Program Overview
Program Overview
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IECF 2026 Program (Day 1)
14th September - Morning
IECF 2026
Session 1. Forest Ecology and Sustainable Management (Part 1)
Date: 14 September 2026 (Monday)
Time: 09:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00–9:05 | Prof. Dr. Giovanna Battipaglia Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 9:05–9:35 | Dr. Alessio Collalti Keynote Speaker |
Predicting Forest Futures: The Role of Process-Based Models in Forest Ecology and Management |
| 9:35-10:05 | Prof. Dr. Giovanna Battipaglia Keynote Speaker |
From Tree Rings to Talking Trees: Decoding Post-Fire Resilience in Mediterranean Forests |
| 10:05-10:20 | Rana Slim Selected Speaker |
Transpiration and water balance in Quercus ilex forests under different management |
| 10:20-10:35 | Natasa Kiorapostolou Selected Speaker |
Black locust post-mining restoration plantations reduce and modulate noise propagation at a mining area in Greece |
| 10:35-10:50 | Mohamed El-Khayati-Ramouz Selected Speaker |
Unveiling Amazon Forest Vertical Dynamics through Multifrequency Microwave Radiometry |
| 10:50-11:05 | Charaf Eddine Mansouri Selected Speaker |
Spatial dynamics and innovative approaches for the governance of argan forest heritage and ecological risk reduction; Case study of the Chiadma territory, Essaouira /Mogador, Morocco |
| 11:05-11:20 | IDRISSA KINDO ABDOU Selected Speaker |
PLANT DIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VEGETATION OF THE DOSSO PARTIAL WILDLIFE RESERVE |
14th September - Afternoon
IECF 2026
Session 1. Forest Ecology and Sustainable Management (Part 2; Parallel Session)
Date: 14 September 2026 (Monday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 8:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 14:00-14:30 | Prof. Dr. Julio Javier Diez Keynote Speaker |
Global change and Forest Diseases: new threats, new strategies |
| 14:30-14:45 | Xinyu Zhang Selected Speaker |
Predicting Aboveground Carbon Storage in Cold-Region Urban Forests Using Structural and Species Diversity |
| 14:45-15:00 | Maeve Lynskey Selected Speaker |
Analysing twenty-six years of phosphorus return via litterfall in two contrasting Pinus sylvestris forests under different thinning intensities (western Pyrenees, Spain) |
| 15:00-15:15 | Bibek Bhandari Selected Speaker |
Mechanical Damage to Mixed Hardwood Regeneration Across Trail Systems and Harvest Intensities: A Seedling and Sapling Assessment |
| 15:15-15:30 | Marin Lukačević Selected Speaker |
Voltage over herbicides: defining lethal electrocution thresholds for successful eradication of Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle seedlings |
| 15:30-15:45 | Amanda De Los Santos Selected Speaker |
Coastal Forests at the Crossroads: Ecological Baseline Assessment of Mangroves in Belen, Calabanga for Sustainable Management and Community Governance |
| 15:45-16:00 | Bekele Tulu Bayessa Selected Speaker |
Multi-Decadal Land-Cover Transitions and Vegetation Condition in a Protected Montane Forest, Ethiopia (2000–2024) |
| 16:00-16:15 | Daniel Bozo Selected Speaker |
Early silvicultural practices increase deep soil carbon and total ecosystem carbon stocks in a mid-rotation Pinus radiata plantation |
| 16:15-16:20 | Csótó András Flash Poster |
Effects of Surrounding Forest Cover and Stand Characteristics on Grapevine Trunk Disease Symptoms and Vine Mortality |
| 16:20-16:25 | Said Moukrim Flash Poster |
Dynamics of North African Forests under Climate Change: A Species Distribution Modeling Approach in Morocco |
| 16:25-16:30 | Artemis Konstantinou Flash Poster |
Modeling the determinants of CO₂ emissions from drained organic soils in Denmark: A robust PCA and HAC covariance analysis |
| 16:30-16:35 | Reshid Ibragimov Flash Poster |
Evaluation of the need for nature reserves located on forested lands in the Republic of Crimea |
| 16:35-16:40 | Milana Šilanskienė Flash Poster |
Bacterial Priming of Scots Pine Seedlings Under Drought: Biochemical Evidence from Three Genotypes |
Session 3. Wood Science, Production Chains, Fuelwood and Trade (Parallel Session)
Date: 14 September 2026 (Monday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 8:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 14:00-14:05 | Dr. Magdalena Broda Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:05-14:25 | Dr. Davor Kržišnik Invited Speaker |
Forest-wood value chain and climate change: transition to circular bioeconomy |
| 14:25-14:45 | Dr. Michael Stambaugh Invited Speaker |
Assessing effects of California wildfires on tree and wood properties of surviving ponderosa pines |
| 14:45-15:00 | Diaz-Maroto I.J. Selected Speaker |
Study of the wood suitability from different species of oak for the manufacture of barrels |
| 15:00-15:15 | Nkolika B. Omoni Selected Speaker |
Effects of Wildfire on Wood Properties of Surviving Ponderosa Pine in the Plumas National Forest |
| 15:15-15:30 | Che-An Lin Selected Speaker |
A study of demineralization methods and the thermal degradation of wood to assess the impact of mineral compounds on biomass torrefaction |
| 15:30-15:45 | Ria Aniza Selected Speaker |
Thermal Degradation and Fuel Characteristics of Douglas Fir Sapwood and Heartwood for Bioenergy Applications |
| 15:45-16:00 |
Grigorios Papageorgiou |
Prioritizing Forest Road Interventions through the Integration of Surface Condition Indexing, Multisensor LiDAR Mapping, Timber Transportation, and Context-Aware Augmented Reality Visualization |
| 16:00-16:15 | Eraldo Antonio Bonfatti Júnior Selected Speaker |
Pellets produced from mechanical processing residues of Pinus taeda: quality assessment against the EN PLUS standard |
| 16:15-16:20 | Ahmed ALtaher Omer Flash Poster |
Underutilised Sudanese Hardwood Species as Sustainable Construction Materials: A Critical Review of Properties, Engineering Potential, and Strategic Development Pathways |
IECF 2026 Program (Day 2)
15th September - Morning
IECF 2026
Session 4. Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing
Date: 15 September 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 09:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00-9:05 | Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Stereńczak Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 9:05–9:25 | Dr. Maciej Wielgosz Invited Speaker |
AI for Single-Tree Parameter Extraction from 3D Remote Sensing Data |
| 9:25-9:45 | Dr. Veraldo Liesenberg Invited Speaker |
Planted Forest Mapping in Santa Catarina State, Southern Brazil, Using Multiple Remote Sensing Data Sources |
| 9:45-10:00 | Isaú Alfredo B. Quissindo Selected Speaker |
Multi-Sensor Mapping of Forest Type Transitions in Central Angola: A Cloud-Based Random Forest Assessment (2015–2025) |
| 10:00-10:15 | Yuliia Shevchuk Selected Speaker |
Post-Fire Vegetation Cover Recovery in Coastal Pine Forests of the Curonian Spit Based on Field NDVI Measurements, Sentinel-2 Data and UAV Imagery |
| 10:15-10:30 | Szymon Bijak Selected Speaker |
Predicting tree diameter from height with regard to the tree age for Scots pine in Poland |
| 10:30-10:45 | Md Asif Haider Khan Selected Speaker |
Classifying individual dead trees using high-resolution multispectral imagery from an unmanned aerial vehicle |
| 10:45-11:00 | Dariusz Pszenny Selected Speaker |
From Harvesting Machines to Field Sensors: Assessing the Accuracy of Tree Stump Positioning Recorded by Cut-to-Length Harvesters |
| 11:00-11:15 | Burhan Gencal Selected Speaker |
FORA: An Open-Source, Browser-Based Platform for Individual Tree Detection and Forest Metric Extraction from UAV LiDAR Data |
| 11:15-11:30 | Manuel Reyna Reynaga Selected Speaker |
Multisensory Monitoring Using UAVs to Estimate Forage Height and Biomass in Andean Silvopastoral Systems Associated with Alnus acuminata |
| 11:30-11:35 | Vladimir Visacki Flash Poster |
Remote sensing-based quantification of windbreak condition and associated crop responses in agroforestry systems: evidence from Vojvodina, Serbia |
| 11:35-11:40 | Chanmi Choi Flash Poster |
Evaluating Greedy and Shapley Approaches for Sequential Climate Envelope Modeling of Trees in the Conterminous United States |
| 11:40-11:45 | Jacques Vermeulen Flash Poster |
High Spatiotemporal Resolution RGB UAV Imagery: A Robust Approach for Assessing Juvenile Eucalyptus Crown Dynamics |
| 11:45-11:50 | Victor Allory Flash Poster |
Optimizing aboveground biomass estimation in novel restoration systems through remote sensing and field data fusion |
| 11:50-11:55 | Katerina Ainali Flash Poster |
A Comparison of Some Machine Learning Classifiers Applied in Three Silvopastoral Systems of Greece |
15th September - Afternoon
IECF 2026
Session 2. Forest Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Earth Observations
Date: 15 September 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 8:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 14:00-14:05 | Prof. Dr. Margarita Arianoutsou Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:05-14:25 | Dr. Eben N. Broadbent Invited Speaker |
Forest Age Remote Observation System: A high-resolution near-real-time data integration |
| 14:25-14:40 | Carlos Arbizu Selected Speaker |
Population Genomics reveals Deep Evolutionary Divergence Among Peruvian Lupuna (Ceiba sp.) |
| 14:40-14:55 | DAUD MATHEW GUNDA Selected Speaker |
Browsing Intensity and Woody Species Selectivity of Wild Ungulates in a Forest Habitat, Hungary |
| 14:55-15:10 | Ismahane Bendekoum Selected Speaker |
Spontaneous Forest Biodiversity as a Provisioning Ecosystem Service: Nutritional value and secondary metabolites of Four Spontaneous Fodder shrubs from Northeastern Algeria Under Climate Change |
| 15:10-15:25 | Akkacha Mehalhal Selected Speaker |
Integrating Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Scientometric Mapping for the Conservation of Medicinal Shrubs in Arid Ecosystems of Algeria |
| 15:25-15:40 | Simone Buratti Selected Speaker |
Diversity and species patterns of macrofungi in a relict Pinus mugo Turra population in the Apennines |
| 15:40-15:55 | Roberto Faedda Selected Speaker |
Diversity of Slime Moulds (Eumycetozoa) in Three Forest Nature Reserves of the Knyszyn Forest, Poland |
| 15:55-16:10 | Saliha Diarra Selected Speaker |
Climate change threatens endemic medicinal and aromatic plants with habitat loss and elevational shifts: evidence from the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco |
| 16:10-16:15 | Isabel Marques Flash Poster |
Forests a Living Infrastructure: The Role of Tree Diversity in Supporting Epiphytic Orchids |
| 16:15-16:20 | Hannah Mason Flash Poster |
Mapping the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Oil Palm in Roraima, Brazil |
| 16:20-16:25 | Ivan Bacherikov Flash Poster |
The influence of seed weight and region of origin on seedling growth in the first rotation |
| 16:25-16:30 | Analia del Valle Guzmán Flash Poster |
Operationalizing Relational Dimensions in Forest Governance: A Multiscale Methodological Framework for the Argentine Gran Chaco |
IECF 2026 Program (Day 3)
16th September - Morning
IECF 2026
Session 5. Wildfires and Other Forest Disturbances
Date: 16 September 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 09:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 9:00-9:05 | Prof. Dr. Luis Ángel Ruiz Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 9:05–9:25 | Prof. Dr. Giorgos Mallinis Invited Speaker |
Predicting Forest Futures: The Role of Process-Based Models in Forest Ecology and Management |
| 9:25-9:40 | Emmanouel Tsiros Selected Speaker |
Post-Fire Mapping of Burned Areas Using Sentinel-2 Imagery to Support Ecosystem Restoration Activities |
| 9:40-9:55 | Jorge Ortiz-Ayuso Selected Speaker |
Multi-temporal UAV monitoring of pine processionary moth impacts in Pinus nigra stands |
| 9:55-10:10 | Tien Le Nguyen Selected Speaker |
Assessment of Natural Mixed Forest Recovery in Northeastern Japan Three Years Post-Wildfire Using Dual UAV-Field Survey |
| 10:10-10:25 | Marcelina Fernando Alberto Selected Speaker |
Satellite-Based Assessment of Fire Regimes Across Angola’s Protected Areas (2015–2025): Climatic Drivers, Vegetation Dynamics and Spatial Patterns |
| 10:25-10:40 | Luigi Marfella Selected Speaker |
A cross-disciplinary assessment of the 2018 Roaches wildfire (UK) using forest, peatland, and public perception analyses |
| 10:40-10:55 | Evangelia Siafali Selected Speaker |
Assessing Disturbance in Forest Opening-Up Infrastructure through Geoinformatics-Based UAV-RTK Terrain Modelling and Hydrological Analysis |
| 10:55-11:00 | Nadezhda M. Tchebakova Flash Poster |
Searching for the X factor driving the decline/dieback of the Siberian fir forests across the National Park "Krasnoyarsk Stolby" in the East Sayan Mts, south-central Siberia |
| 11:00-11:05 | Ioannis D. Mitsopoulos Flash Poster |
Examining the influence of socioeconomic factors on fire ignitions and burned area at different regional levels in Greece |
| Poster Breakout Session (All Sessions) The Poster Sessions will take place in Zoom break-out rooms. The list of names and titles of the posters can be found HERE. (This list will be updated regularly as new information becomes available. Please check this page periodically for the latest updates regarding the poster presentations.） |
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16th September - Afternoon
IECF 2026
Session 6. Forest Ecophysiology, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Date: 16 September 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 8:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
| 14:00-14:05 | Dr. Juan Pedro Ferrio Session Chair |
Welcome from the Session Chair |
| 14:05-14:35 | Prof. Dr. Maurizio Mencuccini Keynote Speaker |
Inter- and intra-specific variability in plant hydraulic traits: Why does it matters and what are its drivers? |
| 14:35-14:55 | Prof. Dr. Maximo Larry López Cáceres Invited Speaker |
Application of UAV technology and Artificial Intelligence in forestry |
| 14:55-15:15 | Prof. Dr. Fan Yang Invited Speaker |
Dissecting waterlogging adaptataitons between two contrasting arbor species |
| 15:15-15:30 | Anna Trigubenko Selected Speaker |
Post-Tsunami Forest Resilience in a Coastal Forest Ecosystem After the Mega-Tsunami of 2011, Japan |
| 15:30-15:45 | Rafael Alejandro Rubilar Selected Speaker |
EuCarbHydro Project: Carbon and Water Balance Trade-offs in Eucalyptus Plantations as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy |
| 15:45-16:00 | Jana Bassil Selected Speaker |
Host Tree Drought Responses in Mediterranean Black Truffle Orchards: Linking Atmospheric Demand, Soil Water Availability and Canopy Conductance |
| 16:00-16:15 | Stavroula Zacharoudi Selected Speaker |
Quantifying carbon dioxide removals in Mediterranean oak-dominated ecosystems |
| 16:15-16:20 | Beatriz García Valenciano Flash Poster |
Integration of molecular and technological tools for the identification and conservation of threatened tree species in Costa Rica |
| 16:20-16:30 | Dr. Nikolay S. Strigul Conference Chair |
Closing remark |