Dear colleagues
I would like to draw your attention to a special issue of the journal 'Forests' devoted to the interactions between bark beetles and forests. More information you may find at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Bark_Beetles. It would be great if some of you could contribute to this issue. The deadline is 1 November.
Best regards
Beat Wermelinger
Guest Editor 'Forests'
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Dr. Beat Wermelinger
Entomologe
Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL
Forschungseinheit Walddynamik
Postfach
CH-8903 Birmensdorf
Schweiz
Tel: +41-44-739 22 58
Fax: +41-44-739 22 15
E-mail: beat.wermelinger(a)wsl.ch
http://www.wsl.ch/personal_homepages/wermelin
Dear colleagues,
Andrea Battisti (Univ. Padova) and myself are organizing a session
entitled "*Tree vulnerability to pests in relation to climate change*"
during the next *ClimTree Conference* to be held in Zürich, CH, 1-5
September 2013.
The session will address the relationships between climate change and
the populations of insects and pathogens of forest trees at three
levels, i. how tree susceptibility can be modified by climate change,
ii. how insects and pathogens respond to changes through range and
performance shifts, iii. how natural enemies may react to changes in the
lower trophic levels and to the climate change as well. The session
welcomes contributions on talks specifically addressing one of the
identified levels or considering all of them in specific temperate
forest ecosystems. Impacts of climate change on communities of
organisms, and their interactions, will be also considered. Talks on the
effects of climate variables other than an increase in temperature, eg.
change in rainfall regime or in frequency of climate anomalies, are
encouraged. The session is open to both synthesis papers and
presentation of experimental results, provided that they are related to
important tree species of temperate ecosystems.
*There are still some rooms available for talks and posters. So, we
invite you to register if you are interested. The deadline for
registration has been extended to 29 April, 2013. T*he last congress
circular is attached.
Best regards
Alain
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Dr. Alain ROQUES
Directeur de Recherches
INRA- Zoologie Forestiere
Centre de recherche d'Orléans
2163 Avenue de la Pomme de Pin
CS 40001 ARDON
45075 ORLEANS Cedex 2
FRANCE
Tel: (33)0238417858
Fax : (33)0238417879
Mail : alain.roques(a)orleans.inra.fr
Dear IUFRO RG 7.03 FORENT researchers:
Do you have studies showing how biodiversity helps to manage high-value
species (such as the Meliaceae) or how high value timbers help to conserve
biodiversity? Below is an idea for a technical session for the IUFRO 2014
World Congress relating high value tropical timbers and biodiversity. Any
suggestions would be most welcome, including reorientation of this
potential session. Collaboration with a unit of Divison 7 on this session
would be great. If you would like to participate in the session, could you
please send me a draft title for your contribution? Please also send this
on to anyone else who might be interested. Please send any ideas by April
20, since session proposals are due April 30.
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*How does biodiversity help to manage high-value timber species, and
vice-versa?*
*Valuable tropical timbers, such as many Meliaceae, remain in high demand,
casting a shadow over prospects for these species and their forests.
However, management of high-value tropical timber species may help conserve
the biodiversity of the forests they inhabit. Conversely, biodiversity may
contribute to the health of individual trees and populations of these
species. This session seeks to explore positive, reciprocal relationships
between biodiversity and high-value timber species (including in
plantations).*
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Thanks!
Sheila Ward
Deputy Coordinator
1.02.04 – Sustainable management and genetic resources in Meliaceae
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Hello friends and colleagues,
The final deadline of 30 April for submission of session proposals for
the 2014 IUFRO World Congress is rapidly approaching. The Congress
will be held 5-11 October, 2014 in Salt Lake City, USA. We are lucky
that one of the Congress themes has been designated as "Forest Health
in a Changing World". The Congress organizers are encouraging
proposals that focus on topics that are both interdisciplinary and
international in scope and have an international representation of
speakers. Proposals should include a tentative list of speakers and
can be submitted by following directions at
http://iufro2014.com/scientific-program/session-proposals . If you
have an idea for organizing a session that intersects entomological
topics, I encourage you to contact me before submitting a final
proposal so that I can give you advice and avoid topics for which
proposals have already been submitted.
Organizing a session at the IUFRO Congress is a unique opportunity for
generating discussion and novel insight into scientific topics that
are interesting to you and others.
--
Andrew Liebhold http://sandyliebhold.com
Coordinator, IUFRO Research Group 7.03 "Forest Entomology"
Northern Research Station 304-285-1512
USDA Forest Service 304-285-1505 FAX
180 Canfield St. 724-317-8668 mobile
Morgantown, WV 26505 USA
Graduate Research Assistantship - Thousand Cankers Disease
Contingent on available funding, a Master's-level Graduate Research Assistantship at the University of Tennessee will be available in 2013. The project is focused on aspects of the control of thousand cankers disease (TCD) of walnut. TCD is caused by a fungus (Geosmithia morbida) that is vectored by the walnut twig beetle (Pityophthorus juglandis). TCD is recently established in the eastern US and has prompted quarantines on the movement of black walnut wood products. For more information: http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/foresthealth/forestpests/tcd/index.shtml.
The project involves collaboration with the USDA Forest Service and APHIS. Research topics include:
* Phytosanitary standards development
* Beetle and fungus host preference
* Infestation potential and persistence of the insect and fungal pathogen in trees, logs and wood products
* Prevalence of G. morbida in forest environments
The appointment will be in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries (FWF) at the Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee. Two years of support includes an annual stipend of approximately $17,500 plus tuition and benefits. Information on graduate studies in FWF is available at http://fwf.ag.utk.edu/Academics/msprogram.htm.
For additional information, please contact:
Adam Taylor
Associate Professor
Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries
University of Tennessee
AdamTaylor(a)utk.edu<mailto:AdamTaylor@utk.edu>
865-946-1125
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Dear colleague,
herewith I like to inform you about the upcoming IUFRO Pine Wilt Disease unit symposium which will be held in Braunschweig/Germany from 15th to 18th October 2013.
The symposium PWD 2013 is a joint action of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) unit 7.02.10 Pine Wilt Disease (PWD) and the group of the EU-research project REPHRAME "Development of improved methods for detection, control and eradication of pine wood nematode" in cooperation with The German Scientific Society for Plant Protection and Plant Health and the Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research centre for cultivated plants.
Since the last IUFRO Symposium in Nanjing/China in 2009, several expert groups in the whole world - among other things - worked intensively on the following topics:
· Impact on the international trade as well as economic consequences in the infested areas including corresponding modeling of outbreak scenarios and pathways,
· Pathway analysis and modeling/predicting of pine wilt expression across eco-climatic zones taking account of latency ,
· Biology of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and other Bursaphelenchus species including their interaction with bacteria and fungi and their impact on host trees,
· Diagnostic methods aimed to a fast and reliable determination of PWN in pure culture and in plant tissue as well as in laboratory and under field conditions,
· Examinations on the tree physiology and resistance characteristics of host trees,
· PWN and vector association, vector dispersal capacity and strategies for vector control,
· Behavior and population dynamics in infested trees,
· Non-vector transmission and treatment options for wood and wood products,
· Management strategies for PWD.
The aim of the symposium is to bundle the actual research progress and the management of the pine wood nematode and its vector beetles and to enhance the scientific exchange and thus to present the research results to a broad interested group of scientists, disease managers and decision makers. You are invited to submit papers for oral presentations as well as for posters covering all aspects around Pine Wood Nematode and Pine Wilt Disease.
All information including registration is available at: http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/pwdc2013/.
The deadline for abstract submission is 30. June 2013. Early bird fee payment is until 31 July 2013.
The organization committee would be grateful if you could share this email with people you think could be interested to participate. Thank you!
I hope to see you in Braunschweig!
With best regards
for the local organizing board
Thomas Schroeder
Dr. Thomas Schroeder
Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants
Institute for National and International Plant Health
Messeweg 11-12
D-38104 Braunschweig
Germany
Tel.: +49 531 299 3381
Fax: +49 531 299 3007
Email: thomas.schroeder(a)jki.bund.de<mailto:thomas.schroeder@jki.bund.de>
URL: http://pflanzengesundheit.jki.bund.dehttp://www.jki.bund.de
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Hello my friends,
For you reading pleasure, the March 2013 IUFRO Forest Entomology (RG
7.03) newsletter can be downloaded at:
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-7/70000/70300/newsletters
This issue contains various items of interest for people engaged with
forest insects around the world.
-Sandy
--
Andrew Liebhold http://sandyliebhold.com
Northern Research Station 304-285-1512
USDA Forest Service 304-285-1505 FAX
180 Canfield St. 724-317-8668 mobile
Morgantown, WV 26505 USA
IUFRO Joint Meeting
WP 7.03.05 (Ecology and Management of Bark and Woodboring Insects) and 7.03.07 (Population Dynamics of Forest Insects)
Banff, Alberta, Canada
September 16 - 19, 2013
For more information visit:
http://popecol.forestry.ubc.ca/iufro-altered-biotic-disturbances-in-a-warmi…
Barbara J. Bentz
Research Entomologist
USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station
860 N. 1200 East
Logan, UT 84321
435-755-3577
435-890-3186 (mobile)
bbentz(a)fs.fed.us<mailto:bbentz@fs.fed.us>
www.usu.edu/beetle
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Registration URL:
http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=ubvoh9lab&oeidk=a07e6x…
This year, the Northeast Forest Health Workshop is being held jointly with
the spring meeting for the New England Society of American Foresters on
Wednesday through Friday, May 15-17, at the Sunday River Resort near
Bethel, Maine . The full conference is entitled, "What's in Your Woods?"
The program will start with a joint session from 1 pm to 3 pm, and then
we’ll have our own indoor session from 3:30 to 5 pm. People who have agreed
to give talks at this time include Nicholas Brazee (wood-inhabiting fungi),
Don Davis (fungal biocontrol of tree-of-heaven), Dale Bergdahl (butternut
health), Shawn Kenaley (fungal pathogens of hardwood plantations), and a
group presentation on ash health and the Emerald Ash Borer. After dinner
on our own, we can return for station reports from 7 to 9 pm.
On Thursday, an all-day field trip is planned. In the morning, Isabel Munck
(USFS, Durham) and William Ostrofsky (Maine Forest Service) will host a
tour of white pine needle damage/defoliation and Sirococcus shoot blight of
eastern hemlock and red pine.
In the afternoon, Bill Livingston (UMaine), Kara Lorion (UMaine), Colleen
Teerling (Maine Forest Service), and Nate Siegert (USFS, Durham) will host
a tour involving ash dieback/decline and monitoring for the emerald ash
borer, including hands-on demonstrations for girdling EAB trap trees.
We are also talking with the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance to have
representatives attend the meeting, and they would discuss the use of ash
from their perspective and the need to conserve healthy brown ash (=black
ash) with basket-quality wood.
Thursday evening will have a bar-b-q that's included in the registration
cost.
Friday morning will include another field trip. We'll travel on our own
from Sunday River Resort to Wolfe's Neck State Park on the coast near
Freeport, Maine. Alison Kanoti (Maine Forest Service) has arranged a tour
in the region to view a winter moth infestation, a browntail moth
infestation site where a BTM virus has been released, and a hemlock woolly
adelgid infestation where predatory beetles have been released. The tour
will end around noon after which LL Bean and factory outlets await you.
Early-bird registration cost is $99 including field trip transportation and
all meals on Thursday and breakfast & box lunch on Friday. After March 15,
registration increases to $120. Student registration is $70. Registration
rates go up after April 15.
Hotel rooms will be $79 per night at a nearby inn or $94 per night at the
Summit Resort which has the meeting rooms. To make reservations contact the
Reservation Department directly: (800) 207-2365. Please request the NESAF
room rate for the "NESAF 93 Annual Meeting 2013"
The group rates are available until April 15, 2013.
More program information is on NESAF web site: http://nesaf.org/
Registration is done on line at:
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Be sure to select Tour 6 and Friday Tour 3.
Let me know if you have any questions, and I hope to see you in May!
Bill
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Dr. William H. Livingston
Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs
School of Forest Resources
University of Maine
5755 Nutting Hall, rm 201b
Orono, ME 04469-5755
USA
ph: 207-581-2990
fx: 207-581-2875
Email: WilliamL(a)maine.edu
Web: http://www.forest.umaine.edu/
