Last November, the European Commission proposed a regulation to establish a coordinated monitoring framework for resilient forests using a combination of imagery from the European Union’s Copernicus…
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…
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Several researchers associated with ICP Forests were examining the extent to which the current draft of the EU forest monitoring proposal is in line with its intended objectives to support forest resilience under climate change in European forests. They stated that the EC proposal lacks the integration of some crucial and already existing resources and infrastructures and they then provide suggestions to help reconciling the proposal with its objectives and a more…
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The jEPM in Athens (and online) was a huge success! During four days, the experts exchanged their knowledge on the topics tree growth, phenology, meterology, deposition and leaf area index in expert panels and workshops.
Thanks to everyone who took part and special thanks to the organizational team!
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Europe needs a joined-up approach for monitoring and protecting its forests by Marco Ferretti, Chairman of ICP Forests
Last November, the European Commission proposed a regulation to establish a coordinated monitoring framework for resilient forests using a combination of imagery from the European Union’s Copernicus…
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The Working Group on QA/QC in Laboratories gladly invites all laboratories to participate in the 11th ICP Forests Soil Interlaboratory Comparison (Ring Test) in order to assess the quality of the soil analytical results performed on the samples collected in ICP Forests as part of the systematic (Level I) or the intensive monitoring (Level II).…
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The ICP Forests Chairman and the Programme Co-ordinating Centre wish you and your families
a peaceful and relaxing holiday season and a happy and healthy new year 2024.
Once again, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all those involved in ICP Forests and especially the participating countries for…
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The PCC is pleased to announce the online publication of the ICP Forests 2023 Technical Report: Forest Condition in Europe - The 2023 Assessment and its online supplement. It can be downloaded here; printed copies will be available…
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We are happy to announce the date of the 11th Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Conference - FORECOMON 2024 - and the 40th ICP Forests Task Force Meeting. Both will be held in Prague, Czechia, from June 10 to June 14, 2024 and hosted by the Forestry and Game Management Research Institute (FGMRI) and…
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At the international scientific conference “Forest science for people and societal challenges - The 90th "Marin Drăcea" INCDS Anniversary", Bucharest, Romania, 2-5 Oct 2023, ICP Forests Chairman Marco Ferretti was offered the “Victor Giurgiu” award for forest biometrics, management planning and environmental protection. He received the award…
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This year's Scientific Conference of ICP Forests is coming up: 6th June 2023, 13:00 - 16:30.
The programme includes 11 presentations devided in two sessions:
For further details and participation link visit the conference…
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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…
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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…
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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: …
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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All laboratories that perform deposition and soil solution analyses in ICP Forests are kindly invited to participate in the 12th Working Ring Test in order to assess the quality of the deposition and soil solution data collected in the ICP Forests programme on the Intensive Monitoring of Forest Ecosystems (EC-UN/ECE ICP Forests). The registration is open until 30th September 2022.
All necessary information are available in the document:…
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A one-page editorial published on 18th August on Nature put emphasis on the need and the importance of long-term forest monitoring: "the edifice of forest science relies on the long-term data that scientists wring from forests over decades. Our chances of overcoming climate change are small, but they will diminish further if we forget the basics of monitoring our home planet."
Among others, in the editorial it is also pointed out that long term observations "depends on…
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The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment FOEN has published a new video on the effects of nitrogen deposition on Swiss forests. It is a beautifully designed educational video aimed at the general public.
The video is available on YouTube in three languages so far:…
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There is a new self-paced online course that aims to raise awareness about air pollution and its effects, ways to prevent and reduce harmful emissions and the Convention and its protocols as an international framework for co-operation on cleaner air.
The course features four distinct modules that aim to equip learners with the knowledge and resource…
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