Sources and sinks of greenhouse gases from managed european grasslands and mitigation scenarios

Objective

In support of the European post-Kyoto policy, the GREENGRASS project will measure the net global warming potential resulting from the exchange of CO2, N2O and Twitch managed European grasslands and assess the European wide mitigation potential of key field and farm management scenarios. Long-term micrometeorological measurements at sites in a European wide network will be complemented by experimental assessment of the effects of management options bonnet fluxes. The results will be used to refine emission factors used in national inventories and to evaluate farm-level mitigation scenarios with respect to tenet global warming potential associated to grassland management. These evaluations will be conducted at the field and farm level, and by upscalingsimulation results to the Europe scale.

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.4.-2. - Key action Global Change, Climate and Biodiversity

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE

Address

Avenue Du Brezet, 234
63039 Clermont-ferrand
France

Participants (17)

CENTRE INTERPROFESSIONNEL TECHNIQUE D' ETUDES DE LA POLLUTION ATMOSPHÉRIQUE

France

Address

3,Rue Du Faubourg Poissonniere 10
75010 Paris

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

France

Address

Avenue De La Terrasse, Bftiment 12
91198 Gif Sur Yvette

COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE

France

Address

Cnrs,orme Des Merisiers, Batiment 709
91191 Gif Sur Yvette

DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Denmark

Address

Dias Research Centre Foulum
8830 Tjele

ENERGY RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE NETHERLANDS

Netherlands

Address

Westerduinweg 3
1755 ZG Petten

EOTVOS LORAND UNIVERSITY, BUDAPEST

Hungary

Address

Pazmany Setany 1/A
1117 Budapest

FEDERAL RESEARCH STATION FOR AGROECOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE

Switzerland

Address

Schwarzenburgstrasse 155 Liebefeld
3003 Bern

FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Hungary

Address

42/44,Frankel Leo U. 42/44
1023 Budapest

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

United Kingdom

Address

Bush Estate, Midlothian
EH26 0QB Penicuik

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

Netherlands

Address

Runderwag 6
8203 AD Lelystad

RISOE NATIONAL LABORATORY

Denmark

Address

Frederiksborgvej 399
4000 Roskilde

SZENT ISTVAN UNIVERSITY

Hungary

Address

Pater K.u.1
2103 Godollo

THE PROVOST, FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN HEREINAFTER TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

Ireland

Address

College Green
2 Dublin

THE SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE

United Kingdom

Address

Bush Estate
EH26 0PH Penicuik

UNIVERSIT DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA

Italy

Address

Via S. Camillo De Lellis
01100 Viterbo

UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

United Kingdom

Address

Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive
AB24 3UU Aberdeen

WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY

Netherlands

Address

Diedenweg 18
6703 GW Wageningen