Facilities
A key player on addressing the ecological sustainability challenge for Europe
At the core are the distributed facilities that can impose multiple global change drivers to quantify the role of each of these drivers of change and to identify their interactions.
Our network of experimental facilities span national borders and cover all European ecosystems and includes analytical services for complex measurements, as well as modelling platforms.
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Get quick access to our facilities with Direct Access, or dive into a longer-term collaboration through Project Access. Either way, AnaEE-ERIC makes it easy to use our labs, platforms, and expertise for your research.
Explore our catalogue of services – ISIA – which gives easy overview of technical details, easily searchable by keyword or scientific domain and contact details to the facility.
ISIA Catalogue of Services
Our web-based platform developed to manage and catalogue AnaEE-ERIC facilities, services, and resources, particularly in the fields of ecology, biodiversity, environmental sciences, and related research domains.
Enclosed ecosystem facilities, like Ecotrons, complement open-air facilities by offering precise environmental control and advanced ecosystem process measurements. Aquatic facilities are part of the Enclosed and Open air facilities.
They provide a versatile platform for various experimental modes:
- Controlled Exposure Environments: For both short-term and long-term ecosystem studies.
- Ecosystem Analysis: Ecosystems from natural habitats or open-air facilities are temporarily enclosed to study processes in detail.
- Linked Facility Integration: Using real-time microclimate data from open-air facilities to drive climate control in the Ecotron.
- Self-Steering Experiments: A dynamic feedback loop between experiments and models enhances sampling and continuously refines the model.
These facilities enable detailed, adaptive ecosystem research, making them essential for advancing ecological understanding.
AnaEE’s open-air facilities support long-term experiments, lasting decades, to study slow processes and trends in soils and other terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems under realistic conditions. These facilities are unique in their ability to manipulate multiple global change drivers in diverse ecosystems while using advanced tools to assess ecosystem functions, resilience, and tipping points. Aquatic facilities are part of the Enclosed and Open air facilities.
Open-air facilities operate in several modes:
- Standalone Sites: For physical access to plots and ecosystem analysis or remote access to historical samples and data.
- Global Network: Coordinated in situ experiments, lab analyses, and meta-analyses of historical data.
- Scenario Testing: Providing data on long-term global change scenarios compared to model predictions using independent observational or experimental data.
These facilities are vital for understanding ecosystem dynamics and informing future strategies.
AnaEE offers advanced modeling facilities that provide state-of-the-art tools for simulating and analyzing complex environmental systems. These facilities support researchers in addressing challenges posed by rapid climate changes and shifting population dynamics in agriculture, forestry, and environmental science.
Why Modeling:
- Efficient Forecasting: Simulations predict environmental trends and assess the impact of management practices, new species, and climate change.
- Data Validation: Models detect anomalies in field data, enhancing understanding of ecosystem dynamics.
- Informed Decision-Making: Insights guide better experiment designs, monitoring, and long-term planning, benefiting researchers, stakeholders, and policymakers alike.
AnaEE’s modeling resources provide access to cutting-edge numerical models and tools for developing custom models, improving data analysis, and predicting ecosystem responses to global changes.
AnaEE-ERIC’s analytical facilities play a critical role in ecosystem research by offering advanced services that are typically unavailable at experimental facilities. These services are unique, innovative, and essential for the AnaEE community, providing high standards of analysis and integration of cutting-edge methodologies.
Key Services:
- Mobile Facilities: On-site analysis of trace gases (e.g., N2O, CH4, BVOCs) using advanced analyzers and measurement tools like chambers and soil gradients.
- Remote Sensing Facilities: Equipped with imaging sensors (e.g., hyperspectral, LiDAR) and gas analysis tools, often utilizing UAVs or aircraft.
- Advanced Omics Laboratories: Combining techniques such as genomics and metabolomics with open access capacity.
- Food Safety Analytical Services: Testing for toxins, microbial contamination, pesticides, and other food safety concerns.
A word from our Network
Our Facility Managers
AnaEE-ERIC offers its network of research services through direct calls and Horizon Europe.
AnaEE Finland, BoFoReg
In our glass domes, precise environmental scenarios test how forests respond to drought stress and nitrogen deposition. A critical finding shows that elevated CO2 benefits diminish over time as plants compete for light, nutrients, and water.
AnaEE Czech Republic, Bílý Kříž
Forests emit biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), like isoprene and monoterpenes into the atmosphere. The BVOC also prolongs the life-time of methane, and their degradation in the atmosphere leads to CO₂ formation.
AnaEE France, O3HP
Denmark has considerable capacities and several scientific communities. A key societal issue is sustainable and balanced provisioning of ecosystem services under future technological, environmental and climate change.
AnaEE Denmark, Brandbjerg – ECOFluX
We can create July month in January in The Terra Ecotron. By controlling light and temperature we can make any experiment at any moment, independently of the weather conditions outside, and materialise future climate condition, based on models.
AnaEE Belgium, TERRA-Ecotron
AnaEE Bulgaria has long experience of doing research on soil health. Areas with Alluvial-Meadow soil type are identified as high risk due to their soil properties, shallow groundwater and cultivation of crops with intensive fertilization and irrigation.
AnaEE Bulgaria, Tsalapitsa facility
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The winter studies using BoFoReg’s freezing chambers reveal vulnerability in boreal species. While warm winter spells caused deacclimation in seedlings, only spruce demonstrated reacclimation ability—a capacity that diminishes toward spring.