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2023-01-11

Save the date for the All-Division 8 Conference!

All-Division 8 Conference: FORESTED LANDSCAPES in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Mitigation Options Towards Implementation of the SDGs
24-28 October 2023; Évora, Portugal

The conference will focus on the critical role of forested landscapes facing pressures driven by the Antropocene. Many of the increasing challenges require approaches at different spatial and temporal scales to increase understanding about the different ongoing processes and their consequences for ecological and socio-ecological systems to find well-suited solutions towards increasing sustainability.

Details: https://iufro2023.uevora.pt/


2022-04-04

Upcoming event!

Division 8 is organizing two sessions at the INTECOL2021 conference!
Geneva, Switzerland; 28 August - 2 September 2022

Session 2.7: Forest Biodiversity Crisis:  Resilience & mitigation options
Session 7.1: Ecology from space (Remote sensing applications on forested systems)

Details: http://intecol2021.org/


2021-02-18

Call for Contributions: Special Issue: Plant-soil interactions in forests: Effects of management, disturbances and climate

Submissions are invited for a Special issue of 'Soil Biology and Biochemistry'.

This special issue will bring together studies that provide mechanistic and quantitative knowledge and perspectives on plant and soil interactions, that are related to soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. The formation of soil organic matter, physical (aggregation) and chemical protection, and nutrient cycling, are largely affected and modulated by plant species traits, diversity, and their interactive effects with root exudation, root-associated microorganisms, and litter quality, especially at the rhizosphere and litter-soil interface. However, our understanding of these processes is still limited and those variations in plant traits, especially root traits, that have the strongest potential to influence soil processes, as well as their interactions with soil organisms, remains largely unexplored. Furthermore, these processes and their interactions face modification or decoupling under the impacts of management practices, disturbances, and environmental change. For example, extreme weather events, including drought, heat and freezing, and species gains and losses that are a consequence of climate change, may affect above- and below- ground biota differently. Therefore, decoupling likely occurs, exerting significant impacts on carbon and nutrient cycles. We require an improved understanding of how belowground processes vary mechanistically across spatial and temporal scales, and how potential feedbacks to external factors, including management practices, disturbances, and climate, are affected. In-depth understanding is essential for increasing accuracy of terrestrial biogeochemical and dynamic vegetation models, which are often limited by inadequate integration of key belowground processes. This special issue focusing on plant-soil interactions related to soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems, and the potential feedbacks under impacts of management, disturbances and climate change, aims to narrow down the role of plant and soil interactions in shaping soil organic carbon and nutrient cycling. We invite submissions on recent findings, methodological breakthroughs and challenges, and innovative concepts for inspiring discussions on plant-soil interactions in artificial or natural forest ecosystems in a variety of biomes.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 11 April 2021

Guest editors: Junwei Luan, International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan; Shirong Liu, Chinese Academy of Forestry; Andreas Schindlbacher, Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Austria; Cindy Prescott, University of British Columbia; Alexia Stokes, French National Research Institute for Food, Agriculture and Environment; Joann Whalen, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University

Details: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/soil-biology-and-biochemistry/call-for-papers/plant-soil-interactions-in-forests-effects-of-management


2018-10-01

IUFRO Forested Landscapes in Transformation

Adaptive management for Forested Landscapes in transformation

Transformation of forest use that is occurring in response to the pressures of globalization, population growth, resource scarcity and ecological degradation (“the challenges") is the main topic of the conference that will take place in Posadas, Argentina next October. Biodiversity is essential to human well-being, but people have been reducing biodiversity throughout human history. Loss of species and degradation of ecosystems are likely to further accelerate in the coming years. Our understanding of this crisis is now clear, and world leaders have pledged to avert it. Nonetheless, global goals to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss have mostly not been achieved. However, many examples of conservation success show that losses can be halted and even reversed. Building on these lessons to turn the tide of biodiversity loss will require bold and innovative action to transform historical relationships between human populations and nature. INTA, Argentina is organizing the event with the support from Division 8 and others members form different IUFRO Divisions. For details https://iufro2018posadas.com/