Dear colleagues and friends,

This is the third announcement of the upcoming IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) All Division 7 Conference, "Global Change and Forest Health".

The conference will be held at the University of Istanbul in Istanbul, Turkey, on 25-29 April 2016.

Key points:

- Abstract submission is now open, until 30 November 2015

- Early Bird registration is available until 31 December 2015 (300 Euros regular, students receive a 50% discount)

Our call for session and symposium proposals resulted in many submissions. The organising committee reviewed those and accepted 16 session proposals.

You are kindly invited to submit your abstract for oral or poster presentations (see www.foresthealth2016.com). When you submit your abstract, you can select either one of the 16 pre-arranged sessions or a general session (“other”).

We will review all abstract submissions and ensure they will be placed in suitable sessions. Cross-disciplinary abstracts including two or more of the conference subjects (climate change, biological invasions, air pollution, forest pathology, forest entomology) are particularly encouraged.

Please submit your abstracts by the 30 November 2015 deadline.

See the web page www.foresthealth2016.com for more information on the conference.

Feel free to contact us with any questions and comments.

Kind regards

Ecki Brockerhoff, Yusuf Serengil, Elena Paoletti, Jolanda Roux, Sandy Liebhold

Eckehard Brockerhoff

Scion (New Zealand Forest Research Institute) and

University of Canterbury, School of Biological Sciences - New Zealand

Coordinator IUFRO Division 7, Forest Health

Member of the Conference Scientific Committee

eckehard.brockerhoff@scionresearch.com

Yusuf Serengil