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Secretary: Markus Eichhorn
Aims
The Group aims are:
- To stimulate discussion on all aspects of forest ecology
- To foster links with relevant groups and organisations within and outwith the BES both nationally and internationally
- To share ecological knowledge amongst researchers, practitioners and policy-makers
- To achieve the above through holding meetings, conferences, workshops and symposia and by developing the Web site
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The Forest Ecology Group has a new mailing list. Members of the previous list will need to sign up again in order to keep receiving messages. To join the list, please go to: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/FORESTECOLOGYGROUPand choose the 'Subscribe or Unsubscribe' link from that page. You will receive a confirmation email which you will need to respond to. Alternatively, send the following command to listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk : subscribe FORESTECOLOGYGROUP Yourfirstname Yourlastname
Please feel free to post messages to ForestEcologyGroup@jiscmail.ac.uk if there is anything you would like to be circulated. Once we have a critical mass of people these will be compiled into a monthly bulletin.
Animals, Man and Treescapes
Conference to be held at Sheffield Hallam University, 14-16 September 2011.
Professor Ian D. Rotherham and colleagues from the Biodiversity and Landscape History Research Institute are organising a major event on the theme of ‘Animals, Man and Treescapes’ looking at the interactions between grazing animals, humans and wooded landscapes. The conference is supported by BES, IUFRO, the Ancient Tree Forum, the Society for Landscape Studies, and the Landscape Conservation Forum. This is will be an international, landmark, awareness–raising and networking event. It will attract key people from NGOs, academia and practitioners. It seeks to link international research to relevant community projects and educational outputs throughout the UK, across Europe and beyond. The conference will promote landscape ecology conservation through local, national and international initiatives. The themes to be covered include:
- Impacts of grazing animals on both upland and lowland wooded landscapes
- Managing sites with grazing animals and problems arising from inappropriate grazing
- Issues around re-wilding landscapes
- An historic perspective through landscape history
- Address current and future management
Speakers will include Frans Vera, Della Hooke, Adrian Newton, Hans Baete, Naomi Sykes, Richard Gulliver, Tobias Pleininger, Peter Szabo, Ted Green, Ian Rotherham, Melvyn Jones, Derek Yalden, Lars Ostlund and representatives from the Forestry Commission and Woodland Trust.
The conference begins on Wednesday afternoon (14 September) with a BES sponsored field visit to Padley Gorge and the Longshaw Estate on the edge of the Peak District after the opening presentations. The field visit will demonstrate several of the conference themes and provide a background to the following two days’ discussions. The conference dinner on the following evening will have an after-dinner guest speaker linked to the field visit site.
Booking forms with ‘early bird discounts’ and further information about the event can be found on the www.ukeconet.co.uk website. Offers of posters or presentations should be sent to Christine@hallamec.plus.com.
The Forest Ecology Group is keen to recruit a committee to help with expanding its activities and increase the representation of forest-dwelling members of the BES. If you’re willing to be involved in any way then please get in touch, but in particular if you can contribute to:
· Website and communications
· Organising social events
· Planning meetings or workshops
· Post-graduate representation
If you haven’t become involved with an SIG before then none of these roles are onerous, and it’s a great way to direct the activities of the group towards your interests. My main aims over the next few years are to:
(i) broaden the scope of the group’s activities to include forests around the world,
(ii) encourage links between other specialist groups, with joint meetings already being discussed with the Computational Ecology Group and Tropical Ecology Group,
(iii) provide more opportunities for early-career researchers to contribute to our meetings.
If you have any suggestions for what you would like the group to do, please get in touch!
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