Main activities

ClimMani will initiate a series of activities to obtain its goals. These are:

Database
ClimMani has developed a META DATABASE providing registration and search facilities for ecosystem experiments globally. You can register your experiment in the database in order for others to know your experiment and potentially to get access to your data for publications. Go to the data base, register your experiment and fill in the information about the experiment, the responses measured and references to your work. DATABASE here

ClimMani will further establish a comprehensive integrated database that contains data on all manipulation experiments and from both ongoing and past EU research projects as well as from existing national databases. This will be conducted in close collaboration with major exsisting climate change-related projects and provide links to other databases. The database will be available to research communities and modellers on request.

Workshops
In order to analyse our present understanding of ecosystem processes and modelling ecosystem functioning under atmospheric and climatic changes, a series of workshops will be organised. Key researchers and working groups from different disciplines with experimental as well as modelling backgrounds will be invited to assess results from manipulation experiments, evaluate existing literature and databases and identify and discuss progress and developments within climate change research. Workshops will include collaborative meetings with the US networks TERACC and INTERFACE.

Conference
A conference on "Climate-Nutrient interactions – role of resources in controlling climate change responses in ecosystems. Experiments and modelling" in June 2011 held together with the American network TERACC/INTERFACE. If you want to participate or contribute, please contact us.

Working groups
A series of working groups may be initiated according to identified project needs.

Exchange visits
Grants will be made available for short term (2-6 weeks) exchange visits aimed to answer key questions and tasks related to the ClimMani objectives.  The analysing and synthesising of data and results, writing syntheses and/or organising and gap-filling measurements for use in databases will be preferred.