Descripción del proyecto
Información detallada sobre la resiliencia de los bosques europeos
Es esencial disponer de información precisa sobre cómo afecta el cambio climático a los bosques europeos. El equipo del proyecto FORWARDS, financiado con fondos europeos, creará un prototipo del Observatorio ForestWard para proporcionar información oportuna y detallada sobre la resiliencia de los bosques europeos. Generará conocimientos basados en datos para guiar la gestión utilizando los principios de silvicultura climáticamente inteligente, restauración de ecosistemas y preservación de la biodiversidad. El equipo de FORWARDS conectará la información forestal obtenida del suelo y la teledetección integrando el concepto de supersitios de seguimiento y métodos innovadores para caracterizar las relaciones causa-efecto de las perturbaciones forestales. Desarrollará herramientas para previsiones espacialmente explícitas a nivel europeo sobre bosques y trayectorias regionalizadas de silvicultura climáticamente inteligente, restauración de ecosistemas y preservación de la biodiversidad para evaluar sinergias y actividades de restauración.
Objetivo
FORWARDS will prototype The ForestWard Observatory to provide (a) timely and detailed information on European forests’ vulnerability to climate change impacts, (b) science-based knowledge to guide management using the principles of climate-smart forestry, ecosystem restoration, and biodiversity preservation (CSF & Restoration), and (c) stakeholder engagement and public participation in decision-making processes. We capitalize on data from existing networks (e.g. ICP Forests) and expand this with a Network of Pilot sites through 5 FORWARDS Demo cases plus ~50 trials established via grants to third parties. We will reconcile the current divide between forest information obtained from the ground and remote sensing by incorporating the concept of Monitoring Supersites and novel approaches to more comprehensively characterize cause-effect relationships of forest disturbances. Tools for European-wide forward-looking and spatially explicit projections on forests as well as regionalized CSF & Restoration trajectories will be developed jointly with stakeholders to evaluate synergies and trade-offs of conversion and restoration activities. These will be used to provide good practice guidance on effective CSF & Restoration management practices. The ForestWard Observatory will be constructed under the principle of co-design to address the information needs by users and stakeholders. FORWARDS interacts with several established networks on CSF & Restoration and effectively utilizes five dedicated grant calls to implement forest observations and test CSF & restoration measures. The ambition is for The ForestWard Observatory to become a long-lasting legacy of FORWARDS, which supports decision making across scales to boost the uptake of good CSF & Restoration management practice throughout Europe (local scale for management practice), while efficiently informing about climate change and disturbance impacts and resilience of European forests (regional to EU scale for policy making).
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringremote sensing
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and management
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestry
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