Dear IUFRO pathologists,

 

Please find below and attached a call for abstracts for a technical session to be held at the IUFRO XXV World Congress meeting, September 29-October 5, 2019 in Curitiba, Brazil (http://www.iufro2019.com ).

We also would like to draw your attention on the existence of the new IUFRO 7.03.01 Working Party "Reproductive structure insects & pathogens" ( https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-7/70000/70300/70301/ ), which aims at expanding communication and co-operation among scientists and forest managers on the interactions between tree reproductive structures and both the insects and pathogens that feed and develop on them, as well as on the interactions between insects and pathogens when exploiting reproductive structures.

Please feel free to contact us (see emails below) for more information and joining the mailing list of this WP.

We will be happy that you circulate these informations among your own networks.

Sincerely yours,

Thomas, Marie-Anne & Olle

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACT FOR A TECHNICAL SESSION FOR THE CONGRESS THEME: BIODIVERSITY, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

 

TITLE OF THE SESSION : D7b - Biodiversity, biotic interactions and threats to forest ecosystem services associated with tree reproductive structure insects and pathogens in a changing world

 

ORGANISERS

Thomas Boivint¹, Marie-Anne Auger-Rozenberg² and Olle Rosenberg³

¹Mediterranean Forest Research Unit, INRA, France. ²Research Unit of Forest Zoology, France. ³Skogforsk, The Forestry Reasearch Institute, Sweden.

 

DESCRIPTION

Insects and pathogens exploiting tree reproductive structures are considered the most important constraint to the reproductive success of trees during the seed pre-dispersal phase. In a context in which the effects of both climate change and biological invasions are increasingly prevalent to these species, this session will propose experimental and theoretical contributions to biodiversity, biotic interactions and threat assessment and management associated with native and exotic insects and pathogens of tree reproductive structures.

 

DETAILS

Abstracts will be accepted for both posters and oral presentations. Authors are limited to a maximum of two abstracts as presenting author.

 

DEADLINES

Abstract submission deadline: December 31, 2018. Registration and payment deadline: May 31, 2018.

 

INSTRUCTIONS

You must be registered for the event to submit an abstract, but you may pay for registration later, up to May 31. Registration and abstract submission must be completed online at http://www.iufro2019.com/

If you have questions about the session, please feel free to contact:

Thomas BOIVIN thomas.boivin@inra.fr

Marie-Anne AUGER-ROZENBERG marie-anne.auger-rozenberg@inra.fr

Olle ROSENBERG olle.rosenberg@skogforsk.se