Upcoming activities of FORDISMAN:

Conference "The challenge of global change: disturbance and risk in forest ecosystem management" in Narva, Estonia, 27-29 October 2016

Subtopics:

• Assessing and incorporating risk into forest ecosystem management
• Climate change induces novel disturbance regimes
• Forest species selection for future
• Ecosystem legacies at forest disturbance management
• Forestry practices: salvage and retention, advance regeneration

Invited speakers:

•      Timo Kuuluvainen, University of Helsinki, Finland
•      Heli Peltola, East Finland University, Finland
•      Rupert Seidl, Boku, Austria
•      Anneli Poska, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Provisionally we suggest to organize one full day for presentations and a poster session.

The excursion is planned to Primeval Forest of Poruni (Narva River West Bank).

Information on the venue, lodging and registration is following soon.