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Institute of

WO Forest Ecosystems

Project

eForest

Lead Institute WO Institute of Forest Ecosystems

Harmonised Data and Services for the European Forest Data Centre

eForest is a platform for projects between the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the „European National Forest Inventory Network“ Consortium (ENFIN). eForest aims in supporting and enhancing the basic knowledge of the European Forest Data Centre (EFDAC)

Background and Objective

The implementation of EFDAC supports data hamonisation, publishing of harmonised data, espacially for international commitment needs, i.e.:

  • Ministerial Conference of theProtection of Forest in Europe(MCPFE)
  • FAO Global Forest ResourcesAssessment (GFRA)
  • UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Target Group

The European Forest Data Centre (EFDAC) hosted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission was established to supply European Union decision-makers with processed, quality checked and timely policy relevant forest data and information within the EU and territories where EU policies are operating.

Approach

Within this Framework Contract further Special Contracts will be established. These Special Contracts (SC) focus on specific data needs defined by Joint research Centre of the European Commission.

The Thünen-Institute (TI-WO) act in several SC as data provider and/or partly as coordinator. These SCs focus on special tasks and approaches, i.e.:

SC3 to SC8 – feasibility studies to use NFI data to enhance european forest maps, develope maps of species distribution and to implement universal estimation procedures for European harmonised estimates for different regions and visualization of different indicators.

SC13 – TI-WO is coordinator the project, which aims to develop a harmonised definition of above ground biomass in Europe and to estimate the amount of biomass for different regions in the EU using data from the National Forest Inventories (NFI).
 SC14 – TI-WO acts as a partner in this project to enhance the core software module of the European Forestry  Dynamics Model (EFDM).
SC 17 “Use of National Forest Inventories data to estimate biomass in the European Forests” is a continuation to SC 13 for nine more countries.

Links and Downloads

forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/efdac/

www.enfin.info

Thünen-Contact

Dr. Thomas Riedel

Telephone
+49 3334 3820 315
thomas.riedel@thuenen.de
WO Institute of Forest Ecosystems

Involved Thünen-Partners

Involved external Thünen-Partners

  • Federal Research and Training Centre of Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape - BFW
    (Wien, Österreich)
  • Forest Management Institute - UHUL
    (Brandýs nad Labem, Tschechische Republik)
  • Estonian Environment Information Centre - National Forest Inventory
    (Tallinn, Estland)
  • Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla
    (Rovaniemi, Joensuu, Muhos, Finnland)
  • Forest Inventory, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
    (Dublin, Irland)
  • National Council for Agricultural Research CRA
    (Rom, Italien)
  • Latvian State Forest Research Institute - LSFRI, Silava
    (Salaspils, Lettland)
  • Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute
    (Ås , Norwegen)
  • Instituto Superior de Agronomia
    (Lisboa, Portugal)
  • Forest Research and Management Institute - ICAS
    (Bukarest, Ilfov, Rumänien)
  • National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute
    (Zvolen, Slowakei)
  • Probos
    (Wageningen, Niederlande)
  • Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia - CTFC
    (Solsona, Spanien)
  • Swedish University of Agricultural Science - SLU
    (Uppsala, Lysekil, Schweden)
  • Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft (WSL)
    (Zürich, Birmensdorf, Schweiz)
  • Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière - IGN
    (Saint-Mandé, Frankreich)

Funding Body

  • European Union (EU)
    (international, öffentlich)

Duration

12.2012 - 12.2016

More Information

Project funding number: Contract Number 388432
Project status: finished

Publications

  1. 0

    Gschwantner T, Alberdi I, Bauwens S, Bender S, Borota D, Bosela M, Bouriaud O, Breidenbach J, Donis J, Fischer C, Gasparini P, Heffernan L, Herve J-C, Kolozs L, Korhonen KT, Koutsias N, Kovacsevics P, Kucera M, Kulbokas G, Riedel T, et al (2022) Growing stock monitoring by European National Forest Inventories: Historical origins, current methods and harmonisation. Forest Ecol Manag 505:119868, DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119868

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn064470.pdf

  2. 1

    Alberdi I, Bender S, Riedel T, Avitable V, Bouriaud O, Bosela M, Camia A, Cañellas I, Castro Rego F, Fischer C, Freudenschuß A, Fridman J, Gasparini P, Gschwantner T, Guerrero S, Kjartansson BT, Kucera M, Lanz A, Marin G, Mubareka S, et al (2020) Assessing forest availability for wood supply in Europe. Forest Pol Econ 111:102032, DOI:10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102032

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn061610.pdf

  3. 2

    Röhling S, Demant B, Dunger K, Neubauer M, Oehmichen K, Riedel T, Stümer W (2019) Equations for estimating belowground biomass of Silver Birch, Oak and Scots Pine in Germany. iForest 12(2):166-172, DOI:10.3832/ifor2862-012

  4. 3

    Gschwantner T, Alberdi I, Balazs A, Bauwens S, Bender S, Borota D, Bosela M, Bouriaud O, Cañellas I, Donis J, Freudenschuß A, Herve J-C, Hladnik D, Jansons J, Kolozs L, Korhonen KT, Kucera M, Kulbokas G, Kuliesis A, Riedel T, et al (2019) Harmonisation of stem volume estimates in European National Forest Inventories. Ann Forest Sci 76:24, DOI:10.1007/s13595-019-0800-8

  5. 4

    Riedel T, Hennig P, Kroiher F, Polley H, Schmitz F, Schwitzgebel F (2017) Die dritte Bundeswaldinventur : BWI 2012 ; Inventur- und Auswertungsmethoden. Berlin: Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft (BMEL), 115 p

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn060229.pdf

  6. 5

    Redmond JJ, Gschwantner T, Riedel T, Alberdi I, Vidal C, Bosela M, Fischer C, Hernández L, Kucera M, Kuliesis A, Tomter SM, Westman M, Lanz A (2016) Comparison of wood resource assessment in National Forest Inventories. In: Vidal C, Alberdi I, Hernández L, Redmond JJ (eds) National forest inventories : assessment of wood availability and use. Cham: Springer International Publ, pp 25-53, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-44015-6_2

  7. 6

    Riedel T, Polley H, Klatt S (2016) Germany. In: Vidal C, Alberdi I, Hernández L, Redmond JJ (eds) National forest inventories : assessment of wood availability and use. Cham: Springer International Publ, pp 405-421, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-44015-6_21

  8. 7

    Alberdi I, Gschwantner T, Bosela M, Redmond JJ, Riedel T, Snorrason A, Gasparini P, Braendli UB, Fridman J, Tomter SM, Kulbokas G, Lanz A (2016) Harmonisation of data and information on the potential supply of wood resources. In: Vidal C, Alberdi I, Hernández L, Redmond JJ (eds) National forest inventories : assessment of wood availability and use. Cham: Springer International Publ, pp 55-79

  9. 8

    Henning L, Lanz A, Riedel T (2016) Use of National Forest Inventory data to estimate biomass in the European forests. In: Kohler M, Csapek G, Bauhus J (eds) FowiTa : 14. Forstwissenschaftliche Tagung 2016 Freiburg im Breisgau ; Abstracts ; 16. bis 29. September 2016. Freiburg im Breisgau: Professur für Waldbau, p 154

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