The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Forests — Sustainable Forests: Ecology, Management, Products and Trade
IECF2021 has been a success!
We would like to thank our chairs, committee members, organizers, speakers, and all the participants for making the IECF2021 a great event.
Certificates of participation are available upon request to iecf2021@mdpi.com.
You are welcome to submit your extended work to the Special Issue related to the conference.
See you at the next edition!!
the chairs
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to announce the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Forests—Sustainable Forests: Ecology, Management, Products and Trade (IECF2021). The conference is organized by the MDPI open-access journal Forests (impact factor 2.221) and will be held online from 1 to 15 September 2021.
Forests are major sources of energy and materials and will play a key role in the transition to a low-carbon economy. The challenge lies in achieving multifunctionality where economic profit is maintained without penalty in climate mitigation, water regulation, biodiversity preservation and the other goods and services provided by forests. This conference will provide leading scientists working in the field with an online platform on which to discuss these issues and share their latest research. The main topics and sessions of the conference are as follows:
- S1. Forest Ecology and Management;
- S2. Forest Ecophysiology, Genetics and Molecular Biology;
- S3. Forest Economics, Policy and Social Science;
- S4. Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing;
- S5. Wood Science, Forest Products and Trade;
- S6. Forest Wildfire Hazards, Risks and Other Disasters;
- PS. Poster Session.
This online event will bring together researchers from all over the world with no concerns of travel or other related expenditures. A number of free live-streaming webinars will be held during the conference. The webinars will also contain a Q&A session to answer questions from a live online audience. Participation in and “attendance” to the IECF2021 are free of charge.
The conference invites submissions for abstracts that will be reviewed by the conference committee. The authors of accepted contributions will be invited to submit a proceedings paper, a slide presentation, a poster and/or a video presentation of their work. All participants will have the opportunity to examine, explore and critically engage with research findings published in Sciforum during the conference.
All accepted proceedings papers will be published in the proceedings of this e-conference within a dedicated issue of the MDPI journal Environmental Sciences Proceedings. In addition, all participants will be encouraged to submit a full paper to one dedicated Special Issue in Forests with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC).
We hope that you will join this e-conference to exchange ideas, start fruitful collaborations and make this second edition a success.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Víctor Resco de Dios
Prof. Dr. Panayotis Dimopoulos
The Chairs of the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Forests
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Lotus Guo
Ms. Stacy Luo
Dr. Elena Gonzalez
Email: iecf2021@mdpi.com
Follow the conversation on Twitter with #IECF2021
Meet Our Chairs
School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China;Crop & Forest Sciences & JRU CTFC-Agrotecnio, University of Lleida, Lleida, Spain;Dr. Víctor Resco de Dios is a professor at Southwest University of Science and Technology and he is also affiliated with the University of Lleida. He obtained his PhD at the University of Wyoming and held faculty positions at the University of Castilla-La Mancha/Fire Research Center and the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of New Phytologist, Trees, Plant Ecology and Diversity, Forests, Forest Systems, and Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. A few years ago, he contributed to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). He is the most recent former president of the Catalan Institute of Chartered Foresters.
Department of Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece;Dr. Panayotis Dimopoulos holds a degree in Biological Sciences and a PhD diploma in "Flora and Vegetation Ecology of Mountains". He is currently a Professor in Botany and Ecology at the Department of Biology, University of Patras. He has published 120 articles in peer-reviewed international journals (1990–2020) and coordinated 35 national and 15 European research projects. He has participated with 198 oral and/or poster presentations in both international and national conferences. He serves as National Representative on Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES activities, 2014–present) and he is currently the President of the Natura 2000 National Committee for the Protected Areas of Greece (2020–2023).
Important Dates
1 Jun
2021 (23:59 AoE)
20 Jun
2021 (23:59 AoE)
9 Jul
2021 (23:59 AoE)
Meet Our Speakers
Forest Industries Research Institute (FIRC), University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia;
Prof. Dr. Miha Humar
Department of Wood Science and Technology, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Biotechnology, Slovenia;
We are pleased to announce that the IECF 2021 Conference Awards, sponsored by Forests, have been granted to :
Gladys Villegas*, Frieke Van Coillie, Marco Heredia-R , Daniel Ochoa, Jhenny Cayambe, Bolier Torres. - Analysis of forest cover change and its influence on sustainability indicators in Ecuadorian Amazon.
Emiliano Gennari* , Rodolfo Picchio, Angela Lo Monaco - Ayous Wood (Triplochiton scleroxylon K. Schum) physical characterisation after three different cycles of heat treatment.
Congratulations to the two awardees!
We are pleased to announce the live session of the IECF2021. This FREE webinar will be held on 9 September 2021 at 8:00 am CEST and will be chaired by the Conference Chair Prof. Dr. Panayotis Dimopoulos.
The number of participants to the live session is limited but the recording will be made available on Sciforum shortly afterwards. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
Program
|
Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CEST |
|
Prof. Dr. Panayotis Dimopoulos Chair Introduction |
8:00 - 8:10 am |
|
Prof. Dr. Miha Humar Wood Protection: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow |
8:10 - 8:40 am |
|
Dr. Mauricio Acuna Frontiers in Wood and Biomass Supply Chain Optimisation |
8:40 - 9:10 am |
|
Closing of Live Session |
9:10 - 9:20 am |
9 September 2021
Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Forests (IECF2021)
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Panayotis Dimopoulos, Prof. Dr. Víctor Resco de Dios
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 April 2022.
A special issue of Forests.