Group 1: Impacts

Key issue and tasks

Key issue

The issues will be discussed all through the Working Group meetings. The preliminary list of several key issues could be read below.

• Assessment of past impacts on trees, soil, biodiversity and the forest sector
• Ecosystem functioning: water, carbon and nutrient cycles, productivity, and resistance to drought as a part of the water cycle
• Ecosystem dynamics: phenology, length of the growing season, distribution of species, population genetics …
• Natural disturbance regime and hazards: insects, pests, droughts, floods, fires, fungi, storms…

Tasks

Year 1: State of knowledge = one report / country

Years 2 & 3: work on key issues

• Monitoring and analysis:
  Models, analyses and scenarios allowing detection, evaluation and understanding of impacts at different spatial and temporal scales or patterns.
  Contributions to the design of a future monitoring taking into account climate change. Criteria and indicators for the evaluation of climate change impacts.
• Impacts management:
  Guidelines to detect/manage crises/opportunities; identification (nature, location) of risks; crisis and die-back management and communication.
  Valuation methods of present/future losses/gains and losers/winners. Methods taking into account forest products and services, market and non market ones. Preference based approaches (multi-criteria analyses) and monetary valuation are two possible approaches.
• Communication

Year 4:	Guidelines and recommendations for managers
	Identification of needs in the future researches and development projects

And throughout the duration of the action: updating the national reports

List of members

Country	Name	Organization	Email
Cyprus	Savvas Andrea	Cyprus Forestry Department	sandrea@fd.moa.gov.cy
Norway	Even Bergseng	Department of ecology and natural resource management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences	even.bergseng@umb.no
Slovenia	Andrej Boncina	University of Ljubljana Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources	andrej.boncina@bf.uni-lj.si
Slovak Republic	Vladimir Caboun	National Forest Centre - Forest research Institute in Zvolen	caboun@nlcsk.org
Spain	Asunción Cámara	Universidad de Oviedo	camara@uniovi.es
Belgium	Matteo Campioli	University of Antwerp, Research Group of Plant and Vegetation Ecology	matteo.campioli@ua.ac.be
Poland	Dorota Dobrowolska	Forest Research Institute	D.Dobrowolska@ibles.waw.pl
Serbia	Zoran Galic	Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment	galicz@uns.ns.ac.yu
France	Guy Landmann	ECOFOR	landmann@gip-ecofor.org
Estonia	Mait Lang	Estonian University of Life Sciences	mait.lang@emu.ee
Italy	Giorgio Matteucci	CNR-ISAFOM	giorgio.matteucci@isafom.cs.cnr.it
Greece	Kalliopi Radoglou	Forest Research Institute, National Agricultural Research Foundation	radoglou@fri.gr
United Kingdom	Duncan Ray	Centre for Human & Ecological Sciences	duncan.ray@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
Switzerland	Martine Rebetez	WSL	rebetez@wsl.ch
Ireland	Mattew Saunders	University College Dublin UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science	matthew.saunders@ucd.ie
Danemark	Jens Peter Skovsgaard	Univ. of Copenhagen	jps@life.ku.dk
Germany	Heinrich Spiecker	Institute for Forest Growth University Freiburg	instww@uni-freiburg.de
Lithuania	Vidas Stakenas	Lithuanian Forest Research Institute	v.stakenas@mi.lt
Finland	Elina Vapaavuori	Finnish Forest Research Institute, Suonenjoki Unit	elina.vapaavuori@metla.fi
Belgium	Caroline Vincke	Laboratory of forest research and engineering, Université catholique de Louvain	caroline.vincke@uclouvain.be
Croatia	Boris Vrbek	Forest Research Institute	borisv@sumins.hr
Czech Republic	Frantisek Zemek	Institute of Systems Biology and Ecology, ASCR, v.v.i.	F.Zemek@usbe.cas.cz
EFI	Marcus Lindner	European Forest Institute	marcus.lindner@efi.int
Finland	Kari Mielikäinen	Finnish Forest Research Institute	kai.mielikainen@metla.fi