Dear colleagues,
you are invited to submit an abstract for the IUFRO 125th Anniversary
Congress in Freiburg Germany, 19-22 September, 2017!
http://iufro2017.com
There will be two sessions on root-related research:
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Forest rhizosphere ecology and biogeochemistry across environmental
gradients (organizers: Ina Meier, Ivika Ostonen, Nadia Soudzilovskaia)
Despite the fact that forest soils constitute a primary important
control mechanism for the functioning of forest ecosystems, little is
known about the rhizosphere processes that underpin these controls. In
particular the importance of soil and rhizosphere biodiversity and
associated biogeochemical cycles is poorly understood. These
relationships may be strongly dependent on climatic and nutrient
conditions changing along environmental gradients and, thus, be
affected by global change and biological invasions. This session
invites researchers working at the interface of the fields of root,
mycorrhizal, and soil ecology, biogeochemistry, and below-ground
biodiversity, searching for new insights into the below-ground
controls of forest functioning and sustainable provisioning of
forest-related ecosystem services across (short or long) environmental
gradients. We also invite scientists working in the fields of global
analyses of biodiversity and biogeochemical cycling, aiming to develop
methods to include biotic drivers into models analyzing the
consequences of altered species composition and loss of diversity for
ecosystem functioning.
Session number 41 in Theme 5: Forests, Soil and Water Interactions
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Roots and Ecosystem Services (organizers: Cindy Prescott, Ivano Brunner,
Douglas Godbold, Heljä-Sisko Helmisaari)
Roots - the hidden half of trees - with their associated mycorrhizae,
are fundamentally important for biomass production, C sequestration,
biodiversity, hydrologic function, drought-tolerance and restoration
of forests. Yet our understanding of their functioning has been
constrained by the challenges of investigating the belowground
ecosystem. The session will present recent discoveries about root
systems relevant to their capacity to provide each of these ecosystem
services.
Session number 123, "Roots and Ecosystem Services" in Theme 5:
Forests, Soil and Water Interactions
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The call for abstracts is open at
http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts
The *extended* deadline for *abstract submission* is *15 December* 2016.
Best regards,
Ina Meier
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Dr. Ina Christin Meier
Plant Ecology
Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute
for Plant Sciences
University of Goettingen
Untere Karspuele 2
37073 Goettingen
Germany
phone: +49-551 395712
fax: +49-551 395701
