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

Sourcing and availability of forest biomass Jean-Michel Carnus, INRA ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany

high resolution - tree species map of European forests (Source Alterra)

Introduction  7 complementary science & technology areas in relation with forest biomass production, sourcing and availability ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany

Expertise areas and capabilities ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany

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. ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany

Research facilities > 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 *) ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany

Co-operation networks  Very active co-operation networks for all 7 domains - analysed via co-publications in WOS since 2005 (# 1 per day) Main keywords list for each technology domain Co-operation network mapping for each domain (ex forest inventory) (ex: silviculture ) ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany

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 ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany

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 ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany

Acknowledgement This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 654371. Consortium: ERIFORE Workshop 6.9.2016 │ Leuna, Germany