MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
JULY 7-11, 2016
SEPT-ILES AND BAIE-COMEAU, QUÉBEC, CANADA
Dear members of the Boreal and Alpine Forest Ecosystems unit (IUFRO Unit 8.01.06),
It is my pleasure to announce that a traveling workshop on boreal forests will be held in Eastern Canada on 7-11 July 2016. The meeting will focus on “Climate-induced range shifts in boreal pest distribution and their ecological, economic and social consequences”, a topic of concern across the circumboreal forest domain.
The meeting will include field visits to insect-affected forests, as well as forest operations designed to recover affected trees. It will also feature prominent keynote speakers and venues located in close proximity to the majestic St-Laurence River.
The meeting organisation is being led by Louis De Grandpré, of the Canadian Forest Service, and co-sponsored by the International Boreal Forest Research Association (WWW.IBFRA.ORG). Further details on the program are posted on the IUFRO Calendar of Events (WWW.IUFRO.ORG/EVENTS), or can be obtained from Pierre Godbout ( <mailto:pierre.godbout@nrcan.gc.ca> pierre.godbout(a)nrcan.gc.ca).
The number of participants will be limited to 50. Please express your interest to participate as soon as possible.
Pierre Bernier, Coordinator, Unit 8.01.06
Pierre.Bernier(a)RNCan-NRCan.gc.ca
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-8/80000/80100/80106/http://www.iufro.org/who-is-who/officeholder/Bernier/
Von: Andreas Zingg [mailto:andreas.zingg@wsl.ch]
Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Juni 2015 15:49
Betreff: Registration for the IUFRO Symposium Effects of ungulate browsing on forest regeneration and silviculture
Dear colleagues, dear friends
Registration for the IUFRO Symposium http://www.wsl.ch/iufro-ungfor2015/index_EN mentioned below
is now open: http://www.wsl.ch/iufro-ungfor2015/registration/index_EN
Effects of ungulate browsing on forest regeneration and silviculture
Special implications for Abies alba (European silver fir)
Venue: WSL, Birmensdorf
Date: 14-16 October 2015
Conference Language: English
Conference Sponsors/Organisation
IUFRO Units:
1.01.09 - Ecology and silviculture of European silver fir
1.01.12 - Silviculture and ungulates
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Please forward this information to your colleagues, friends and especially to the members of your IUFRO group
Best regards
Andrea Kupferschmid and Andreas Zingg
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Andreas Zingg, research forester, dipl Forsting. ETH
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
CH-8903 Birmensdorf
Switzerland
phone +41-44-739 23 35
fax +41-44-739 22 15
http://www.wsl.ch
Dear all:
Submissions are invited for a special issue of the *International Journal
of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management*, entitled *Synergies
between biodiversity and management for high-value timber species*. This
issue is based on a technical session at IUFRO 2014, but the issue is open
to authors who did not participate in the session. The deadline has been
extended to April 15, 2015.
This Special Issue examines the scientific basis for managing to create a
positive synergy between biodiversity and high-value timber species.
Management to conserve biodiversity and management for the production of
high-value timber species can be in conflict with each other. The
increasing need to conserve biodiversity and the ongoing demand for
high-value timbers prompt the goal to integrate these management objectives.
Therefore papers are requested for a Special Issue that explores positive
interactions between biodiversity and high-value timbers. This Special
Issue aims for a global scope, including tropical and temperate high-value
timbers. Possible topics include:
- How biodiversity can protect high-value species from pests and
pathogens
- How biodiversity, as an indicator of more intact ecosystems, can
sustain production of high-value species
- How high-value species in restoration and plantations can reestablish
or conserve biodiversity
- How high-value species in enrichment plantings or natural forest can
help maintain intact forests and their biodiversity
- How high-value species themselves are examples of biodiversity in need
of conservation
For more information, please see:
http://explore.tandfonline.com/pages/cfp/tbsm-themed-paper-aug-2014
If you have any questions, please contact Sheila Ward at:
sheila.emily.ward(a)gmail.com
Sheila Ward
Coordinator, IUFRO 1.02.04
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Von: Metla info [mailto:info@metla.fi]
Gesendet: Montag, 20. Oktober 2014 12:08
An: burger(a)iufro.org
Betreff: IBFRA2015 Abstract submission open until 14 December 2014
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the 17th International Boreal Research Association Conference “IBFRA2015”, in Rovaniemi Finland, 24-29 May 2015.
The Conference theme is Towards a New Era of Forest Science in Boreal Region. It includes four scientific topics
- Sustainable forest management in an era of global changes,
- Bioeconomy – switch from fossils to biobased economy,
- Big-data use and value in the forest sector,
- Managing and valueing ecosystem services for human well-being,
and a workshop on
- Innovative means to disseminate scientific information to wider public.
The conference now calls for abstracts of posters and oral presentations as well as contributions to the workshop. The deadline for abstracts is 14 December 2014.
Conference website and online abstract submission:
http://www.ibfra2015.org/
For more information: please contact IBFRA2015(a)metla.fi
Please feel free to distribute to this e-mail to your colleagues.
If you don´t want to get conference e-mails, please send reply and answer “no”.
I hope to see you in the IBFRA2015 conference,
Raisa
Dr. Raisa Mäkipää,
Chair of the 17th IBFRA conference www.ibfra2015.org
Finnish Forest Research Institute (from 1st of January 2015 we
are Natural Resources Institute Finland)
Jokiniemenkuja 1
FI-01370 Vantaa, FINLAND
phone +358 50 391 2197
email raisa.makipaa(a)metla.fi
Raisa in Twitter https://twitter.com/raisamakipaa
Raisa’s website http://www.metla.fi/pp/2876/index.htm
Dear Colleagues,
You surely marked your calendars a long time ago, but now the time has come to register for the XXIV IUFRO World Congress, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 5-11 October 2014.
All the details, such as registration fees, early-bird registration, payment, and key dates are available at http://iufro2014.com/registration/.
For the actual registration, please click the green button "CLICK HERE TO REGISTER". - We look forward to seeing you in Salt Lake City!
Sincerely yours,
IUFRO Headquarters
on behalf of the Congress Organizing Committee
Scientists and Colleagues:
Submit your abstract today! Less than one week remains to submit your abstract for the 2014 IUFRO World Congress! http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/
Do not miss to be part of this unique and exciting event!
The IUFRO 2014 Congress Scientific Committee
John Parrotta (Chair); Jens Peter Skovsgaard (Division 1); Yousry El-Kassaby (Division 2); Hans Heinimann (Division 3); Ron McRoberts (Division 4); Andrew Wong (Division 5); Tuija Sievänen (Division 6); Tod Ramsfield (Division 7); Alain Franc (Division 8); Jim Johnson (Division 9); Mike Wingfield (Vice-President, Divisions); Su See Lee (Vice-President, Task Forces, Special Programmes, Projects and IUFRO-led Initiatives); Lisa Hansen (International Forestry Students Association); Richard Guldin (ex-officio; COC Chair)
2014 IUFRO World Congress Call for Abstracts is Open – Deadline for Abstract Submissions is 15 October 2013 – submit your abstract at: <http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/> http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/.
The title of the Congress is "Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People: The Role of Research" and the seven scientific themes of the program are: Forests and People, Forests and Climate Change, Forest and Water Interactions, Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Forest Biomass and Bioenergy, Forest Products for a Greener Future, and Forest Health in a Changing World. Sessions will address these themes and more!
Keynote speakers include: Dr. Jack Dangermond (founder and President of ESRI GIS systems – Knowledge Discovery, Synthesis and Application: the Science-Management Interface) & Dr. David Haskell (Professor of Biology, University of the South - Knowledge Discovery, Synthesis and Application: the Science-Management Interface); Dr. Andy Buchanan (Professor of Timber Design at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand - Modern Timber Buildings from Sustainable Forests); Dr. Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch (Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, University of Copenhagen - City Forests, Forest Cities – exploring the complex liaison between the sylvan and the urban); Dr. David Newbery (Professor for Vegetation Ecology, the Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland - On maintaining cycles and feedbacks in tropical forest ecosystems: some thoughts from basic research) and, Connie Hedegaard, to be confirmed (European Commissioner for Climate Action). Plus many more exciting and knowledgeable sub-plenary and technical session speakers.
Submit your abstract today to be part of this unique and exciting event!
The IUFRO 2014 Congress Scientific Committee
John Parrotta (Chair); Jens Peter Skovsgaard (Division 1); Yousry El-Kassaby (Division 2); Hans Heinimann (Division 3); Ron McRoberts (Division 4); Andrew Wong (Division 5); Tuija Sievänen (Division 6); Tod Ramsfield (Division 7); Alain Franc (Division 8); Jim Johnson (Division 9); Mike Wingfield (Vice-President, Divisions); Su See Lee (Vice-President, Task Forces, Special Programmes, Projects and IUFRO-led Initiatives); Lisa Hansen (International Forestry Students Association); Richard Guldin (ex-officio; COC Chair)
Dear Colleagues:
Please consider submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation
for the IUFRO 2014 World Congress Session #219 – How does biodiversity help
to manage high-value timbers and vice versa?
Organizers: Sheila Ward (Mahogany for the Future, Inc, Puerto Rico),
Emmanuel Opuni-Frimpong (Forest Research Institute of Ghana), & Nicholas
Brokaw (University of Puerto Rico)
mahoganyforthefuture(a)gmail.com; eofrimpon(a)csir-forig.org.gh;
nvbrokaw(a)ites.upr.edu
*This session will explore diverse means by which a biodiverse environment
positively impacts management of high-value timber species, and,
conversely, how management for high-value species helps conserve
biodiversity.*
Conservation of biodiversity and management for high-value timber species
can seem a contradiction. Nevertheless, the demand for these timbers will
remain high, as well as an increasing need and demand for management to
conserve biodiversity. Needed are ways forward to integrate these
management objectives. Management of high-value timber species may help
conserve both the target species and the biodiversity of the forests they
inhabit. Conversely, biodiversity may contribute to the health of
individual trees and populations of high-value species.
We aim for a global scope, including tropical and temperate high-value
timbers. Presentations might address: biodiversity and protection of
high-value species from pests and pathogens, the role of plantations in
biodiversity conservation, biodiversity for plantation health, enrichment
planting with high value species to maintain biodiversity via intact forest
instead of land use change, high-value species and the maintenance of
intact forests, use of high value species for habitat rehabilitation and
restoration of biodiversity, or high-value plantations as a means to
reestablish biodiversity, among other topics. How might more land area
devoted to high-value timber in natural forest as well as plantations may
help maintain biodiversity and associated ecosystem services? Conversely,
how might more intact ecosystems, as indicated by biodiversity, may help in
the sustainable production of high-value species?
If this is of interest, can you let me know by October 3? Guidelines and
the page for abstract submission can be found at
http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/.
Thanks,
Sheila Ward
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that a revised programme for this meeting is
now available on our website at
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/IUFRO_spruce_2012_programme.pdf/$FILE/IUF
RO_spruce_2012_programme.pdf .
While we hope to see as many of you as possible in Edinburgh, those who
are not able to attend but who are interested in the topic may wish to
investigate the possibility of accessing some of the sessions through a
live webcast. Please see the flier on our website at
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/IUFRO_spruce_2012_webcasting_announcement
.pdf/$FILE/IUFRO_spruce_2012_webcasting_announcement.pdf for more
details.
With kind regards,
Bill Mason
W.L.(Bill) Mason,
Senior Silviculturist,
Forest Research,
Northern Research Station,
Midlothian,
Scotland,
UK.
EH25 9SY
Tel: +44 (0) 1314452176 or 6953
Fax: +44 (0) 1314455124
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
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Dear Colleagues,
Please note that the provisional programme for this IUFRO conference is
now available on our website at
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/IUFRO_spruce_2012_programme.pdf/$FILE/IUF
RO_spruce_2012_programme.pdf .
The Early Bird registration deadline has been extended until the end of
June. Registration forms and other details are also available on the
website: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-8K6C49 .
Please do not hesitate to let us know if you require further
information.
With kind regards,
Bill Mason
W.L.(Bill) Mason,
Senior Silviculturist,
Forest Research,
Northern Research Station,
Midlothian,
Scotland,
UK.
EH25 9SY
Tel: +44 (0) 1314452176 or 6953
Fax: +44 (0) 1314455124
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestresearch
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