[IUFRO RG 7.03 FORENT] IUFRO World Congress 2014 - session on "Forest Health in a Changing World"

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 -- 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