Objective In support of the Kyoto Protocol, CARBOMONT aims to quantify and understand the sources, sinks and fluxes of carbon and their variability in non-forest European mountain ecosystems in different land use. CARBOMONT will be carried out in study sites along a European transect from 42-68° Northern latitude. In each study site differently managed and abandoned ecosystems will be investigated in comparative manner, focussing on carbon sequestration and flux partitioning. Interactions between the carbon and nitrogen cycle will be analysed as far as carbon flux rates and source/sink relationships are concerned. Experimental results will be incorporated into process-oriented ecosystem and landscape scale carbon balance models. These will be applied to analyse how contrasting policy scenarios, as defined by focus groups set up at each site, may alter ecosystem and landscape carbon sequestration. Fields of science natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologylandscape ecologynatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems 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 Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator LEOPOLD-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK Address 15,sternwartestrasse 15 6020 Innsbruck Austria See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (14) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRO DI ECOLOGIA ALPINA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Viote del monte bondone 38040 Bosentino See on map FUNDACION CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRANEO Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Parque tecnologico, c/ charles darwin 14 46980 Campamento/paterna See on map INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL AREAS Poland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ul. kossutha 6 40844 Katowice See on map INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY - CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Czechia EU contribution € 0,00 Address 8,porici 3b 603 00 Brno See on map INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Slovakia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Stefanikova n°3 81499 Bratislava See on map LUND UNIVERSITY Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address 13,soelvegatan 13 22100 Lund See on map NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Bush estate, midlothian EH26 0QB Penicuik See on map PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Paul scherrer institut 5232 Villigen See on map PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address 5232 Villigen See on map SZENT ISTVAN UNIVERSITY Hungary EU contribution € 0,00 Address Pater k.u.1 2103 Godollo See on map UNIVERSIT DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via s. camillo de lellis 01100 Viterbo See on map UNIVERSITAET BAYREUTH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Universitätsstrasse 30 95440 Bayreuth See on map UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI Finland EU contribution € 0,00 Address 40b,latokartanonkaari 7 00014 Helsinki See on map UNIVERSITY OF TARTU Estonia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Riia street 23 51010 Tartu See on map