“Managing forests in the 21st century” was the final conference of the FORMASAM project, held together with REFORCE and FOREXCLIM research projects. It brought together scientific experts on forest management from all over Europe facing very specific management challenges.
The conference was held on 3rd-5th March 2020 at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany. It addressed climate change impacts, as well as needs for mitigation and adaptation especially with regard to the following scientific questions:
- What are the impacts of climate extremes and disturbances?
- What are the management challenges (and options) for resilient forests?
- What can we do to increase the contribution of forest management to climate change mitigation?
The conference was open to citizens and society at large and we especially welcomed scientists, policy makers, environmental NGOs and other professionals working in the field of forest management and climate change. Here you can find a short summary from PIK, a detailed summary from our conference participant Cosmin Cosofret, agenda and book of abstracts.
Presentation slides from plenary and parallel sessions follow below.
It was great to see 115 participants at the conference and up to 35 online. Thank you all for joining us, preparing great talks and posters and being active participants. We would like to also thank everybody to make the remote participation and presentations a success!
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Foto: PIK / AKdS
Tuesday 3-3-2020
11.30 Begin of registration
12.00 Welcome Lunch
13:00 Welcome from the FORMASAM, FOREXCLIM & REFORCE projects
13:30 Plenary: Overview of the conference themes (Chair Christopher Reyer)
- Keynote: Tree and forest functioning in a changing world by Nadine Rühr
- The need for a paradigm shift in forest management to cope with global change by Harald Bugmann
- Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink by Galina Churkina
15:00 Poster session 1 & Coffee break
15.30 Parallel Session 1
17.00 Poster session 2 & Coffee break
17.30 Plenary: What are the impacts of climate extremes & disturbances? (Chair Annikki Mäkelä)
- Short-and long-term impacts of drought on tree primary and secondary growth and on mortality risk by Maxime Cailleret
- Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges by Georges Kunstler
- Insights on the current and future resilience of Central European forests to bark beetle disturbances by Rupert Seidl
- General assumption: Beech forests do not burn. Evidence from recent years: Yes they do! by Janet Maringer
19:30 Conference dinner: Restaurant Oscar
Wednesday 4-3-2020
9:00 Plenary: What are the management challenges (and options) for resilient forests? (C. Reyer)
- Keynote Court Jester is chasing the Red Queen: Adaptation as a key feature of future forest management by Klaus Puettmann
- Keynote: Forest enterprises trapped between desperation and resignation –How ecological-economic modelling may contribute to supporting management decisions in a changing climate by Carola Paul
10:30 Poster session 3 & Coffee Break
11:00 Parallel Session 2
12:30 Lunch (provided) + group picture
13:30 Plenary: The state of Europe’s forests after 2018 & 2019 (Chair Christopher Reyer)
- Climate emergencies 2018/2019 by John Schellnhuber
- Video disturbances and risk by Marcus Lindner
- Latest Dutch NFI data from 2018/2019 by Mart-Jan Schelhaas
- Forest Condition Monitor (remote recorded) by Allan Buras
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Parallel Session 3
16:30 Poster session 4 & Coffee break
17:00 Plenary: What are the management challenges (and options) for resilient forests? (Chair Rupert Seidl)
- The role of alpha and beta diversity in buffering the effects of intensifying disturbance regimes under climate change by Julius Sebald
- Forest management practices in Europe by Hans Verkerk & Marcus Lindner
- Engineering, ecological or social-ecological – the use of resilience in forest literature by Laura Nikinmaa
18:40 End of day 2 - Free time / no organised dinner
Thursday 5-3-2020
9:00 Plenary: What can we do to increase the contribution of forest management to climate change mitigation? (Chair Christopher Reyer)
- Keynote: Forests as key drivers of local, regional and global change by Julia Pongratz
- Role of forest sector in decarbonization of Russian economy by Georgy Safonov
- Short and long term mitigation effects of setting forests aside by Mart-Jan Schelhaas
- Forests NPP and volume growth in Finland inferred from climate and satellite data by Annikki Mäkelä
- Poster award & closing
10.45 Coffee break
11.00 Parallel Session 4
12:30 Lunch (provided)
13:30 Field trip (optional), see separate file
Parallel session 1:
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Management modelling 1 A56 Conference Room Chair: Andy Krause |
Resilience A56 Telepresence Room Chair: Werner Rammer |
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Simulated effects of tree species diversity and species pattern on biomass production at stand level by Thomas Kainz |
by Kirsten Thonicke |
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Locally adapted stand-scale forest management alternatives for the 21st century by Mats Mahnken |
Resilience of multiple ecosystem services and biodiversity in a temperate forest by Elena Cantarello |
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Socially optimal forest management and biodiversity conservation in temperate forests under climate change by Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik |
by Dominik Thom |
| by Rüdiger Grote |
Variable rooting strategies stabilize biome productivity by Boris Sakschewski |
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The carbon balance of boreal old-growth forests by Anu Akujärvi |
Drought responses of Amazon forests under climate change: The contrasting roles of soil moisture and canopy responses by Hao-Wei Wey |
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Forest and Woodlands in Brandenburg by Michael Duhr |
Parallel session 2:
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Empirical management A56 Conference Room Chair: Dominik Thom |
Empirical impacts 1 A31 Big Cupola Chair: Björn Reineking |
| by Daniele Castagneri |
Seasonal changes in the most limiting factor for Gross Primary Production in a semi-arid forest by Daniel Nadal-Sala |
| by Hernán Serrano-León |
Mountain forest growth response to climate change in the Northern Limestone Alps by Claudia Hartl (cancelled) |
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Forests and landscape temperature management by Pierre Ibisch |
Changes in site productivity as one of the factors increasing the forest dieback risk by Jarosław Socha |
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Forest microclimate and management under climate change: insights from forests and plantation in north-eastern Germany by Jeanette Blumroeder |
Relations between radial growth of European beech and remotely sensed indices across Europe by Dejan Stojanović |
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Phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation of Fagus sylvatica and its implications for assisted migration by Jonas Schmeddes |
by Negar Rezaei (remote) |
| by Victor Fririon (remote) |
Anthropogenic land-use legacies underlie Mediterranean forest vulnerability to climate change by Julen Astigarraga (remote) |
Parallel session 3:
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Management modelling 2 A56 Conference Room Chair: Mart-Jan Schelhaas |
Management challenges A31 Big Cupola Chair: Hans Verkerk |
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Efficiency of bark beetle management threatened by climate change by Laura Dobor (remote) |
by Rasoul Yousefpour |
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The effect of landscape structure on the climate resilience of lowland Norway spruce forests by Juha Honkaniemi (remote) |
Economic Impact of climate change on forestry: An analysis at European scale by María-Luisa Chas-Amil |
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Thinking new about forest management - A reflexive collaboration process to adapt local forests to climate change by Isabella Hallberg-Sramek (remote) |
The CO2 storage balance – a method for more comprehensively assessing GHG implications of wood use by Hannes Böttcher |
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Seeing forest landscapes as functional complex networks: a way to enhance resilience to climate change and disturbances by Marco Mina |
Forest challenges under climate change with technical, scientific, social, economic and political options by Jean-Luc Peyron (remote) |
| by Pekka Lauri | by Sven Herzog |
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Modelling the potential of Douglas-fir in future European forests using LPJ-GUESS by Sebastian Karaytug |
Types of Uncertainties and Possible Legal Responses in GI Strategy (e.g. Adaptive Forest Management, USA) by Yelena Gordeeva |
Parallel session 4:
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Mitigation modelling A56 Conference Room Chair: Annikki Mäkelä |
Empirical impacts 2 A31 Big Cupola Chair: Rupert Seidl |
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Little leeway to increase Northern European forests climate change mitigation capacity through alternative management by Daniela Dalmonech & Gina Marano |
Managing forest age and structure for C mitigation by Federico Magnani (cancelled) |
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Ensemble of forest impact models for analysing the variability of carbon sink projections by Tuomo Kalliokoski |
by Tomáš Hlásny (remote) |
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Searching for an optimal harvest-regeneration system using multi-criteria analysis by Katarina Merganicova |
Quantifying impacts of the drought 2018 on European ecosystems in comparison to 2003 by Allan Buras (remote recorded) |
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by Andreas Krause |
Environmental and climate controls of Pine sawfly outbreaks by Mikko Peltoniemi |
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Forest management options for timber production and carbon sequestration: Insights from a land-use model by Abhijeet Mishra |
Colonization and extinction dynamics match the distribution of European trees at continental scale by Arnaud Guyennon |
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Impact of simulated present and historic management regimes on forest carbon cycling in Europe by Christine Herschlein |
by Santi Sabaté |
