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,
My colleagues and I are organizing a Technical Session for the next IUFRO World Congress in 2014 at Salt Lake City (Salt Lake City, October 5-11, 2014, http://iufro2014.com<http://iufro2014.com/>) and would like to invite you to submit abstracts for oral presentations in our session. Below is a short description of the session and potential topics that we would like to address.
Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is 15th October 2013.
Please let us know by October 5th if you would like to participate in our session. Then please go online and submit your abstract at this site:
http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/abstract-submissions/ by 15 OCTOBER 2013. During the submission process identify this technical session, #83.
The title of our session (No. 83) is: "Boreal at risk: Integrative science as a strong foundation for public policy development" under the theme "Forests and Climate Change"
Short description. This session will present the risk to the circumpolar boreal forest resulting from changes in climate, disturbances, species distribution, human activities and possible management and policy responses.
List of co-organisers
Deepa Pureswaran, Research Scientist, Natural Resources Canada (deepa.pureswaran(a)nrcan-rncan.gc.ca<mailto:deepa.pureswaran@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>)
Werner A. Kurz, Senior Research Scientist, Natural Resources, Canada (Werner.kurz(a)nrcan-rncan.gc.ca<mailto:Werner.kurz@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>)
Louis De Grandpré, Research Scientist, Natural Resources Canada (louis.degrandpre(a)nrcan-rncan.gc.ca<mailto:louis.degrandpre@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>)
Philip G. Comeau, Professor, University of Alberta, Canada, (pcomeau(a)ualberta.ca<mailto:pcomeau@ualberta.ca>)
Outline of potential topics for the session (max 150 min)
Boreal at risk: a science and policy synthesis from the 16th IBFRA conference (Werner Kurz with co-authors) (20 min)
Northward expansion of insect pests (open, 20 min)
Changes in plant and insect phenology (open, 20 min)
Four or five 15 min presentations on the following topics
* Changes in fire, drought and insect disturbance regimes (open)
* Ecosystem consequences of changing disturbance regimes (Louis De Grandpré and co-authors, 15 min)
* Boreal feedback to global climate change (open)
* Adapting forest management practices to cope with these changes (open)
Closing question period or discussion
Please let me know if you will be able to participate in our session. We hope to see you in Salt Lake City in 2014.
Best,
Deepa
Deepa Pureswaran, PhD
Chercheuse scientifique // Research Scientist
Écologie des insectes forestiers // Forest Insect Ecology
Ressources naturelles Canada // Natural Resources Canada
Service canadien des forêts // Canadian Forest Service
Centre de foresterie des Laurentides // Laurentian Forestry Centre
1055, rue du PEPS
Québec, QC G1V 4C7
Canada
Téléphone: 418-648-7532
Fax: 418-648-5849
Website: http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/employees/read/dpureswa
Dear Colleagues,
Within the frame of the next IUFRO World Congress (Salt Lake City,
October 5-11,
2014, http://iufro2014.com), we are organizing a Technical Session
entitled ?Is climatic change modifying the characteristics of insect
damage in forests?? (Session N°38). This session belongs to the
congress theme ?Forest Health in a Changing World?.
We invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation to this
technical session. The debate is placed at the level of forestry in
general. Our session is thus structured in sections corresponding to
the different forest biomes (temperate, Mediterranean, boreal, planted
including tropical ones) and, in each section, all types of situations
can be considered: local modification of damage by already known
indigenous pests, emerging indigenous pests, extending pests and
introduced pests.
The deadline is October 15, 2013.
Enclosed in attached files are:
- The official call for Abstracts
- The congress theme and session descriptions
We hope to see you in our session in Salt Lake City
Best wishes,
The organizers
Francois Lieutier (7-03-14), Tim Paine (7-03-14), Rod Keenan (4-04-08)
Dear colleagues,
Within the frame of the next IUFRO World Congress (Salt Lake City,
October 5-11, 2014, http://iufro2014.com), we are organizing a Technical
Session on "Multiple Risks Management in Planted Forest" (Session N°135)
under the congress theme "Forest Health in a Changing World" (see
attached list of sessions).
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation to
this session (see attached call for abstracts). We are particularly
interested in presentations addressing interactions between multiple
biotic or abiotic hazards (e.g. storm and bark beetles, drought and
defoliators, etc.) that can affect planted or plantation forests.
We plan to publish a special issue for this session in the online
open-access forestry journal "Forests"
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests). The editor of the journal has
kindly offered to publish 5 papers free of charge for this issue.
We hope that the topic will be of interest to you and that you will be
keen to submit an abstract to this session. The deadline is October 15,
2013. If you can do so, please be so kind to keep us posted. Please also
feel free to forward this message to your colleagues.
Very best regards,
The organizers
Hervé Jactel, Christophe Orazio, John Moore
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Hervé JACTEL
Directeur de Recherches
Laboratoire d'Entomologie Forestière & Biodiversité
Laboratory of Forest Entomology & Biodiversity
UMR BIOGECO - INRA
69, route d'Arcachon
33612 CESTAS cedex, France
Tel + 33 - (0)5.57.12.27.39
Fax + 33 - (0)5.57.12.28.81
http://www.pierroton.inra.fr
