1st Announcement IUFRO 1.05 & 1.09 Conference

Topics:

• What are the challenges of uneven-aged silviculture to forest adaption under climate change for sustainable wood production and biodiversity
  
• Quantifying species and spatial structure changes related to climate change   
  
• Ecosystem services of uneven-aged/mixed species silviculture in the light of changing social needs
• Dynamics of uneven-aged and/ or mixed forests under climate change

Date: 18 - 20 September 2023

Venue: Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic (MENDELU) & University Forest Enterprise Křtiny (UFE)

Preliminary programme:

In-conference excursion:

• Transformation of even-aged forests to uneven-aged forests after 50 years (1973-2023) – rate of change of tree species composition under the climate change (presentation of 50 years data set and practice in the field).
• Beech silviculture – from even-aged stands to value increment silviculture. Is it the best way to compare the production and the social order?
• Long-term transformation of even-aged stands to Dauerwald – which Dauerwald models are optimal for the future? Presentation of spruce-beech-silver fir-maple model and oak-hornbeam-scots pine model.

Post-conference field trip:

• Thursday – 100 years celebration of Mendel University Forest Enterprise – „Silviculture for climate change and society“ – presentation of diversified uneven-aged, multi-aged silvicultural models and training stands for students and foresters in practice.
• Friday – Transformation of even-aged scots pine stands into the mixed oak-dominated forests in the buffer zone of Podyji National Park; restoration management for biodiversity support. Evening in the local winery;
• Saturday – Kinský estate Žďár n. Sázavou - Conversion of spruce even-aged stands into multi-aged mixed stands – experiences after 28 years; what knowledge from natural forest dynamics can we use in the uneven-aged forestry – presentation and field walk through natural forest Žákova hora on the Kinský estate.