Welcome to ICP Forests

A programme aiming at a comprehensive compilation of information on the condition of forests in Europe and beyond

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 in Europe at two monitoring intensity levels:

The Level I monitoring is based on around 6000 observation plots 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 around 500 plots in selected forest ecosystems with the aim to clarify cause-effect relationships.

At present 42 countries in Europe and beyond participate in ICP Forests.

Blog Posts

36th Task Force Meeting by video conference - 9th ICP Forests Scientific Conference postponed to June 2021

Because of the severe restrictions many countries have imposed to slow the spread of COVID-19, the organizing team of the 9th Scientific Conference and 36th Task Force Meeting of ICP Forests have decided

to hold the 36th ICP Forests Task Force Meeting as a video conference on 11-12 June 2020, and

to postpone the 9th ICP Forests Scientific Conference to 7-9 June 2021

with a post-conference excursion on 11-12 June 2021.

We deeply regret these circumstances but will be happy to welcome you to Zurich in 2021.

Best wishes
Alexa Michel
on behalf of the ICP Forests Programme Co-ordinating Centre

Posted by Alexa Michel on April 3, 2020 at 20:30

COVID-19 and the Scientific Conference & Task Force Meeting in Switzerland

Due to the current situation of the COVID-19 spreading over Europe, the Swiss organisers of this year's 9th Scientific Conference and 36th Task Force Meeting, scheduled for 8 - 13 June 2020, published the following statement (Link).

We thank the local organisers and the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL for the up-date and hope the situation across Europe relaxes soon!

Posted by Anne-Katrin Prescher on March 11, 2020 at 14:00

Cancellation of the Combined Expert Panel Meeting in Kutna Hora

Unfortunately, the Combined Expert Panel Meeting in Kutna Hora, Czechia, next week was cancelled due to the increased risk of infection with COVID-19.

This was decided by the EP chairs and co-chairs on Meteorology, Phenology and Leaf Area Index; Forest Growth; Ambient Air Quality; Biodiversity and Ground Vegetation, the local organizers and the PCC of ICP Forests after an intensive discussion in the last two days.

We want to express our sincere gratitude to our colleague Vít Sramek and the whole organising team from the Czech Forestry and Game Management Research Institute for all their hard work and efforts in preparing and organising this meeting!

Posted by Anne-Katrin Prescher on March 4, 2020 at 11:15

ICP Forests 2019 Technical Report now available online

We are happy to inform you that the ICP Forests 2019 Technical Report is now available online and can be downloaded from the ICP Forests website. Printed copies will be available soon.

With best wishes
Alexa Michel, Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests

Posted by Alexa Michel on February 27, 2020 at 12:25

Forum

Soil spectroscopy

Dear colleagues,as topicality is rising on application of soil spectroscopy for routine analysis by utilizing own created or shared spectral libraries, I am interested if someone could share their knowledge on instrumentation choice? Could someone…Continue

Started by Aldis Butlers Dec 19, 2019.

Choosing brands for some instruments 1 Reply

Dear colleagues,It is planned to purchase a new mill, Kjeldahl Steam Distillation System for N analysis and combined system to analyze pH, EC and alkalinity for water samples for my lab. 1. There are two mills in our lab. One of them is Retsch ZM200…Continue

Started by Rabia GUNHAN. Last reply by Robert Menegotto Apr 30, 2018.

 
 
 

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