Forest Ecology
Secretary: Markus Eichhorn
Secretary Elect: Dan Bebber (September 2013)
Aims
- Create an international community of forest ecologists, within and beyond the BES
- Stimulate discussion on all aspects of forest ecology, in biomes from boreal to tropical, including both natural and managed systems
- Share news, best practice and findings among researchers, forestry professionals and policy-makers
- Hold and facilitate meetings, workshops and symposia
Communications
Our regular bulletin provides a summary of news relevant to forest ecologists. This includes conference announcements, funding opportunities, job openings, studentships, courses, calls for collaborations and a comprehensive diary of events. Recent issues can be downloaded from this page, but to receive the bulletin directly please join our mailing list via this website and clicking the ‘Subscribe or Unsubscribe’ link. Please submit articles for the bulletin to forestecologygroup@jiscmail.ac.uk . You can also receive important news or post messages between Bulletin issues via our Facebook page or on Twitter @BESforests.
Current / Future Meetings
For the latest news on our forthcoming events, please see the most recent edition of the FEG Bulletin. We are always glad to receive suggestions for further activities, and can obtain sponsorship to enable you to run events. We welcome any enthusiastic forest-dwelling members of the BES who would like to join the committee.
- 6-10 May Training workshop on agent based modelling techniques. Bournemouth University. Joint with CEG
- 17-18 May Shadows & Ghosts: Lost Woods in the Landscape. Sheffield Hallam University
- 13-14 June Farm Woodland Forum and FEG joint meeting. Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Falkland, Fife
- 18 August INTECOL workshop on Priorities in Global Forest Conservation, 2-5:30pm (provisional time & date)
- 3-4 October Silvicultural approaches to PAWS restoration and plantation diversification. North York Moors National Park Authority, Helmsley, York
- 8 October Fungi for Forest Ecologists Workshop. The John Krebs Field Station, Wytham, Oxford
INTECOL and BES Conference 2013, London, UK
The Forest Ecology Group will be sponsoring a special symposium at the INTECOL and BES 2013 Conference, entitled “Forest resilience, tipping points and global change processes”.
The symposium is organised by Christopher Reyer and Anja Rammig from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, and Niels Brouwers from the State Centre of Excellence for Climate Change, Woodland and Forest Health, Australia.
The goal of this symposium is to highlight crucial research areas for the next decades that foster the understanding of forest resilience and tipping points under global change, which is required to sustain the provision of ecosystem functions and services. More specifically the objectives are:
1. To provide a global assessment of forest ecosystems%u2019 sensitivity to global change.
2. To integrate research on forest responses to global change at different spatial and temporal scales.
3. To provide an overview of innovative ways to increase forest resilience in the future.
With this symposium, we would like to provide a forum that will help bring together and progress the current state of the science. Furthermore, our symposium will offer an overview of the challenges that ecology faces in addressing increasingly multidisciplinary research questions of critical societal importance.
For further information please contact Christopher Reyer or Niels Brouwers.