16 Jun
20 Jun

Umeå, Sweden

SILVA/IUFRO Div. 3 PhD student conference

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SLU’s research school, SILVA, in co-operation with IUFRO Division 3 organised an international PhD student conference in beautiful Umeå, where SLU’s Faculty of Forest Sciences has its main campus. The participants were a blend of SLU’s PhD students and international participants. The location and timing was carefully chosen, so that the participants had the possibility to both enjoy the magical bright nights of Northern Sweden, as well as the possibility to add this activity to theirparticipation at the 26th IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm.

The conference provided an arena for networking and discussing challenges in forestry practices.

The theme was Sustainable forest management adaptation to climate change.

Conference subthemes covered, but were not restricted to:

  1. Biodiversity conservation
  2. Detection and resistance to natural disturbances and damage mitigation
  3. Peatland forestry and restauration
  4. Forest operations for management and restauration
  5. Tree species mixtures
  6. Stakeholder engagement and participation

One part of the conference was dedicated to hands-on and field-based experiences of and discussions on the (highly digitalized) Nordic forestry practices. We visited the forest company SCA, watched harvesting operations and discussed techniques and environmental consideration during the operations. We also visited a private forest owner, discussed how private forest owners conduct forestry "from regeneration to final felling" and got a description of what a forest owner's association is. Later we visited a site where Umeå municipality has taken conservation measures to favour deciduous trees and also create environments that favour white-backed
woodpecker.

The other part of the conference was dedicated to presentations related to the conference subthemes. The presentations can be downloded below. 

Facts

Time: 2024-06-16 18:00 - 2024-06-20 16:00
City: Umeå, Sweden
Organiser: Research School SILVA and IUFRO Div. 3
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Schedule

June 16th: Arrival, registration, reception and icebreaking event. 

June 17th: Indoor conference activities 

June 18-19th: Field excursions; Visit to forest owners (private ownerand companies) to discuss and see forest management practices 

June 20th: Indoor conference activities. Conference ends. 

June 21st – 22nd Optional activities together with SLU PhD-students.

Below you can see the conference program and the indvidual presentations.


Programme

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

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Contact

Ola Lindroos, Professor
Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology, SLU
ola.lindroos@slu.se, 090-786 86 36