Dear Madam/Sir,
I have a message to transmit to the division 2 IUFRO members. Could you
forward it?
Thank you
« Dear colleagues,
we are studying the phylogeography of two bark beetles by nuclear markers.
In order to proceed with our study, we are looking for Ips typographus and
Dendroctonus micans from Europe and Asia. We are also interested in the
ulstraspecific predator Rhizophagus grandis, often found in the galleries of
D. micans.
Would it be possible for you to send me beetles (put alive in alcohol 100%)
?
We can provide the material if necessary (eppendorfs and ethyl alcohol) and
will naturally cover any related expenses.
We need the location where the samples were collected and eventually the
tree specie attacked (Picea sp.or Pinus sp.).
We need around then individuals by country, preferentially catched in
different sites but we will be grateful with any beetles found.
Sample could be sent to:
François Mayer
Laboratoire de Lutte biologique et Ecologie spatiale (LUBIES), CP 160/12
Université Libre de Bruxelles 50 av FD Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles/Brussels
Belgium
Many thanks for
Ir. François Mayer
Research Fellow, FNRS-FRIA / PhD student
Biological control and Spatial ecology Lab (LUBIES)
Université Libre de Bruxelles
<mailto:fmayer@ulb.ac.be> fmayer(a)ulb.ac.be »
Dear Division 2 members, dear colleagues:
The International Symposium on Forest Genetic Resources Conservation and
Sustainable Utilization towards Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation,
which is organized, among others, by APAFRI will be held from 5-8 October
2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
For detailed information, please visit
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/4196/3914/kuala09-2nd-announcement.pdf
and http://www.apafri.org/.
If there is anyone in Division 2 who wishes to contribute to this meeting
with his/her Research Group or Working Party, please immediately contact:
Sim Heok-Choh, Ph.D.
APAFRI Secretariat,
c/o Forest Research Institute Malaysia,
Kepong, 52109 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: 6-03-6279 7536, 6-03-6272 2516
Fax: 6-03-6277 3249
Email: sim(a)apafri.org or simhc(a)frim.gov.my
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Message circulated on behalf of Dr. Sim Hoek-Choh by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO
Headquarters
Dear Mailing List Members:
As at past IUFRO World Congresses, there will be the opportunity to honour
special scientific performances and achievements with selected IUFRO Awards
in the Seoul Congress in 2010.
If you know scientists doing outstanding forest research, nominate them for
one of the IUFRO Awards and give them the opportunity to travel to and
participate in the Congress as well as the chance to present their research
to the Congress participants.
Choose among the Scientific Achievement Award (SAA), Outstanding Doctoral
Research Award (ODRA) and the IUFRO Student Award (ISA) and make your
nomination soon. Bear in mind that you can only nominate candidates from
IUFRO Member Organizations, - no self-nominations are accepted - and that
the deadline for submission is 31 July 2009.
Find more information and nomination forms on our website
http://www.iufro.org/discover/awards/ and send your nominations to the Chair
of the IUFRO Honours & Awards Committee (Dr. Su See Lee, leess(a)frim.gov.my)
with copy to the IUFRO Executive Director (Dr. Peter Mayer,
office(a)iufro.org)
Dr. Su See Lee
Chair of the IUFRO H&A Committee
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IUFRO AWARDS at the IUFRO World Congress 2010
Scientific Achievement Award (SAA)
Up to 10 awards to recognize distinguished individual scientific
achievements within the fields of research covered by IUFRO. Criteria for
judgment will be dissemination of results, implementation of knowledge,
methods or techniques in practical forestry and skilled research management
(success in publications, meetings, funding, etc. in a larger group than the
individual) and involvement in IUFRO activities.
Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (ODRA)
One award per IUFRO Division to recognize outstanding individual scientific
achievements among young Doctoral researchers and to encourage further work
within the fields of research covered by the Union.
IUFRO Student Award (ISA)
One award per IUFRO Division to recognise outstanding individual
achievements in forest science made by Masters degree students (or
equivalent), and to encourage their further work within the fields of
research covered by the Union. Nominations can be made through IUFRO member
organizations or officeholders and through members of the International
Forestry Students Association (IFSA).
Furthermore, the Congress will also offer
Best Poster Award (BPA)
To encourage public dissemination of high quality research and to recognize
distinguished poster presentations by young scientists during the IUFRO
World Congress.
and IUFRO World Congress Host Scientific Award
Honors a truly outstanding scientist from the Congress host
country/countries who has elevated the profile of forest science and
research accomplishments.
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IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat
c/o BFW Mariabrunn, Hauptstrasse 7 │ 1140 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-1-877 0151 0 │ Fax: +43-1-877 0151 50
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office(AT)iufro.org
The 2nd International Conference on Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
in Siberia (Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia, August 3-9, 2009)
Dear prospective participants of the conference,
The registration and abstract submission deadline has been extended till May
30th. Please, register and submit your abstract on-line at
http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/ws/cfgrs2009/index.en.html.
If you have not booked your flight yet, please, notice that the conference
starts on August 3rd morning, and the best time for arriving would be August
2nd.
The conference program will be announced and displayed at
http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/ws/cfgrs2009/index.en.html after July 7th.
We hope to see you at the conference!
Best regards,
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
********************************
Konstantin (Kostya) V. Krutovsky, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Ecosystem Science & Management
Texas A&M University
#319 Horticulture and Forest Science Building (HFSB)
2138 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2138
Phone: (979) 458-1417 (office)
(979) 458-0471 (lab)
Fax: (979) 845-6049
E-mail: k-krutovsky(a)tamu.edu
http://essm.tamu.edu/people-info/faculty/krutovsky-konstantin.aspx
Please download this announcement and call for papers at
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/3660/1810/palencia10-1st-announcement.pdf
GLOBAL CHANGE AND MEDITERRANEAN PINES:
ALTERNATIVES FOR MANAGEMENT
IUFRO
DIVISION 1: Unit 1.01.10 Ecology and silviculture of pine
DIVISION 2: Unit 2.02.13 Breeding and genetic resources of Mediterranean
conifers
DIVISION 4: Unit 4.01.00 - Forest mensuration and modelling
Joint International Meeting
10-12 February, 2010
University of Valladolid at Palencia, Spain
With the scientific support of:
Instituto Gestión Forestal Sostenible (UVa-INIA)
With the technical collaboration of:
FAO Silva Mediterranea
EFI Mediterranean Regional Office - EFIMED
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Background and theme
Global change challenges forestry around the world by changing both
environmental and social conditions. This fact is especially true in the
Mediterranean basin, one of the biodiversity hotspots, where climate change
and demographic development will likely have strong impacts in the near
future. The Mediterranean area is especially sensitive to any climate change
because it represents a transition zone between arid and humid regions of
the world, which make this region an interesting model system to study the
effects of global change on terrestrial ecosystems.
Climate change in the Mediterranean region is revealing itself by
temperature increase, change in precipitation regimes, and more frequent
extreme events, such as drought, heat waves and storms, which in turn
increase the frequency and intensity of forest fires, pest outbreak and wind
damages. Such changes affect drastically forest growth and health, the
capacity of forests to sequester carbon as well as the diversity of forest
ecosystems either directly or indirectly. The Mediterranean resources are
simultaneously threatened and strategic because of possible future use in a
broader geographical range. Therefore, improving the knowledge about the
effects of such environmental changes to forest regeneration, growth and
mortality needs to be improved for predicting forest responses from the gene
to the community level. Without such knowledge it is impossible to develop
adequate adaptive management models for Mediterranean forest.
Meeting Key Challenges:
a. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the physiological
and ecological responses of different Mediterranean pine species (in terms
of nutrient uptake, growth, biotic stress factors, etc.) to climate change
and water availability is needed to define new adaptive management regimes
for reducing water use and ensuring the long-term soil preservation.
b. Understanding the ecological and genetic adaptive capacity of pine
species in response to environmental changes and various forest management
scenarios.
c. Anticipating the effects of interactions between different components
of future environmental changes.
The Meeting, and therefore the contributions, is expected to add to the
following main research fields:
* Forestry strategies to cope with global change
* Ecological and Genetic adaptations to climate change
* Interaction between genetics, ecology and silviculture of
Mediterranean pines under global change conditions
Scientific programme
* Global framework
* Interaction between genetics, ecology and silviculture of
Mediterranean pines under global change conditions
* Policy and management implications
* Case studies
Conference webpage
Information on the Meeting, as well as registration and chance for entering
abstracts in the Meetings peer-review scheme can be found at
www.iufro2010.es. This Internet domain mirrors
www.cuatroelementos.org/proyectos/iufro2010, where those facilities are
hosted.
Call for abstracts
Authors willing to submit a paper or poster must send an abstract written in
English, of no more than 300 words, before 15 July 2009. The abstracts will
be peer-reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the Meeting.
Abstract instructions
* Please submit abstracts through the communications module of
www.iufro2010.es (registration required, preferred option) or by sending it
to the Meeting Secretariat
* In the second case, abstracts should be submitted in plain text
* Main body of abstract should be 300 words or less
* Information on a given abstract must include:
· Title
· Authors and affiliations
· Body of abstract
· Contact information for corresponding author, including mailing
address, phone, and email.
· Type of submission (paper or poster)
· Suggestion for most applicable theme
· Name of presenter
Timeline
* Abstracts due: 20 July 2009
* Notification of acceptance: 9 October 2009
* Final papers: 7 December 2009
Manuscript formatting
Edited proceedings will be distributed at the Meeting, and will include
accepted papers and posters. A publication of selected papers is further
programmed.
Deadlines and dates
Early registration: 1 May 2009
Abstract submission: Not after 20 July 2009
Notification of acceptance: Not after 9 October 2009
Paper due: 7 December 2009
Meeting: 10-12 February 2010
Details on registration, accommodation and travel information will be
provided through www.iufro2010.es or by the Secretariat at (e-mailed)
request.
Further information
Questions and information requests can be directed to:
Dr. Felipe Bravo
c/o IUFRO 2010 Meeting Secretariat
Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agrarias, Universidad de Valladolid
Postal address: Avda. Madrid 57
34004 Palencia
Spain
Tel.: (+34) 979108440
Fax: (+34) 979108430
Mail: secretariat(a)iufro2010.es
We are pleased to announce that the first ever compiled global assessment
report on "Adaptation of Forests and People to Climate Change" will be
published officially at the next session of the United Nations Forum on
Forests (UNFF), during the following side event:
Making Forests Fit For Change - IUFRO-Led Activities at the Science-Policy
Interface
Wednesday, 22 April
13:15 to 14:45 hours
Conference Room 2 (CR-2)
UN Headquarters, New York City
The report is the first product of the IUFRO-led Global Forest Expert Panels
of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) and presents the
state-of-knowledge about the impacts of climate change on forests and people
and options for adaptation.
One of the key messages that emerged from this assessment is that the
carbon-regulating services of forests are at risk of being lost entirely
unless current carbon emissions are reduced substantially; this would result
in the release of huge quantities of carbon to the atmosphere, exacerbating
climate change.
The report as well as a policy brief (available in all UN languages) can be
downloaded at:
http://www.iufro.org/science/gfep/
Information for the press is available at:
http://www.iufro.org/science/gfep/media-information/
For further information, please, contact:
Alexander Buck, IUFRO
Mobile +43-664-1426852
Email: buck(at)iufro.org
About IUFRO and the CPF
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) is the only
world-wide organization devoted to forest research and related sciences. Its
members are research institutions, universities, and individual scientists
as well as decision-making authorities and other stakeholders with a focus
on forests and trees.
For further information, please visit: www.iufro.org.
The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) is a voluntary arrangement
among 14 international organizations and secretariats with substantial
programmes on forests. Its mission is to promote the management,
conservation and sustainable development of all types of forest and
strengthen long-term political commitment to this end.
For further information, please visit: http://www.fao.org/forestry/cpf/en/.
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Sent by c.goestl on behalf of Alexander BUCK, IUFRO Headquarters, Vienna
Chers collègues,
Le réchauffement global engendre la sècheresse et l'extension des
déserts avec leurs cortèges de misères alors que la population mondiale
augmente exagérément.
De nombreuses espèces forestières et agroforestières sont menacées
alors que les populations humaines en ont de plus en plus besoin.
C'est pourquoi, après mûre réflexion, je propose 3 méthodes simples
mais efficaces d'amélioration et de conservation génétiques pour faire
face à ce défi.
C'est l'objet de la publication que je considère comme une des plus
importantes de ma carrière :
* **NANSON, A.(2008) Trois méthodes simples d'amélioration et de
conservation génétiques pour l'agroforesterie et la foresterie en
régions arides. /Sécheresse/ 2008, 19, 4, 269-275.*
Malheureusement, les contraintes Email de la Liste IUFRO font qu'on
ne peut pas dépasser 50 K en annexe et donc que je ne peux pas vous
envoyer le texte en .pdf.
Voulez-vous en savoir plus ? Alors consultez la revue "*Sècheresse*"
du Groupe John Libbey Eourotext, 2009. Vous pouvez cependant voir le
résumé/summary en faisant : *www.revue-secheresse.fr* .
Avec mes salutations cordiales et bonne lecture !
--
Alphonse NANSON
Prof hon.
Forest Geneticist
Rue Chapelle-Dieu 29A
B-5030 Gembloux (Belgium)
nanson.a(a)skynet.be
Dear colleagues,
The 2nd International Conference on Conservation of Forest Genetic Resources
in Siberia will be held August 3-9, 2009 in Novosibirsk, Russia. Deadline
for registration is April 15, 2009, for abstracts - April 24, 2009 (see
http://www.ssga.ru/sibwood/i_en.html for additional information).
Please, contact me, if you have any questions.
Best regards,
-K.
********************************
Konstantin (Kostya) V. Krutovsky, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Ecosystem Science & Management Texas A&M University
#319 Horticulture and Forest Science Building (HFSB)
2138 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2138
Phone: (979) 458-1417 (office)
(979) 458-0471 (lab)
Fax: (979) 845-6049
E-mail: k-krutovsky(a)tamu.edu
http://essm.tamu.edu/people-info/faculty/krutovsky-konstantin.aspx
* Bonne Année à tous !
* Je profite de l'occasion des Fêtes de fin d'année pour vous
envoyer, pour vos archives, mon nouvel article de synthèse sur un sujet
d'actualité : les _*OGM* du point de vue forestier_ (mais aussi
agricole) : quels sont les arguments pour ou contre ?
Malgré vos lourdes charges, vous pouvez peut-être lire cet article,
après les fêtes, au moins le début et les conclusions et éventuellement
le faire circuler au personnel concerné.
Il faut cependant d'abord y ajouter au sommet de la dernière
colonne, p.11, les mots suivants qui ont été escamotés à la publication
: "*/Bien sûr, ceci n'exclut pas des recherches/*" fondamentales ...
Vos remarques éventuelles sont les bienvenues.
En attendant, je vous présente mes
*Meilleurs Vœux de Bonheur et d'Activités valorisantes pour l'Année
nouvelle !*
--
Alphonse NANSON
Prof hon.
Forest Geneticist
Rue Chapelle-Dieu 29A
B-5030 Gembloux (Belgium)
nanson.a(a)skynet.be
