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RESEARCH SEMINAR:

DISTURBANCE AND RESILIENCE IN MEDITERRANEANFOREST ECOSYSTEMS

DATE: 8th June 2012 (10h-14h)

VENUE: Centre Tecnolgic Forestal de Catalunya (www.ctfc.cat), Solsona, Spain

COST: Free (please confirm your attendance by email: laia.ximenis@ctfc.cat)

BACKGROUND:

Recent socio-economic changes together with predicted climate warming are inducing

significant impacts on the functioning and dynamics of Mediterranean forests. In this context

of change, the role of natural disturbances in the future evolution of these forests is

expected to increase. There is a general consensus that the next generation of forest

practices should be able to adapt and respond to the increasing variability and uncertainty in

disturbance dynamics.

Understanding how natural disturbances relate with human practices and identifying the key

factors determining the response of forest to its occurrence constitutes a first step for this.

PROGRAM:

9h50Welcome to the participants

10h00Insect outbreaks, forest management and climate change: is the forest ready? (by

Dr. Dan Kneeshaw, UQAM)

10h30Thelinkbetweenhistoricalland-useandrootrotpathogens:theirroleincurrent

forestdynamics(byDr.JonsOliva,SLU)

11h00Drought responses of Scots pine at the dry limit (by Dr Jordi Martnez Vilalta,

CREAF)

11h30How do Mediterranean forests resist and recover from forest fires? (by Dr. Jos

Ramn Gonzlez, CTFC)

12h00 Coffee break

12h20 14h Round table discussion (Moderator: Dr. Llus Coll, CTFC)

How to increase the self-adaptive capacity and resilience of Mediterranean forest?

Which are the ecological bases? Which is the role of forest management?

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SPEAKERS:

ORGANIZATION:

Llus Coll, Grup de Funcionament i Dinmica del Bosc

http://fidbosc.ctfc.cat/

SPONSORED BY:

Dan Kneeshaw is full-time professor in Forest Ecology at the University of Qubec inMontreal (UQAM) and member of the Centre for Forest Research. His research focuseson the effects of secondary disturbances in boreal forest dynamics. He is also interested

in better understanding individual tree responses to changes in resource gradients andthe influence of ontogeny on mortality. Since 2009 he is Co-Editor in chief of theCanadian Journal of Forest Research.

Jons Oliva is assistant professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and

associate researcher of the Forest Sciences Center of Catalonia. His area of expertise is

forest pathology. In particular, he is interested in understanding the ecology and the

epidemiology of forest pathogens in order to encompass a low impact of forest diseases

with economically viable forest management activities.

Jordi Martnez Vilalta is associate professor at theAutonomous University of Barcelonaand member of the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications. His

research aims at getting a better understanding of the response of forest ecosystems toenvirnomental changes. In particular he focuses in the impact of drought on forest

dynamics in the present climate change context. He is associate editor of the journals

Tree Physiology, iForest and ISRN Ecology.

Jos Ramn Gonzlez is a Ramon y Cajal researcher in the Forest Sciences Centre of

Catalonia. His research is focused in the analysis of the risk that abiotic disturbances (in

particular fire) entail to the Mediterranean forest and on how integrate this risk into

forest management planning.

Grup de Recerca Consolidat

(SGR2009-000531)

DINAMIX project

(CGL2011-29539)