Matteucci forest monitoring

LIFE+ EMoNFUr meeting

14-15 May 2012, Ljubliana, Slovenia

Forest monitoring in Europe:

What can we learn and use

for monitoring Urban Forests

Giorgio Matteucci, CNR-ISAFOM, Italy

Primoz Simoncic, SFI, Slovenia

Forest monitoring in Europe

and urban forests



Matteucci G., Simoncic P. Forest monitoring in Europe and UF

6000 sample points

(Level I )

Monitoring in Europe (ICP-Forests)

Level II, ~ 800 plotsAim: status and trends of parameters

Common, clear, shared protocols (science into practice)

Lot of plots, statistical design (sometimes)

Continuity (but: need of national support)

Database

Process understanding often inferential

Data for modelling/validation and use of models

Integrated and combined data evaluation powerful but

relatively “slow”

Research

Aim: process understanding/proactive

Methods development (advancement of science)

Statistical sampling

Rely on projects, sometimes discontinuous

Relatively few plots (particularly when complex and costly)

Development of models

Database

Scale issues

Integrated evaluation of data powerful and “fast”

Studying Urban forests

Something in the middle? (monitoring-research)

Define the scope

Basic and structural features

Response to pressure (e.g. polluttants)

Process understanding (how they function)

Impact/role for urban environment

Do not reinvent the wheel…….

Use of established protocol unless UF peculiarities

o comparability, extension of other networks

Process understanding (how they function)

Relevance for public, policy, ecosystem services



Monitoring basic

and more in-depth parameters/variables




Basic features: characterise forest structures and main attributes

INFC, 2005 www.infc.it

Example: Protocol of

the Italian NFI

More intensive monitoring: the ICP-Forests example

Level II, ~ 800 plots

Outline of a typical ICP-Forests plot 1/2

ozone passive

sampler

analysis area (50 50)

buffer zonefence

meteo

station

fenced

bulk

collectors

stemflow

collectors

litter

collectors

grid (10 10)

service

corridor

service

square

ANALYSIS AREA

SERVICE AREAS

BUFFER ZONE

Outline of a typical ICP-Forests plot 2/2

Do we need a sampling “design”?

Example from LIFE+ ManFor C.BD




SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND SAMPLING DESIGN

FOR THE POSITIONING OF SILVICULTURAL OPTIONS,

BIODIVERSITY AND CARBON MONITORING

Phase 1) Plots positioning

173,20 m3 ha

N

STEP 1



173,20 m3 ha

N

STEP 2

STEP 1

Phase 1) Plots positioning

SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND SAMPLING DESIGN FOR THE POSITIONING

OF SILVICULTURAL OPTIONS, BIODIVERSITY AND CARBON MONITORING



STEP 3

173,20 m3 ha

N

STEP 1

STEP 2



Phase 1+) Plots and sampling areas positioning



STEP 3

173,20 m3 ha

N

STEP 1

STEP 2



Phase 1+) Scheme of sampling areas



Issues and topics

specific for Urban Forests




Some issues more specific for/to Urban Forests

Remote+proximal sensing: diversity, health status

Impact and relevance of visitors

Trampling (e.g. vegetation diversity)

o monitor changes in time

o possible “reserved areas”

Services provided to public (e.g.

running, freshness, landscape, walking)

Citizen science

Other ecosystem services

Vicinity to cities

Point source for pollution

o Deposition and impact on forest+vegetation

Presence of species with potential allergic pollens

Presence of Volatile Organic Compound emitters

Impact on local climate (and from local climate)

TOS1

Colognole

Remote and proximal sensing: example from ICP-Forest

Quercus ilex

Quercus

petraea

Fraxinus

ornusArbutus

unedo

Quercus

virgilianaCROWN

PROJECTION

MAP

1:250 scale

TOS1

Colognole

Remote and proximal sensing: example from ICP-Forest

Going further?




The earth reactor

Monoterpenes

The earth reactor

VOC+ NOx

BVOC

BVOC

Monoterpenes

The earth reactor

Courtesy of Grignetti et al. 1997

•41 40' 49.3'' N, 12 23' 30.6'‘ E

• 6000 ha

• 25 km from Rome

• From sand dunes to

macchia, evergreen and deciduous

natural forests, pine

plantation, grasslands

Castelporziano, Roma

Fluxes of CO2 – H2O - BVOC – O3 -

NOx

Ozone concentrations

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4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Day (May - June 2007)

O3 c

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on

(p

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EMEP station, Montelibretti Castelporziano

Lower concentrations at Castelporziano compared to Montelibretti (40 km inland)

No significant contribution of Castelporziano forest to ozone formation through BVOCS

Relatively high night O3 values in Castelporziano related to land breeze from Rome

Periodo di

misura

Castelporziano

Montelibretti

Fares et al., 2010 BG

Multilevel Research and Monitoring Platforms

To study processes and responses to natural and anthropogenic disturbances

Define the scope

Test a protocol and tailor it if necessary (learnig by doing)

Refer to existing protocols

Develop specific protocols for UF specific issues

Try to produce a concept of different intensity of monitoring (up to

experimental urban forest)

Urban forests are green infrastructures: if monitored and studied,

they become also a research infrastructure

The “scientific” space for this topic is open: EMoNFUr can fill it!!!

Some final reflections

Thanks for your attention!!!!

http://www.manfor.eu

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