[IUFRO WP 1.01.07] Season's greetings - IUFRO beech 1.01.07

Dear Beech people, The coordinators of the IUFRO unit 1.01.07 "Ecology and silviculture of beech" are sending you Season's greetings, please see attached card. It's a little late - but better late than never... We'll try to improve our service for you next year. The IUFRO HQ are regularly sending out a link to the IUFRO-news - and we have not forwarded them to you as we have now realized we should - sorry for that! _______________________________________ IUFRO-News: Welcome to IUFRO News, Volume 38, double issue 11/12 of 2009! Find downloadable PDF and Word versions under: http://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-news/. __________________________________________ We have lately received a couple of messages from the IUFRO HQ regarding the climate change effects on forests and the potential of forests in mitigation of CC. The messages include links to interesting reports and press releases on these topic. The forwarded messages will follow shortly after you have got this message. Additionally, we would like to give you a short update on our progress with the Forest Ecology and Management Special Issue that will become the next output from the 8th IUFRO International Beech Symposium; Nanae, Hokkaido, Japan; 8-12 September 2008: We received 23 manuscripts from the participants and, at the moment as the review process is soon coming to an end, we expect the Special Issue to include nine informative and well-written papers. We can promise you that there is something to look forward to once the final result is published. Finally, we can inform you that our attentions soon will shift towards the 9th Beech Symposium as we have just begun taking the first steps in preparation of that. News will follow later in 2010. Thanks for your cooperation! Best and warmest wishes Khosro, Kazu and Palle PS! In Denmark we are right now enjoying the unusual beauty of a white landscape - last time it we had a white Christmas holiday was in 1996. I (Palle) had to dive into my old photo-archive to find a suitable photo to illustrate the event. The attached photo is taken in 1981 - when I was a very young forestry student - and already then had a good eye for the beech-beauty. Palle Madsen Seniorforsker Senior Researcher, Ph.D. ________________________________________ Skov & Landskab (S&L) Center for Skov, Landskab og Planlægning Københavns Universitet Forest & Landscape Denmark Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning University of Copenhagen Vedelsgade 6 DK-7100 Vejle Denmark Tlf. ++45 35 33 17 13 Mob. ++45 40 45 30 19 Fax ++45 35 33 15 12 E-post pam(a)life.ku.dk My profile at the S&L webpage: http://en.sl.life.ku.dk/omskovoglandskab/medarbejdere/pam.aspx? S&L webpage: www.sl.ku.dk IUFRO-webpages: http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10100/ http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10100/10107/ Kulturkommission hjemmeside: http://www.sl.life.ku.dk/Emner/Skov/Kulturkommission2000.aspx