1. WG3 Action FP0903 WG3 Climate Change and Forest Mitigation and Adaptation in a Polluted Environment [MAFor] WG3 Protocols and supersites Prague meeting 14-16 th June 2011 Dr Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy Technical University of Denmark DK-4000 Roskilde E-mail: temi@risoe.dtu.dktemi@risoe.dtu.dk

2. WG3 Protocols and supersites  Monitoring sites  Specific requirements  Measurement techniques  Instrumentation  Maintenance  Procedures for calibration  Data processing  Storage - will be standardised, based on the WG1 and WG2 results. This work will be done at WG3 meetings and eventually by expert workshops and other meetings. WG3 Action FP0903 WG3 From MOU FP0903 document 11. June 2009

3. WG3 Action FP0903 WG3 Prague meeting 14-16 th June 2011 Session 3 - Towards supersites Chair: Teis Mikkelsen Richard Fischer: The ICP Forests monitoring programme – sites, protocols and links to other Transnational Networks Andreas Ibrom NitroEurope forest supersites Lars Lundin Monitoring programme and sites of the ICP integrated monitoring programme and its links to other transnational networks Michael Mirtl Distributed Long-term Ecosystem Research Network LTER-Europe – a major European research infrastructure comprising forested supersites Timo Vesala Chair COST ES0804 (ABBA) - Advancing the integrated monitoring of trace gas exchange between biosphere and atmosphere Arnaud Carrara A high level ecosystem monitoring station in Spain Matthias Dobbertin Linking different long-term research and monitoring sites and establishing common protocols that are open for new developments – experiences from Switzerland Ovidiu Badea Existing long-term monitoring networks in Romanian forests Rome conference 2010

4. WG3 Action FP0903 WG3 Prague meeting 14-16 th June 2011 Session 3 - Towards supersites Chair: Richard Fischer Dario Papale The eddy covariance networks in Europe for forest carbon exchange monitoring Giorgio Matteucci Integrating monitoring and research: examples and results from a "supersite" in a beech forest in Central Italy Rastislav Jakuš Link from monitoring plots to GIS and remote sensing based disturbance modelling: TANABBO approach Panagiotis Michopoulos Effects of CO2 enrichment on trees and intensively monitored plots: research needs in view of future ecosystem studies 16:00-18:00 Round table Rome conference 2010

5. WG3 Action FP0903 WG3 Prague meeting 14-16 th June 2011 Towards a transnational System of Supersites for Forest Monitoring and Research in Europe – an Overview on present State and future Recommendations Richard Fischer 1*, Wenche Aas 2, Wim De Vries 3, Nicholas Clarke 4, Pavel Cudlin 5, David Leaver 6, Lars Lundin 7, Giorgio Matteucci 8, Rainer Matyssek 9, Teis N. Mikkelsen 10, Michael Mirtl 11, Yasemin Öztürk 1, Dario Papale 12, Nenad Potocic 13, David Simpson 14, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen 15, Timo Vesala 16, Gerhard Wieser 17, Elena Paoletti 18 Towards a transnational System of Supersites for Forest Monitoring and Research in Europe – an Overview on present State and future Recommendations Richard Fischer 1*, Wenche Aas 2, Wim De Vries 3, Nicholas Clarke 4, Pavel Cudlin 5, David Leaver 6, Lars Lundin 7, Giorgio Matteucci 8, Rainer Matyssek 9, Teis N. Mikkelsen 10, Michael Mirtl 11, Yasemin Öztürk 1, Dario Papale 12, Nenad Potocic 13, David Simpson 14, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen 15, Timo Vesala 16, Gerhard Wieser 17, Elena Paoletti 18 Article in iForest: Towards a transnational System of Supersites for Forest Monitoring and Research in Europe – an Overview on present State and future Recommendations Richard Fischer, Wenche Aas, Wim De Vries, Nicholas Clarke, Pavel Cudlin, David Leaver, Lars Lundin, Giorgio Matteucci, Rainer Matyssek, Teis N. Mikkelsen, Michael Mirtl, Yasemin Öztürk, Dario Papale, Nenad Potocic, David Simpson, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Timo Vesala, Gerhard Wieser, Elena Paoletti In this article, representatives from major European networks recommend a system of supersites for forest monitoring and research in Europe, based on a reasonable number of highly instrumented “supersites” and a larger number of intensive monitoring plots linked to these. The system needs to be based on existing infrastructures but requires more coordination, harmonisation and a joint long term platform.

6. WG3 Action FP0903 WG3 Prague meeting 14-16 th June 2011 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING - deliverables for WG3 1. Assessment of representativeness of existing sites for the installation of Supersites III 2. Recommendations and key priorities for geographical optimisation of Supersites III; 3. Documentation of criteria and protocols for monitoring site selection, measurements, data processing, storage and diffusion; 4. Guidelines of work at Supersites III, from management to data and result circulation, with focus on data storage; Fischer et al. iForest 2011 Matyssek et al. EP 2011

7. WG3 Action FP0903 WG3 Prague meeting 14-16 th June 2011 Minutes from Antalya: “As a very final output of the Action, WG3 proposed preparing a handbook on measurement protocols at Supersites”.

8. WG3 Action FP0903 WG3 Prague meeting 14-16 th June 2011 A new project in WG3? Book by Fischer and Ferretti Title: Forest Monitoring Subtitle: Scientific methods for terrestrial monitoring of temperate and boreal forests Presentation of book outline: List of content shown as a separate PDF file