EU project supports climate change monitoring
A network to strengthen the monitoring of the impact of climate change on nature, funded by the European Commission, will be launched officially on 1 March at the first project meeting at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. The network, which will initially run from 2001 to 2003 and involves 13 partners from several European countries, aims to increase the use of phenological data and to stimulate monitoring and European research in the field of climate change. Currently, a lack of communication and cooperation between phenological monitoring networks means that many ecological and socio-economic opportunities in areas such as ecology, agriculture and human health are missed. Access to, and integration of, data is limited and the exchange of knowledge on tools and techniques for monitoring, data storage and data analysis is inefficient. EPN (the European phenology network) will establish an on-line phenological metadatabase and a phenological bibliographical database as well as organising European conferences on phenology and specialist workshops.
Countries
Netherlands