We are very happy and proud to announce that yesterday evening the study on "Environment and host as large-scale controls of ectomycorrhizal fungi“ by Sietse van der Linde and others  (2018) was published in Nature. Please, have a look at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0189-9. 

This important publication is based on a close cooperation between the Imperial College London and ICP Forests partners, bringing together methods of specialists on fungi and mycorrhizas and data and experience of transcontinental air pollution monitoring. As a major result, the study recommends a down-ward adjustment of critical loads for eutrophying nitrogen for forests in order to keep the balance between mycorrhizal fungi and forest trees…

Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818; CODEN: DIVEC6) is an open access journal on the science of biodiversity published quarterly online by MDPI.

They encourage researchers to send their manuscript on the following topics:

• Empirical studies on the effects emerging air pollutants on lichen communities;
• Investigating environmental factors, as covariates of lichen diversity;
• Temporal and spatial patterns of lichen diversity as a function of disturbances;
• Monitoring climate change by means of lichen diversity shifts;
• Effects of forest management on lichen communities and populations;
• The use of lichen functional traits in biomonitoring;
• Theoretical aspects related to the quantification and to the interpretation of lichen diversity.…

Dear colleagues,

the chair of ICP Forests, Marco Ferretti, and the PCC would like to express their gratitude to the Latvian State Forest Research Institute “Silava” and the Joint Stock Company “Latvia’s State Forests” for hosting the 7th ICP Forests Scientific Conference! Further, we thank the Scientific Committee, the Programme Committee and, especially, Karin Hansen, the chair of the committees, for their dedicated work! Finally and particularly, we cordially thank all presenters for their interesting contributions making this event a great success!

The conference featured 29 oral presentations and 22 posters that are partly available at…

Dear ICP Forests Community,

as a Programme under the Air Convention (CLRTAP) our work has preliminarily to be seen within the context of the Convention work. In order to facilitate access to key documents elaborated by the Working Group on Effects (WGE) and adopted by the Executive Body of the Convention here the link to the most recent workplan is given:

http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/documents/2018/Air/ece.eb.air.140.add.1-Final-Advance_copy.pdf

Best regards

Walter