Task Force meetings ICP Vegetation

1. Task Force meetings ICP Vegetation ICP VEGETATION • 24th meeting, 31 January – 2 February 2011 • Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland • 68 experts from 26 countries, including 3 EECCA countries, 7 • countries SEE, Egypt, Pakistan, India, South-Africa • Progress 2011 workplan & development workplan 2012-2014 • 25th meeting, 31 January – 2 February 2012 • Brescia, Italy • 31 January: Ozone workshop on • ‘Applying the flux method at the national and local scale’ 30th

2. Medium-term workplan ICP VEGETATION • 2012 – Report on: • Supporting evidence for O3 impacts on vegetation • O3 impacts on carbon sequestration • Progress European moss survey 2010/11 • Relationship between i) heavy metal and ii) nitrogen • concentrations in mosses and impacts on ecosystems • 2013 – Report on: • Supporting evidence for O3 impacts on vegetation • O3 impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services • European moss survey 2010/11 • Pilot study of mosses as biomonitors of POPs • 2014 (tentatively) – Report on: • Supporting evidence for O3 impacts on vegetation • O3 flux-based critical levels for additional plant species • O3 impacts on vegetation in a changing climate 30th

3. Implementation guidelines ICP VEGETATION Monitoring and modelling reported by ICP Vegetation 30th

4. Activities across continents/regions ICP VEGETATION Number of countries participating 30th

5. Publications ICP VEGETATION Ozone:3 papers (Evidence report, new flux-based critical levels, potential for crop management to mitigate impacts on food supply) Heavy metals in mosses: 3 papers (Spatial and temporal trends 1990 – 2005, factors determining concentrations in mosses). Nitrogen in mosses: 2 papers (Spatial patterns 2005, factors determining concentrations in mosses) 30th