5:53 p.m.
Dear Colleagues in Division 1 and Division 2
I want to invite you to submit an abstract for the flash talk session
organized jointly by Division 1 (silviculture) and Division 2 (genetics and
physiology).
Regards
Somidh Saha
Session : T3.27 Flash talks
New forests with greater resilience: the importance of forest genetic
resources in forest landscape restoration
Somidh Saha, Santiago C González-Martínez, Palle Madsen, Douglass F. Jacobs,
Stephen Cavers, René
Zamora Cristales
Climate change impacts and anthropogenic activities have destroyed vast
tracts of forest across the
globe. Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) is a planned national,
international, and global process
that aims to restore degraded forest land to increase ecological
functionality and human well-being.
Research has shown that nearly 2 billion ha of land is suitable for FLR, but
these future forests will
have to have high resilience to withstand growing climate change impacts.
One strategy for handling
these pressures is to carefully manage levels of genetic diversity in
forests restored by humans to
ensure adaptive potential. This session invites presentations on how forest
genetic resources can be
effectively deployed during the planning, initiation, establishment, and
future management of forests
restored under the FLR. The session will focus on five thematic questions:
1. How can we effectively deploy the genetic diversity of native trees,
herbs, and shrubs
during forest restoration?
2. How can multifunctional use of forests (e.g., multipurpose trees,
biomass, non-timber
forest produce, etc.) be enhanced through genetic resource management?
3. Which forest management and silvicultural interventions can be used in
FLR to increase
gene flow?
4. How should we plan tree breeding programs to increase environmental and
disease
tolerance without compromising the natural genetic diversity of the
population?
5. How can we integrate FGR management with the nursery sector at national
and
international levels to ensure supply of high quality, genetically diverse
planting stock?
6. How we can produce seeds and plants to implement commitments under the UN
Decade
on Ecosystem Restoration, and regional Initiatives such as 20x20 in Latin
America and
AFR100 in Africa?
The session will have a global focus comprising FLR and forest genetic
resources in all terrestrial
forest ecosystems. Submissions linking FLR activities to forest genetic
resource management from
less-studied forest ecosystems will be welcomed. This interdisciplinary
session aims to bring together
foresters, forest owners, forest geneticists, silviculturists, nursery
sector representatives, and biologists
in presentation and discussion.
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