Breakout tour 1 'Interaction between ecosystem and atmosphere' Alterra, Green World Research , is the research institute on research topics as land use, environmental development, remote sensing, water management, climate change impacts and interaction between atmosphere and biosphere. The tour will visit one of the projects that has many links with the BAHC project. The project involves long-term flux measurements in a pine forest. This project involves measurement of carbon dioxide, water and energy fluxes in forest ecosystems measured with the eddy correlation method. Results of these projects are used to determine the carbon absorption of the forests.
Special attention is paid to the experiment site, equipment and available project results.
Breakout tour 2 'Interaction between climate change and flora and fauna' This session will visit Plant Research International , The Environmental Systems Analysis Group and the Laboratory of Entomology. Plant Research International will provide a tour along research facilities and experiment sites and will give insight in their research projects that are related to Global Change and climate change. Plant Research International has extensive knowledge and expertise on the field of interactions between land-use, plant fysics, agricultural production processes and aspects of global change, such as decrease water supply, climate change and increased food demand. These facilities are used to study processes in plant and soil in relation to their local environment, especially CO2 concentration, water supply and nutrient supply. The Environmental Systems Analysis Group is part of Wageningen Institute of Environment and Climate Research.