Dear colleagues and members of the IUFRO 1.01.07 * Ecology and silviculture of beech mailing list The IUFRO secretariat is now offering the research units a mailing list service so it is easier for the coordinators to send out updates and news: Proceedings of 8th Int. Beech Symp. We are happy to announce that the Proceeding of the 8th IUFRO International Beech Symposium, Japan, 8-12 September 2008 now is available at our two webpages: IUFRO webpage: http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10100/10107/ (select "Publications and references") Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands (RIFR) webpage: http://www.rifr-ac.ir/english/group/beechforest/Activities.htm Forest Ecology and Management Special Issue The editorial board (Cathering Collet, Koen Kramer, Khosro Sagheb-Talebi, Kazuhiko Terazawa, Palle Madsen) are currently busy organizing the review process of the submitted manuscripts for this special issue. Fagacea meeting in North Carolina, Nov. 10-13, 2009 It's our pleasure to help distributing the announcement of the conference "International Conference of Genomics of Forest and Ecosystem Health in the Fagaceae (Beech Family)" The conference is scheduled for November 10-13, 2009, at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA. To view conference agenda, call for abstracts and registration details please click the link below: http://forestbiotech.org/pdf/Fagaceae_nov2009_agenda_venua.pdf Best regards Kazuhiko Terazawa Khosro Sagheb-Talebi Palle Madsen Coordinators of IUFRO 1.01.07 * Ecology and silviculture of beech mailing list