Dear IUFRO FRIENDS
Please consider attending the upcoming FABI International Seminar (29th April at 16h00 GMT +2) to be presented by Dr Andrew (Sandy) Liebhold. Sandy is very well known to the IUFRO Community having (for example) served Division 7 (Tree Health) Co-ordinator and Chair of the Scientific Committee for our 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg in 2017. If you are interested in tree health, biological invasions or forests and forestry in general - this will be a seminar for you to enjoy.
To attend, it is necessary to register -please do so at https://www.fabinet.up.ac.za/index.php/event/FABISerminarSeries/
Background information on Sandy’s talk can be found below and details of the FABI International Seminar Series is on the web site above.
Best regards
Mike
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April, 2021
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Speaker: Dr Andrew Liebhold, US Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV USA
Title: Macroecology of Insect Invasions
Date: 29 April 2021 Time: 16:00 (GMT+2)
Abstract: Biological invasions are largely an unintended consequence of globalization. With increasing mobility, humans have accidentally transported organisms around the world, breaking the geographical boundaries that separated species ranges that persisted for millions of years of evolution. Among animals, the insecta is the most species-rich class, with thousands of insect species having been established outside of their native ranges and many of these species causing immense impacts on agriculture, human health and conservation of native ecosystems. Here, I report on a macroecological analysis of historical insect invasions spanning 300 years and 10 world regions. These data are used to compare frequencies of invasions among different insect orders and among different insect families. Species-area relationships for native insect assemblages are generally stronger than for non-native insect assemblages. Certain groups, such as the Hemiptera, Formicidae and the Staphylinidae are generally over-represented in non-native insect assemblages, while other taxa are under-represented. These patterns generally reflect characteristics of these insects that cause them to enter important invasion pathways and biological characteristics that facilitate invasions. These results ultimately allow us to better understand the socio-economic drivers of insect invasions and can be of use when conducting invasive pest risk analysis.
Biography: Andrew “Sandy” Liebhold has been a research entomologist with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, WV USA since 1988. His research focuses on the ecology and management of biological invasions and the spatial dynamics of insect outbreaks. Liebhold received his PhD in Entomology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and worked as a postdoctoral at the University of Massachusetts before joining the Forest Service. He is a fellow of the AAAS and serves on the editorial board of the journals Population Ecology and Biological Invasions. He also currently serves as a scientific coordinator with the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Science, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and a visiting scholar with Scion Research in New Zealand.
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REMINDER – CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR COFE-FORMEC 2021 (https://cofe-formec2021.org)
Do not miss the opportunity to present your work and network at COFE-FORMEC 2021, the 2nd Joint Annual Meeting of the Council on Forest Engineering (COFE) and the International Symposium on Forest Mechanization (FORMEC).
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 1, 2021
Please visit the conference webpage (https://cofe-formec2021.org) for abstract submission and other detailed information about the joint virtual meeting.
Best regards,
Woodam Chung and Karl Stampfer
COFE-FORMEC 2021 Chairs
Von: Sheila Ward <mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. März 2021 00:04
Betreff: Join the e-list for IUFRO Working Party 4.02.01 Resource Data in the Tropics
Dear Colleagues:
You are invited to join the e-list for IUFRO Working Party 4.02.01 Resource Data in the Tropics, at https://lists.iufro.org/mailman/listinfo/wp40201/ We are focusing the unit on the discovery, curation, and use of legacy tropical forest datasets.
Much legacy data for tropical forests, including inventory and plot data, are in danger of being lost. Many tropical forest projects over the years have generated data, but the information is scattered among different institutions and people, some still only on paper, some digitized but in older formats.
These legacy datasets are invaluable for understanding how tropical forests change through time, including the cumulative impacts of land use and climate, and changes in patterns of biodiversity. change in land use and climate, and changes in patterns of biodiversity and carbon storage. Many of the forests represented in historical datasets no longer exist, so these data are the only record of the natural vegetation of the area.
There is also a need to develop a set of standard descriptive metadata, or a metadata scheme, for describing these datasets. This would assist not only with recovering and describing old data sets, but also ensure that future datasets can be consistently described and that their loss can be avoided in the future.
The first step is to review datasets referred to in older meta databases (e.g., ATROFI-UK and TROPIS) to determine if they are still available, and if they are in need of updated electronic curation. We are also reaching out via electronic media and networks, to find additional legacy tropical datasets and information on these studies. The next steps will be to develop an updated metadatabase regarding these datasets, develop with stakeholders policy on ownership and appropriate use, seek funding, and electronically curate such datasets.
We invite your participation in the e-list to discuss these and related topics.
IUFRO 4.02.01 Coordination Team
https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40200/40201/
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to contribute your research work (research or
review article) to the upcoming June 21 issue of the European Journal of
Forest Engineering (EJFE) <http://dergipark.gov.tr/ejfe> .
EJFE <http://dergipark.gov.tr/ejfe> is a semi-annual peer-reviewed, open
access, research journal published by the "Forest Engineering and
Technologies (FETEC)" platform. FETEC is a non-profit technical association
founded in 2012 to strengthen cooperation and improve communication among
scientists and researchers in the field of forest engineering and
technologies.
European Journal of Forest Engineering is a peer-reviewed open-access
journal, which publishes high scientific level research articles and subject
reviews exclusively in English. EJFE aims to report existing practices and
innovations presented by scientists and professionals in the field of forest
engineering, to encourage communication between academic/research
institutions and industry, and to bridge the gap between researchers and
decision-makers.
EJFE is indexed in TR Index <https://trdizin.gov.tr/en/about/> which was
developed in accordance with international standards to enable researchers
to access national and scientific content electronically. EJFE is indexed in
much open access international scientific journal database (Publons
<https://publons.com/journal/72172/european-journal-of-forest-engineering/>
, ResearchBib <http://journalseeker.researchbib.com/view/issn/2149-5637> ,
JournalTOCs <http://journalseeker.researchbib.com/view/issn/2149-5637> ,
SJIFactor <http://sjifactor.com/passport.php?id=20438> , CrossREf,
Google etc.)
Also, EJFE is referenced as a scientific journal by IUFO Div 3.01.00
<https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-3/30000/30100/publications
/> - Harvesting and Transportation Engineering.
The journal promotes the latest scientific findings, empirical and
theoretical researches in the following areas;
* Forest transportation
* Wood supply chain and transportation logistics
* Forest harvesting
* Forest operations and technologies
* Forestry mechanization
* Forest road design
* Forest road construction and maintenance
* Forest road infrastructures and their assessment
* Forest utilization and planning
* Operations planning
* Small-scale forest operations
* Forest biomass harvesting, estimation, and utilization
* Harvesting non-wood forest products
* Sustainable forest management studies
* Best management practices to protect soil and water resources
* Engineering applications in watersheds
* Terramechanics in forestry
* Engineering economy, cost estimation
* Ergonomics and the human factor in forestry
* Workforce education, training, and safety
* Operations Researches (OR) in forestry
* Engineering solutions for natural disasters
* Precision forestry applications
* Monitoring and assessment of forest resources
* Information Technologies (ITs) in forestry activities
* GIS and Remote Sensing applications in forestry
* Forest surveying and photogrammetry
If you wish to publish research/review articles please follow Author
Guidelines <http://dergipark.gov.tr/ejfe/page/1880> , and then you can
directly submit an article through the online submission system.
For more information please visit the website: http://dergipark.gov.tr/ejfe
With regards,
Prof.Dr. Selcuk Gumus
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Karadeniz Technical University
Faculty of Forestry
Forest Engineering Department
61080 Ortahisar, Trabzon, Turkey
Email: sgumus(a)ktu.edu.tr <mailto:sgumus@ktu.edu.tr>
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Gesendet: Montag, 01. März 2021 13:02
Betreff: Dissemination of Special issue sponsored by IUFRO
Special Issue "Non-Wood Forest Products Management: Inventory, Planning, Governance, Marketing and Trade"
Dear Colleagues,
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO Units 4.04.04-Sustainable Forest Management Scheduling and 5.11.00-Non-Wood Forest Products and the IUFRO Task Force on Unlocking the Bioeconomy and Non-Timber Forest Products) as well as the 19th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR 2021) are sponsoring this Special Issue of Forests (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests)
We welcome the submission of manuscripts for publication in this Forests special issue (SI). There are a myriad of opportunities to unlock the full potential of NWFPs, such as creating new knowledge and tools to optimize the sustainable provision and profitability of NWFPs, fostering the development of market conditions for NWFPs, and developing economic and governance strategies for the better management of wild forest products-particularly in low-income countries. Thus, this SI aims at contributing to the dissemination of research endeavors involving the development of models, methods, processes, and decision support tools to address the inventory, planning, harvesting, governance, certification, marketing, and trade of NWFPs. This will be influential to strengthen the NWFP knowledge base and of research strategies to support the full encapsulation of NWFPs in the framework of the sustainable management of forest ecosystems. Papers submitted for publication in this Special Issue will undergo a rigorous peer review process with the aim of prompt and wide dissemination of research results and applications.
More information at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/non-wood_forest_products
Best regards,
Emin Baskent, Jose Borges, James Chamberlain, Davide Pettenela, Carsten Smith-Hall, Yu Wei
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José G. Borges
Coordinator of the Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon
https://www.isa.ulisboa.pt/en/cef/about
Coordinator of EMMC Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management (MEDfOR)
http://www.medfor.eu/
Coordinator of IUFRO Group Sustainable forest management scheduling
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