Abstract
As with the other Working Groups, Working Group II set out to generate transfer of ideas, concepts and methodologies amongst the Participants in the Action through (a) movements of young scientists from centre to centre for up to three months via the programmes of Short Term Missions, (b) through short training courses, and (c) through discussion meetings, held in general alongside the other two Working Groups and meetings of the Management Committee. The scientific content of these activities was quite widely spread within the overall framework of the Action, but there were certain timely issues on which the focus dwelt during the course of the Action. Initially these related to water and nutrient stress but as time went by issues surfaced that were not evident at the time of initiation of the Action. For example, in December 1997 the Kyoto Protocol emerged from the r Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change with an emphasis in Article 3.3 on the change in stock of carbon in managed forest ecosystems; the Afforestation, Reforestation and Deforestation (ARD) article (Steffen et al. 1998). This led during the latter part of the Action to an enhanced emphasis on processes in forest soils where much of the stock of carbon in forest ecosystems is stored. This brief review is of necessity highly selective, focussing on just a few of the issues addressed by WG II.
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Jarvis, P.G., Linder, S., Huttunen, S. (2001). Water, Nutrients and Carbon; Altitude and Ageing. In: Huttunen, S., Heikkilä, H., Bucher, J., Sundberg, B., Jarvis, P., Matyssek, R. (eds) Trends in European Forest Tree Physiology Research. Tree Physiology, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9803-3_16
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