Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the session organisers, I would like to invite you to submit abstracts for oral talks and posters as part of T1.34 entitled "Transitioning to Continuous Cover Forestry in Times of Climate Change and Energy Crisis" of the IUFRO World Congress held at Stockholm on 23-39 June 2024. Please submit your abstracts by June 2nd 2023 at https://www.appinconf.com/kas/Abstract?projectName=iufro2024abstracts.
Best wishes,
Arne Pommerening
Session organisers: Arne Pommerening, Aine Ni Dhubhain, Jørgen Bo Larsen, Per Angelstam, Hubert Hasenauer
T1.34 Transitioning to Continuous Cover Forestry in Times of Climate Change and Energy Crisis
Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) is forest management based on ecological principles with a view to avoid degradation effects. Throughout the world and in the literature the concept goes by many semi-synonyms which do not exactly mean the same but are headed approximately into the same direction. For example, one of these semi-synonyms is nature-based forest management. CCF has a long history in Central Europe but is comparatively new to other parts of the world. Currently the popularity of CCF is on the increase again for its potential to mitigate climate change, to increase or at least maintain biodiversity in forest ecosystems, to provide valuable tools for forest conservation and to enhance the appeal of woodlands used for recreation. Recently the EU forest strategy for 2030 stated clearcutting should be “used only in duly justified cases, for example, when proven necessary for environmental or ecosystem health reasons” and the strategy promotes “the creation or maintenance at stand and landscape level of genetically and functionally diverse, mixed‐species forests.” Early in 2022, the European Forest Institute (EFI) has launched a new strategy underpinning CCF principles with scientific evidence. It is particularly the early phase of transitioning towards CCF, i.e. the introduction of CCF to a country or region where this management type has not been commonly used before, which usually constitutes a major challenge for forest practice and stakeholders. For example, this was the situation 20 years ago in Ireland and in the UK and CCF is now being considered for introduction in the congress host country Sweden. A long-standing and crucial question is how natural disturbances can be more directly included in the design of CCF methods. The recent global energy crisis has added another challenging facet to implementing CCF and methods like the coppice selection system and coppice with
standards may now assume greater importance than they did in the past. A topic close to the heart of forest practice is the important question how, in the context of these current challenges, the sustainability of ecosystem goods and services can be ensured in CCF and its variants. Effective methods of safeguarding ecosystem goods and services may, for example, require forest inventory designs to be adopted.
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Arne Pommerening, PhD (Göttingen), Habilitation (Vienna)
Professor in Mathematical Statistics Applied to Forest Sciences
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU
Faculty of Forest Sciences
Department of Forest Ecology and Management
Skogsmarksgränd 17
SE-901 83
Umeå
Sweden
http://www.pommerening.org<http://www.pommerening.org/>
http://blogg.slu.se/forest-biometrics
Twitter: @ArneTanYrOnnen
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The deadline for early bird registration for Forest Genetics 2023<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/>, to be held July 10-14, 2023 in Vernon, BC, has been extended to midnight (PDT), May 25, 2023.
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The draft program, now posted here<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/program/>, includes our 5 invited speakers<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/invited-speakers/>, +55 oral presentations and +20 posters! These sessions will take place at the Prestige Vernon Lodge<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/accommodation/> on Tuesday, July 11 and Thursday, July 13. Also included with registration is a dinner banquet hosted by the Vernon Seed Orchard Company<http://vsoc.ca/> on Tuesday pm, July 11 and a field trip<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/conference-field-tour/> on Wednesday, July 13. The full program, with oral and poster presentation titles, authors and abstracts, will be available in the near future.
A separate Tree Seed Workshop<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/cfga-seed-tree-working-group/> will be held on Monday, July 10. Agenda and speakers to be posted soon. Everyone welcome. Cost $75.
A limited number of seats are also still available for the optional post-conference remote field tour<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/post-conference-tour/> on Friday, July 14. Cost $50.
Registration for the main event will be limited to 120 people. The presentations will NOT be live-streamed, so one must attend in-person to hear the latest news and research hot off (or still in) the press!
Register<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/registration/> now to avoid disappointment! Regular CAN$650; Students CAN$350, which are reasonable fees thanks to the donations received from our generous Sponsors!<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/sponsorship/meet-our-sponsors/>
Looking forward to seeing you in Vernon !
Brian T. Barber, RPF
President
Canadian Forest Genetics Association<https://cfga-acgf.com/>
Nicholas Ukrainetz, PhD, RPF
President
Western Forest Genetics Association<https://www.fsl.orst.edu/wfga/index.html>
PS - Rooms at the Vernon Lodge are almost sold out! See the Accommodations webpage<https://forestgenetics2023.ca/accommodation/> for more information.
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It is our pleasure to announce the 2024 Short Rotation Woody Crops International Conference, to be held 13-16 May 2024 in Columbia, Missouri, USA and hosted by the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry.
IUFRO Working Parties 1.03.00 - Short-rotation forestry, 1.06.01 - Phytotechnologies for degraded sites in rural and urban communities and 2.08.04 - Poplars and willows are involved in this event as partners.
Information on abstract submission, registration, and lodging is being compiled and will be made available on a conference website. Stay tuned for more information from conference organizers!
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions and pass this information on to as many people as possible.
We hope to see you there!
Kind regards,
Ron
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Supervisory Research Plant Geneticist
Forest Service
Northern Research Station
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to be presented at the IUFRO World Congress 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden
Dear Colleagues,
The XXVI IUFRO World Congress to be held from 23 to 29 June 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden provides us with another opportunity to honour outstanding scientific achievements and contributions to forestry with a range of IUFRO Awards. I am pleased to invite and encourage you to nominate suitable candidates for the various categories of awards as listed below. The deadline for submission of nominations has been extended to 25th May 2023.
SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (SAA)
Up to 10 awards will be given in recognition of distinguished individual scientific achievements within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.
Nominations may be made by a member of the nominee's parent organization, by Coordinators of Divisions, Research Groups, Working Parties and Task Forces, and by other officeholders and knowledgeable persons associated with the Union (but no self-nominations). Nominees must either belong to Member Organizations or be Individual Members of IUFRO.
Please FILL IN THE NOMINATIONS FORM before 25th May 2023: https://forms.office.com/r/7NnsKKxEn5
OUTSTANDING DOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARD (ODRA)
One award per IUFRO Division will be given to recognize path-breaking doctoral disser-tations completed in the period 2018-2023 within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.
Nominations may be made by a member of the nominee's parent organization, by Coordinators of Divisions, Research Groups, Working Parties, Task Forces and by other officeholders and knowledgeable persons associated with the Union (but no self-nominations). Nominees must either belong to IUFRO Member Organizations or be Individual Members of IUFRO. Please FILL IN THE NOMINATIONS FORM before 25th May 2023: https://forms.office.com/r/gjXvQgc2vV
IUFRO STUDENT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FOREST SCIENCE (ISA)
This award recognizes outstanding individual achievements in forest science made by Masters degree students (or equivalent) completed in the period 2018-2023, in order to encourage their further work within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.
One award per IUFRO Division may be made for work related to the themes of the IUFRO World Congress. Nominations can be made through IUFRO Members and through the International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) via the IFSA Secretariat/Liaison Officer.
The Award shall consist of a certificate, the most economical cost of (air) travel/subsidized travel to attend the World Congress, and waiver of the Congress registration fee. The SAA will be presented at the opening or closing ceremony of the World Congress. For the ODRA and ISA, the awards will be presented in a special session where awardees are given the opportunity to present highlights of their award winning work. All award winners will be announced in a special issue of IUFRO News and in other media.
Please FILL IN THE NOMINATIONS FORM before 25th May 2023: https://forms.office.com/r/FQ3McussKx
In addition to these awards, the Congress 2024 will offer:
Best Poster Award (BPA)
To encourage public dissemination of high-quality research and to recognize distinguished poster presentations during the IUFRO World Congress by under-graduate students, graduate students and individuals who completed their graduate degrees up to 7 years prior to the Congress. A number of awards will be presented for applications submitted by the corresponding author during the online submission of the abstract. Applications shall be finalized two months before the Congress by submitting the final pdf of the poster presentation. Shortlisted poster presentations will be judged directly at the IUFRO World Congress. The awards will be mentioned during the closing ceremony.
IUFRO World Congress Host Scientific Award
This award honours one or more truly outstanding scientists from the Congress host country who has elevated the profile of forest science and research.
For more information and nomination forms, please check the website:
https://www.iufro.org/discover/awards/
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XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024
FORESTS AND SOCIETY TOWARDS 2050
Stockholm, Sweden; 23-29 June 2024
Congress website: https://www.iufro2024.com/
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XXVI IUFRO World Congress: Call for Abstracts
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XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024
FORESTS AND SOCIETY TOWARDS 2050
Stockholm, Sweden; 23-29 June 2024
Congress website: https://www.iufro2024.com/
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Dear forest scientists and experts, dear IUFRO members, dear colleagues,
The Congress Scientific Committee (CSC) is pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the XXVI IUFRO Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, 23-29 June 2024, is open and welcomes submissions of abstracts for presentations in sub-plenary, technical and poster sessions.
To submit your abstract, please take the following steps:
1. Consult the list of sessions at Call for Congress Abstract | IUFRO Stockholm 2024 (iufro2024.com)<https://iufro2024.com/call-for-congress-abstract>
2. Submit your abstract at Abstract Submission | IUFRO 2024 <https://www.appinconf.com/kas/Abstract?projectName=iufro2024abstracts>
A form for abstract submission is available online. You will be required to insert a title (max 150 characters), authors with their affiliation (the author presenting the paper or poster at the Congress must be designated as the Presenting Author), and text (max 350 words describing context, specific topic of the study, methods, main results, and conclusions in plain writing). No figures, tables or list of references should be added. Please note that abstracts may be submitted in English only.
Authors must select one of the following options: oral only; poster only; oral or poster. The session organizers will decide on the length of a talk, which could range from 2-3 minutes for flash talks to 15 minutes or more for regular talks. Please note that poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work orally (2-3 min) during moderated poster sessions. The Congress will feature only digital poster displays to ensure high visibility for poster presentations. Poster areas will be open and free to visit during the whole Congress.
Authors are limited to a maximum of two abstracts as presenting author, although an individual may be listed as a co-author on several abstracts. Abstracts not associated with one of the sessions in the list may be assigned to a general poster session. Session organizers will review the abstracts for scientific quality, topical significance and relevance to the Congress themes<https://iufro2024.com/iufro-world-congress-2024/forests-and-society-towards…> and to the particular session to which the abstract is submitted, and assign them as oral or poster presentations. You will be informed in due time about the type and length of your presentation.
Candidates for Best Poster Award<https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/discover/honour-bpa.pdf> must apply online during the abstract submission process.
Abstracts will be accepted until 2 June 2023. Authors will be informed if their presentation is accepted by 30 October 2023. In order to remain in the programme, the registration deadline for Presenting Authors of accepted abstracts is 15 January 2024.
We look forward to your active participation in the design of the scientific program for the 2024 IUFRO Congress in Stockholm.
Elena Paoletti
On behalf of the CSC
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Dear colleagues,
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The tasks of the Project Manager encompass operational planning and implementation of projects within the Science-Policy Programme of IUFRO, as well as following up and contributing to different intergovernmental processes. This full time (40 hours/week) position in an international team requires skills in personal organisation, planning, priority setting, and managing multiple tasks and the ability to effectively and positively interact with people in a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment.
Institution: IUFRO
Duty station: IUFRO Headquarters, Vienna, Austria
Working language: English (command of other UN languages and/or German is advantageous)
Closing date: 19 May 2023, 11:59 p.m. CEST
Details: https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/discover/gfep-vacancy-announcement…
Many thanks and best wishes,
Dr. Christoph Wildburger
Science-Policy Programme Coordinator
Find out more about the new IUFRO Science-Policy Programme at:
IUFRO: Science-Policy Programme / Science in IUFRO<https://www.iufro.org/science/gfep/>
Dear colleagues,
I send you attached the first communication about the next conference of the Working Group 2.08.03 "Improvement and culture of Eucalyptus" that will take place in Uruguay on next November.
Soon we will be sending a new communication with more detailed information.
We hope to see you all in Colonia del Sacramento
Best regards
Gustavo Balmelli
Deputy Coordinator Unit 2.08.03
Dear Colleagues from IUFRO Division 2 and IUFRO 2.09.02 Unit,
We are delighted to announce that our sixth IUFRO 2.09.02 Unit Conference will be held from 3-8 March 2024 in Rotorua, New Zealand!
"The might of vegetative propagation for healthy and productive forests to face climate challenges".
Please, check out the preliminary announcement in attachment and the 2 related documents (Invitation Letter and Presentation document).
We will be welcomed by Dr. Jana Krajňáková (Senior Researcher for tissue culture) and Dr. Henri Baillères (General Manager forest to timber products) and their teams from Scion, a crown research institute that specialises in research, science and technology development for the forestry, wood product, wood-derived materials, and other biomaterial sectors.
We are looking forward to meeting you again in Rotorua!
Please help us disseminate this information to your colleagues, teams, IUFRO Units and other networks interested in vegetative propagation of trees and its applications for sustainable management of forests and tree plantations.
Paloma Moncaleán, Yong-Wook Kim & Jean-François Trontin
IUFRO 2.09.02 Coordinating team
Keep up to date at the <https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-2/20000/20900/20902/activi…> IUFRO 2.09.02 webpages
Dear Colleagues from IUFRO Division 2 and IUFRO 2.09.02 Unit,
We are delighted to announce that our sixth IUFRO 2.09.02 Unit Conference will be held from 3-8 March 2024 in Rotorua, New Zealand!
"The might of vegetative propagation for healthy and productive forests to face climate challenges".
Please, check out the preliminary announcement in attachment and the 2 related documents (Invitation Letter and Presentation document).
We will be welcomed by Dr. Jana Krajňáková (Senior Researcher for tissue culture) and Dr. Henri Baillères (General Manager forest to timber products) and their teams from Scion, a crown research institute that specialises in research, science and technology development for the forestry, wood product, wood-derived materials, and other biomaterial sectors.
We are looking forward to meeting you again in Rotorua!
Please help us disseminate this information to your colleagues, teams, IUFRO Units and other networks interested in vegetative propagation of trees and its applications for sustainable management of forests and tree plantations.
Paloma Moncaleán, Yong-Wook Kim & Jean-François Trontin
IUFRO 2.09.02 Coordinating team
Keep up to date at the IUFRO 2.09.02 webpages <https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-2/20000/20900/20902/activi…>
