The DYNAMO Project: An Introduction

摘要

European concerns about the consequences of anthropogenicimpacts on environmental quality have led to the establishment of various dynamic modelling approaches throughwhich the consequences of impacts over time can be assessed. Similarly, throughout Europe, therehas been extensive collection of regional data on "environmental capital" resultingin the production of wide area mapping of environmental quality (soils, land use etc). The aim of the DYNAMOwas to integrate data and models, specifically; (1) to enhance the existing process basedmodels to evaluate the impacts of multiple drivers of environmental change; (2) to evaluate thesemodels at intensively studied (and manipulated) catchments and stands; (3) to scale up in timefrom observations collected over several years to predict the long term impacts over decades,and (4) to scale up in space from the individual site level to regional, National and Europeanscale. The project aims to develop and enhance regional modelling approaches so that European scaleimpacts of acidic deposition, land use (forestry practices) and global change can bedetermined without compromising process level understanding of ecosystem function. The DYNAMO projectcontributes to the EU TERI (Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Initiative) framework of theEnvironment and Climate Programme of the European Commission.