(Presentations available to IEFC members only)

Seminar on main plantations in Europe

Objective: To give an overview of existing forest plantation management in Europe: introducing extend, management, economics, ecosystem services, challenges and opportunities.

  1. “Towards Sustainable, Diverse, Resilient and Inclusive Planted Forests, Afforestation and Reforestation efforts”, FAO (Thais Linhares Juvenal)
  1. “Presentation of Eucalyptus plantations Management in Portugal as an example”, ISA (Margarida Tomé)
  1. “A national overview of the main plantation management and challenges in Portugal”, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisboa (Susana Barreiro)
  1. “A national overview of the main plantations management and challenges in Spain”, Cesefor (Tomás Sánchez Pellicer)
  1. “A national overview of the main plantations management and challenges in France“, FCBA (Marin Chaumet)
  1. “Forest plantation management opportunities and challenges in Great Britain“, Forest Research (Andrew Leslie) – Remote presentation
  1. “Silvicultural strategies under climate change in Southwest Germany“, University of Fribourg (Marc Hanewinkel)
  1. “A regional overview of the main plantations management and challenges in Basque country“, Neiker (Ander Arias)

Open session of flash talks for IEFC members: Let’s talk about planted forests

  1. Mixed plantation impact on productivity (Hervé Jactel, INRAE)
  1. BASODATA: a new geographical database to assist the forest management in the Basque country (Alejandro Cantero, HAZI)
  1. The role of IPC and ProPopulus related to FGTs (Joris Van Acker, Ghent University – ProPopulus – IPC)
  1. Wood fibers as part of innovative substrates for seedlings intended for planted forests (Dagnija Lazdina, LSFRI Silava)
  1. Modelling coupled risk to forests from wind, drought and bark beetles (Barry Gardiner, IEFC)
  1. Transformation of even-aged Sitka spruce stands to Continuous Cover Forestry in Ireland (Aine Ni Dhubhain, University College Dublin)
  1. Global change and forest diseases: new threats, new strategies (Julio Javier Diez Casero, Universidad de Valladolid)

Network fund activities

  1. FCBA BIOFUN – Biodiversity indicators for planted forests
  1. University of León – Propopulus: IA for poplar pest identification
  1. CETEMAS-CESEFOR – Comparison of several hydrogel efficiency in chestnut plantations