CLIMANATRES project team held field training in vegetation mapping near Subotica in Serbia

CLIMANATRES project team held field training in vegetation mapping near Subotica in Serbia

As an activity planned for the consortium capacity building, towards accomplishing the project tasks, training in vegetation mapping was held on natural landscape near Subotica in Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia. Representatives of project partner from Serbia, Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment (ILFE), Novi Sad, took part in the field training. The key point of the training was ascertaining in determination of vegetation types typical for the northern Serbian province. Together with the Lead Partner, HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary, the project team also concluded on plant species indicating successional stages of the vegetation types, mainly due to water drainage systems established in the past decades. High-profile tablets, with a GIS-based application tailored to the vegetation mapping, provided accomplishment of the field training and anticipated further developments of the project tasks.