Interaction with other EU research Infrastructures Projects
The development of a new instrument for ecosystem study such ANAEE has to be complementary with other instruments and programmes already developed in Europe, and not in concurrence with them.
A task is specially dedicated to this relation under the ANAEE Design Study (
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- ALTER-Net Network of Excellence. This programme aims at analysing interactions at territorial level between ecosystems and human activity. This corresponds to a problem-based approach for identifying acceptable solution for society. ANAEE infrastructure corresponds to a process-based approach for analysis the consequence of manipulation of ecosystems. So it appears essential to establish interfaces and interactions between these two types of approach operating at different scale
- LIFEWATCH Infrastructure will be strongly linked with ALTER-Net sites and activities. ANAEE will bring to LIFEWATCH information on responses of ecosystems and biodiversity to manipulated environmental variables within in situ and ex-situ sites. This will be a significant complementarity to the analysis of the linkage between species and ecosystem level data gained through the analysis across sites planned in LIFEWATCH.
- Collaboration with the ICOS Infrastructure will be established. Data and models on the impact of environmental variables on carbon and other greenhouse gazes obtained in situ and ex situ through ANAEE experiments will complement the data from the carbon observatories maintained through ICOS. Some of the long term measurements of gaseous emission fluxes realised within the LTEPs of ANAEE could advantageously be included in the ICOS database.
- NOHA The hydrological observatories will consist of a set of well-instrumented and monitored, hierarchically nested river basins using novel technologies across gradients of expected climate change in Europe. NOHA will contribute to our understanding of Global Change impacts on, e.g. flood risk and water availability, by providing high quality data from different hydro-meteorological regimes in Europe. NOHA will provide long-term statistical series of system variable measurements for the analysis and prognosis of Global Change consequences using integrated model systems. These data will be used to derive efficient prevention, mitigation and adaptation strategies and to support the implementation of the Water Framework Directive
SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES:
The ANAEE infrastructure will not have capacity to develop socio-economic issues. Nevertheless, as presented on Figure below, the interactions developed between ANAEE and other EU programmes operating at larger scales could allow the accounting for socio-economic problems. So ANAEE should be integrated a large cluster of EU programmes dealing with analysis of socio-economics impacts of ecosystems modifications through human activities, and elaboration of environmental policies for restoration of ecosystem services.
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