forest biomass Jean-Michel Carnus, INRA ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Sourcing and availability of forest biomass

Jean-Michel Carnus, INRA

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high resolution - tree species map of European forests

(Source Alterra)

Introduction

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• 7 complementary science & technology areas in relation

with forest biomass production, sourcing and availability

Expertise areas and capabilities

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Expertise areas and capabilities

• important capabilities of European research providers in the field of

forest biomass sourcing and availability (# 100 public RTO and universities – mainly outside ERIFORE consortium )

• > 60 % of reviewed organisations have expertise in silviculture & forest

inventory

• 50 % have facilities and expertise in genetics and tree breeding, or

conduct research on sustainability assessment

• 40% have expertise in wood quality or forest logistics, and very few (<

10%) in raw material recycling.

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Research facilities

ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany > 40 research facilities (physical or virtual) have been identified in EU 28

regarding forest raw material sourcing and availability

• Example of key R&D infrastructures for tree genetics, genomics and breeding:

Country Organisation Equipment/facility type AT AIT EVOLTREE Tree Gene Repository Centre and Web Portal* ME AT BFW Department of Genetics Molecular Laboratory* SE FI LUKE Cryopreservation Laboratory* SE FI LUKE Vegetative Propagation Laboratory and Greenhouse* ME FR INRA Plantacomp genetic field trials (> 1000) LE FR INRA Platform for phenotyping tree water relations * ME FR INRA - ERIFORE XYLOMICS genotyping and phenotyping platform* ME FR FCBA - ERIFORE XYLOBIOTECH cryopreservation and vegetative propagation platform ME GER ASP Platform for Traceability of Forest Reproductive Material* ME IT FEM FEM Sequencing and Genotyping Platform* ME PL IBL In vitro plant breeding laboratory* SE SW UPSC Umea̋ Plant Science Centre LE (source: Tree4Future *)

Co-operation networks

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Main keywords list for each technology domain (ex forest inventory) Co-operation network mapping for each domain (ex: silviculture )

• Very active co-operation networks for all 7 domains - analysed via

co-publications in WOS since 2005 (# 1 per day)

Initial thoughts about Research needs

• development of remote sensing technologies for forest inventories
• need for computation infrastructures (forest inventory and wood

availability ; wood supply chain; sustainability tools….)

• fast genotypying/phenotypying techniques and bigdata generation,

storage and exploitation for improved breeding strategies

• new generation of large scale experimentation/demonstration of

forest production systems (new species, new regimes, mixed species…)

• new technologies for sorting and recycling wood
• need for developing sustainability assessment, social acceptance and

policy coherence in the field of bioeconomy

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Conclusions and discussion

• Globally, a wealth of R&D infrastructures for forest biomass in Europe

with rather limited coordination

• Fewer R&D infrastructures for forest logistics, raw material recycling,

sustainability assessment

• Very active scientific co-operation networks
• Some initiatives for developing EU scale R&D infrastructure – ex: tree

breeding and genetics (T4F)

• Need for coupling forest biomass research facilities and industrial

processing R&D infrastructures

• lack of funding for research facilities concerning socio-economics and

human sciences in the field of bioeconomy

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Acknowledgement

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654371. Consortium:

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