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Duration: 2012 - 2015

FORECOM Forest cover changes in mountainous regions - drivers, trajectories and implications

The Polish-Swiss joint research project FORECOM has the following objectives:

to identify trends in forest cover change over the past 150 years for the Polish Carpathians and the Swiss Alps;
to quantify the relative contribution of climate and land use to the past forest cover change;
to develop combined climate and land use change scenarios for projecting future forest cover change;
to assess important implications of forest cover change: historical and future trends in forest carbon pools and potential impacts on biodiversity.

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Project leaders:

Polish team: Prof. Jacek Kozak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Swiss team: Dr. Urs Gimmi, WSL