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23rd IUFRO Conference for Specialists in Air Pollution and Climate Change Effects on Forest Ecosystems
The focus of the conference is
on impacts and interactions of air pollutants and climate change on the tree
performance across latitudinal and altitudinal ranges. In particular, the
regional specificities of tree and ecosystem responsiveness to anthropogenic
stressors such as elevated CO2 and O3 regimes, enhanced nitrogen deposition and
scenarios of climate change, as represented through altered seasonal
temperature and moisture regimes will be emphasized. The overall aim of the
conference is the advancement in risk assessment: which are the consequences
for carbon sink strength in respect to the post-Kyoto policies? How are
strategies such as the critical levels concept in risk assessment to be defined
and evaluated by exposure versus dose-related approaches of stress diagnosis?
How realistic are potentials towards process-based, i.e. mechanistic concepts
for risk assessment? In respect to the above questions the state of the art
will be highlighted. The outcome of the conference will provide a
cause-effect related basis for environmental policy making.
