Apologies for Cross Posting We invite submission of abstracts to our session B4f Legacies of disturbances on forest functions at the IUFRO world congress in Curitiba, Brazil; 29 September - 5 October 2019. Climate change and increasingly intensive forest management will increase the frequency of forest disturbances in the world over the next decades. In our session we invite modellers and experimentalists to explore the long term impact of these on forest ecosystem functions and services. Papers from this session are invited to be submitted to a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Submissions are open until 31.12.2018.
More detailed information is below. We look forward to see you in Curitiba. Yours Frank Berninger Paolo Cherubini Guillermo Gea Andreas Rigling Yixiang Wang Website for submission http://iufro2019.com/ B4f Legacies of disturbances on forest functions Climate and societal changes will drastically change forest disturbance regimes in the near future and it is necessary to address how different tree species and forest ecosystems dynamics can acclimate, in response. We will stimulate dialogue between ecologists, disturbance modelers and forest management researchers to develop strategies to maintain resilient forests. Forest vegetation modelers will discuss how we can improve assessment of disturbance effects on empirical and process-based forest models. Presentations will address the long-term and short-term effects of natural disturbances on forest ecosystem functioning, including comparison of natural and man-made disturbances (e.g. harvesting). Effects of changes of the disturbance regime for the provision of ecosystem services (including wood production but also carbon and water) at the landscape scale are welcome. Papers presented in the session may be submitted to a special issue in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
