The ClimMani project

ClimMani is a Research Networking Programme under the European Science Foundation (ESF). ClimMani involves at present 14 European countries and links more than 50 climate change related field scale experiments. ClimMani is networking with similar experiments and activities in US and Australia.

ClimMani aims to provide an umbrella for coordinated activities bringing together researchers, data and knowledge from past and ongoing European climate manipulation research projects in order to synthesise the knowledge and improve ecosystem models.

New call for short visits and exchange grants
Deadline 1st April 2012 - see application procedure

WORKSHOP IN CROATIA COMING UP SOON: CLIMMANI is organising a workshop on "Extreme weather conditions and consequences for terrestrial ecosystems" in Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 5-8th 2012

Details on the workshop will follow soon

CLIMMANI organised a conference/workshop on "Nutrient constraints on the net carbon balance" in Keflavik, Iceland, June 15-17th 2011 together with the US network INTERFACE

The workshop included sessions on:

• Carbon availability as a control of carbon sequestration

• Nitrogen limitation and nitrogen fixation

• Phosphorus limitations to plant growth and microbial processes

• Acidity and base cation availability as a controlling factor on soil carbon sequestration

• Ecological adaptation and its impacts, interactions and controls on resource availability

• Nitrogen limitation as a controlling factor for soil carbon dynamics

See presentations.

Young scientists Workshop on "terrestrial ecosystem responses to climate change" - September 2011. Apply to participate:
CLIMMANI sponsored a two-week workshop focused on analyzing responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climate manipulation (week 1) and on writing a review based on these findings (week 2). This workshop was held in Belgium in September 2011 and was organized by Ivan Janssens. To foster knowledge transfer to younger generations, early-career researchers was invited to participate in this writing workshop.

New climate change experiments META-database:
A new meta database for climate change experiments are available here - please register your experiment. Site, project, treatments, response measurements, data status, site characteristics, key reference, contacts person etc. here