Welcome to the IMPRINT project website!
Impacts of Microclimatic Processes on foRest bIodiversity redistributioN under macroclimaTe warming
NEWS!!
We just acquired a first sample of LiDAR data for the forest of Mormal!
Thanks to our cartographer Emilie, you can freely walk around the millions of 3D points below:
Here is the global project thread:
Beginning of the IMPRINT project
Funding obtained from the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) for 2019 – 2023
See the stakes of the project: Why is it so important to model microclimate?
See the objectives and methods
From -20°C to +50°C
(using a freezer, two cold chambers, a phytotron, an oven…)
See data collection for more detail about the sensors
First field session in the three forests
(Mormal, Blois and Aigoual)
Installing HOBO climatic sensors
Dendrometric surveys
Estimating canopy cover
See study area to learn more about our sampling design
See data collection for more detail about the field protocol
pH measurements
From our soil samples collected on the field
Mobilization of the RENECOFOR network
Installation of TMS sensors by ONF agents:
– in the center of deciduous RENECOFOR plots
– in nearby open, fully lighted environments
Second field session on the three forests
Floristic and faunistic (ground arthropods) surveys
See data collection to know more about biodiversity survey
LiDAR remote sensing
Airborne LiDAR scanning on the three forests
3D Data treatment to obtain fine ground and canopy surface models
Go directly to:
– Photo Gallery (in the lab / in the field)
– Publications scientific & popular science
– Interactive map of our study areas
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