Dear all,
The International Tree Mortality Network, an initiative of the IUFRO
task force on monitoring trends and patterns in global tree mortality,
continues the online seminar series.
You are invited to join on *FEB 22 *(11 pm, CET, 5 pm EST) [9 am Sydney
Feb 23):
*Prof. BELINDA MEDLYN*
_Tree mortality in Australian ecosystems: past, present and future_
_Abstract_: Australia is not only the driest inhabited continent, it
also experiences high interannual variability in rainfall, and severe
multi-year droughts. Tree death from drought is thus a recurring feature
of the Australian landscape. In this talk I will review our current
understanding of drought mortality in Australian ecosystems, including
the historical context, current field research on the extent and
mechanisms of drought dieback and recovery, and the development of
models to predict future drought mortality risk.
Please join us for this highly interesting seminar and register at:
https://lu-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TYUlICVnRyyIhLQnKeLeJw
<https://lu-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TYUlICVnRyyIhLQnKeLeJw>
If you are interested in contributing to the seminar series and/or have
suggestions for additional speakers, please contact us at:
treemortnet(a)gmail.com
_Belinda is Distinguished Professor at the University of Western
Sydney_. Her research focuses on how plants, especially forests, respond
to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate change. She works
at the interface between experiments and models: her aim is to develop
evidence-based models of how ecosystem productivity, water use and
species composition will be affected by global change, and to do so she
works closely with a number of experimental teams world-wide to test and
improve ecosystem models.
Visit us at:
https://www.tree-mortality.net/https://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/tree-mortality-patterns/
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From: Karin Hjelm <Karin.Hjelm(a)slu.se <mailto:Karin.Hjelm@slu.se> >
Sent: Monday, 18 January 2021 12.05
To: ess-alla <ess-alla(a)slu.se <mailto:ess-alla@slu.se> >
Subject: IBFRA conference 2021
Hi all!
IBFRA will arrange a conference with the theme “a changing boreal biome: assessing the vulnerability and resilience of boreal ecosystems to climate change and their socio-economic implications” that might be of interest for several of you, please visit the website for more information:
https://sites.google.com/alaska.edu/ibfra2021/home-page
The conference will be held August 16-20, fully virtual. Deadline for abstracts is February 1st.
BR,
Karin
Karin Hjelm
Universitetslektor
Docent
Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Institutionen för Sydsvensk Skogsvetenskap
Box 49, 230 53 Alnarp
Besöksadress: Rörsjövägen 1
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Dear all,
the International Tree Mortality Network, an initiative of the IUFRO
task force on monitoring trends and patterns in global tree mortality,
is presenting the second lecture of the online seminar series.
You are invited to join on *Jan 19 (4 pm, CET)*:
*Dr Flávia Costa, *Brazilian National Institute for Amazonian Research
(INPA)
*Tree mortality in the Amazon across local hydrological gradients: how
water table depth may save or condemn trees as climate changes*
_Abstract_: Dr Costa will present results of 20 years of investigation
on patterns of forest response to soil hydrology (more specifically
water table depth) during normal and extreme climatic years to examine
the hypothesis that shallow water tables buffer forests from droughts
and forests in these conditions may even be benefited by droughts. Dr
Costa will also present some data on the hydraulic trait distributions
along hydrological gradients to analyse the shifting implications to
mortality during moderate to strong droughts.
Please join us for this highly interesting seminar and register at:
https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VjP6hujGRYGoLizdbAJe2A
<https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VjP6hujGRYGoLizdbAJe2A>
If you are interested in contributing to the seminar series and/or have
suggestions for additional speakers, please contact us at:
treemortnet(a)gmail.com
_Dr Flávia Costa, Researcher @ Brazilian National Institute for
Amazonian Research (INPA)_
Dr Flávia Costa is plant ecologist studying forest dynamics,
anthropogenic impacts, functional and historical ecology of the Amazon
for the last 25 years, based at the Brazilian National Institute for
Amazonian Research (INPA, Manaus). Dr Costa's current research focuses
on the effects of local hydrology on the structure, composition,
dynamics and function of the species and forests facing climate change.
Dr Costa also runs the long-term ecological site of Reserva Ducke in the
central Amazon.
Visit us at:
https://www.tree-mortality.net/https://www.iufro.org/science/task-forces/tree-mortality-patterns/
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Dr. (habil.) Henrik Hartmann
Group leader
Plant Allocation
MPI for Biogeochemistry
Hans Knöll Str. 10
07745 Jena, Germany
Contact:hhart@bgc-jena.mpg.de <mailto:hhart@bgc-jena.mpg.de>
Phone:+49.3641.576294
Mobile:+49.171.8188273
Website:
https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgp/index.php/HenrikHartmann/HenrikHartmann
<https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/bgp/index.php/HenrikHartmann/HenrikHartmann>
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to inform that we are editing a virtual special issue (VSI) of Soil Biology & Biochemistry, entitled "Plant-soil interactions in forests: Effects of management, disturbances and climate". I feel that you may contribute to this special issue.
Soil Biology & Biochemistry publishes original, scientifically challenging research articles of international significance that describe and explain biological processes occurring in soil.
Impact Factor: 5.795, 5-Year Impact Factor: 6.767
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/soil-biology-and-biochemistry
The Open call of the VSI is located at (or see the end of this email):
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/soil-biology-and-biochemistry/call-for-pa…
The submission is now open until the 11th of April 2021.
All submissions will go through the normal SBB review and publication process, all the accepted articles will be collected at the end to form an virtual special issue. The handling chief editor of this VSI is Joann Whalen (joann.whalen(a)mcgill.ca) the guest editors are Shirong Liu, Andreas Schindlbacher, Cindy Prescott, Alexia Stokes and myself.
We aim to have the special issue ready by December 2021.
We look forward to reading your manuscript to this special issue and please inform your colleagues of this opportunity.
Best regards,
Junwei Luan
Luan, Junwei（栾军伟）
Ph.D./Professor
Institute for Resources and Environment,
International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan (ICBR),
State Forestry and Grassland Administration
#8 Futong East Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100102
Tel:+86 10 84789785
Email: junweiluan(a)icbr.ac.cn
junweiluan(a)126.com
Special issue information:
Plant-soil interactions in forests: Effects of management, disturbances and climate
This special issue will bring together studies that provide mechanistic and quantitative knowledge and perspectives on plant and soil interactions, that are related to soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. The formation of soil organic matter, physical (aggregation) and chemical protection, and nutrient cycling, are largely affected and modulated by plant species traits, diversity, and their interactive effects with root exudation, root-associated microorganisms, and litter quality, especially at the rhizosphere and litter-soil interface. However, our understanding of these processes is still limited and those variations in plant traits, especially root traits, that have the strongest potential to influence soil processes, as well as their interactions with soil organisms, remains largely unexplored. Furthermore, these processes and their interactions face modification or decoupling under the impacts of management practices, disturbances, and environmental change. For example, extreme weather events, including drought, heat and freezing, and species gains and losses that are a consequence of climate change, may affect above- and below- ground biota differently. Therefore, decoupling likely occurs, exerting significant impacts on carbon and nutrient cycles. We require an improved understanding of how belowground processes vary mechanistically across spatial and temporal scales, and how potential feedbacks to external factors, including management practices, disturbances, and climate, are affected. In-depth understanding is essential for increasing accuracy of terrestrial biogeochemical and dynamic vegetation models, which are often limited by inadequate integration of key belowground processes.
This special issue focusing on plant-soil interactions related to soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems, and the potential feedbacks under impacts of management, disturbances and climate change, aims to narrow down the role of plant and soil interactions in shaping soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling. We invite submissions on recent findings, methodological breakthroughs and challenges, and innovative concepts for inspiring discussions on plant-soil interactions in artificial or natural forest ecosystems in a variety of biomes.
Background and significance
Plant-soil interactions determine ecosystem functions and services of forests, including carbon sequestration, soil erosion and flood control, remediation and improved soil fertility. Trees, especially roots and root-associated microbes, influence soil biodiversity, structure, microbial processes and biogeochemical cycling. Physical and chemical properties of soils affect the nutrition, productivity and diversity of plants.
Forest management practices and silvicultural treatments affect plant-soil interactions and consequently the associated ecological functions and services of forests. Understanding the responses of these critical ecological processes (e.g. biodiversity, carbon and nutrient cycling) and their interactions with other environmental or human disturbances is essential for designing sustainable forest management strategies.
Concurrently with forest management, climate changes affect the complex interactions between plants and soil. Though numerous field experiments manipulating single or multiple environmental factors gained insights into the potential ecosystem responses, and our understanding has improved by studying natural climate gradients, climate change effects on plant-soil interactions still remain uncertain, especially in forest ecosystems.
This special issue will cover a wide range of topics in relations to forest management practices, disturbances, environmental changes and their effects on critical ecological processes and interactions. It is highly relevant to policy makers in making decisions about sustainable forest management with consideration of protecting soil, biodiversity and their interactions.
Submissions to SBB that deal with these matters in experimental and conceptual terms are invited and can be tagged as intended for consideration for collation into the Virtual Special Issue (VSI: Forest plant-soil interactions) at the point of submission via the online EES system.
Tagging options will remain open until 11 April 2021, with the aim of publishing the accepted papers as a collated special issue in December 2021. All manuscripts will be handled and considered in the same manner as mainstream submissions to the journal, and likewise published promptly online if accepted. General enquiries about the topic can be made to either of the co-ordinating editors below.
Junwei Luan
International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan
Institute for resources and environment
Beijing, 100102 P.R. China
E-mail: junweiluan(a)icbr.ac.cn
Shirong Liu
Chinese Academy of Forestry
The Research Institute of Forest Ecology, Environment and Protection
Beijing, 100091 P.R. China
E-mail: liusr(a)caf.ac.cn
Andreas Schindlbacher
Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Austria
Wien 1131 Austria
E-mail: andreas.schindlbacher(a)bfw.gv.at
Cindy Prescott
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 Canada
E-mail: Cindy.Prescott(a)ubc.ca
Alexia Stokes
French National Research Institute for Food, Agriculture and Environment
Montpellier 34398 Cedex 5 France
E-mail: alexia.stokes(a)cirad.fr
Joann Whalen
Department of Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University, Macdonald Campus, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Québec PQ H9X3V9, Canada
Email: joann.whalen(a)mcgill.ca
