Time schedule and presentations for June 17, 2024
08:30 – 09:00: Registration
09:00 – 09:15: Opening of the SILVA/IUFRO Division 3 PhD conference. Welcoming words by Prof. Ola Lindroos (IUFRO Division 3 officeholder) and Associate prof. Dimitris Athanassiadis (Coordinator of SILVA)
09:15 – 09:30: Göran Ericsson, Dean of the Forest Faculty will present the Faculty of Forest Sciences
09:30 – 09:50: Keynote speech: Francisco X. Aguilar, Professor at the Department of Forest Economics 09:50 – 10:00: TECHNICAL BREAK (short coffee break)
10:00 – 10:20: Anamika Menon, Department of Urban and Rural Development; Division of Rural Development, SLU: Exploring Human Wellbeing Indicators from Community Forest Management in Nepal
10:20 – 10:40: Eva Papek, Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection, BOKU: Temperature-dependent development and host tree choice of the pine bark beetle Ips acuminatus
10:40– 11:00: Elisabeth Ritzer, Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection, BOKU: The pine pathogen Diplodia sapinea is associated with the death of large Douglas fir trees
11:00 – 11:20: Anders Rowell, Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology, SLU and Skogforsk: Harvesting operations in the management of even- and uneven aged Swedish forests
11:20 – 11:40: Ahmed Hasoba, Department of Forest and Environmental Science, University of Gezira: Trees Diversity and Distribution Patterns in Sudan's Savanna Woodlands
11:40 – 12:00: Getachew G Tiruneh, Department of Soil and Environment, SLU: Effect of intensive land use change to short term rotation forestry on nutrient balance
LUNCH
13:30 – 13:50: Zhongqian Cheng, Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University: Patterns of forest structure and productivity and their influencing factors in Shangri-La, Yunnan
13:50 – 14:10: Viktorija Vendina, SILAVA: Restoration of a sand mining site in Northern Latvia
14:10 – 14:30: Trinh Huynh, Forest Industries Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast: Variation in growth and carbon sequestration of mixed hardwood species in subtropical Australia
COFFEE BREAK
15:00 – 15:20 Sezer Olivia Kaya, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU: Early Detection of Bronze Birch Borer (Agrilus anxius) Using Molecular Tool LAMP
15:20 – 15:40: Susmita Khan, Wildlife Institute of India: Predicting the Distribution of Important Insect Pollinators in a Western Himalayan Landscape under Future Climate Scenarios
15:40 – 16:00: Tama Ray, Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation, Technical University of Dresden: Tree diversity increases productivity through enhancing structural complexity across mycorrhizal types
16:00 - 16:20: Tao Jiang, Chair of Forest Monitoring and Remote sensing, Georg-August-University Göttingen: An End-to-end Large-scale Tree Detection Approach on High Resolution Imagery Using Detection Transformer
Time schedule and presentations for June 20, 2024
09:00 – 09:20: Abdul Wahab Zulfa, Faculty of Forestry and Environment, Universiti Putra Malaysia: Estimation of aboveground mangrove biomass and potential biomass sequestration in the context of LULUCF
09:20– 09:40: Karlis Bickovskis, SILAVA: Carbon Dynamics in Peatland Forests – ditch or no ditch?.
09:40– 10:10: Leanda Garvie, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast: Forest residues for renewable carbon in the Australian bioeconomy
SHORT BREAK
10:30 – 10:50: Muluken Nega Bazezew, Chair of Forest Monitoring and Remote sensing, Georg-August-University Göttingen: Modeling the horizontal distribution of tree crown biomass from TLS
10:50– 11:10: Paulina Carrasco Ramírez, Estudios Regionales, Autonomous University of Chiapas: Institutional Arrangements and Sustainability Outcomes of Forest Management in Southern Mexico
11:10 – 11:30 Sanghyun Kim, Forest Ecology Department, University of Quebec: The need for diversified forest management to prevent structural simplification in Canada's boreal forests
11:30– 11:50: Austra Zuševica, SILAVA: Wood-ash application on cutaway peatland accelerates vegetation succession and increases plant biomass accumulation
11:50 – 12:10: Bohdan Kolisnyk, Department of Silviculture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences: Enhancing forest stability through silvicultural interventions: tree size diversification and species mixtures as adaptation strategies to drought stress
LUNCH
13:30 – 13:50: Borja García Pascual, LUKE: Assisted thinning operations using Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality
13:50– 14:10: Akalu Assfaw Wolde, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Turin: Forest Tenure, Property Rights, and Income in a Diverse Tenure Settings. Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
14:10 – 14:30: Jaime Luna, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU: Biodiversity implications of fast-growing broadleaved trees in Sweden: how do these tree species contribute to the lichen flora.
14:30 – 14:50: Alfred Deutgen, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU and Skogforsk: High-Density Birch Shelterwoods: A Comparative Analysis of Growth, Yield, and Economic Viability in planted Norway Spruce forests
COFFEE BREAK: Evaluation and planning ahead