Effects of land-use changes on sources, sinks and fluxes of carbon in European mountain areas

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.

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

LEOPOLD-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK

Address

15,Sternwartestrasse 15
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

Participants (14)

CENTRO DI ECOLOGIA ALPINA

Italy

Address

Viote Del Monte Bondone
38040 Bosentino

FUNDACION CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRANEO

Spain

Address

Parque Tecnologico, C/ Charles Darwin 14
46980 Campamento/paterna

INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGY OF INDUSTRIAL AREAS

Poland

Address

Ul. Kossutha 6
40844 Katowice

INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY - CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Czechia

Address

8,Porici 3B
603 00 Brno

INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Slovakia

Address

Stefanikova N°3
81499 Bratislava

LUND UNIVERSITY

Sweden

Address

13,Soelvegatan 13
22100 Lund

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

United Kingdom

Address

Bush Estate, Midlothian
EH26 0QB Penicuik

PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT

Switzerland

Address

Paul Scherrer Institut
5232 Villigen

PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUT

Switzerland

Address

5232 Villigen

SZENT ISTVAN UNIVERSITY

Hungary

Address

Pater K.u.1
2103 Godollo

UNIVERSIT DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA

Italy

Address

Via S. Camillo De Lellis
01100 Viterbo

UNIVERSITAET BAYREUTH

Germany

Address

Universitätsstrasse 30
95440 Bayreuth

UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI

Finland

Address

40B,latokartanonkaari 7
00014 Helsinki

UNIVERSITY OF TARTU

Estonia

Address

Riia Street 23
51010 Tartu