Description du projet
Des informations détaillées sur la résilience des forêts européennes
Il est essentiel de disposer d’informations précises concernant l’impact du changement climatique sur les forêts européennes. Le projet FORWARDS, financé par l’UE, prototypera l’observatoire ForestWard dont l’objectif est de fournir des informations détaillées en temps opportun sur la résilience des forêts européennes. Il produira des connaissances fondées sur des données probantes afin de mettre en œuvre une gestion axée sur les principes de la sylviculture adaptée au changement climatique, de la restauration des écosystèmes et de la préservation de la biodiversité («CSF & Restoration»). FORWARDS fera le lien entre les informations forestières obtenues à partir du sol et celles dérivant de la télédétection, en intégrant le concept de surveillance des supersites ainsi que des méthodes innovantes pour caractériser les relations de cause à effet des perturbations forestières. Il développera des outils facilitant des projections spatialement explicites sur les forêts à l’échelle européenne ainsi que des trajectoires «CSF & Restoration» régionalisées, afin d’évaluer les synergies et les activités de restauration.
Objectif
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).
Champ scientifique
- 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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