Climate change and air pollution affect forest ecosystems in many different ways. Drought periods, as the one in 2018, strongly reduce tree growth and increase tree mortality in Europe and elsewhere. At the same time, elevated air pollution affect forests from the leaf to ecosystem level. While societies’ expectations to forests are increasing and forests have become focal points for local, national and global interests, the provision of ecosystem services such as timber production, water purification, and carbon sequestration is more and more endangered. To address the impact of global change on forest ecosystems and their resilience, long-term data series are indispensable to evaluate status, trends and processes in forest ecosystems.
Three decades of monitoring effects from air pollution within ICP Forests operating under Air Convention, have provided a harmonized and standardized asset of long-term data series which allows scientists, stakeholders and policy makers to address the status and predict the fate of European forest ecosystems and their functioning in a changing environment.
The goal of the 9th ICP Forests Scientific Conference 2021 is to highlight the extensive ICP Forests data series on forest growth, phenology, biodiversity, nutritional status of foliage and litter fall, ambient air quality, deposition, meteorology, soil and crown condition. We combine novel modeling approaches and integrate long-term trends to assess air pollution and climate effects on European forests and related ecosystem services. Latest results and conclusions from local scale to European scale studies will be presented and discussed.
The 2020 Summer School FORMON on the same topic “Forest Monitoring to assess Forest Functioning under Air Pollution and Climate Change”, taking place on 23-29 August 2020 in Davos, Switzerland will complement the Scientific Conference. The 2020 Summer School FORMON is supported by ICP Forests, the SwissForestLab and the European Network for Forest Research and higher Education NFZ.forest.net and aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the concepts, approaches, and available data infrastructure of forest long-term monitoring. Novel modelling and assessment approaches will be discussed considering the expectations to future forests from a scientific, forest management, and socio-economic perspective.
Programme
See an overview of the preliminary programme here.
Venue
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Switzerland
Registration
Registration Fees (regular / 50% student discount*)
Scientific Conference: CHF 70.- / CHF 35.-
Conference Dinner: CHF 70.- / CHF 35.-
Task Force Meeting (upon invitation): CHF 70.-
Post-Conference Excursion, incl. transportation, hotel and meals:
Option A: All inclusive: CHF 200.- / CHF 100.-
Option B: Additional costs for single room in Hotel Good Night Inn: CHF 40.-
*) Students are encouraged to attend both, the ICP Forests Scientific Conference and the Summer School FORMON and will receive a 50% discount on the registration and excursion fees.
Deadlines
1 March 2021 - deadline for abstract submission (closed)
15 March 2021 - communication of abstract acceptance
1 May 2021 - deadline for registration
You can register online at the following registration website.
