REsource INFrastructures for monitoring, adapting and protecting European Atlantic FORests under changing ClimatE 2

Climate change, with drought, fire and windstorm, threatens the Atlantic area’s key resource of fast-growing forest and associated biodiversity. Policy makers and foresters are concerned about managing current forests and what to plant to ensure trees that survive climate change.

REINFFORCE2 will provide solutions thanks to the climatic gradient along the Interreg Atlantic area to anticipate climate change effects on coastal forests, simulating a global warming of 6°C. The project will capitalise (WP1) on field trials installed with Interreg Atlantic area in 2012, analysing big data collected with new IT and AI tools (WP2) such as drones and sensors not available 10 years ago, enhance the REINFFORCE1 infrastructure, adding new trials dedicated to the adaptation of forests to climate change, building new links with partners further south to anticipate very warm climates (WP3&4) and validating and promoting solutions on how to adapt forests to secure resources for forest-based sectors.