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VIII international meeting of SNS network Natural Disturbance Dynamics Analysis for Forest Ecosystem Management 21 - 25 September 2009, Vihterpalu, Estonia

Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering of Estonian University of Life Sciences is organizing a VIII international workshop of SNS network Natural Disturbance Dynamics Analysis for Forest Ecosystem Management.

The workshop will include a group of people who jointly will cover a wide range of knowledge and experience related to the workshop topic. Hope your expertise can contribute to cover some of the workshop topics and objectives.

We encourage you to notify us on your interest in joining our workshop and in case you are - to submit an abstract (approximately 250 words) of a 15 min. presentation for the workshop as soon as it is possible for you. Please include your name and co-authors, title, affiliation, postal address, e-mail, and phone.

Presentations

We invite oral and poster presentations in subtopics that are following the methodological setup of the research:

  • Studies connected to permanent sample plots
  • Disturbance impacts on forest regeneration and early development
  • Case studies
  • Chronosequence studies
  • Environment manipulation studies
  • Time window studies

The reviews and case studies can be included. We try to publish papers in a special issue of peer- reviewed journal based on the topics considered on the meeting.

This year the meeting is supported by the SNS that has made it possible to organize our workshop in Vihterpalu. In addition, the forests of Western Estonia offer many interesting sites and relevant cases about the forest disturbances.

The workshop-program is a full three-day program 22-24 September 2009 including oral and poster presentations, discussion session and field excursions. Participants are requested to arrive on 21 September at Vihterpalu. If necessary we can organize pick-up in Tallinn Airport or Tallinn Harbour. Departure from Vihterpalu will be on 25 September in the morning.

Agenda

21 September - arrival and registration

22 September - plenary sessions and poster session

23 September - field excursion

24 September - second day field excursion

25 September - departure