Background and Objective

The FORGER project aims to integrate and extend existing knowledge to provide science-based recommendations on the management and sustainable use of FGR for EU-policy makers, national stakeholders, forest managers, and managers of natural areas. The project will galvanize around five interconnected objectives:
• synthesize and further develop knowledge from European FGR inventories by linking and extending existing databases to provide the knowledge base to sustain FGR at the pan-European level for stakeholders
• deliver a general monitoring system of forest genetic diversity that can be efficiently and economically applied by all EU Member States
• assess current and future distribution of genetic diversity under a number of forest management scenarios and climate change
• provide an overview of past and current transfer of forest reproductive material across Europe and its consequences for local adaptation
• formulate guidelines and recommendations to sustain forest genetic resources in both gene conservation units and production forests to meet the challenge of a changing environment and societal needs.

Approach

The FORGER project aims to integrate and extend existing knowledge to provide science-based recommendations on the management and sustainable use of FGR for EU-policy makers, national stakeholders, forest managers, and managers of natural areas. The project will galvanize around five interconnected objectives:
• synthesize and further develop knowledge from European FGR inventories by linking and extending existing databases to provide the knowledge base to sustain FGR at the pan-European level for stakeholders
• deliver a general monitoring system of forest genetic diversity that can be efficiently and economically applied by all EU Member States
• assess current and future distribution of genetic diversity under a number of forest management scenarios and climate change
• provide an overview of past and current transfer of forest reproductive material across Europe and its consequences for local adaptation
• formulate guidelines and recommendations to sustain forest genetic resources in both gene conservation units and production forests to meet the challenge of a changing environment and societal needs.