The technological platform “DA” coordinates its activities with CRI research groups in the field of the dynamics of interactions between plants and environment, also under a global change perspective. It supplies services for greenhouse experiments. The research activities independently carried out focus on the following issues:

• carbon balance in terrestrial ecosystems and its links with climatic forcing;
• instrumental series climatology and climatic projections;
• development of phenological models for predictions and scenarios analysis;
• modelling of plant-pathogen interrelations.