Extended ICP Integrated Monitoring strategy : an extended monitoring strategy for Integrated Monitoring under the Convention of Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

Abstract

ICP Integrated Monitoring1 has decided to develop its monitoring strategy to include other ecosystem types than forests and to allow a simplified monitoring at differing levels of intensity. The extended monitoring strategy aims at monitoring current and future effects of air pollution on ecosystems across the UNECE area.The extended monitoring program has been developed with three levels of monitoring in ecosystem types other than forests such as grasslands, heathlands, wetlands or coastal habitats:• Level 1: Full ICP IM site. High frequency measurements and catchment based, as stated in the ICP IM Manual. • Level 2: Plot scale with element budgets. Alowing less frequent measurements. • Level 3: Plot scale without element budgets. Aiming for annual measurements, but accepting other temporal resolution, of soil and vegetation. Plant list and abundance, soil and foliage chemistry.We argue that the extended ICP IM monitoring programme will ensure that other ecosystems that are not part of the monitoring of the Air Convention today are monitored with proper methods that provide consistent monitoring within the UNECE area. The extended ICP IM monitoring programme is designed in a way that allows parties to be part of the ICP IM monitoring programme based on their own prerequisites with less intensive monitoring campaigns compared with the full ICP IM monitoring.

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Publisher: ICP Integrated Monitoring

SLU Editors

• Grandin, Ulf

  • Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Kurén Weldon, James

  • Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Geochemistry
Environmental Sciences

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