The EU Project MoniFun strives to enhance European Forest Monitoring
Project coordinator
Mehtätalo Lauri (LUKE)
Christoph Fischer
Karin Tessa Hegetschweiler
Marcel Hunziker
Christian Walter Temperli (WSL main contact person)
2024 - 2028
Coopération- Luonnonvarkeskus (LUKE)
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)
- Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA)
- Ústav Pro Hospodářskou Úpravu Lesů Brandýs Nad Labem (UHUL FMI)
- Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.V. (FNR)
- Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (Thünen)
- European Forest Institute (EFI)
- Norsk Institutt for Biookonomi (NIBIO)
- Stichting Wageningen Research (WR)
- Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
- Bundesforschungs- und Ausbildungszentrum für Wald, Naturgefahren und Landschaft (BFW)
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
Co-creating a blueprint of a harmonised European Forest Multifunctionality Monitoring System (MoniFun)
Project Coordinator Lauri Mehtätalo (Natural Resource Institute Finland - LUKE): "The need for such an initiative has arisen due to lack of harmonized European-level information required by policymakers and other stakeholders regarding the multifaceted aspects of forests. These aspects encompass properties related to forest resources, and the connection of forests with society, climate and biodiversity to support progress towards climate action and reversing biodiversity loss." The initiative will use a multi-actor approach to ensure the wide applicability of the monitoring system, addressing the information needs of various stakeholders. The project aims at mapping the information needs and responding to these using data from remote sensing, national forest inventories and other data sources. WSL is responsible for two tasks in WP2 on quantifiying ecosystem service provision and determining their societal demands.