From: International Society of Tropical Foresters <istf(a)yale.edu <mailto:istf@yale.edu> >
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:35:20 +0000
Subject: Invitation to attend the 2021 virtual ISTF conference
We would like to invite you and your colleagues to participate in the 27thannual International Society of Tropical Foresters conference. The deadline for submissions to has been extended until FRIDAY, January 22. Submit your abstracts for breakout sessions, posters, flash talks, and applications for the ISTF Innovation Prize. This year’s theme will be “Timelines and Critical Junctures: Re-examining Crises as Opportunities for Change”.
The Yale ISTF Chapter is dedicated to the advancement of tropical forest studies at the Yale School of the Environment, formerly known as the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The ISTF conference has been hosted at Yale for 26 years and addresses a range of socio-ecological issues across the tropics. The 2021 conference will bring together an international community of academics, practitioners, activists, policy makers, artists, journalists and community leaders to re-examine crises as moments of learning and opportunities to set forth on new trajectories. Seizing these moments requires us to reflect on the interconnected nature of society, economy and the environment while motivating efforts to mitigate future events in light of our past successes and failures.
While the conference will unfortunately not be held in-person as per tradition, we hope that the online format will allow wider access and participation from attendees around the world, especially for participants and speakers that have historically faced difficulties with travel to the United States. Its virtual format will also allow us to offer subtitles in Spanish via Zoom's software.
Register and submit you abstracts at our 2021 conference website:
<http://istfconference.events.yale.edu/> http://istfconference.events.yale.edu/
Follow Yale ISTF on Facebook @yalefesistf, Twitter @YaleISTF, and Instagram @YaleISTF for updates as more conference details unfold!
See you there!
Yale ISTF 2021 Team
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to inform that we are editing a virtual special issue (VSI) of Soil Biology & Biochemistry, entitled "Plant-soil interactions in forests: Effects of management, disturbances and climate". I feel that you may contribute to this special issue.
Soil Biology & Biochemistry publishes original, scientifically challenging research articles of international significance that describe and explain biological processes occurring in soil.
Impact Factor: 5.795, 5-Year Impact Factor: 6.767
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/soil-biology-and-biochemistry
The Open call of the VSI is located at (or see the end of this email):
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/soil-biology-and-biochemistry/call-for-pa…
The submission is now open until the 11th of April 2021.
All submissions will go through the normal SBB review and publication process, all the accepted articles will be collected at the end to form an virtual special issue. The handling chief editor of this VSI is Joann Whalen (joann.whalen(a)mcgill.ca); the guest editors are Shirong Liu, Andreas Schindlbacher, Cindy Prescott, Alexia Stokes and myself.
We aim to have the special issue ready by December 2021.
We look forward to reading your manuscript to this special issue and please inform your colleagues of this opportunity.
Best regards,
Junwei Luan
Luan, Junwei（栾军伟）
Ph.D./Professor
Institute for Resources and Environment,
International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan (ICBR),
State Forestry and Grassland Administration
#8 Futong East Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100102
Tel:+86 10 84789785
Email: junweiluan(a)icbr.ac.cn
junweiluan(a)126.com
Special issue information:
Plant-soil interactions in forests: Effects of management, disturbances and climate
This special issue will bring together studies that provide mechanistic and quantitative knowledge and perspectives on plant and soil interactions, that are related to soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. The formation of soil organic matter, physical (aggregation) and chemical protection, and nutrient cycling, are largely affected and modulated by plant species traits, diversity, and their interactive effects with root exudation, root-associated microorganisms, and litter quality, especially at the rhizosphere and litter-soil interface. However, our understanding of these processes is still limited and those variations in plant traits, especially root traits, that have the strongest potential to influence soil processes, as well as their interactions with soil organisms, remains largely unexplored. Furthermore, these processes and their interactions face modification or decoupling under the impacts of management practices, disturbances, and environmental change. For example, extreme weather events, including drought, heat and freezing, and species gains and losses that are a consequence of climate change, may affect above- and below- ground biota differently. Therefore, decoupling likely occurs, exerting significant impacts on carbon and nutrient cycles. We require an improved understanding of how belowground processes vary mechanistically across spatial and temporal scales, and how potential feedbacks to external factors, including management practices, disturbances, and climate, are affected. In-depth understanding is essential for increasing accuracy of terrestrial biogeochemical and dynamic vegetation models, which are often limited by inadequate integration of key belowground processes.
This special issue focusing on plant-soil interactions related to soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems, and the potential feedbacks under impacts of management, disturbances and climate change, aims to narrow down the role of plant and soil interactions in shaping soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling. We invite submissions on recent findings, methodological breakthroughs and challenges, and innovative concepts for inspiring discussions on plant-soil interactions in artificial or natural forest ecosystems in a variety of biomes.
Background and significance
Plant-soil interactions determine ecosystem functions and services of forests, including carbon sequestration, soil erosion and flood control, remediation and improved soil fertility. Trees, especially roots and root-associated microbes, influence soil biodiversity, structure, microbial processes and biogeochemical cycling. Physical and chemical properties of soils affect the nutrition, productivity and diversity of plants.
Forest management practices and silvicultural treatments affect plant-soil interactions and consequently the associated ecological functions and services of forests. Understanding the responses of these critical ecological processes (e.g. biodiversity, carbon and nutrient cycling) and their interactions with other environmental or human disturbances is essential for designing sustainable forest management strategies.
Concurrently with forest management, climate changes affect the complex interactions between plants and soil. Though numerous field experiments manipulating single or multiple environmental factors gained insights into the potential ecosystem responses, and our understanding has improved by studying natural climate gradients, climate change effects on plant-soil interactions still remain uncertain, especially in forest ecosystems.
This special issue will cover a wide range of topics in relations to forest management practices, disturbances, environmental changes and their effects on critical ecological processes and interactions. It is highly relevant to policy makers in making decisions about sustainable forest management with consideration of protecting soil, biodiversity and their interactions.
Submissions to SBB that deal with these matters in experimental and conceptual terms are invited and can be tagged as intended for consideration for collation into the Virtual Special Issue (VSI: Forest plant-soil interactions) at the point of submission via the online EES system.
Tagging options will remain open until 11 April 2021, with the aim of publishing the accepted papers as a collated special issue in December 2021. All manuscripts will be handled and considered in the same manner as mainstream submissions to the journal, and likewise published promptly online if accepted. General enquiries about the topic can be made to either of the co-ordinating editors below.
Junwei Luan
International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan
Institute for resources and environment
Beijing, 100102 P.R. China
E-mail: junweiluan(a)icbr.ac.cn
Shirong Liu
Chinese Academy of Forestry
The Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection
Beijing, 100091 P.R. China
E-mail: liusr(a)caf.ac.cn
Andreas Schindlbacher
Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Austria
Wien 1131 Austria
E-mail: andreas.schindlbacher(a)bfw.gv.at
Cindy Prescott
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
E-mail: Cindy.Prescott(a)ubc.ca
Alexia Stokes
French National Research Institute for Food, Agriculture and Environment
Montpellier 34398 Cedex 5 France
E-mail: alexia.stokes(a)cirad.fr
Joann Whalen
Department of Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Québec PQ H9X3V9, Canada
Email: joann.whalen(a)mcgill.ca
Enabling Factors to Scale Up Forest Landscape Restoration
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https://www.iufro.org/typo3temp/assets/_processed_/8/d/csm_2020_11_20_WWF_IU
FRO_FLR_Policy_Study-cover_39715b07a1.jpgThe time is now to make forest
restoration (FLR) at scale a success. This study seeks to better understand
enabling governance and economic factors that can inform FLR implementation,
based on sound evidence gathered from diverse contexts.
Enabling Factors to Scale Up Forest Landscape Restoration: The Roles of
Governance and Economics. Full Report with Case Studies
Published by WWF-Germany, November 2020
Author: Stephanie Mansourian, environmental consultant and Deputy
Coordinator of the IUFRO Task Force on Transforming Forest Landscapes for
Future Climates and Human Well-Being
WWF and IUFRO have come together to push the forest restoration agenda
forward using our combined scientific, policy and field implementation
expertise. Both of our organizations have been exploring lessons learned in
FLR (IUFRO FLR Snapshot and WWF FLR Field Experiences) to understand what
works and what doesn't as a basis for informing future implementation.
The purpose of this report is to identify the enabling factors at the
national or subnational scale (including specifically governance and
economic factors) that have motivated the initiation of forest restoration,
that have enabled its implementation at scale, and that are key to
sustaining it.
It reviews case studies of 10 locations that have scaled up forest
restoration (Bhutan, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Georgia, Kenya,
Madagascar, Viet Nam, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel, and
Brazil's Espírito Santo State) in order to identify possible enabling
factors related to governance and economics and thereby to guide future FLR
interventions.
Download report from:
https://www.iufro.org/news/article/2020/11/23/enabling-factors-to-scale-up-f
orest-landscape-restoration/
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Von: ngobieng [mailto:marie-ange.ngo_bieng@cirad.fr]
Gesendet: Montag, 16. November 2020 03:40
Betreff:
Extended deadline for special issue on forest restoration in the journal
Forest Ecology and Management: 31st of December 2020
Open Call: Active restoration of timber production and other ecosystem
services in secondary and degraded forest.
Extended deadline: 31st of December 2020
Dear Colleagues
I am writing to inform that I am editing a special issue (SI) of Forest
Ecology and Management, entitled "Active restoration of timber production
and other ecosystem services in secondary and degraded forest". From your
research focus, I feel that you may contribute to this special issue.
Forest Ecology and Management is a peer reviewed journal that publishes
scientific articles linking forest ecology with forest management. 2019
IF: 3.170. 5-year IF: 3.581. Website:
<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-ecology-and-management>
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-ecology-and-management
The Open call of the SI is located at:
<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-ecology-and-management/call-for-pa
pers/open-call-active-restoration-of-timber-production>
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/forest-ecology-and-management/call-for-pap
ers/open-call-active-restoration-of-timber-production
The submission portal is now open (from the 1st of September), and until the
31st of December 2020.
All submissions will go through the normal FEM review process. The handling
editor of this SI is Cindy Prescott ( <mailto:Cindy.Prescott@ubc.ca>
Cindy.Prescott(a)ubc.ca); the guest editors are Plinio Sist, Bryan Finegan and
myself.
We aim to have the special issue ready by December 2021.
We look forward to reading your Manuscript. Please inform your colleagues of
this opportunity.
--
Marie Ange NGO BIENG
UR Forêts et Sociétés. CIRAD
Campus International de Baillarguet, TA C-105/D
34398 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
Programa Bosques, Biodiversidad y Cambio Climatico. CATIE Edificio
principal. Turrialba. Cartago.
30501. Costa Rica
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