Platforms

Open-air ecosystem platforms comprise the predominant land use types of European continental ecosystems including managed and unmanaged ecosystem types as well as terrestrial aquatic ecosystems transecting Europe’s climatic zones.

Enclosed ecosystem platforms (such as Ecotron) complement open-air platforms by enabling a higher level of environmental control and process measurement on ecosystems.

Analytical platforms offer advanced biological, physical and chemical analyses for a deeper insight into processes.

Modelling platforms give access to existing, state of the art, numerical models and to advanced software facilities for model development (model factories) that will improve data analysis and synthesis and allow predictions of the responses of ecosystems to global changes.