[IUFRO Div 4] Call for papers

Dear Colleagues, The IUFRO Unit 4.04.04 'Sustainable Forest Management Scheduling' is coordinating a Special Issue in Decision Support for Forest Ecosystem Management Sustainability, to be published in Sustainability (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability) a SCIE and SSCI (Web of Science) journal published in open access form. We welcome the submission of manuscripts reporting research on: (1) Models for assessing the impacts of management strategies on biodiversity, on vulnerability to wildfires, on product and revenue flows and on ecosystem sustainability. (2) Methods that can link traditional stand‑level approaches for forest production with a landscape‑level approach that targets spatial structures associated with ecological functioning and sustainable supply of forest-based services. (3) Methods that may help assess risk and uncertainty as well as trade-offs between ecosystem services to develop sustainable forest ecosystem management plans. (4) Forest management decision support systems that may encapsulate models and methods (1) to (3) and help transfer technology and knowledge of forest ecosystems. The deadline for manuscript submission: 30 September 2016 More information at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/forest_ecosystem_… Sorry for any crossposting. Please disseminate this information to whomever you think might be interested. Thank you. Best regards, Jose Borges -- José G. Borges Professor at the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon http://www.isa.utl.pt/home/node/369 Coordinator of EMMC Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management (MEDfOR) http://www.medfor.eu/ Coordinator of IUFRO Group Sustainable forest management scheduling http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40400/40404/