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Mission and objectives

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Two open-air experimental facilities - where different climate change factors can be manipulated and measured.

Keeping ecosystems healthy is vital for our planet's future, and AnaEE-ERIC is at the forefront of research to understand and protect them. By experimenting with real ecosystems under conditions like pollution and climate change, we provide crucial insights to help predict and mitigate environmental challenges. Our work supports researchers, policymakers, industry, and agriculture in developing sustainable strategies to address global environmental issues.

AnaEE-ERIC (Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems) is a distributed research infrastructure that offers a network of experimental facilities across Europe, equipped with advanced tools for conducting experiments and collecting data on how ecosystems respond to changes like climate change. We will help society to understand how it can adapt and which actions are the most powerful in reducing the climate change impact and mitigating changes in ecosystem functioning.

OUR VISION

To become the international reference organisation for Global Change Ecology, and sustainable services from ecosystems.


OUR MISSION

Understand how anthropic drivers such as climate change affect ecosystem functions and services. AnaEE provides a novel approach by simulating future climate conditions, and other drivers such as management methods to address ecological sustainability challenges for Europe.

OUR OBJECTIVE

AnaEE operates a pan-European network of facilities in experimental ecology that is open to the scientific community and other stakeholders such as the industry, land managers and the farming community. AnaEE applies the full scientific experimental method "modelling - manipulating - measuring". Our network features all European climates from sub-Arctic to overseas, and includes all types of ecosystems including managed and unmanaged land, freshwaters and lakes, forests, wetland, shrubland and more. The installations are either in the open-air or enclosed in simulation chambers (ecotrons). AnaEE offers access to models to check and interpret results from experiments, and to analytical facilities. AnaEE provide expertise and guidance to the stakeholders, including farmers, industry, land managers and policy makers on how to adapt and mitigate ecosystems under pressure from global change.

Submitted on August 1, 2024

Updated on October 15, 2024