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Co-ordination and further development of the forest monitoring system
Project
Project code: TI-WO-08-PID1361
Contract period: 01.01.2001
- 31.12.2020
Purpose of research: Networks and research co-ordination
Forest are exposed to multiple environmental effects. Air pollutants, climate change and pathogens may impact vitality and productivity of our forests. Thus, an extensive and permanent monitoring of our forests are needed. Novel methods and research results require an ongoing further development of the monitoring procedures.
Due to the amendment of the Federal Forest Act in 2010 and an additional regulation in 2013, the federal authorities and those of the German 'Laender' are obliged to estabish and run a concerted forest monitoring. The co-ordination task of the Thünen Institut are aimed at perform a nation-wide monitoring with the parts forest condition survey (WZE, Level I) and intensive forest monitoring (Level II) according to standardised methods.
In close collaboration with the authorities of the German 'Laender' standardized protocols for (1) plot selection, (2) instrumentation parameter selection, and (3) methods for measurements and analyses will be developed. The analyses, the quality assurance of the assessments on the national scale will be done by the Thünen Institute as well as the centralised data management. Another important task is the integration of the national data and activities in the international monitoring context (ICP Forests).
Section overview
Subjects
- Silviculture
- Agroecology
