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…

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…

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

Last week, the FORECOMON Conference was successfully held in Prague, Czechia. The conference motto was “Monitoring for future forests”.  

On Tuesday, June 11, the participants discussed research results on the influence of air pollution and extreme weather events on long-term processes in forest ecosystems. The knowledge exchange about new monitoring approaches to support resilient forests was also on the agenda.

On Wednesday, 12 June, the focus of the FORECOMON was on an issue that has affected many forest areas in Europe suffering from drough under climate change: bark beetles. Among other things, the participants visited recent extensive clearings caused by bark beetle infestations in the area of the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands and learnt about the methods applied by local foresters in cooperation with the Forestry and Game Management Research Institute for timely reforestation.…

June 23, 2024 to June 29, 2024 – Stockholm, Sweden

The IUFRO WORLD CONGRESS, one of the largest global forest events, will take place in Stockholm in June under the theme Forests and Society Towards 2050. The congress is organized by The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the City of Stockholm in close collaboration with the Nordic and Baltic partners.

We are pleased that some of the ICP Forests members will participate with presentations and posters and also chair a session on “Nitrogen deposition in a changing climate: Trends and Implications on Forest Ecosystem Services”.

• When? – June 27, 2024 // 4-6pm
• Where? – Room 3

The session will be chaired by our colleagues Nathalie Cools (INBO), Arne…