5:30 a.m.
Dear colleagues,
please find below the latest IUFRO News. It includes our report on the
session on "Forest expansion, landscape dynamics and ecosystem services
in Europe" that we organized during the IALE 2022 European Landscape
Ecology Congress, took place on July 14.
Best regards,
João
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Assunto: IUFRO NEWS 7/8, 2022
Data: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:29:06 +0200
De: IUFRO Headquarters <office(a)iufro.org>
Responder-Para: Brigitte Burger, IUFRO Headquarters <burger(a)iufro.org>
Organização: IUFRO
Para: Dear IUFRO Officeholder <jazevedo(a)ipb.pt>
IUFRO News
Issue 7/8, 2022
IUFRO NEWS 7/8, 2022
Dear IUFRO Officeholder:
We are happy to present to you Double Issue 7/8 of IUFRO News 2022,
volume 51!
This issue of IUFRO News Issue is also available for download as a PDF
or Word file at: https://www.iufro.org/publications/news/electronic-news/
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*We look forward to seeing you at the *All-IUFRO Conference 2022
<https://www.iufro.org/events/all-iufro-conference-2022/> "/Forests in a
Volatile World – Global Collaboration to Sustain Forests and Their
Societal Benefits/", in Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September 2022!
*Register at:
*https://www.iufro.org/events/all-iufro-conference-2022/#c34368 for this
in-person and hybrid event!
Best wishes,
Alexander Buck
/IUFRO Executive Director/
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Dealing with Uncertainty in Forestry
Photo showing Don Hodges, University of Tennessee. Photo provided by D.
G. Hodges
Read an interview with Professor Donald G. Hodges, Head of the
Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at the University of
Tennessee, USA; IUFRO Division 4 Coordinator and Chair of the All-IUFRO
Conference Scientific Committee! Find out about forest assessment,
modelling and management, and **more*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34601>…*
All-IUFRO Conference Program Highlights
Photo showing Field trip co-organized by BOKU to largest secondary black
pine forest in Central Europe and other places of interest. Photo by
Hubert Hasenauer, BOKU
The conference will include six scientific plenaries that involve a
panel presentation, lightning talks and associated posters, a wrap-up
session focused on the connections to global change, a conference
dinner, as well as a professional field trip, mentoring events, book
presentations, awards, networking opportunities, and **more*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34600>…*
IUFRO World Congress 2024 - Call for Session Proposals
Photo showing a robin in a tree. Photo by creisi on Pixabay
The Congress Scientific Committee invites submissions of session
proposals for the 2024 IUFRO World Congress. In line with the spirit of
the Congress title “Forest and Society towards 2050“, the program shall
highlight the forest contributions to the UN 2030 Agenda and its SDGs.
Submit sessions by 13 October 2022!**More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34599>…*
Forest Expansion, Landscape Dynamics and Ecosystem Services in Europe
Photo showing Landscape in Poland. Photo by Jerzi Gorecki on Pixabay
The symposium "Forest expansion, landscape dynamics and ecosystem
services in Europe", organized by the IUFRO Landscape Working Party at
the IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress, focused mostly on the
existence of tradeoffs between ecosystem services and risks. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34598>…*
Field Sampling for Multi-Taxon Biodiversity Studies in European Forests
Photo showing Field training in Quercus faginea stands in Serra de Aires
e Candeeiros. Photo provided by F. Chianucci (not protected by copyright)
This Training School within the framework of the COST Action
"Biodiversity of Temperate Forest Taxa Orienting Management
Sustainability by Unifying Perspectives" involved IUFRO Unit 8.02.01. It
provided the first practical implementation of the standardized protocol
for multitaxon studies developed by the COST Action Bottoms-Up. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34597>…*
Forest Diseases During Global Crises
Photo showing Group photo: Joint IUFRO WP 7.02.02 and 7.02.05 meeting
participants at the field trip; Urban Forestry Center in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, USA on 6/28/2022. Photo (not protected by copyright) by Tod
Ramsfield
Invasive forest pathogens and climate change are threatening the health
and sustainability of our forest ecosystems. Promising disease
management techniques are being developed to control forest diseases
which include breeding, genetics, nanotechnologies and silviculture.
Read this report from the meeting "Foliar, Shoot, Stem and Rust Diseases
of Trees - Forest Diseases During Global Crises" and find out **more*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34596>…*
Webinar Humusica 2022 – Soil, Society and Climate Warming
The webinar of IUFRO WP 8.02.03 Humus and Soil Biodiversity discussed
the idea that something can still be done to stop climate change and the
loss of biodiversity on our planet; and that we are all on the front
line and can do something, individually and collectively. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34595>…*
Modelling Growth of Natural Forests with Scarce Data
Photo showing Screenshot from Dr. Salas-Eljatib’s presentation
The webinar in the series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats" on 19
July discussed "Modelling growth of natural forests with scarce data:
challenges and a proposal". Dr. Christian Salas-Eljatib, Professor at
the Centre for Ecosystem Modelling and Monitoring at the Universidad
Mayor, Chile, provided an overview of current efforts to build a
tree-level distance-independent growth model for natural
Nothofagus-dominated forests in Chile. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34594>…*
Pine Silviculture: International Success Factors – Management of
Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata) in Chile
The IUFRO Ecology and silviculture of pine Working Party 1.01.10 and
Centro PINUS – a Portuguese NGO focused on maritime pine – invited
foresters and researchers from all over the world to join the second of
their international webinar series on 13 July 2022. *More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34593>*…*
2022 IUFRO Tree Biotechnology Conference
Photo showing Organizing committee and support team. Photo provided by
Chenguang Zhou
The online conference hosted by Northeast Forestry University and North
Carolina State University covered five topics: 1) Forestry and Climate
Change, 2) Genomes and epigenomes, 3) Wood biology, physiology,
development and uses, 4) Genomic variation in breeding and genetic
studies, and 5) Regulations and biosafety of GMOs. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34592>…*
The Future of Pan-European Forests in a Changing Climate – How to
Balance Wood, Carbon, Biodiversity and Energy?
Photo showing Participants of the IUFRO-Mondi Stakeholder Dialogue.
Photo by Doris Unterrainer/Mondi
As part of the IUFRO-Mondi Partnership the first Stakeholder Dialogue
Meeting was held from 9-10 June 2022 in Vienna, Austria, with 24
participants. The meeting was comprised of a half-day workshop followed
by a half-day field trip to the forest. Read the key messages and
**more* <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34590>…*
Drawing Parallels between SDG17 and the Collaborative Work on Forests
Photo showing IUFRO Executive Director Alexander Buck. Photo by IISD/ENB
| Kiara Worth
IUFRO Executive Director Alexander Buck was one of the speakers at an
HLPF session on 5 July titled "Capacity development and partnerships to
maximize the benefits of science, technology and trade for sustainable
development". He addressed the question as to how partnerships and
capacity building at the research-policy interface can advance science,
technology, and innovation. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34589>…*
IUFRO-GFEP Attends IPBES9
Photo showing Monarch butterflies. Photo by 12019 on Pixabay
Representatives of the Global Forest Expert Panels Programme (GFEP)
attended the ninth session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental
Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
and its associated Stakeholder Consultations as observers. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34588>…*
IUFRO at Stockholm+50
Photo showing Stockholm view. Photo by hl56 on Pixabay
Dikshya Devkota, Project Manager with the Global Forest Expert Panels
Programme//(GFEP), came to Stockholm to attend the Stockholm+50
conference in late June 2022. Two years from the Stockholm+50 meeting,
the city will host the XXVI IUFRO World Congress from 23-29 June 2024,
under the theme "Forests and Society towards 2050". **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34587>…*
Young Restoration Professional Committed to Restoring Degraded Forest
in El Salvador
Photo showing Agroforestry system (Maize-tree system). Photo provided by
Gabriela Gavarrete
Gabriela Gavarrete is a young Salvadoran biologist who is involved in
restoring Cerro Tecana together with the organization Un Pulmón Más.
When Gabriela presented this restoration project to the Restoration
Stewards program of the Global Landscapes Forum and the Youth in
Landscapes Initiative, she was selected as one of the Restoration
Stewards 2022. IUFRO has been involved in the program since its
inception in 2020. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34586>…*
IUFRO-SPDC Presents: "Resilient Future Forests Lab in Central Asia"
Photo showing Kyrgyz landscape. Photo by makalu on Pixabay
The Resilient Future Forests Lab (RFFL) offers demonstration
opportunities to support innovative solutions to address Forest
Landscape Restoration and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
challenges. IUFRO-SPDC together with several IUFRO member organizations
are implementing the "Resilient Future Forests Lab" in the Kyrgyz
Republic and Uzbekistan. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34585>…*
Congratulations!
100 Years of Forest Research Science in the Republic of Korea
Photo showing Dr. Hyun Park, President of NIFoS, and Dr. John Parrotta,
President of IUFRO, at the 2022 World Forestry Congress in Seoul,
Republic of Korea. Photo by IUFRO
The National Institute of Forest Science (NIFoS), until 2015 known as
Korea Forest Research Institute (KFRI), was founded in 1922. It is the
sole national institute which carries out comprehensive research on
forests, forestry and forest products to meet the diverse needs of the
public and private sectors. The Institute joined IUFRO in 1976. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34584>…*
Celebrating 130 Years of IUFRO
Photo showing Former forest academy "Alte Forstakademie" in Eberswalde,
the birthplace of IUFRO, with memorial of Bernhard Danckelmann from
Germany, second IUFRO President, and one of the founding fathers of
IUFRO. Photo © HNNE/Marco Natkhin
IUFRO was established on 17 August 1892 in Eberswalde, Germany, with
only three members: the Association of German Forest Experiment Stations
and the experiment stations of Austria and Switzerland. From that time
onwards IUFRO has grown constantly to become a worldwide organization.
**More* <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34605>…*
Winners of the IFSA-IUFRO Summer School 2022
In July 2022 three webinars on EU Forest Policy were held specifically
for students from the Ukraine. The webinars were jointly organized by
the International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) and IUFRO.
Ukrainian students and young researchers were eligible for a competition
at the end of the webinars. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34606>…*
Mike Wingfield Wins Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award
Photo showing IUFRO Immediate Past President Mike Wingfield. Photo by
Morne Booij-Liewes
IUFRO's Immediate Past President Professor Mike Wingfield, a professor
at the University of Pretoria's (UP) Forestry and Agricultural
Biotechnology Institute (FABI), is the recipient of the annual Harry
Oppenheimer Fellowship Award for his research into disease-causing
fungi. **More* <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34607>…*
Publications
GFEP REDD+ Policy Brief Now Also in Spanish
The Policy Brief summarizes the key messages of the GFEP report
"Forests, Climate, Biodiversity and People: Assessing a Decade of
REDD+", and includes lessons learnt over the past ten years of REDD+
implementation, as well as outcomes of a stakeholder consultation.
**More* <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34609>…*
Now also in French: Guide sur la gestion des forêts et de l'eau
Forests and trees play a vital role in meeting the world's increasing
demand for water and need to be managed for water-related ecosystem
services, according to the guide co-published by the UN's Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Union of Forest
Research Organizations (IUFRO), the Joint Research Centre of the
European Commission, the United States Forest Service and partners.
**More* <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34610>…*
Videos: Green jobs – The Future of Employment in the Forest Sector
Although the joint EFI-IFSA-IUFRO Capacity Development Project "Global
student networking and green jobs in the forest sector" already ended
earlier this year, the products and information developed continue to be
very valid. **More* <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34611>…*
Video: Women in Science
Photo showing Nathália Nascimento. Photo provided by Nathália Nascimento
Watch this documentary by Deutsche Welle and meet female researchers
from Brazil who are committed to increasing the understanding of and
knowledge about the Amazonian biome. One of them is Dr. Nathália
Nascimento, an earth system scientist at the University of São Paulo,
who has also worked on the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA). **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34612>…*
Opinion Piece: Time to Realise the Potential of Sustainable Wood for
the Planet
Photo showing Wood-based building materials could make a major
difference to the environment. Photo Alex Jones/Unsplash
Thais Linhares-Juvenal, Senior Forestry Officer, and Malgorzata
Buszko-Briggs, Team Leader on Outreach, Forestry Division, Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, embark on a journey into
how wood can help shape a healthier global economy. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34613>…*
Hunting Wildlife in the Tropics and Subtropics
The hunting of wild animals for their meat has been a crucial activity
in the evolution of humans. It continues to be an essential source of
food and a generator of income for millions of Indigenous and rural
communities worldwide. If the use of wildlife resources is to continue
by those who depend on it, sustainable practices must be implemented.
This book has been co-authored by Robert Nasi (CIFOR-ICRAF), who is an
IUFRO officeholder. **More*
<https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34614>…*
Other Information
More Publications <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34615>
Positions, Grants, Courses <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34582>
IUFRO Meetings <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34580>
Other Meetings <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=7441#c34579>
IUFRO Website Features
Noticeboard <https://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/>
Proceedings Archive <https://www.iufro.org/publications/proceedings/>
Newsletter Archive <https://www.iufro.org/index.php?id=147>
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