Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the international conference “Role and Fate of Forest Ecosystems in a Changing World” will be held in Bangkok, the “City of Angels”, on 15-19 January 2024 back-to-back the 31st biennial conference of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations - Research Group 8.04 on “Air pollution and climate change”.
For the first time, the conference will be held in Southeast Asia, in Thailand, which is particularly vulnerable to climate change and air pollution given its large population, highest biodiversity in the tropical zone, and large number of forest-dependent communities. Do not miss this cornerstone of effective international collaboration in the research of air pollution and plant ecosystems.
The social dinner is planned on 18th January 2024
A full-day excursion is planned on 19th January 2024.
All useful information are available online: https://iufro-bangkok2024.com
Deadlines
Deadline for abstract submission: 1st September 2023
Notice of presentation (oral or poster): 15th September 2023
Early registration: till 15th November 2023
Late registration: from 16th November 2023
No on-site registration
Sessions
The main sessions of the conference are:
#1 - Asian forest ecosystems under changing environment
#2 - Urban greening: a win-win strategy for air quality, climate, biodiversity, and citizen well-being
#3 - Plant ecosystems in a changing world: monitoring, modeling, and risk assessment
#4 - Tropospheric ozone: a threat to terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity
#5 - Atmospheric deposition: consequences for forest ecosystems
#6 - Genetic, biochemical, and physiological mechanisms underlying stress responses of forest ecosystems
#7 - Forest ecosystems under multiple stressors
#8 - Radioactive contamination of forest ecosystems
For more details:
Contact: Dr. Pierre Sicard (psicard(a)arches-conseils.fr<mailto:psicard@arches-conseils.fr>)
See you soon in Bangkok!
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Dr Pierre SICARD
Air pollution & forests
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International Union of Forest Research Organizations
Associate Editor Environmental Research
UNECE Expert Panel on Clean Air in Cities
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Dear colleagues,
In case you are planning to participate in the XXVI IUFRO World Congress in
Stockholm, Sweden in 23-29 June 2024, please consider whether you would
like to contribute to the session “*Never waste pandemics: lessons learned
from past **forest disease** outbreaks”.*
The session includes 15-minute talks plus questions and posters;
submissions are still open at:
https://iufro2024.com/call-for-congress-abstract.
*Abstracts will be accepted until 2 June 2023.*
*Never waste pandemics: lessons learned from past **forest disease*
* outbreaks*
Disturbances, whether abiotic or biotic in nature, are integral and
necessary components of forest ecosystems. However, anthropogenic pressures
and climate changes have contributed to the erosion of forest ecosystem
resilience, frequently to a degree that the tipping point has been
breached, this causing devastating consequences across landscapes,
countries and even continents. With globalization and changes in climate
patterns, both natural and planted forests are at risk from invasive exotic
pathogens, which are exacerbated by extended drought cycles, extreme
precipitation events and air pollution. As an example, owing to the scale
of pandemic destruction, Ash dieback, Dutch Elm Disease, Chestnut Blight,
along with White Pine Blister Rust, are, so far, among the most
catastrophic biotic disturbances in forest. The list of devastating
disturbances is long and novel drivers will keep arising in the globalized
world due to ongoing climate warming. Experience so far tells that it is
less costly to conserve nature than it is to restore it, so it is
imperative we learn from experience to protect forests now.
Our future relies on maintaining the ecosystem services provided by forest.
The ongoing transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a biobased
economy is driven by the need to combat climate change, to protect the
environment and to increase sustainability. This means we aim to meet the
needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their needs. When governmental roadmaps towards more
carbon-neutral economies are drafted, the focus, concerning forests, is
often only on the increase of forested area and management practices that
facilitate forest growth. The underlying assumption is that forests are
healthy and in different phases of growth, a demography that allows the
balancing needed between carbon sequestration and a continuous flow of the
biogenic material needed. However, pest and pathogen outbreaks, as history
has shown, can severely disrupt our ambitions.
In this session, we welcome presentations that address how the underlying
ecological, societal as well as institutional and political drivers have
contributed to the rise and scale of specific disturbances. We hope to
highlight assessments of currently implemented strategies considering the
lessons learned from past pandemic crises. Similarly, we hope to outline
management and policy options that are not yet in force or which have not
yet attained that are not yet in place or not yet as but that would be
needed to successfully prevent and/or to circumvent future pandemic crises.
Keywords: Biotic, Climate Change, Disturbances, Resilience, Socio-ecology
ORGANIZERS:
Dr. Ari M. Hietala, Department of Fungal Plant Pathology in Forestry,
Agriculture, and Horticulture, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research
(NIBIO), Innocamp Steinkjer, Steinkjer, Norway. - ari.hietala(a)nibio.no
Dr. Nicola La Porta, IASMA Research and Innovation Centre, Edmund Mach
Foundation, Trento, Italy. - The EFI Project Centre on Mountain Forests
(MOUNTFOR), Trento, Italy. - nicola.laporta(a)fmach.it
Kind regards,
Nicola La Porta and Ari Hietala
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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 T5.1 entitled "Artificial Intelligence in Forest Biometry: from predictions to understanding" 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<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.appinconf.com/kas/Abstract?projectN…>.
Best wishes,
Felipe Bravo
Session organisers: Felipe Bravo, Clara Antón-Fernández, Sheng-I Yang
Artificial intelligence (AI) encompasses a wide range of techniques and frameworks dating back tothe mid twenty century. The use of AI in forestry is relatively new, especially when compared to the
early adoption of AI in other fields such as agriculture. In forest biometry, the irruption of AI spins researchers and practitioners to unfold the analysis of complex big data. Narrow AI, defined as an
AI system that is specified to perform a limited task, is commonly applied in forest biometry (e.g., analysis of forest structure with 3D point cloud data). Currently, it is possible to efficiently prototype AI
algorithms thanks to plenty of publicly available databases, open-source libraries, and the accessibilityto computing platforms.
However, the application of AI in forest biometry is mainly focused on improving predictions. Due to the potential power of AI, opportunities are open to broad applications of AI, such as enhancing the
understanding of forest processes. Thus, it is important to discuss, jointly with academia and industrialsectors, about the implications, limitations, and capabilities of this technology as an alternative quantitative method.
Prof. Dr. Felipe Bravo
Catedrático de Planificación Forestal/Professor of Forest Management
Chair SMART Global Ecosystems | Senior Researcher at iuFOR
Instituto Universitario de Gestión Forestal Sostenible | Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute
Universidad de Valladolid
ETS Ingenierías Agrarias, Universidad de Valladolid
Avda. de Madrid, 44 -- 34004 Palencia
España-Spain
Tl +34 979108424 Fx.+34 979108440
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Dear Colleagues
We would like to invite your attention to the CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for our sub-plenary session in the XXVI IUFRO World Congress, 23-29 of June 2024, Stockholm
Subplenary Theme 3 Forest Biodiversity and its ecosystem services
S3.1 Assisted migration for adapting forests to climate change
The abstract submission period is open until 2 June 2023, 23:59 p.m. (CEST) and interested individuals are encouraged to apply.
Please visit the submission page at: https://www.appinconf.com/kas/Abstract?projectName=iufro2024abstracts<https://r.notify.appinmed.com/tr/cl/JZLsVlbaGX7P9asUWVfL46wtVQiZthblTZrP12e…>
We are looking forward to receiving your excellent and numerous abstracts!
Kind regards
On behalf of the organizers
Debojyoti Chakraborty
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Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty
Senior Scientist
Department of Forest Growth, Silviculture and Genetics
Austrian Research Centre for Forests BFW
Seckendorff-Gudent-Weg 8, 1131 Vienna, Austria
Telefon +43 1 878 38-2101
Mobil +43 660 5086 480
E-Mail debojyoti.chakraborty(a)bfw.gv.at<mailto:debojyoti.chakraborty@bfw.gov.at>
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[Ein Bild, das Text, Screenshot, Schrift, Dokument enthält. Automatisch generierte Beschreibung]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 session T4.21 National perspective of Forest resources policy and governance in countries of Latin America under a sustainable perspective 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.
Session details
T4.21 National perspective of Forest resources policy and governance in countries of Latin America under a sustainable perspective
Session type: Technical
Duration: 120 minutes
Congress theme: 4: Forests for sustainable societies
Note that the Congress organizers reserve the rights of slightly editing the text of your session description for the Book of Abstracts, and that the abstract call will be launched by the IUFRO Headquarters and is open to all, so you may need to include contributions that were not originally proposed for your session.
For sessions involving oral presentations, the Congress Scientific Committee recommends 10-15 min including discussion for standard oral presentations, but you may want to consider also shorter (5-10 min) and even flash talks (3-5 min). All contributions to your session must be submitted in the Call for Abstracts, and that also include speakers in panel discussions.
For sessions involving poster presentations, the Congress Organizing Committee is pleased to communicate that there will be only electronic posters and that the session will be split in two parts - one oral part and one poster part. Session organizers are required to propose a moderator also for their poster session, as it will include short oral presentations of the posters.
Vitor Afonso Hoeflich, D. Sc. em Economia Rural
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0561-3933
Professor do Departamento de Economia Rural e Extensão - Universidade Federal do Paraná -
- Coordenador do Grupo de trabalho da IUFRO
4.05.03 - Managerial economics and accounting in Latin America
-Vice-Coordenador do Grupo de trabalho da IUFRO 9.05.08 - Forest and natural resources policy and governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Contatos: Whatsapp 5541-99602.9350,
Recados: 41-3360.4206 41.3360.4212
skype: vitorah.hoeflich
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Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the session organisers, we would like to invite you to submit abstracts for oral talks and posters to the Session “T2.18. Mixed Forest plantations as resilient natured-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation” of the IUFRO 2024 Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, 23 – 29 June 2024.
This session will focus on findings from tree diversity experiments and silvicultural trials comparing mixtures with monocultures in forest plantations. Abstracts can be submitted until 2 June 2023 at https://iufro2024.com/call-for-congress-abstracts/
Best regards,
Hernán Serrano-León
T2.18. Mixed forest plantations as natured-based solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Session organizers: Hernán Serrano-León, Ramona Werner, Joel Jensen, Hervé Jactel, Carolyn Glynn
Forest plantations globally provide an increasingly large share of the wood products that contribute to a carbon-neutral bioeconomy, while reducing the harvest pressure on native and natural forests. Their importance is likely to increase with the projected rise in the global demand for the provision of multiple forest goods, and the increasing threat to natural forests posed by climate change. Yet, plantations are faced with controversies related to the potential negative impacts of dominating monospecific plantations for the maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem functions and to the increasing vulnerability of monocultures to biotic and abiotic risks intensified by climate change (CC).
A growing body of evidence suggests that multi-specific mixed forest plantations provide a wider array of ecosystem services and can be more efficient in sequestrating carbon, while better coping with CC-related stress and biotic disturbances. These results can be traced to mechanisms of complementary or facilitated resource use and alleviated competition in mixed plantations, and can result from a “portfolio effect” of diversification that minimizes the risk of a given species or forest function to be drastically affected. Nevertheless, there is an apparent reluctance among landowners and stakeholders to adopt mixed plantations as a nature-based solution for CC mitigation and adaptation. Among the possible factors preventing the expansion of mixed plantations is an insufficient scientific base for management practices regarding the type of species mixtures that optimize CC mitigation, adaptation and ecosystem functioning across contrasting site conditions.
This session focuses on findings from tree diversity experiments, silvicultural trials comparing mixtures with monocultures, and analyses of the socio-economic contexts of tree-species diverse plantations. This session presents recent research that 1) improves the mechanistic understanding behind the potential of mixed- forest plantations to mitigate and adapt to climate change, or 2) identifies trade-offs and synergies among adaptation, mitigation and other objectives in the management of mixed-forest plantations. The final aim of this session is to identify the knowledge gaps that prevent progress towards a wider implementation of mixed plantations in adaptive forest management strategies and restoration measures, and to discuss research approaches to fill these gaps.
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Hernán Serrano-León
Research Associate
Freiburg University, Chair of Silviculture and Chair of Geobotanics
@TreeDivNet MixForChange <https://mixforchange.cirad.fr/> project
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Tel.: +49 (0)1520 622 6221
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
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http://blogg.slu.se/forest-biometrics
Twitter: @ArneTanYrOnnen
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Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the sessions organizers, I would like to draw your attention
to the Technical Session 1.8 (see below description) at IUFRO World Congress
(Stockholm 23-29 June, 2024) . If you work with complex forests structures
feel free to submit your abstract until June 2nd at
https://www.appinconf.com/kas/Abstract?projectName=iufro2024abstracts
All the best,
Andrés
Sessions organizers: Andrés Bravo-Oviedo, Linda Nagel, Gary Kerr, Magnus
Löf, William Keeton, Miren del Rio, Andrej Boncina, Felipe Bravo, Alfredo di
Filippo, Mark J. Ducey, Hans Pretzsch
T1.8 Complex forests: Understanding and management of multiple species,
structures and ecosystem services.
Forestry faces important challenges in the decades ahead. The quick global
change affecting the climate system, economy and biodiversity has put
forests in the front line of mitigation and adaptation policies across the
world with different approaches. In temperate regions forest researchers and
practitioners have already understood that more structurally and
compositional diverse forest stands are essential to meet climate and
bioeconomy targets.
This session will present current knowledge on complex forest structures
research and practice. It will cover silvicultural and ecological aspects of
multiple species and multi-aged stands dynamics as well as the consequences
of increasing complexity for forest functioning, ecosystem services
provision and biodiversity conservation. The session will also deal with
measuring and modelling challenges that foresters and researchers are
currently confronting. A final discussion among moderators, presenters and
public will summarize the future of complex forest structures within the
forestry discipline and their benefits for the bioeconomy.
Presentations for oral contributions and posters are welcome on the
following topics:
(i) Multiple species silviculture; (ii) Multi-aged structure silviculture;
(iii) Functions, services and biodiversity and (iv) Measuring and Modelling
the forest complexity.
The session is organized by the following IUFRO research groups RG1.09
Ecology and silviculture of mixed forests, RG1.05.00 - Uneven-aged
silviculture; and units 1.01.06 - Ecology and silviculture of oak; 1.01.07 -
Ecology and silviculture of beech; 1.01.09 - Ecology and silviculture of
fir; 4.01.02 Growth models for tree and stand simulation; 8.01.01 Old
growth forests and forest reserves.
Dr. Andrés Bravo-Oviedo
Senior Research Scientist (Científico Titular)
Coordinator of IUFRO RG 1.09.00 Ecology and Silviculture of Mixed Forests (
<http://www.iufro.org/> www.iufro.org)
Reviews Editor European Journal of Forest Research
<https://www.springer.com/journal/10342>
Adaptive Silviculture
<https://www.researchgate.net/lab/Adaptive-Silviculture-and-Applied-Forest-E
cology-ASAFE-Lab-Andres-Bravo-Oviedo> & Applied Forest Ecology Lab
(ASAFE-Lab)
Dpt. Biogeography and Global Change
National Museum of Natural Sciences CSIC
Serrano 115 bis
28006 Madrid (ES)
Phone: +34 91 333 30 82 ext. 443 440 New number!
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