Task Force members and expertise

TF Transforming Forest Landscapes for Future Climates and Human Well-Being

Responsibilities and roles within the TF group

Name	Disciplines	Role (activity focus 2019 – 2021)[1]
Shankar Adhikari (Silviculture Division, Department of Forests, Nepal)	Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), Nature conservation, Social science	Activity 1, 2 (and 3)
Vianny Ahimbisibwe (Germany)	Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), Ecosystem Services	Activity 2
Dolors Armenteras Pascual (Universidad National de Colombia, Colombia, Coordinator of the working group of IUFRO-IALE)	Landscape ecology, Land use change dynamics, Ecosystem services,	Activity 1 and 2
Gurveen Arora (India) Deputy Coordinator of 1.01.10 - Ecology and silviculture of pine	Silviculture, remote sensing and climate change	Activities 1 and 2
João Azevedo (Mountain Research Inst., Bragança, Portugal, Coordinator 8.01.02, Landscape Ecology)	Landscape ecology, Ecosystem services, forest ecosystem dynamics	Activity 1 and 2
Jan Bannister (Chilean Forestry Institute, Castro/Chiloé, Chile)	Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), Silviculture	Activity 1 and 2
Andreas Bolte (Thünen-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries Institute of Forest Ecosystems, Germany)	Forest Ecology, Silviculture, Climate change adaptation	TF coordination, activity 1 and 2
Evgeniy Botman (Research Institute of Forestry, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)	Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR)	Activity 2
Michele Bozzano (EFI Resilience Centre, Bonn, Germany, EUFORGEN Coordinator)	Forest genetics, Forest Management, Forest resilience	Activity 1 and 2
Kathleen Buckingham (WRI, Washington, USA)	Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), social sciences, data sciences	Activity 2 and 3
Janice Burns (IUFRO Headquarters, Austria)	Forest Education, Communication	Activity 1 and 3
Donato Chiatante (University of Insubria, Varese, Italy)	Forest Biology, Forest ecology, Forest restoration	Activity 3
Dr András Darabant (BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)	Forest management, forest landscape restoration, community forestry	Activities 2 and 3
Mercy Derkyi (Ghana)	Forest policy, Sustainable development, Society and environment	TF coordination, activity 1 and 3
Anita Diederichsen (Brazil)	Ecological restoration, Forest landscape restoration (FLR), Nature conservation	Activity 1 and 2
Kasten Dumroese (US Forest Service, U.S.A.)	Forest landscape restoration (FLR), Assisted migration, Forest restoration	Activity 2
Ernest Foli (FRI Ghana)	Forest management, Forest restoration, Tropical silviculture	Activity 2 and 3
Monica Gabay (Directorate of Forestry, Argentina, Coordinator 9.05.06, Deputy Coordinator 9.03.00, Incoming Coordinator of division 9)	Forest policy, Natural resources management, Governance issues	Activity 1 and 2
Manuel Guariguata (CIFOR, Peru)	Forest landscape restoration (FLR), Tropical silviculture, Nature conservation	Activity 1 and 2
Sven Günter (Germany)	Tropical Forestry, Forest Landscape Restoration	Activity 2
Markus Höhl (Germany)	Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), Remote Sensing	Activity 1 and 2
Louis Iverson (USA)	Landscape Ecology, Habitat modelling	Activity 1
Douglas Jacobs (Purdue University, U.S.A., Coordinator 2.01.15 Whole Plant Physiology, Deputy 1.06.00)	Forest Regeneration and Restoration, Ecophysiology, Dendrology	Activity 2
Robert Jandl (BFW, Austria, Chair 8.01.00 Forest Ecosystem Functions)	Forest ecology, Carbon sequestration, Climate change adaptation	Activity 1 and 2
Promode Kant (Institute of Green Economy, India)	Forest Restoration, Subtropical silviculture	Activity 1 and 2
Rod Keenan (University of Melbourne, Australia, Chair 4.04.08 Adaptation to climate change)	Forest management, Forest policy, Climate change adaptation	Activity 1
Michael Kleine (IUFRO Headquarters, Austria, IUFRO Deputy Executive Director, SPDC Coordinator)	Education. Forest restoration, Tropical silviculture,	Activity 3
Shirong Liu (Chinese Academy of Forestry, China, Vice-President Task Forces, Special Programmes, Projects and IUFRO-led Initiatives, Deputy Coordinator Task Force "Forests and Water Interactions in a Changing Environment")	Forest water cycling, Water management	Activity 2
Magnus Löf (SLU, Sweden, Coordinator 1.01.06 Ecology and Silviculture of Oak)	Ecophysiology, Forest restoration, Regeneration	Activity 2
Sandra Luque (IRSTEA, France Coordinator Division 8, Deputy Coordinator 8.01.02)	Landscape Ecology, biodiversity assessments, habitate modelling	Activity 1 and 2
Amina Maalim (Kenya Forestry Research Institute)	Forest Landscape Restoration, Agroforestry, Climate change and adaptation	Activities 2 and 3
Palle Madsen (Denmark)	Silviculture, Bioenergy, Forest regeneration and restoration (FLR)	TF coordination, activity 2 and 3
Stephanie Mansourian (Switzerland)	Forest politics, Nature conservation. Governance issues, Forest restoration (FLR)	TF coordination, activity 2 and 3
Cynthia Miner (U.S. Forest Service, U.S.A.)	Educational science, Forest education, Social science	Activity 3
Daniel A. Ofori (Ghana)	Genetic resources, Forest management, Agroforestry	Activity 1 and 2
Cora van Oosten (WUR, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation, The Netherlands, Coordinator of Global Landscape Forum)	Landscape management, Forest Restoration, Communication science	Activity 2 and 3
Jesse O. Owino (Kenya Forestry Research Institute; Kenya)	Climate Change and Adaptation, Natural Resources Management
John Parrotta (US Forest Service, U.S.A.; President IUFRO)	Tropical silviculture, Forest restoration (FLR)	Activity 1 and 2
Stephan A. Pietsch (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis/IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria)	Ecosystem modelling, ecosystem services, tropical FL	Activity 1
Brad Pinno (Canada)	Boreal Silviculture, Forest Ecology	Activity 1 and 2
Elisabeth Pötzelsberger (Austria)	Ecosystem modelling, Non-native Species	Activity 1 and 2
Maria Laura Quevedo Fernandez (Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Paraguay)	Forest management, Forest economics	Activities 2 and 3
Sabine Reinecke (University of Freiburg, Germany)	Social science, Ecosystem services	Activity 3
Mika Rekola (University of Helsinki, Finland; Coordinator 6.09.00 Forest Education)	Educational science, Forest education, Social science	Activity 1 and 3
Sandra Rodríguez-Pineros (Autonomous University of Chihuahua, Faculty of Animal Science and Ecology, Mexico, Coordinator Joint TF IUFRO-IFSA Forest Education, Deputy Coordinator 6.09.00 Forest Education)	Forest Education, Communication	Activity 1 and 3
Carol Rolando (New Zealand)	Forest vegetation management, Forest protection	Activity 2 and 3
Somidh Saha (KIT, Germany; KIT, Deputy Coordinator 1.01.06 Ecology and Silviculture of Oak)	Temperate and subtropical silviculture	Activity 1 and 2
Peter Spathelf (HNE Eberswalde, Germany, Forest Europe)	Temperate silviculture, Forest adaptation	Activity 2
John Stanturf (Estland/USA)	Forest soils, Silviculture, Restoration ecology, FLR	TF coordination, activity 1 and 2
Joo Han Sung (National Institute of Forest Science (NIFoS), Korea)	Forest management, Forest adaptation	Activity 2
Alma Lucrecia Trujillo Miranda (Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, CT USA)	Forest Restoration, Tropical Forest Ecology, Socio-Ecological Systems	Activities 2 and 3
Giorgio Vacchiano (University of Milan, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Landscape, Agroenergy; Italy)	Forest Modelling, Forest Ecology, Disturbances	Activity 1 and 3
Khalil Walji (IFSA International Secretariat, Germany)	Forest Education, Communication	Activity 1 and 3
Xiaohua Adam Wei (UBC, Canada, Coordinator 8.01.07, Task Force Coordinator T34)	Forest Soils, Forest water cycling	Activity 2
René Zamora-Cristales (Guatemala)	Global resource management, Forest planning, Economics, Reforestation, Agroforestry and silvopastures	Activity 2 and 3
Yuandong Zhang (Chinese Academy of Forestry, China)	Forest management, Forest adaptation	Activity 2

[1] The activity focus is only shown for the first TF period from 2019 to 2021. Thus, the activities 4 and 5 are not included.

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