On Forest Health - Interview with Division 7 Coordinator Eckehard Brockerhoff
by Brigitte Burger
Read an interview with Division 7 Coordinator Eckehard Brockerhoff of Scion
(New Zealand Forest Research Institute) about the work in IUFRO Division 7
and the All-Division Meeting at the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress.
Division 7 deals with topics that are all concerned with forest and tree
health, and the causes of interactions between air pollution and climate
change, tree pathogens, and tree-feeding insects.
Dr Brockerhoff pointed out that biological invasions and invasive species
have been occupying much of this Division's time. The impacts of invasions
are so pervasive and fundamental, and there are no simple solutions. They
are an unwanted consequence of international trade and the movement of
people from country to country.
"At this Congress we've learned, among other things, about the progress in
our understanding of what makes these invasive species so aggressive and how
we can better predict the types of species that behave in this way," Dr
Brockerhoff said.
Download the PDF:
https://www.iufro.org/download/file/27617/6146/iufro2017-interwiew-d7_pdf/
Link to the IUFRO Blog: http://blog.iufro.org/2017/10/17/on-forest-health/
Learn more about IUFRO Division 7:
https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-7/
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coming IUFRO & EU LIFE meeting in Sweden, August 2018
by Brigitte Burger
Von: Rimvydas Vasaitis [mailto:Rimvys.Vasaitis@slu.se]
Gesendet: Montag, 16. Oktober 2017 21:33
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Dear Colleagues;
1) first of all, sorry for eventual cross-posting as this message will
apparently go to several mailing lists;
2) with this message we (Jan Stenlid & myself) would like to announce that
preparations have already been initiated to organize IUFRO Working Party
7.02.01 Root & Stem Rots Conference, in conjunction with the 4th
International Elm Conference, as well as the Conference entitled Recent
Advances in Research on Ash Dieback & Dutch Elm Disease (EC LIFE+ Nature);
3) the EVENT is planned to cover not only above-mentioned topics, but also
aspects of tree breeding for resistance & propagation, entomology,
biodiversity and related social sciences;
4) provisional schedule:
- Sunday, August 26th, arrival, accommodation in Uppsala hotels, and
reception at our campus (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,
Uppsala, Ultuna); as the campus is located about 15-20 min bus travel from
the central Uppsala, one option for accommodation could be
http://www.sunnerstaherrgard.se/ which is within the 10-15 min walking
distance to the conference venue (along a river with beautiful scenery);
and there you will get value for money; please note that it is not a big
hotel, so number of places is limited, and there are numerous international
events at our campus;
- August 26 27th, scientific sessions at Campus Ultuna;
- August 28th, half-day field excursion & travel by bus to Nynäshamn
harbour, and then taking ferry to Visby, Gotland Island
(http://www.destinationgotland.se/en/ferry/ ; upon arrival, individual
accommodation and eventual sightseeing in one of the most beautiful towns in
the world is up to you; please note that buses, ferry, and (most of) lunches
and coffee breaks will be organized centrally from the budget of the EVENT;
- August 29th, scientific sessions at the conference centre in Visby;
- August 30th, half-day scientific sessions and then field excursion across
the Island of Gotland;
- Saturday, September 1st, departure, either from Visby airport (many
flights to Stockholm Arlanda airport with excellent international
connections, duration approx. 50 min.), or by the ferry back to the mainland
Nynäshamn harbour with good bus/train connections to Stockholm Arlanda
airport;
http://www.destinationgotland.se/en/ferry/timetable-and-prices/timetable/bus
-and-train-connections/ );
5) IN CASE YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED TO PARTICIPATE; PLEASE BOOK THOSE DATES
IN YOUR CALENDER; AND SEND ME A SHORT NOTE INDICATING THE INTEREST (not
binding) BEFORE CHRISTMAS 2017; we need this for planning reasons, as the
logistics of this EVENT appears to be rather complex;
6) in such case you will be included into the mailing list for future
related communications to come in early 2018;
7) funding for reimbursement for several invited keynote speakers has been
already secured, as well as the partial financial support for conference
logistic/venues; yet, we are continuously working for obtaining more support
in order to keep registration fee possibly low;
8) as recently discussed with Alfas Pliura, Editor in Chief of international
scientific journal Baltic Forestry (WoS Impact Factor above 0.6 and
constantly growing, free open access), submissions from this Conference to
BF will be welcome and subjected for peer review process, as full research
articles, reviews, short communications, and selected abstracts (upon
publication, also indexed in WoS); please note that the material must
contain original data, must be unpublished, and that the deadline for
submission is 2nd of September 2018; so in case of interest, please do
setting up and plan writing of the material in good order;
9) i will be in touch with more details in January 2018;
kind regards, and looking forwards to meet you in Sweden;
Rimvys Vasaitis & Jan Stenlid
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