the coast of Tuscany (central Italy) (right). It will be interesting to see the results of the 2022 Level I survey.

The PCC is happy to announce that the ICP Forests 2022 Technical Report and the Online Supplement are now available online and can be downloaded from the ICP Forests website.

Printed copies will be available soon.