Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring – A white paper

Zweifel, Roman; Pappas, Christoforos; Peters, Richard L; Babst, Flurin; Balanzategui, Daniel; Basler, David; Bastos, Ana; Beloiu, Mirela; Buchmann, Nina; Bose, Arun K; Braun, Sabine; Damm, Alexander; D'Odorico, Petra; Eitel, Jan U H; Etzold, Sophia; Fonti, Patrick; Rouholahnejad Freund, Elham; Gessler, Arthur; Haeni, Matthias; Hoch, Günter

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162167

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Zweifel, R., Pappas, C., Peters, R. L., Babst, F., Balanzategui, D., Basler, D., Bastos, A., Beloiu, M., Buchmann, N., Bose, A. K., Braun, S., Damm, A., D’Odorico, P., Eitel, J. U. H., Etzold, S., Fonti, P., Rouholahnejad Freund, E., Gessler, A., Haeni, M., … et al. (2023). Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring – A white paper. Science of the Total Environment, 872, 162167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162167

Abstract

Forests account for nearly 90 % of the world's terrestrial biomass in the form of carbon and they support 80 % of the global biodiversity. To understand the underlying forest dynamics, we need a long-term but also relatively high-frequency, networked monitoring system, as traditionally used in meteorology or hydrology. While there are numerous existing forest monitoring sites, particularly in temperate regions, the resulting data streams are rarely connected and do not provide information promptly, which hampers real-time assessments