To mitigate the ongoing ecological and climate crisis, governments and private actors are developing multiple interventions, among which three have large implications on land: (i) conservation of natural ecosystems, (ii) forest and landscapes restoration and afforestation and (iii) non-fossil energy production, through renewable energy infrastructures and the associated minerals mining, and...
Climate change is expected to reshape the seasonal rhythm of grassland productivity across temperate Europe. Using the process-based model Gras-Sim, this study assessed how future warming and associated CO₂ trajectories (+2°C, +3°C, +4°C) may alter the intra-annual distribution of biomass yield in permanent grasslands. Simulations were conducted for contrasting pedoclimatic regions of...
Shifting cultivation and wood extraction have given rise to a vast expansion of secondary forests - i.e. regrowing forests on clearcuts or fallow land – across the wet tropics. These disturbances do not just remove biomass—they transfer nutrients in space and time, with potential implications for the regrowth of secondary forests. Ash pulses, biomass export, leaching, and lateral transport...
The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) Belgium is part of the European ICOS Research Infrastructure, which provides standardized, high-quality observations of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes and concentrations to support climate science and evidence-based policymaking. ICOS Belgium operates a network of ecosystem, atmosphere, and ocean stations covering key biogeographical regions and...
