The interactions between vegetation and climate is investigated through physiological, genomic and genetic analysis to: assess forest resilience; estimate the biodiversity variation in relation to climate and land use change; measure mass and energy exchanges between vegetation and the atmosphere at an ecosystem scale; estimate biophysical and structural parameters of forests and grasslands integrating field and remote sensing data; develop IoT sensors for natural ecosystem monitoring.

The innovative approaches include genomics and microbiology, IoT sensors on single trees, and ecosystem-scale investigations based on the eddy covariance technique and regional spatialisation with Lidar, hyperspectral and fluorescence data (see also: Remote sensing and Micrometeorology Platforms).