The draft minutes from the ICP Forests Task Force meeting in Riga, 24-25 May 2018, are now available on the ICP Forests website. Their final version will be adopted at the next Task Force meeting in 2019.

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. …

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…

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…

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:…

We are happy to announce the online publication of the ICP Forests 2017 Executive Report.

The report focuses on

• Nitrogen budgets in forest stands
• Nitrification in tree canopies
• Mosses and nitrogen fixation by epiphytic bacteria
• Predisposing factors for Acute Oak Decline
• Measuring and interpreting changes in stem increment.

It is available for download from the ICP Forests…

Dear colleagues,

the final report from the 20th Needle/Leaf Interlaboratory Comparison Test is available. You find detail information and the download here. Keep in mind that the re-qualification procedure – if needed - must be finished till 1^st of…

We are happy to announce the online publication of the ICP Forests 2017 Technical Report. You can download the report and the online supplement from the ICP Forests website.

With best wishes for the holiday season
Alexa Michel, Programme Co-ordinating Centre of ICP Forests

The Croatian Forest Research Institute is glad to invite laboratories to participate in the 9th ICP Forests Soil Interlaboratory Comparison in 2018. All necessary information you can find here.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Ms Tamara Jakovljevic (tamaraj@sumins.hr) from the Croatian Forest Research Institute.

Together with 31 participants we had a successful meeting of the heads of the labs in Pallanza! The meeting was very well organized by Aldo Marchetto and his team. We discussed the results of the last deposition and foliar ring tests and had presentations about measuring of samples with low concentrations, the determine weak acids in deposition, actual information about the data base, data submission and new features, proposal for better coding of the methods for C-CO3 and Corg, aqua regia…

Dear members of the ICP Forests community,

The chair of ICP Forests, Marco Ferretti, and the PCC would like to express their gratitude to all colleagues of the ICP Forests community that joined and contributed to the 125th Anniversary Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO).

The congress took place last week in Freiburg, Germany, welcoming more than 2000 participants. In more than…

Dear colleagues,

having attended the 3rd Joint Session of the Working Group on Effects (WGE) and the Steering Body to EMEP from 11-15 September 2017 at Geneva, I want to point to the fact that all basic documents for that meeting are available at the UNECE website. Of relevance for the ICP Forests community is especially the "2017 joint progress report on policy-relevant scientific findings" (ECE/EB.AIR/GE.1/2017/3-ECE/EB.AIR/WG.12017/3) and the "Progress report by the Programme…

Dear members of the ICP Forests Community,

I updated the list of contributions at IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress (IUFRO_Presentations.pdf).

I am looking forward to see you next week,

Anne-Katrin

Dear members of the ICP Forests community,

accompanying the interesting and inspiring presentations at the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress, the PCC would like to invite you to an informal Get-Together in the pub/restaurant Martin's Bräu, Freiburg, where we booked a few tables. 

When? Wednesday, 20/09/2017, 8:00 pm

Where?…

Dear members of the ICP Forests community,

next week, 18 - 22 September 2017, the 125th Anniversary Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) will take place in Freiburg, Germany. The extensive and diverse congress program is featuring several oral and poster presentations of the ICP Forests community.

Marco Ferretti (chair of ICP Forests) and the PCC initiated a compilation of the presentations that can be downloaded below:…

On 28 - 31 August 2017, the meeting of the ICP Forests Expert Panel on Ambient Air Quality and the Intercalibration Course on ozone induced symptoms took place in Trento, Italy. The event was organized by the Research and Innovation Centre of Fondazione Edmund Mach FEM in collaboration with The Swiss Federal…

I would like to cordially thank the Research and Innovation Centre of Fondazione Edmund Mach and the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research for the excellent organisation of the Expert Panel on Ambient Air Quality Meeting and Intercalibaration Course in Trento. It was a great event with an interesting and mixed program of back-ground and hands-on activities allowing a perfect intercalibration of the assessment of ozone induced symptoms.  I appreciated and strongly…

Dear all,

MSC-E has published two Report: the one on heavy metals might be of interest for some of us:

Dear Colleagues,



In accordance with the 2016-2017 Work-plan for the implementation of the Convention [ECE/EB.AIR/133/Add.1] MSC-E continues work on the assessment of POP and HM atmospheric pollution over the EMEP domain and individual countries (Case study), and work on transition to the new EMEP grid.



The results of the…

Dear website discussion group leaders,

I would very much appreciate it if you took some time over the summer to look at your groups on this website and delete the ones that are not actively used anymore OR initiate the discussion once more.

Thanks so much!
Alexa