Objective
To investigate long term fluxes and energy exchanges of representative European forests in order to provide useful parameters to global and regional climate modellers and to analyze the variables that determine energy partitioning by forests in different climatic conditions, including extreme events and stress limitations.
To determine the sink strength of European forests for carbon and analyze the variables that determine the gains and the losses of carbon from forests of differing vegetation composition and in different climate regions.
To analyze the response of European forests water and carbon fluxes to climatic factors in order to aid regional scale modelling designed to predict impacts of global environmental change on forest ecosystem function.
To provide a common data-base of objective data for the validation of forest models, related to growth, partitioning of primary production, water cycling and hydrology.
To recommend management strategies for the conservation of carbon stores in forests.
Long-term measurements of the fluxes of carbon dioxide, water vapour and energy exchange are
carried out at 15 representative forest sites encompassing the entire range in European climate,
species distribution, and site conditions. The selected sites are representative of the regional
features of the European basin (Mediterranean, Boreal, Continental, Atlantic) and form a unique
integrated system for the analysis of climate related ecosystem processes, their impact on
hydrological and carbon cycles and test cases for validation of ecosystem models.
The methodology used by the 12 participating teams for the measurement of ecosystem fluxes
is eddy covariance, which has been standardized in terms of hardware and software among the
groups to obtain reproducible and comparable results.
Ecological processes including soil and biomass respiration, hydrological components and plant
physiology are ancillary measurements available at the sites to interpret ecosystem fluxes.
Long term series of continuous flux measurements will flow into a common data-base which will be available to the external community. The analysis of results, particularly in terms of carbon sequestering potential of forests will be
scaled to a European dimension and management strategies for conservation of carbon will be
indicated.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences hydrology
- medical and health sciences basic medicine physiology
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01100 VITERBO
Italy
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