EnvEurope - Environmental quality and pressures assessment across Europe: the LTER network as an integrated and shared system for ecosystem monitoring

Project partners

National Research Council Italy; National Forest Service Italy; University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Senckenberg Research Institutes and Natural History Museums, Germany; Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany; University of Bucharest, Romania; Forest Research and Management Institute Romania; University of Debrecen, Hungary; Hungarian Academy of Sciences; International Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences; Lithuanian University of Agriculture; Federal Environmental Agency Austria; Spanish National Research Council, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Central Laboratory of General Ecology Bulgaria; Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas, Poland

Short description

EnvEurope proposes a design for environmental high quality monitoring and long-term research sites and the exemplary establishment of common parameter sets to be collected across the largest site-based network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research in Europe (LTER Europe), which was recently established (2006) under the auspices of the FP6 Network of Excellence ALTER-Net, building on existing infrastructures and thus a lot of valuable data series.

Benjamin Burkhard completed this project at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel.