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 Meeting’s 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