Expert Panel on Forest Growth

The Expert Panel has the task to further develop the harmonised monitoring methods in the field of forest growth as laid down in the Manual. The Expert Panel closely cooperates with the Programme Co-ordinating Centre and the data centres in order to contribute to the data evaluation and quality assurance.

Chairpersons

Matthias Dobbertin Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) Zürcherstrasse 111 CH-8903 Birmensdorf, SWITZERLAND Matthias Dobbertin

Markus Neumann (Co-chair) Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW) Seckendorff-Gudentweg 8 A-1131 Wien, AUSTRIA Markus Neumann

Sam Evans (Co-chair) Alice Holt Lodge Wrecclesham Farnham Surrey GU10 4LH, UNITED KINGDOM Sam Evans

Meetings

Minutes from Expert Panel Meeting 2005, Igls, Austria

Presentations, Igls 2005

Neumann: Austria and Austrian forestry at a glance

Lorenz: Submission, management and evaluation of data

Dobbertin: Potential and limitations of permanent stem circumference measurements on level II plots

Bastrup-Birk: Meteorological data, tree growth and modelling relationships on Level II

Beuker: Phenology and seasonal tree growth, how to link both?

Casalegno: Modelling Potential Distribution of European Forest

Raspe: Terminating the Diameter Measurement in Winter Season

Levancic: Results of band dendrometer measurements in Slovenia in 2005

Neumann: More questions than answers; experiences with dendrometer bands in Austria

Dobbertin: (How) can the seasonal beginning of growth (or stem swelling) and its end be determined from electronic dendrometer bands?

Kahle: Detecting anomalies in intra- and interannual radial growth of beech and spruce in the year 2003 by means of dendrometer data

Gartner: Impact of heat and drought of 2003 on ecological conditions and tree growth

Rossler: Experiences from growth assessments on long term experimental plots