Descrizione del progetto
Informazioni dettagliate sulla resilienza delle foreste europee
È essenziale disporre di informazioni accurate sull’impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sulle foreste europee. Il progetto FORWARDS, finanziato dall’UE, creerà prototipi nel quadro dell’Osservatorio ForestWard per fornire informazioni tempestive e dettagliate sulla resilienza delle foreste europee. Il progetto genererà conoscenze empiriche per orientare la gestione secondo i principi della silvicoltura intelligente dal punto di vista climatico, del ripristino degli ecosistemi e della conservazione della biodiversità. FORWARDS collegherà le informazioni forestali ottenute dal suolo e dal telerilevamento integrando il concetto di «sovrasiti di monitoraggio» e metodi innovativi per caratterizzare le relazioni causa-effetto delle perturbazioni forestali. Svilupperà strumenti per proiezioni con riferimento spaziale esplicito sulle foreste a livello europeo e percorsi di ripristino localizzati di silvicoltura intelligente e ripristino della biodiversità per valutare le sinergie e le attività di recupero.
Obiettivo
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).
Campo scientifico
- 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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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinatore
750 07 Uppsala
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