The International Phenological Gardens of Europe
The
International
Phenological
Gadens (IPG) are a European and individual network
within the Phenology Study Group of the International Society of
Biometeorology (ISB). The network was founded in 1957 by F.
Schnelle and E. Volkert. It works on an honorary basis.
The idea of the International Phenological Gardens was to do
large-scale and standardized phenological observations. Therefore
all IPGs are situated in similar surroundings (mainly plain surface
with meadows and some trees), they have a detailed
observation-guide and they are professionally looked after by the
staff of the institutes, botanical gardens etc. In order to
eliminate the hereditary variability, cloned species of all trees
and shrubs have been planted in the IPGs. Therefore it was
necessary to establish a parent garden doing the vegetative
propagation, breeding, and dispatch. In the vicinity of a
phenological garden an official met station should be placed.
Aim: The international observation programme is focused on
possible impacts of climate change on forest-ecosystems. Scientific
aims are:
- Monitoring of environmental changes,
- Climate-impact studies,
- Development of phenological models,
- Calibration of remotely sensed data,
- Calculation of phenological maps.
The current network ranges across 28 latitudes from
Scandinavia to Macedonia and across 37 longitudes from Ireland to
Finland in the north and from Portugal to Macedonia in the south.
It consists of 89 gardens in 19 European countries (state 2010).
Download:
IPG
Observation sheet
Since 2000, the observation programme includes 21 plant
species (kernel programme).
These plants are labeled with * in
the plant list.
Coordination:
Humboldt-University of Berlin
Faculty of Life Sciences
Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and
Horticultural Sciences
Division Crop Production
Professorship of Agricultural Climatology
Albrecht-Thaer Weg 5
D-14195 Berlin
Phone.: +49 30 2093 46395
Fax.: +49 30 2093 46488
HPage:
https://hu.berlin/agrarmet