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[ID: 315] Spore monitoring at the experimental forests
PI: Åke Olson
Spore traps are installed in connection to the forest experimental forests and are being used for ongoing monitoring of existing and new airborne fungal spores. The operation is conducted in collaboration with the Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology. The traps are located adjacent to the experimental forests climate monitoring stations to synergize the two programmes. This monitoring activity could be developed and expanded, but the question is where and how to collect spores to fulfil a wide array of research interests needs to be further investigated. A pilot study with varying trap placement and sample collection would be an important piece of the puzzle in developing our methods and this type of monitoring.
[ID: 300] LifePlan
PI: Jenny Viklund
Poor understanding of biodiversity and its drivers due to 1) lack of relevant data 2) complex processes underlying the biodiversity dynamics and lack of tools for converting the data that we have into a true understanding of the processes behind them. The aim with LIFEPLAN is to overcome both these hurdles by bringing together the key expertise needed to generate and interpret Big Ecological Data for a global synthesis of biotic patterning across our planet uniting community ecology, methods for automated species recognition, and Bayesian statistics for immense data. The LIFEPLAN venture will generate a well-standardized global data for a substantial proportion of all species. Such standardization is achieved through semi-automated methods, producing comparable data independent of the exact expertise of the person or team conducting the sampling. Based on a recent revolution in sampling methodology, such a sampling design is now finally achievable.
[ID: 205] Sarkanenä ecological compensation area
PI: Olov Tranberg
Project aims to monitor biodiversity of saproxylic organisms in translocation of deadwood as means to improve ecological compensation. 700 logs of old deadwood and felled living trees were translocated into 30 experimental plots (including 10 controlls) in Sarkanenä, distributed at different deadwood densities. 10 randomly selected plots in Ätnarova works as a reference landscape.
[ID: 204] Ätnarova reference landscape
PI: Olov Tranberg
Project aims to monitor biodiversity of saproxylic organisms in translocation of deadwood as means to improve ecological compensation. 700 logs of old deadwood and felled living trees were translocated into 30 experimental plots (including 10 controlls) in Sarkanenä, distributed at different deadwood densities. 10 randomly selected plots in Ätnarova works as a reference landscape.