Background
 

There is renewed interest in the development of integrated infrastructures for terrestrial ecosystem research at the European scale. This is driven partly by the increasingly important science and policy agendas of land use and climate change, and partly by the availability of new technologies that are both essential to drive forward the science, but are too expensive to be developed in an uncoordinated way.

The ANalysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems (ANAEE) project is a design study, funded by Framework 7 to look how such infrastructures should be developed. ANAEE has focussed on four kinds of research platforms that will enable the experimental study of ecosystem responses to change, though they would all be linked: long-term, field scale experiments; controlled-environmental ecotrons; analytical facilities and data management and modelling infrastructure.

This final meeting of the ANAEE project seeks to look at both the science issues involved in experimental ecosystem research and the infrastructure required to enable such research, setting the scene for a major leap forward in Europe’s research capability.

OBJECTIVES OF MEETING

 
• To bring together new thinking in experimental terrestrial ecosystem research, that enables a more integrative, quantitative approach to the ecosystem change and its management under changing climatic and socio-economic conditions
• Present findings of ANAEE working groups 
• Discuss the requirement for European research infrastructure in enabling next generation research

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