First meeting of the QLSPIMS project

April the 15th
9h30 – General presentation of the project

10h00 – Presentation and discussion on task 1: Deepen the knowledge about the impact of soil nutritional status and soil water availability on tree functioning – carbon assimilation and allocation

11h00 – Presentation and discussion on task 2: Openning a modeling garage, for the set-up of the new generation of phenomenological model suites , and formalizing the response of forest trees and forest ecosystems to environment

12h00 – Lunch

13h00 – 16h00 : Task 2 Modelling Garage – Identification of the main missing processes in forest models for an efficient simulation of C, Water and nutrient cycles (for different species and forest managements – Joana Amaral Paulo will present the modelling work done at ISA – Portugal); Priorities among these processes; Time table and Road map definition

April the 16th
9h30 – 12h00 : Task1 Experimental designs  – Time table for the different operations – Expected growth modifiers and links with Task2 time table and road map.