List of ISS

Six ISSs covering boreal, temperate, mediterranean, alpine and riparian ecosystems, as well as one fully untouched ecosystem and one intensively managed site, have been selected in Europe.

Six ISSs covering boreal, temperate, mediterranean, alpine and riparian ecosystems, as well as one fully untouched ecosystem and one intensively managed site, have been selected in Europe.

Overview

	Blizyn	Calderona-Espadán	Landes	Loire	Punkaharju	Solling	Valais	Ventoux
Geography
Country	Poland	Spain	France	France	Finland	Germany	Switzerland	France
Elevation	320m	300m	46m	85m	90m	300m	1250m	800m
Total Area	17,329 ha	49,259 ha	25,600 ha	96 ha	1,500 ha	25,000 ha	150,000 ha	29,000 ha
Ecology
Climate	temperate	mediterranean	temperate	riparian	boreal	temperate	alpine	mediterranean
Ecosystem	untouched		intensively managed		untouched / intensively managed	predominantly intensively managed	managed
Model & Target Tree Species	Abies, Acer, Alnus, Betula, Carpinus, Corylus, Crataegus, Fagus, Fraxinus, Larix, Picea, Pinus, Populus, Prunus, Quercus, Salix, Sorbus, Tilia, Ulmus	Pinus, Quercus	Alnus, Betula, Castanea, Corylus, Crataegus, Fagus, Fraxinus, Pinus, Prunus, Quercus, Salix, Sorbus	Acer, Alnus, Castanea, Corylus, Crataegus, Fraxinus, Populus, Prunus, Quercus, Salix, Tilia, Ulmus	Abies, Acer, Alnus, Betula, Larix, Picea, Pinus, Populus, Prunus, Quercus, Salix, Sorbus, Tilia	Betula, Fagus, Larix, Quercus, Picea, Pinus	Abies, Acer, Alnus, Betula, Carpinus, Corylus, Crataegus, Fagus, Fraxinus, Larix, Picea, Pinus, Populus, Prunus, Quercus, Salix, Sorbus, Tilia, Ulmus	Abies, Acer, Alnus, Betual, Castanea, Carpinus, Cedrus, Corylus, Crataegus, Fagus, Larix, Picea, Pinus, Quercus, Sorbus
Legal status
Partner	IBL	INIA	INRA	INRA	UOULU	UGOE	WSL	INRA
Ownership	public	public/private	mainly private	public	public	mainly public	public/private	mainly public
Protection	includes two nature reserves	Natural park	Natura 2000	includes nature reserve / gene conservation unit (P. nigra)	includes nature reserve / gene conservation units (P. sylvestris, A; platanoides, T. cordata)		includes protected area (UNESCO world heritage Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn)	includes nature reserve / Natura 2000 / gene conservation unit (Abies)
Relation to other networks		EU 2000 Networks, National Inventory, Forest Monitoring Network, EUFORGEN Conservation units	FORESEE	LTER - ZA (Loire)	ICP-Forests	LTER-Europe, ILTER, ICP-Forests	ICP-Forests, ILTER, SENSOR-IP, BDM, ALTERNET	UNESCO-MAB, ENFOR

Projects

Research projects conducted in the EVOLTREE ISS                                                             Download Project Overview

Project	Blyzin	Calderona	Landes	Loire	Punkaharju	Solling	Valais	Ventoux
Permanent Samples
P. sylvestris
EVOLTREE Beech
EVOLTREE CommuniTree
EVOLTREE Insects
EVOLTREE Water
EVOLTREE Beech Pheno
EVOLTREE RegenPop
EVOLTREE Fir
EVOLTREE CompModel
EVOLTREE RecipTranspl
EVOLTREE Oaks
LINKTREE
FORGER
TIPTREE
Trees4Future
FLAG
DYSESAL
BIOMAREAU
National DFG
ADAPT
RAIN-SHELTER
QuercAdapt
GRAAL
FORADAPT
TreeType
INFORMED
ADAPCON
PHENOPIN

as of Sept. 2013

Permanent Samples

Individual trees mapped in situ, the DNA is available in the Repository Center

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Species	Blizyn	Calderona	Landes	Loire	Punkaharju	Solling	Valais	Ventoux	Total
Abies alba	506							1800	2306
Alnus glutinosa	51								51
Betula pendula	55								55
Fagus sylvatica	203					629		1400	2232
Larix sp.	50								50
Malus sylvestris	21								21
Picea abies	51				500	200			751
Pinus sylvestris	511				770		630		1911
Populus nigra				400					400
Quercus sp.	118		1500		50	500	504	500	3172
Ulmus laevis	1								1
Fagus, Pinus, Quercus (gradient mixed)								190	190
Abies, Fagus, Pinus (gradient mixed)								200	200

as of Sept. 2013

Contact

ISS	Contact
All	Egbert Beuker (ISS Coordinator)	LUKE, Punkaharju (Finland)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Blizyn	Jan Kowalcyk	IBL, Raszyn (Poland)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Jan Matras	IBL, Raszyn (Poland)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Calderona-Espadán	Ricardo Alía	INIA, Madrid (Spain)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Landes	Antoine Kremer	INRA, Bordeaux (France)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Loire	Marc Villar	INRA, Orléans (France)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Punkaharju	Egbert Beuker	LUKE, Punkaharju (Finland)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
	Tiina Tynkkynen	LUKE, Vantaa (Finland)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Solling	Martin Ziehe	UGOE, Göttingen (Germany)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Valais	Martina Peter	WSL, Birmensdorf (Switzerland)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Felix Gugerli	WSL, Birmensdorf (Switzerland)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ventoux	Christian Pichot	INRA, Avignon (France)	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.