Keynote lectures -

IUFRO 1.05 & 1.09 Conference

[ Skip to content ]

Uneven-aged silviculture: insights into forest adaptation in times of global change

Homepage
Keynote lectures

Keynote lectures IUFRO 1.05 & 1.09 Conference

Confirmed speakers

Linda M. Nagel, Utah State University, USA (IUFRO 1.05 Chairwoman)
Andrés Bravo-Oviedo, National Museum of Natural Sciences - CSIC, Spain (IUFRO 1.09 Chairman)
Pablo Jorge Donoso, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile
Petr Horáček, Global Change Research Institute CAS & Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
Toshiaki Owari, University of Tokyo, Japan
Arne Pommerening, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Keynote lectures in detail

	Linda M. Nagel, Utah State University, USA Keynote lecture: Managing for Uncertainty through Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change Linda Nagel is a professor of silviculture and Dean of the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University, USA. She leads the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change Network (ASCC), aimed at bringing together practitioners and scientists to co-develop adaptive forest management practices in the face of climate change. This high-impact research and outreach project is translating climate adaptation theory into practice, with 14 research sites across North America, and includes over 100 partners. Nagel has served on the faculty at Michigan Technological University, the University of Minnesota, where she also served as Director of Operations of the Cloquet Forestry Center and the Hubachek Wilderness Research Center, and Colorado State University, where she was Department Head. She has received awards for teaching excellence, efforts toward diversity and inclusion in natural resources, outreach and service to forestry professionals, including the National Advanced Silviculture Program for the United States Forest Service, and leadership of the ASCC Network for its contributions and broad impact to forest science and management.

	Andrés Bravo-Oviedo, National Museum of Natural Sciences - CSIC, Spain Keynote lecture: Increasing forest stand complexity in Southwest Europe Andrés Bravo-Oviedo is a forest scientist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences, where he leads the Adaptive Silviculture and Applied Forest Ecology lab (ASAFE lab). His research is focused on mixed stands dynamics, including growth, mortality, regeneration and inter- and intra-specific interactions at both tree and stand levels. More recently, the ASAFE lab has opened new research lines about the impact of forest expansion into abandoned croplands on the provision of ecosystem services and the design of silvicultural systems to transform monospecific reforestations and afforestations into complex forest structures to increase resilience. His work includes extensive international collaborations with foresters, ecologists and social scientists. He also coordinates IUFRO research group 1.09.00 on Ecology and Silviculture of Mixed Forests.

	Pablo Jorge Donoso, Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile Keynote lecture: More than one: Potential and challenges for mixed-species silviculture in South-American Temperate Forests Pablo J. Donoso is a forestry engineer from the Universidad Austral de Chile (1988), obtained his M.Sc. (1998) and his PhD (2002) in Forest Resources Management at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. He is a full professor at the Faculty of Forest Sciences and Natural Resources of the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia, Chile. He was pro-dean (2007-2010), director of the Department of Silviculture (2011-2012), and is currently an Academic Advisor at the UACh. In addition, he was in charge of forest ecosystems research in the Llancahue Experimental Forests (1,270 ha) between 2008 and 2017, where nearly 70 ha of native forests were managed following ecological silviculture. He is the main author or co-author of nine books and manuals, 32 book chapters, and 81 papers in scientific journals on the Web of Science. He recently coauthored with one colleague the book (in Spanish) “Silviculture and Management of Native Forests”, which is meant to be a textbook for students and useful to professionals in forestry and natural resource. He has been the principal investigator and co-investigator of 22 research projects financed mostly by Chilean public research institutions and has supervised many undergraduate and graduate students. His main research areas are the silviculture of native forests and plantations with native species, with a particular emphasis on maintaining or generating mixed forests with continuous cover. He teaches undergraduate courses of forest dynamics and silviculture of native forests and the graduate course in mixed-species silviculture. PDH believes in the urgency of linking forest management to different socio-cultural realities and science with public policies as the main approaches to improve forest conservation in territories subject to intense human pressures.

	Petr Horáček, Global Change Research Institute CAS & Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic Keynote lecture: Climate change as a trigger to forest change in Central Europe - what lesson did we learn from biomonitoring of forest ecosystems? Petr Horáček is a researcher at the Global Change Research Institute CAS & Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. His research on wood and forest products has important implications for sustainable forest management and climate change mitigation. He has investigated the changes in temperature and precipitation affect forest growth and productivity, as well as the potential for forests to sequester carbon from the atmosphere. His work has contributed to understanding the environmental benefits of wood as a building material and the prospect of wood products acting as a carbon sink. Prof Horáček has also investigated the properties of different wood species and their suitability for various uses.


	Toshiaki Owari, The University of Tokyo, Japan Keynote lecture: Digital transformation of uneven-aged forest management and planning Toshiaki Owari is an associate professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo. He also serves as Director of the University of Tokyo Hokkaido Forest (UTHF), having 22,717 ha of forests in northern Japan. He leads a business-scale experiment of the stand-based silvicultural management system, which the UTHF has conducted for over 60 years to manage uneven-aged mixed conifer-broadleaf forests. His recent research mainly focuses on applying spatial information technologies such as GIS, GNSS, LiDAR, and UAV to support decision-making in the precision management of uneven-aged mixed forests. He is a deputy coordinator of IUFRO Research Group 1.05.00 (Uneven-aged silviculture) and Working Party 1.01.09 (Ecology and silviculture of fir).

	Arne Pommerening, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden Keynote lecture: The trees, the people and the marteloscope – What human tree selection behaviour can tell us about CCF training requirements Arne Pommerening is a chair professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Umeå. He is a theoretical forest scientist. His research areas include woodland structure analysis and modelling, spatiotemporal dynamics of plant point patterns, individual-based modelling focusing on plant interactions, plant growth analysis, methods of quantifying and monitoring biodiversity and the analysis of human behaviour of selecting trees. Recently his group also developed a keen interest in how marked point patterns based on mapped plant communities evolve through time. The ontogenesis of such patterns can be studied using individual-based models, which is a fascinating field of research. Much of his research is in quantitative ecology, including computer-based simulation experiments. He also has a strong research interest in silviculture, particularly continuous cover forestry (CCF). His research is strongly interdisciplinary and international.