Task Force members
TF Resilient Planted Forests Serving Society & Bioeconomy
Task Force Members
List of proposed Task Force members, and proposed roles in the Task Force. Some national organization and individual participants could be not recorded near IUFRO, but they are experts involved in the Silva Mediterranea and needed to develop activities.
Name | Institution | IUFRO position | Expertise |
Hervé Jactel | INRA (France) | Deputy Coordinator 7.03.00 | forest research, entomology, biodiversity |
Dungey Heidi | Scion (New Zealand) | Coordinator WP 2.02.20 | tree breeding and genetics |
Fox Thomas | Rayonier Inc. (USA) | Coordinator WP 8.01.03 | Forest soils, tree nutrition; Sustainability of plantation ecosystems |
Estraviz Rodriguez Luiz Carlos | University of Sao Paulo, (Brasil) | Deputy Coordinator WP 4.04.04 | sustainable industrial forests management scheduling, sustainable tropical forests management, forest economics |
Freer-Smith Peter | Davis university (USA) | Deputy Coordinator IUFRO Task Force Sustainable Planted Forests for a Greener Future. | Climate change, tree health and ecosystem services and science/policy interactions |
Guariguata Manuel R. | CIFOR (Peru) | IUFRO Board member, president’s nominee | Tropical plantations |
| Faustine Zoveda | FAO (Italy) | IUFRO partner | Planted forest, SFM, Ecosystem Restoration, International Commission on Poplars and Other Fast-Growing Trees Sustaining People and the Environment |
McCarthy Nicholas | Waterford Institute (Ireland) | Deputy Coordinator, WP 1.01.04 | Forest vegetation management |
Neves Silva Luis | WWF international | IUFRO partner | new generation plantations; forest landscape restoration |
Payn Tim | Scion (New Zealand) | Deputy Coordinator WP 9.01.05 | sustainable forest management, criteria and indicators, climate change |
Tomé Margarida, | ISA (Portugal) | ex Division 4 Coordinator | Modeling, inventory, forest resources |
Wu Shuirong | CAF (China) | Deputy Coordinator WP 9.04.02 | Forest economics, valuation of forest ecosystem services, international forest policy, payment for environmental services. |
Joséphine Yameogo | CNRST / INERA / DPF (Burkina Faso) | IUFRO member | Forest ecology |
Alain Bailly | FCBA (France) | IUFRO member | Breeding, nurseries, silviculture, wood quality, biotechnologies, economy, modeling |
Vladan Ivetic | University of Belgrade (Serbia) | Deputy Coordinator 3.02.00, International council member | Seed production, nursery operation, seedling quality, reforestation afforestation |
Luis Fontes | ALTRI FORESTAL (Portugal) | IUFRO member | Breeding, silviculture, climate change, forest protection, soils & water management |
Alex Pra | ETIFOR - Padova University spin-off (Italy) | IUFRO member | forest policy and economics, sustainable and responsible investments, certifications |
Chris Harris | shaktireforestation (Canada) | IUFRO member | Boreal Plantation |
Paolo Mori | compagniadelleforeste (Italy) | IUFRO member | Broadleaves mixtures plantations |
Almeida, M Helena | ISA (Portugal) | IUFRO member | Tree Breeding and Genetics, Silviculture – Plant production, Climate Change |
Jean-Paul Laclau | CIRAD (France) | IUFRO member | Tropical plantations |
Elisabeth Pötzelsberger | European forest Institute (Finland-Germany) | IUFRO member | Silviculture, Non-native tree species, Mechanistic modelling |
Colin Dyer* | Kwazulu-natal (South Africa) | Deputy Coordinator 2.08.00 | Hardwood improvement, culture and genetic resources |
Donald Hodges* | University Tennessee (USA) | Coordinator IUFRO Division 4 Chair of all-IUFRO Conference | SFM indicators, valuation of assets, wood products trade, private forest management economics and policy |
Krzysztof Adamowicz* | Poznan University of Life Science (Poland) | Deputy Coordinator 4.05.04 | forestry economics, timber market, forestry policy |
Roger Meder* | University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia) | Coordinator 5.06.00 | near infrared spectroscopy, rapid phenotyping, properties of plantation wood |
Uta-Rein Atebeh Lekah ** | university of Yaounde (Cameroun) | IUFRO member Division 9 | Agro-forestry |
Klauss Kremer** | Universty of Freiburg (Germany) | IUFRO member | Plantation for biodiversity restauration |
Koen Kramer** | Land Life Company | IUFRO contributor | C sequestration in plantations |
Patricia Machado** | Brazilian tree industry (Brazil) | Support of the 2019 IUFRO world congress | UN development goals and forest plantations |
Nelson Thiffault** | Natural Resources Canada | Deputy Coordinator of section 1.01.08 | Réseau Reboisement Ligniculture Québec |
| Alice Adongo Onyango | Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI) | IUFRO member | Plantations development and related functions |
| Jim O'Hehir | UniSA STEM, University of South Australia | IUFRO member | Forestry, wood production and environmental management |