The goal of the 9^th ICP Forests Scientific Conference "Forest Monitoring to assess Forest Functioning under Air Pollution and Climate Change" is to highlight the extensive ICP Forests data series on forest growth, phenology and leaf area index, biodiversity and ground vegetation, foliage and litter fall, ambient air quality, deposition, meteorology, soil and crown condition. We combine novel modeling and assessment approaches and integrate long-term trends to assess air pollution and climate effects on European forests and related ecosystem services. Latest results and conclusions from local scale to European scale studies will be presented and discussed.

The 9^th ICP Forests Scientific Conference will be held from 7-9 June 2021 next year followed by the 37^th Task Force Meeting of ICP Forests, taking place on 10-11 June 2021 at the WSL in Birmensdorf, Switzerland, and by a Post-Conference Excursion from 11-12 June 2021 in the Swiss Alps.

Keynotes:

• Prof. Andreas Rigling (ETHZ/WSL)
• “Forest soil carbon cycle under drought - linking experiments, monitoring and natural gradients across Switzerland” by Dr. Frank Hagedorn (WSL)
• “Accounting for time: long-term effects of N addition on forest biogeochemistry and C sequestration” by Prof. Federico Magnani (UNIBO)
• “Responses of Swiss forests to long- and short-term environmental changes” by Prof. Nina Buchmann (ETHZ)

Contact: Marcus Schaub, marcus.schaub@wsl.ch

Conference website: https://forecomon2021.thuenen.de/