*subject: Division 8 (Forest Environment) conference in Beijing, 24-28 Octobre 2016 - call for sessions * Dear all, as discussed one year ago during IUFRO world congress in Salt Lake City, we plan to organise our first (ever!) all division 8 meeting in 2016. The meeting will be organised from 24 to 28 Octobre 2016 in Beijing as a scientific conference entitled */FOREST ENVIRONMENT under CHANGING CLIMATES and SOCIETIES . /* You will find attached the first announcement for this conference including a call for sessions: hopefully, most of you will be able to contribute and participate in this event. Please disseminate this information around you, and send your session proposals using attached document as soon as convenient, but not later than *1st december 2015*! The conference is organised in conjunction with IUFRO 2016 Asia and Oceania regional congress hosted by the Chinese Academy of Forestry in Beijing http://www.ircao2016.cn/ . I <http://www.ircao2016.cn/>f you have any questions or need further information, please don't hesitate to contact Liu Shirong ( &lt;liusr(a)caf.ac.cn&gt; <mailto:liusr@caf.ac.cn> ) or myself looking forward to seeing most of you in Beijing in 2016 on behalf of the conference committee -- Jean-Michel CARNUS INRA Departement EFPA /www.efpa.inra.fr IUFRO Coordinator Division 8 Forest Environment Coordinateur Equipex Xyloforest /www.xyloforest.org Campus Recherche et Innovation Forêt-Bois INRA Centre Bordeaux-Aquitaine 69 Route d’Arcachon 33612, Cestas, France tel: +33 5 57 12 28 65 mel:carnus@pierroton.inra.fr