Summary
VOCBAS will implement, support, and coordinate a series of research activities involving atmospheric chemists, plant biologists, pathologists, entomologists, agronomists and foresters, to determine how biogenic volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions affect the relationship between the biosphere and the atmosphere.
VOCBAS will bring together this outstanding scientific community who carries out internationally recognised research into the production and emissions of VOCs by plants in the context of global change and ecosystems from a wide range of disciplines. It will span plant processes, genetics, and ecosystem functioning, environmental controls on VOC emission fluxes, flux measurements and modelling on the leaf, canopy, ecosystem and regional scales, and the emission of these compounds into the atmosphere. VOCBAS will timely address the European Research Area (ERA) priority 1.6.3 "Global change and ecosystems" reducing the considerable fragmentation that exists at present in this multi-disciplinary field of research, and will spread excellence through and beyond the programme. VOCBAS will establish European research at the forefront of this area of international importance and will foster pan- European research leading to a better understanding of how biogenic VOC emissions affect the present and future relationship between the biosphere and the atmosphere.
Duration
Five years, from March 2004 to February 2009.
Extended until September 2009.
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