1. ICP Forests Planned activities 27th Meeting of the Task Force 15-19 May 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark 69 experts from 27 countries, incl. ICP Modelling and Mapping (Anne-Christine Le Gall) ICP Integrated Monitoring (Lars Lundin) ICP Vegetation (Sabine Braun) Adoption: Report for submission to WGE Agreement: Contributions to Medium-term Workplan in 2012 Evaluation: Co-operation with expired EU LIFE+ project „Further development and implementation of an EU-level forest monitoring“ (FutMon) Plans for time after FutMon Monitoring, database Data analyses, publications New LIFE-proposal

2. ICP Forests Planned activities FutMon Revision of monitoring system Large-scale (Level I) Forest ecosystem scale (Level II) Level I Merging of Level I and NFI plots  Possibility to analyse on the same plots: forest health (crown condition, damage factors) damaging agents (insects, fungi, dought, storm etc.) forest soil condition (carbon pools) forest growth (carbon pools) ground vegetation (biodiversity)

3. ICP Forests Planned activities FutMon Revision of the monitoring system Large-scale (Level I) Forest ecosystem scale (Level II) Level II From previous 850 ICP Forests Level II plots 200 Level II Standard Plots 100 Level II Core Plots 200 Standard Plots Crown condition (annually) Foliar chemistry (every 2 years) Tree growth (every 5 years) Ground vegetation (every 5 years) Soil condition (every 10 years) Deposition (continuously) Meteorology (continuously)

4. ICP Forests Planned activities FutMon Revision of the monitoring system Large-scale (Level I) Forest ecosystem scale (Level II) Level II From previous 850 ICP Forests Level II plots 200 Level II Standard Plots 100 Level II Core Plots 100 core plots plots Surveys of the standard plots Litterfall (continuously) Phenology (several times each year) Ambient air quality (continuously) Ozone injury (continuously) Soil solution (continuously) Soil water (continuously)

5. ICP Forests Planned activities Benefits of the revision More information per plot Ecosystem scale (Level II) Better insight into cause-effect relationships Modelling approaches Large scale (Level I) More comprehensive description of variation Possibility of up-scaling from ecosystem to large scale Management of the monitoring data?

6. ICP Forests Planned activities Data base management Under FutMon Establishment of database management system Online data submission Data validation automated (validation reports to data providers) by experts (in bilateral contacts with data providers) Online data access for authorised users

7. ICP Forests Planned activities Data base management Under ICP Forests FutMon data taken over merged with ICP Forests data Data base management continued Data analyses fostered

8. ICP Forests Planned activities Data analyses (short term) Proposals for 2012 Medium Term Workplan Report on forest soil condition at the European-wide scale (update) Report on relationships between exceedance of critical limits and forest vegetation response (update) Report on the development of forest biodiversity under different deposition scenarios (update) Epiphytic lichen diversity in relation to atmospheric deposition

9. ICP Forests Planned activities Data analyses (long term) Planned Programme Co-ordinating Centre (PCC) Programme Coordinating Group (PCG) Task Force Workshop on modelling 24-25 October 2011 at vTI in Hamburg, Germany PCG meeting 25-26 October 2011 Preparation of decisions by the Task Force Future monitoring Future data analyses Financing

10. ICP Forests Planned activities Financing FutMon Budget: € 34 Mio EU-co-financing: € 16 Mio expired June 2011 In 2011/12: Rely on resources Countries vTI For 2012-2016: Proposal of FutMon follow-up project Environmental Forest Monitoring (EnForMon) Chances for EnForMon grant?

11. ICP Forests Planned activities Chance for EnForMon grant European Commission (DG Env) Plans forest monitoring aiming at large-scale representative information based on National Forest Inventoires (NFIs) (maybe in co-operation with ICP Forests at Level I?) Considers Level II as research politically less relevant (lacking large-scale representativeness)

12. ICP Forests Planned activities Reaction of ICP Forests Reasoning: Need for Integration of Large-scale monitoring (NFI, Level I) Forest ecosystem monitoring (Level II) Effects-oriented approach Modelling and upscaling Lobbying Co-operation with devoted MEP Workshop in Brussels with MEP Participation in ad hoc WG of SFC of EC Policy briefs