The research plan for the PINEA project is based on its objectives and is expected to be carried out through nine planned Tasks:
- Task 1. Stakeholders, planning, coordination and dissemination
- Task 2. Establishment and monitoring of an irrigation and fertilization trial for stone pine
- Task 3. Monitoring of a Pinus pinea fertilization trial
- Task 4. Pinus pinea Permanent Sample Plots: biometric, climate and soils data collection
- Task 5. Pinus pinea databases for biometric, climate, soils and site data
- Task 6. Data analysis for Pinus pinea irrigation and fertilization guidelines
- Task 7. Carbon allocation in Pinus pinea
- Task 8. Improving existing Portuguese Pinus pinea modelling equations
- Task 9. Adaptation and calibration of a process based model for Pinus pinea