Objective
Problem to be solved
Exploiting existing datasets to monitor and understand links between seasonal plant and animal activity and climate change.
Objectives and approach
The POSITIVE objectives are: to develop and test autumn phenological models; to test springtime models found to be effective on a regional scale; to fit a new unified model for European temperate tree species; to develop a new pollen shedding model for the main allergenic taxa in different European regions; to study phenological shifts and changed gradients in the Alps as well as to describe the geographical and temporal variability and trends of phenological phases in Europe (1951-1998); to analyse the temporal and spatial variability of the green wave in Europe; to quantify large-scale growing season duration for the northern hemisphere and to determine changes in the photosynthetic capacity. POSITIVE will create and integrate a common phenological data set of key species and phases, suitable to study the temporal and spatial variability of phenophases in Europe, comprising observations of the International Phenological Gardens, the national phenological networks of the German, Swiss, Austrian, Estonian weather services and other new phenological data from Post Soviet States as well as data out of the European pollen network. POSITIVE will produce a new 1981-2000 satellite data set for the entire level-1b 4km global data record from the AVHRR instruments flown on the NOAAA-7, NOAAA-9, NOAAA-11, and NOAAA-14 satellites, post-processing review of the data will be undertaken to insure the correction of different artefacts. Using these data POSITIVE will study, by statistical analyses, phenological shifts and gradients in the Alps, phenological trends of the last 4 decades in Europe, especially the duration of the growing season, describe the past and actual geographical variability with a GIS application and produce phenological maps for Europe. Moreover, POSITIVE will study, by statistical analyses, the variability of NDVI data for Europe, the length of the growing season and changes in the photosynthetic capacity for the 1981-2000 period. POSITIVE will develop, test and apply different kinds of phenological models such as springtime models, models for autumn phases, will create predictive models for pollen shedding and fit a new plant distribution model based on phenophases, in order to assess the phenological evolution under climate change conditions and to predict the natural distribution of species studied.
Expected impact
The project will connect with other related projects and activites, including the Global Terrestrial Observing System to ensure integration with international activites. The results will be made available for a wide range of stakeholder groups (eg. scientists, agriculture, forestry, human health).
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences physical geography cartography geographic information systems
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering aerospace engineering satellite technology
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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85 354 FREISING
Germany
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