Skip to main content
Vai all'homepage della Commissione europea (si apre in una nuova finestra)
italiano it
CORDIS - Risultati della ricerca dell’UE
CORDIS
Contenuto archiviato il 2024-05-21

An investigation on carbon and energy exchanges of terrestrial ecosystems in europe

Obiettivo

Problems to be solved
Recent studies have shown that a significant portion of the net terrestrial uptake of CO2 must occur at mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere of which European terrestrial ecosystems cover a significant area. However, the magnitude, location, temporal behaviour and causes of the carbon source/sink strengths of terrestrial ecosystems are not very well known making the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol still under strong debate.
Scientific objectives and approach
The aim of this project is to quantify the magnitude of the carbon sources/sinks for a range of terrestrial ecosystems, in respect of species, age, climate, nitrogen loads and geographical locations. This includes the investigation of effects of inter and intra-annual climate variations on the magnitude of carbon exchanges of terrestrial ecosystems. In addition the role of soil, wood and leaves biomass respiration on the partition of the ecosystem carbon exchanges will be studied. Ecosystem modelling studies on carbon sequestration across a range of climate, species and vegetation structure will accompany field studies. The project is based on measurements of carbon and energy fluxes on 32 terrestrial ecosystems of the European continent, representing various species, community structure, management practices and distribution with respect to the range of European climate conditions. The selected sites fall into four main climate classes: Mediterranean, Temperate - Atlantic, Temperate - Continental and Boreal. The major forest biomes are constituted by deciduous (beech, turkey oak) and evergreen (pinus, spruce, helm oak) forests. In these sites the inter-annual variability of carbon fluxes will be investigated. The methodology for ecosystem exchanges of carbon and energy is based on the eddy covariance theory. The flux stations measure the net flux of carbon entering or leaving the ecosystem. These fluxes integrated over one year give an estimate of the Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE). They provide a direct measurement of the annual carbon source/sink strength of a particular ecosystem. In order to reduce the uncertainty associated with site-to-site variation on flux measurement methods and calculations, the project is designed with the same hardware and software specifications at all sites. Furthermore data collected at the test sites will be quality controlled, corrected for frequency losses and sensor separation and, when needed, corrected for night-time fluxes with the same procedures.
Expected impacts
The consortium will provide significant data on the carbon source/sink strength of a number of European terrestrial ecosystems and as such contribute to the implementation of the Council Decision (199/296/EC) which refers to the monitoring mechanism of Community CO2 and other greenhouse gases. The results of this project will help to implement the relevant articles of the Kyoto Protocol, in particular helping to verify the stock change approach versus flux measurements as requested for carbon accounting in the commitment period.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: Il Vocabolario Scientifico Europeo.

È necessario effettuare l’accesso o registrarsi per utilizzare questa funzione

Programma(i)

Programmi di finanziamento pluriennali che definiscono le priorità dell’UE in materia di ricerca e innovazione.

Argomento(i)

Gli inviti a presentare proposte sono suddivisi per argomenti. Un argomento definisce un’area o un tema specifico per il quale i candidati possono presentare proposte. La descrizione di un argomento comprende il suo ambito specifico e l’impatto previsto del progetto finanziato.

Invito a presentare proposte

Procedura per invitare i candidati a presentare proposte di progetti, con l’obiettivo di ricevere finanziamenti dall’UE.

Dati non disponibili

Meccanismo di finanziamento

Meccanismo di finanziamento (o «Tipo di azione») all’interno di un programma con caratteristiche comuni. Specifica: l’ambito di ciò che viene finanziato; il tasso di rimborso; i criteri di valutazione specifici per qualificarsi per il finanziamento; l’uso di forme semplificate di costi come gli importi forfettari.

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinatore

UNIVERSIT DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA
Contributo UE
Nessun dato
Indirizzo
Via S. Camillo de Lellis
01100 VITERBO
Italia

Mostra sulla mappa

Costo totale

I costi totali sostenuti dall’organizzazione per partecipare al progetto, compresi i costi diretti e indiretti. Questo importo è un sottoinsieme del bilancio complessivo del progetto.

Nessun dato

Partecipanti (15)

Il mio fascicolo 0 0