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…

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…

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…

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…