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	European Network for long-term Forest Ecosystem and Landscape Research ENFORS
	Norbert Kräuchi (Steering Committe Member)

Rationale Project aims Methods Work plan Data Participants Publications Links

Rationale The expected outcome of ENFORS is a contribution to the sustainable management of forests in Europe. Many of the problems associated with sustainable forest management relate to questions and understanding at the ecosystem and landscape levels, as well as requiring longterm series of data. This is well documented in the special issue of Forest Ecology and Management "Pathways to the Wise Management of Forests in Europe", which concluded with a proposal for developing an "Ecosystem and landscape forestry" (Andersson et al. 2000). This is the reason for the present COST Action E25 to foster the establishment of a network of research sites dedicated to long-term studies of the ecosystem and landscape. Project aims The overall objective is to develop the scientific base for, and initiate a European network of sites for forest ecosystem and landscape research of relevance to sustainable forest management. The project further aims at establishing a database of European field experiments relevant to sustainable forest management, and elaborating and initiating a common scientific research programme on forest ecosystems focusing on the landscape level and a long-term perspective. Methods and Organisation Working Group 1 Co-ordinated by  Dir. O. Laroussinie Dr. E Leitgeb Working Group 2 Co-ordinated by Prof. Dr. R. Hüttl Dr. G. Matteucci Working Group 3 Co-ordinated by Dr. N. Kräuchi Scope of the action and guidelines for national inventories of research sites Scientific programme, instrumentation and infrastructure Linking with monitoring programmes   Work plan The complete workplan for ENFORS is described here. Data Up to now, the following Swiss sites and networks were proposed as potential ENFORS-Sites:   Stillberg Growth and Yield plots Swiss National Forest Inventory Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Network LWF   Participants (Steering Committe only) Norbert Kräuchi, WSL Birmensdorf Folke Andersson, SLU Uppsala Reinhard Hüttl, TU Cottbus Olivier Laroussinie, ECOFOR Paris Ernst Leitgeb, FBVA Vienna Giorgio Matteuci, JRC Ispra   Publications Kräuchi N. (coordinator), 2002. Linking with monitoring programmes. Theory paper. Working Group 3. COST Action E25 "European Network for long-term Forest Ecosystem and Landscape Research". 9 pp. + Ann. Mårell A., Leitgeb E., Laroussinie O., Kräuchi N. [et al.], 2002. Working Document (Fifth draft).Guidelines for National Inventories of Field Research Facilities. Technical Report No. 2. Working Group 1. COST Action E25 "European Network for long-term Forest Ecosystem and Landscape Research. Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. 37 pp. Mårell A., Laroussinie O., Kräuchi N., Matteucci G. [et al.], 2002. Scientific Issues Related to Sustainable Forest Management in an Ecosystem and Landscape Perspective. Technical Report No. 1. Working Group 1. COST Action E25 "European Network for long-term Forest Ecosystem and Landscape Research". Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities. 43 pp. Links European Network for a long-term Forest Ecosystem and Landscape Research Programme ENFORS European Forest Ecosystem Research Network EFERN

Project "European Network for long-term Forest Ecosystem and Landscape Research ENFORS" - Project duration: 2001 - 2005 The success of scientific international co-operative programmes such as the Long-term forest Ecosystem Research LWF depends on an unprecedented sharing of scientific data and information. Please check our Data access policy.