25th anniversary of IEFC - join the celebration!

Interested in planted forests? Would you like to join an international network that has been promoting the exchange of knowledge and expertise on the resilience and sustainable management of planted forests for 25 years? Then you won't want to miss the celebration of IEFC's 25th anniversary, which will take place in Scotland on the 4th and 5th June 2024.

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Welcome to the team Daphné!


We are pleased to introduce our newest team member, Daphné Villain, who will be working on the FIRE-RES project.

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Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures — a meta-analysis

To mitigate climate change, the role of forests in carbon sequestration and storage has become increasingly important.

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Workshop “FIRE-FORUM”: improving the resilience of territories to fire risk through participative approaches

The "FIRE FORUM" workshop held in Girona on 6 and 7 March, organised by the Catalan Fire and Rescue Service (CFRS), was a valuable meeting for IEFC. The event, part of the European FIRE-RES project, was aimed at exploring participatory approaches to strengthening fire risk governance.

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Upcoming Events

30 April 2024 - Pathfinder – Webinar « Forest Talks Webinar Series » - Webinar n°1 – Towards a Common European Forest Monitoring System. For more information, click here.

22 May 2024 - MSCA MaRaThoN – University of Padua – Master your Research and Training Needs, Padua, Italy - For more information, click here.

Save the date - 4-5 June 2024 - IEFC General Assembly in Forest Research, Northern Research Station, Scotland, UK. Scientific seminar "A resilient approach to plantation forestry" followed by a tour of trials and demonstrations in Scotland. For more information, click here. 📌Tentative Agenda

23-29 June 2024 - XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024, Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, click here.

4 September 2024 - PEN-CAFoRR Final Conference - For more information, click here.

9-13 September 2024 - ForestSat 2024. For more information, click here.

18-20 September - EFI 2024 Annual Conference, Bonn, Germany. For more information, click here.

22-25 October 2024 - IPC 27th Session - Palais des Congrès, Bordeaux, France. Poplars and other fast-growing trees for climate change mitigation and adaptation - Pathways to climate resilience and carbon neutral societies. For more information, click here.

Scientific Publications

  • Planted Forests Report No 3 – Gestion du risque tempête en Nouvelle-Aquitaine – IEFC / PLURIFOR
  • Forest Partnerships – European Commission
  • Europe's wood supply in disruptive times – TEAMING UP FOR FORESTS
  • Evaluation of breeding cost in the French maritime pine breeding program and perspectives for alternative strategies using molecular markers. Aline Fugeray-Scarbel, Stéphane Lemarié, Frédéric Bernier, Annie Raffin, and Laurent Bouffier – Canadian Journal Of Forest Research
  • Are operational plantations meeting expectations? A large-scale assessment of realized vs anticipated yield in eastern Canada. Barrette, M., Auger, I., Thiffault, N., and Barrette, J. 2024. – Canadian Journal of Forest Research. doi: 10.1139/cjfr-2023-0224.
  • High risk, high gain? Trade-offs between growth and resistance to extreme events differ in northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.) - Jonathan M. Kormann, Ernst van der Maaten, Ernst van der Maaten, Mirko Liesebach, Katharina J. Liepe, Marieke van der Maaten-Theunissen – FRONTIERS

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