Dear colleagues,
For the first time, forest entomologists have used the freely
downloadable Google Street View (GSV) database to map the geographical
distribution of an increasingly common invasive pest insect, the pine
processionary moth. The scientists estimated that this on-line database
would provide a good representation of the presence of this species.
Their findings, published in PLOS ONE on 9 October 2013, open the way to
the simplified and inexpensive acquisition of data that are essential
when studying invasive or expanding species.
Press release:
http://presse.inra.fr/en/Resources/Press-releases/Using-Google-Street-View-…
The article:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0074918
Best regards,
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Dr Pascal FREY
INRA, University of Lorraine
Department of Tree - Microbe Interactions
Ecology of Forest Pathogenic Fungi team
UMR1136 IAM
F-54280 Champenoux
FRANCE
Phone: 33 383 394 056
Fax: 33 383 394 069
E-mail: frey(a)nancy.inra.fr
http://mycor.nancy.inra.fr/IAM/?page_id=731
A PhD position in Ecology, Forest Entomology is available at the Department of Ecology, SLU, Uppsala.
The PhD student will be working in a project that connects ecological theory to practical forestry. Within the project bottom-up and top-down effects of increased diversity will be examined using a pest insect, Neodiprion sertifer, the European Pine Sawfly. The research will involve observational and experimental fieldwork.
Please see the advertisement attached for more information.
Please inform suitable candidates!
Best regards
Christer B
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Christer Björkman, professor
Department of Ecology
Swedish University of Agricultural University
PO Box 7044, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 671532
Fax: +46 18 672890
E-mail: christer.bjorkman(a)slu.se
www.slu.se/ecology/christerbjorkman<http://www.slu.se/ecology/christerbjorkman>
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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
Dear Colleagues,
The 4th MEDINSECT meeting of the 7-03-14 IUFRO group "Entomological
Research in Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems" and the next meeting of
the 7-03-06 IUFRO group "Integrated Management of Forest Defoliating
Insects" will be held jointly in ANTALYA (TURKEY) 9-14 APRIL 2014.
The local organizer is the Süleyman Demirel University and the meeting
will take place at the Miracle Resort Hotel in Antalya.
We invite you to connect with the website of the meeting
http://iufro.sdu.edu.tr/
to get all scientific and practical informations, including details on
venue, program, registration, fees, etc...
Important dead lines:
Abstract submission: February 1, 2014
Registration: March 21, 2014
Payments: March 28, 2014
Official symposium e-mail address: iufro(a)sdu.edu.tr
We hope to see you all in Antalya in April,
Best wishes,
Francois Lieutier, Leader of 7-03-14 MEDINSECT
Andrea Battisti, Leader of 7-03-06
Tim Paine, Deputy-leader of 7-03-14
Mohamed L. Ben Jamaa, Deputy-leader of 7-03-14
Manuela Branco, Deputy-Leader of 7-03-06
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nitin Kulkarni <kulkarni_n27(a)hotmail.com>
Date: 2013/11/6
Subject: Need a German Counterpart for collaborative project
To: "mailman-owner(a)lists.iufro.org" <mailman-owner(a)lists.iufro.org>
Dear sir,
I need a German counterpart for a collaborative project on biological
control of forest insect pests.
Can this be posted on our mailman-owner web to facilitate responses please.
Thank you.
*Dr. Nitin Kulkarni*
*Scientist - F *(Forest Entomology Division)
Head, Forest Extension Division
E. Champion (Research), E. Governance Programme
Tropical Forest Research Institute
(an institute under the Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education)
P.O. - RFRC, JABALPUR 482021 INDIA
E.mail: kulkarnin(a)icfre.org (For official mails only)
kulkarni_n27(a)hotmail.com
kulkarni_n27(a)yahoo.co.uk
kulkarni.n27(a)gmail.com
Web : http://www.kulkarninet.comhttp://kulkarni.n27.googlepages.com
Phone: +91 0761 2744152, 2840627 (O)
+91 0761 2744160 (Laboratory)
Mob.: +91 09425325430
IUFRO-sponsored 2nd Restoring Forests Congress to be held 14-16 October 2014 in Lafayette, Indiana USA (Purdue University).
The 1st Restoring Forests (Sep 2011 in Madrid) was a successful, well attended event that resulted in a double special issue in New Forests (http://link.springer.com/journal/11056/43/5/page/1) In building upon this momentum, this 2nd symposium promises to be another exceptional symposium! The theme of the congress is "What constitutes success in the 21st Century?". We will examine the continued evolution of the scope of forest restoration and re-explore the need to set realistic goals to achieve restoration success. Field tours will highlight the ongoing forest restoration research of the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center (http://www.htirc.org<http://www.htirc.org/>) at Purdue University, featuring especially the role of genetics in ecological restoration.
We will have a wide variety of invited speakers as well as volunteer oral and poster presentations. Selected papers from the congress will once again be published in a special issue of New Forests. Please consider participating in the conference and forward this message to your colleagues, encouraging them to attend. Updated information can be found at the conference website: https://www.purdue.edu/fnrrf/
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Matthew D. Ginzel, PhD • Associate Professor • Departments of Entomology and Forestry & Natural Resources • Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center • Purdue University • 901 W. State Street • West Lafayette, IN 47907-2089 • 765.494.9369 • www.entm.purdue.edu/forest
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".
We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for a presentation to
this session. 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 approaching, don't miss it: October 15, 2013!*
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
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
