The 1st International Electronic Conference on Forests — Forests for a Better Future: Sustainability, Innovation, Interdisciplinarity
All participants of IECF2020 are welcome to submit the extended work to the Forests special issue "Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Forests (IECF2020)".
the chairs
Dear colleagues,
It is with immense pleasure that we announce the 1st International Electronic Conference on Forests:
Forests for a Better Future: Sustainability, Innovation, Interdisciplinarity
Forests and forestry activities provide an opportunity to address the pressing challenge of climate change through sustainable production. Forests also play a strategic role in mitigating critical issues, including biodiversity conservation, water regulation, energy efficiency, pollution reduction and mitigation, production of raw biological materials, food safety, and human and ecosystem health and poverty.
Forests contribute to the improvement of some important development issues focused on sustainability and responsible forest management as a shared and essential factor to address global challenges and guarantee the conservation and enhancement of the global forest heritage as well as the socio-economic development of production, environmental, and socio-cultural chains.
The global pandemic has forced us to reduce travel and to reflect on our ability to leave scientific acquisitions as a legacy to future generations. This reduced mobility stimulates us to maintain connections with the scientific network using emerging technologies. This conference is an opportunity to communicate our shared passion for forests, forest products and services, and forest biodiversity.
The conference will discuss the state of the art of forestry operations, wood supply chains, and ecosystem services, and objectives for the future will be sought. Sharing and discussing the latest research findings with the global community of scientists in the field of forests is the central purpose of this virtual meeting.
We invite you to join us with your work and be part of this exciting experience.
Topics of the conference include:
- Forest Ecology, Management and Restoration
- Forest Genetics, Ecophysiology and Biology
- Forests and Urban Forest Sustainability
- Forest Inventory, Quantitative Methods and Remote Sensing
- Wood Science, Production Chains and Fuelwood
- Forest Operations and Engineering
- Fire Risks and Other Natural Hazards
While our virtual conference will be a different experience from the traditional gatherings we all know and love, this virtual conference will allow us to connect in new ways while keeping our carbon footprints low and maintaining social distancing. Your presentation will be accessible to hundreds of researchers around the world. Hopefully, it will be a more inclusive and sustainable way of meeting because of the lack of taxes and travel costs.
This conference, for now virtual, is a commitment to a “physical” meeting, which we hope will take place in the very near future.
We warmly invite our colleagues from across the world to be part of this exciting event.
Hoping for a next forest (“in situ”) workshop.
Forests foster future!
Dr. Angela Lo Monaco
Dr. Cate Macinnis-Ng
Prof. Dr. Om P. Rajora
Chairs of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Forests
Conference Secretariat
Sponsoring Opportunities
For information regarding sponsoring opportunities, please contact the conference secretariat(gris.guo@mdpi.com).
Meet Our Chairs
Department of Agriculture and Forest Science (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, Italy.;Angela Lo Monaco is Associate Professor of Wood Technology and Forest Harvesting at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy), where she is also Head of the Wood Science and Technology laboratory. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Wood Science” of Forests. Angela Lo Monaco’s research interests mainly concern wood science and technology both for the environment as well as for cultural heritage. Trees and timber are taken into consideration, not only as a source of materials and byproducts but also as sensors of anthropic and climatic events. Her research interests also focus on the properties of wood in artefacts of historical and artistic interest, with a special emphasis on the characteristics of wood degraded by environmental factors, in which the color and chemical characteristics of surfaces are used as monitoring systems. The impacts of forest logging on residual trees and seedlings as well as the influence of human activities on the quantity and quality of dead wood in the forest are some of the topics of her studies.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.;Cate Macinnis-Ng is Associate Professor and Rutherford Discovery Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland. She is also a PI in Te Pūnaha Matatini—New Zealand’s Centre for Research Excellence in Complex Systems. Cate is a tree ecophysiologist with an interest in plant–climate intersections. Her main research is focused on a field-based throughfall exclusion experiment which examines the effects of drought on the southern conifer, kauri (Agathis australis). Cate is the immediate past president of the New Zealand Ecological Society.
Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, Canada;Prof. Dr. Om Rajora is the Coordinator of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (UFRO) unit 2.04.01 “Population, Ecological and Conservation Genetics”. He was also the Coordinator of the IUFRO unit 7.01.04 “Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems – Genetics Aspects”. Dr. Rajora has been the recipient of many national and international awards, honors, and distinctions. He is frequently invited as a lead, plenary, and/or keynote speaker at international conferences, as well as frequently an invited author by many scientific journals and book publishers. He has served in the organization and/or scientific committee of many international conferences and has been organizing an annual Population and Conservation Genomics workshop at the International Plant and Animal Genome conferences since 2008.
Important Dates
30 Sep
2020 (23:59 AoE)
10 Oct
2020 (23:59 AoE)
7 Nov
2020 (23:59 AoE)
