CALL FOR SESSION PROPOSALS
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Deadline for Submissions: 31 January 2016
The Congress Scientific Committee invites submission of session proposals for the IUFRO Regional Congress for Asia and Oceania 2016. In keeping with the spirit of the Congress title – Forests for Sustainable Development: The Role of Research, the Congress Scientific Committee is developing a program that will highlight the role of forest science in informing forest-related policies and management in Asia and Oceania to cope with the significant environmental, social and economic changes in the region and address the consequent challenges. The Congress program will reflect the forest science community’s diverse contributions, inside and outside the region, across the full range of natural and social science disciplines at various levels, from the gene to the globe, with special emphasis on key issues and research areas identified in IUFRO’s 2015-2019 Strategy.
Session proposals will be accepted that address one or more of the following Congress themes:
1. Sustainable forest management for enhanced provision of ecosystem services;
2. Forest and landscape rehabilitation and restoration;
3. Combating desertification, disaster and risk management, and climate change mitigation and adaptation;
4. Planted forests for fostering a greener economy;
5. Innovative technologies for bio-energy, bio-materials and other products;
6. Urban forestry for human health and community well-being;
7. Social and cultural aspects of forests, including traditional knowledge, human health, community participation and gender roles;
8. Forest and agro-forest management for food security, enhanced livelihoods and non-timber forest products.
Who may submit a session proposal?
All who share an interest in the future of forests and forest science session are invited to submit session proposals. We encourage proposals that involve collaboration between two or more IUFRO Divisions or Task Forces and/or with organizations not formally associated with IUFRO, and from university students at all levels. We strongly recommend IUFRO officeholders and others actively involved in IUFRO Research Groups, Working Parties, and Task Forces communicate with their respective Division representatives on the CSC (or Task Force coordinators, please see the list of CSC Members) before submitting proposals – this will greatly facilitate broader involvement of IUFRO divisional units and Task Forces in the scientific program and avoid overlaps among sessions.
Session proposals from non‐IUFRO member organizations are encouraged although preference will be given to those that are prepared jointly with IUFRO Divisional units and Task Forces–if assistance is needed to identify appropriate partners within IUFRO, please contact the CSC Chair or other members of the CSC.
Preparing and submitting a session proposal
Proposals should be submitted between now and January 31, 2016 (please see Important Dates) by submitting online ( <http://www.iufro-ao2016.org/> http://www.iufro-ao2016.org/) and then sending email to iufro_ao2016(a)163.com attached with the completely and appropriately filled Session Proposal. Proposals will not be accepted after January 31, 2016.
Session proposals should include basic information on session organizer(s), session title, alignment with Congress themes, and a short abstract of the session proposal, that describes the session objectives, content and proposed session format (i.e., presentation of individual papers and/or posters, moderated panel discussion, or other forms of presentation) and lists proposed speakers (if known), their organizational affiliations and tentative titles of their presentations. Proposed sessions should be organized to be 2 hours in length. For sessions involving oral presentations, were recommended that each speaker be given 15-20 minutes for his/her presentation.
Please note that the abstract submission process will be open to all, so session organizers may need to include oral presentations and/or posters that were not originally proposed for their sessions. Please be aware of this possibility and the need for flexibility in designing your session. In the event that the number of accepted abstracts for a particular session exceeds the number that can be accommodated in a single session, organizers may be given an additional session slot in the Congress program.
Criteria for selection
Session proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by members of the Congress Scientific Committee with primary consideration given to their scientific quality and relevance to the Congress themes. Other factors that will be considered are: the involvement of two or more IUFRO units (Divisions, Task Forces, Research Groups and Working Parties) and/or non‐IUFRO organizations; geographic and gender diversity of proposed session speakers or presenters; and the involvement of students and young scientists. Proposals will be evaluated as they are received, so we strongly encourage submissions well in advance of the January 31 deadline.
Acceptance decisions will be made no later than March 15, 2016. An open Call for Abstracts will be issued on April 1 with online abstract submission until May 15 and acceptance decisions by July 15, 2016.
Responsibilities of session organizers
Session organizers of accepted proposals are expected to communicate with prospective presenters regarding submission of abstracts (online, from April 1 through May 15, 2016), and will be asked to review abstracts submitted for their sessions during the abstract review period (i.e., May 15 to July 15, 2016). Session organizers may be asked to assist the CSC in the editing of accepted abstracts. They will also be responsible for moderating sessions (or assigning session moderation responsibilities) and are encouraged to pursue publication options for papers presented in their sessions.
Abstracts of papers and posters presented during the Congress will be printed and included in a Congress abstracts volume. As formal Congress proceedings with full papers will not be published, session organizers should explore alternative publication options (books, special issues of journals, etc.) for their sessions.
We look forward to hearing from you and for your active participation in the design of an excellent scientific program for the IUFRO Regional Congress for Asia and Oceania 2016 in Beijing.
The Congress Scientific Committee
IUFRO Regional Congress for Asia and Oceania 2016
Beijing, China; 24-27 October 2016
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Dear IUFRO colleagues,
I am delighted that we have now finalized the dates for the above
meeting and would be grateful if you could SAVE THE DATE. More
information on the submission of papers and posters, and details of the
conference and tours will be distributed soon.
This is the outline plan for the meeting:
Theme: The science and art of uneven-aged silviculture
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, USA; at the Doubletree by Hilton
downtown
Dates:
Conference: Monday 30 May 2016 to Thursday 2 June 2016
Post conference tour: Friday 3 June to Monday 6 June
Outline programme:
Monday 30 May - Arrival day
Tuesday 31 May - Opening day, presentations, posters
Wednesday 1 June - Conference tour, even-aged and uneven-aged management
of southern pines
Thursday 2 June - Presentations and business mtg
Friday 3 June - Post conference tour starts
Monday 6 June (late) - Post conference tour finishes
Organizer:
Jim Guldin
jguldin(a)fs.fed.us
Conference Organizer
I look forward to seeing you in Little Rock in May/June 2016
Regards,
Gary
Dr. G. Kerr
Principal Silviculturist
Forest Research
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Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to inform you that the Book of Abstracts of the First International Conference on Reforestation Challenges, held on 3-6 June 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia, are now available at:
http://www.iufro.org/publications/proceedings/proceedings-meetings-2015/#c2…
Enjoy the read!
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posted by IUFRO Headquarters on behalf of:
Dr Vladan Ivetić
Associate Professor
University of Belgrade
Faculty of Forestry
Department for Seed science,
nursery production and afforestation
Kneza Višeslava 1
11030 Belgrade, Serbia
tel: +381 11 3053 873
fax: +381 11 2545 485
mob: +381 64 2383 584
www.sfb.bg.ac.rs
Dear all,
As you may know, ATBC annual conference in 2016 will be hold in
Montpellier. Call for symposium is open until November 15Th and I
encourage you to submit one or several to this confernce which main
scope is: Tropical Ecology and Society, reconciling conservation and
sustainable use of biodiversity. For more information see the website:
www.atbc2016, or contact me....
cheers
--
Plinio Sist
Cirad-ES
Directeur-Director
UR (B&SEF) "Biens et Services des Ecosystèmes Forestiers tropicaux"
IUFRO 1.02.02 Ecology&Silviculture of moist forests in the tropics
Chairman ATBC 2016 Conference, 19-23 June 2016, Montpellier
Campus International de Baillarguet, TA C-105/D
34398 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
Tél : +33 4 67 59 39 13
Tel.Portable/Mobile Phone: +33 786 3289 46
http://ur-bsef.cirad.fr/fr
Dear Colleagues,
Please fing attached Proceedings on Reforestation Challenges, the
Conference which took place in Belgrade, Serbia in the first week of June
2015.
Best regards,
Vladan
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*Dr Vladan Ivetić*
Associate Professor
University of Belgrade
Faculty of Forestry
Department for Seed science,
nursery production and afforestation
Kneza Višeslava 1
11030 Belgrade, Serbia
tel: +381 11 3053 873
fax: +381 11 2545 485
mob: +381 64 2383 584
www.sfb.bg.ac.rs
dear colleagues,
Please find enclosed a paper published in current biology by Rutishauser
et al. 2015, from our TmFO network that might interest you, particularly
those interested in tropical silviculture.
abstract:
While around 20% of the Amazonian forests has been cleared for pastures
and agriculture, one fourth of the remaining forests is dedicated to
wood production. Most of these production forests have been or will be
selectively harvested for commercial timber, but recent studies show
that even soon after logging, harvested stands retain much of their
tree-biomass carbon and biodiversity. We use a network of 79 permanent
sample plots (376 ha total) located at 10 sites across the Amazon Basin
to assess the main drivers of time-to-recovery of post-logging tree
carbon. Recovery time is of direct relevance to policies governing
management practices (i.e. allowable volumes cut and cutting cycle
lengths), and indirectly forest-based climate change mitigation
interventions. We found that the proportion of initial above-ground
carbon stock lost (i.e., trees harvested and destroyed by logging
operations) best predicted the time to recover initial carbon stocks. No
other variables tested contributed substantially to the prediction of
recovery times, despite the fact that the sampled plots span large
geographic and environmental gradients across the entire Amazon Basin.
These results reveal clear patterns that can clarify tradeoffs for
policy-makers and forest managers between short-term economics and
long-term carbon storage and hence climate regulation. Forest management
regulations vary among Amazonian countries, but generally set minimum
cutting cycles at 30-60 years, with harvests of 10- 30 m3 ha-1. While
these cutting cycles are generally insufficient to recover commercial
timber stocks, such harvest intensities require 7 and 21 years
respectively to recover their initial ACS, assuming ACS losses
proportional to harvested timber volumes.
cheers
--
Plinio Sist
Cirad-ES
Directeur-Director
UR (B&SEF) "Biens et Services des Ecosystèmes Forestiers tropicaux"
Coordinator of IUFRO 1.02.02 Ecology and silviculture of moist forests in the tropics
Campus International de Baillarguet, TA C-105/D
34398 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
Tél : +33 4 67 59 39 13
Tel.Portable/Mobile Phone: +33 786 3289 46
http://ur-bsef.cirad.fr/fr
Division 1 Colleagues:
Announcing an *“Expert Workshop on Restoration and Adaptation of Mountain
Forests in Central and Northeast Asia”* to be held 19-22 October 2015 at
the City Hotel in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. This workshop is sponsored by IUFRO
Unit 1.06.00 Restoration of Degraded Sites, Unit 1.01.05 Mountain Forest
Management, and the Task Force Forest Adaptation and Restoration under
Global Change. It provides a targeted follow-on to the workshop held in
2014 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and to the Keep Asia Green work supported by
the ASEAN-Korea Environmental Cooperation Project (AKECOP) and the Special
Programme for Development of Capacities (SPDC) of the International Union
of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). For more information contact Dr.
John Stanturf, jstanturf(at)fs.fed.us.
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John Stanturf
Center for Forest Disturbance Science
US Forest Service Southern Research Station
320 Green Street
Athens, GA 30602 USA
+ 706-559-4316 tel
+ 706-559-4317 fax
+ 706-202-8066 mobile
website: http://sites.google.com/site/johnstanturf/
*“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their
problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost
confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a
failure of leadership.”* ~ Colin Powell
Views and Opinions expressed in this email are solely representative of the
sender and do not represent those of the Forest Service or any other agency.
Dear Colleagues,
I am please to invite you to this side event organized by Cirad, FAO and
Cifor on concession in tropical forests. The main objectove of this side
event is to discuss and to evaluate the future prospects of
concession-based forestry, firstly based on an analysis of specific
challenges the forest concession forestry now faces in the three major
tropical forest regions (Amazon Basin, Congo Basin and South East Asia)
and, secondly by comparing the design and implementation of forest
concessions in the three regions where tropical forests occur (Central
Africa, Tropical America and South east Asia). I hope that the
colleagues from division 1 attending the congress will participate to
this side event on Monday night 19h45-21h00...
best regards
--
Plinio Sist
Cirad-ES
Directeur-Director
UR (B&SEF) "Biens et Services des Ecosystèmes Forestiers tropicaux"
Coordinator of IUFRO 1.02.02 Ecology and silviculture of moist forests in the tropics
Campus International de Baillarguet, TA C-105/D
34398 Montpellier Cedex 5 France
Tél : +33 4 67 59 39 13
Tel.Portable/Mobile Phone: +33 786 3289 46
http://ur-bsef.cirad.fr/fr
Effects of Ungulate Browsing on Forest Regeneration and Silviculture
Birmensdorf (Zürich), Switzerland / 14 - 16 October 2015
http://www.wsl.ch/iufro-ungfor2015/
Dear Division 1 Scientists and Colleagues,
Ungulate browsing is one of the many factors that affect tree establishment, growth and mortality and thus both structure and species composition of forests. Tree saplings are part of the usual food of ungulate species and palatable tree species, like Abies alba (European silver fir), are often browsed by ungulates. At the same time, natural regeneration of a mixture of species is valued in mountain protection forests to mitigate damages of snow avalanches, rockfall, mass flow and wind storms. Thereby, species with deep rooting systems (like Abies alba and Acer pseudoplatanus) are particularly important.
Measuring and monitoring the effects of ungulates on forest regeneration pose however major challenges because leader shoot browsing rate linearly correlates neither with tree density nor with species composition. The conference intends to present the current state of knowledge on ungulate impacts on tree regeneration and their implications for forest stand dynamics. We specifically focus on sustainable natural tree regeneration under current and predicted future climate.
If you are working in this area and have not yet registered for the symposium, here is your chance to do so: visit http://www.wsl.ch/iufro-ungfor2015/registration/ and book your place!
We are looking forward to welcoming you to WSL Birmensdorf!
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posted by Brigitte Burger on behalf of
Andreas Zingg, research forester, dipl Forsting. ETH
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
CH-8903 Birmensdorf
Switzerland
phone +41-44-739 23 35
fax +41-44-739 22 15
http://www.wsl.ch
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From: Fulvio Ducci CRA-SEL < <mailto:fulvio.ducci@entecra.it> fulvio.ducci(a)entecra.it>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 12:24:16 +0200
Subject: Cost Action FP1202 on Marginal Populations FGR. Call for a Training School on " Altitude Marginal populations, " Forest genetic resources of marginal populations of forest trees", 30.08.2015-4.09.2015, Pieve Tesino (Trento, Italy).
Cost Action FP1202 MaP FGR “Strengthening conservation: a key issue for adaptation of marginal/peripheral populations of forest trees to climate change in Europe (MaP-FGR)”, is organizing a 2015 Training School. This Training School is especially focused on forest genetic resources of marginal and peripheral populations of forest trees at high elevation edge and on how they are evolving and adapting to the effects of current isotherm shift.
Lectures will focus on case studies on forest species at high elevation edge, presenting methodology and results obtained by researchers working in research institutions participating in the Cost Action FP1202 MaP-FGR and invited experts.
The training school aims to provide intensive training on the adaptation and evolution of MaP populations of forest trees at high elevation edge of species distribution, at widening the knowledge of the Action activities and sharing expertise between trainers and trainees.
Only candidate Trainees from COST countries and NCC Countries, or related to Cost non European Countries can apply.
Title: Forest genetic resources of marginal populations of forest trees at high elevation edge
Date: 31 August 2015 - 4 September 2015
Co-organized with the Alpine Study Centre (University of Tuscia, Italy)
Venue: Alpine Study Centre, Pieve Tesino (Italy)
Deadline for submission is July 22, 2015
More details at: <http://map-fgr.entecra.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Call_TS2015.pdf> Call_TS2015.pdf
Dr. Fulvio Ducci
Chair and Grant Holder
Cost Action FP1202
“Strengthening conservation: a key issue for adaptation
of marginal/peripheral populations of forest trees to climate change in Europe
(MaP‐FGR)”
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