ENVEUROPE project
Programme: LIFE PLUS 2008
Project Title: Environmental quality and pressure assessment across Europe: the LTER network as an integrated and shared system for ecosystem monitoring
Acronym: EnvEurope
Duration: 2010-2013
Total Budget : € 6.067.876
Web site: www.enveurope.eu
Summary: The main target of the project is the analysis of the ecosystem status and the definition of appropriate environmental quality indicators with an integrated long-term, broad scale, cross-domain (terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems) approach, joining the efforts of 11 countries belonging to the LTER Europe network.
EnvEurope proposes the design of environmental quality monitoring and research sites and the establishing of common parameter sets to be collected across the largest network of long-term ecological research sites in Europe.
Focusing on three types of ecosystems (terrestrial, freshwater and marine) it aims at defining measures relevant to different scales of investigation, with specific monitoring intensities and with methods adjusted to the respective assessment intensity, implementing a multi-level and multi-functional approach.
A further target of the project is the selection of a core list of ecological parameters, indicators and indexes, useful to analyze, compare and report environmental quality in the international context.
Contact person in ISMAR: alessandra.pugnetti@ismar.cnr.it
Partnership
1. National Research Council - CNR/ISMAR - Italy
2. National Forest Service – CONECOFOR - Italy
3. University of Jyväskylä -JYU - Finland
4. Senckenberg, Research Institutes and Natural History Museums -
SENCK -Germany
5. Helmholtz, Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ - Germany
6. University of Bucharest, Department of Ecology – UNIBUC - Romania
7. Forest Research and Management Institute – ICAS - Romania
8. University of Debrecen – UNIDEB - Hungary
9. Hungarian Academy of Sciences – HAS - Hungary
10. European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology U/A Unesco,
International Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences - ERCE - Poland
11. Lithuanian University of Agriculture – LUA - Lithuania
12. Federal Environmental Agency - UBA - Austria
13. Spanish National Research Council - CSIC - Spain
14. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences - SLU -Sweden
15. Central Laboratory of General Ecology- CLGE - Bulgaria
16. Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas – IETU - Poland
