Coming Event

Impact of ungulates and other mammalian herbivores on forest ecosystems


The Forest Ungulate Research Network (FURN) and the SNS network Natural Disturbance Dynamics Analysis for Forest Ecosystem Management will organise a joint meeting in Estonia in week 41, tentatively 8-12 October 2012. As this year the Natural Disturbance network arranges its activities in conjunction with the PRIFOR network, we expect participants from three different networks.
The meeting aims to bring together scientists from the boreal and the northern temperate zone, from the Nordic-Baltic area and the US, for a workshop covering current research and findings on the impact of ungulates and other mammalian herbivores on forest ecosystems.
We encourage you to notify us of your interest in joining our workshop and to submit an abstract (approximately 250 words) for a 15 min. oral presentation or a poster for the workshop before 31st of August. Please include your name and co-authors, title, affiliation, postal address, e-mail, and phone number.

Presentations

We invite oral and poster presentations on the following subtopics (reviews, case studies also eligible):

  • Large herbivores as a disturbance factor: main impact factors across the boreal and northern temperate zone
  • Consequences of herbivore disturbance and adaptive management to forest regeneration
  • Temporal aspects: short term and long term grazing and browsing effects on forest formation and ecosystem development
  • Climate change and herbivorous behaviour

 


Publication in Boreal Environment Research

Over the past years our network members have published papers based on the meetings in special issues of peer-reviewed journals. Currently the journal Boreal Environment Research welcomes the idea to cooperate on developing a special issue. Soon we will send out a query to investigate the intention to publish and the status of the manuscript. If we are able to bring together a satisfactory number of manuscripts around the time of the meeting, the provisional publication date would be late 2013.

Venue

The meeting is supported by SNS/EFINORD, and will be organised in Estonia. Information on the exact location and meeting venue will be announced shortly.

Costs

We are required to ask participants to arrange traveling through their respective institutes. We are able to cover venue costs, meals and local transportation. In case you encounter difficulties in covering costs, please contact us.

Agenda

The workshop consists of a full three-day program 8-12 October 2012 including oral and poster presentations, discussion session and field excursions. Participants are invited to arrive on 8 October to Tartu, or alternatively, Tallinn. Departure will be on 12 October in the morning.

  • 8 October - arrival and registration
  • 9 October - plenary sessions and poster session
  • 10 October - plenary session and visit to exposition
  • 11 October - field excursion
  • 12 October - departure