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FORESTS´ FUTURE 2021

Consequences of Bark Beetle Calamity for the Future of Forestry in Central Europe

March 23rd – 24th 2021

Session 1: CURRENT AND FORESEEN BARK BEETLE INFESTATION IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

  1. Current state of bark beetle outbreaks in Poland.  Tomasz Jaworski, Tomasz Jabłoński, Iwona Skrzecz, Wojciech Grodzki
  2. Development of bark beetle outbreaks in Slovakia from 1960 to 2020.  Andrej Kunca, Jozef Vakula, Christo Nikolov, Andrej Gubka, Milan Zúbrik, Juraj Galko, Michal Lalík, Roman Leontovyč, Slavomír Rell
  3. The ongoing outbreak of Ips typographus in Northern Austria.  Gernot Hoch, Gottfried Steyrer
  4. Recent bark beetle damages in the Federal State of Bavaria, Germany.  Hannes Lemme, Christoph Sikora, Karin Bork, Conny Triebenbacher, Andreas Hahn
  5. Forest damages in the Federal State of Saxony during the extreme years 2018–2020. Sven Sonnemann, Lutz-Florian Otto, Franz Matschulla, Michael Hodel
  6. Recent spruce bark beetle calamity in Czechia.  Miloš Knížek, Jan Liška, Jan Lubojacký
  7. Impacts and management of the current and previous bark beetle outbreaks in Switzerland.  Sophie Strohecker, Irina Vögtli, Martin Bader, Valentin Queloz, Eckehard Brockerhoff
  8. The spruce bark beetle outbreak in Sweden initiated by the exceptionally warm and dry 2018 summer.  Martin Schroeder
  9. Spruce bark beetle monitoring program and Forest protection practices in Latvia.  Agnis Šmits, Ingars Siliņš, Līva Legzdiņa
  10. Spruce bark beetle attacks in the forests of Romania managed by the forest state administration between 2015 and 2020. Mihai-Leonard Duduman, Nicolai Olenici, Constantin Nețoiu
  11. Bark beetle infestation in Slovenia: causes, current state, impacts, lessons learned and perspective.  Damjan Oražem, Andreja Kavčič, Barbara Piškur, Maarten de Groot, Nikica Ogris
  12. Ice storm calamity of late February 2014 and storm „Vaia“ in October 2018 – two climatic events that incited the most severe spruce bark beetle outbreak in the long history of organized forestry in Croatia. Boris Hrašovec, Milivoj Franjević, Željko Kauzlarić, Darko Pleskalt

Session 2: ECOLOGY OF CLEAR-CUTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS

  1. Impact of bark beetle outbreaks on carbon sequestration in Slovak forests.  Ivan Barka, Tibor Priwitzer
  2. Carbon balance on differently managed forest sites after large scale destruction.  Peter Fleischer, Peter Fleischer jr., Rozkošný Jozef
  3. Changes in upper organic soil layer as a result of clear-cutting.  Vít Šrámek, Věra Fadrhonsová, Kateřina Neudertová Hellebrandová, Radek Novotný, Monika Vejpustková
  4. The fungal communities associated with the first UK breeding population of the bark beetle Ips typographus include potentially invasive pathogens.  Angelina Ceballos-Escalera, Alfried Vogler
  5. Changes in biodiversity as a result of bark beetle outbreaks.  Eckehard G. Brockerhoff, Martin Bader, Martin Gossner, Sophie Stroheker, Beat Wermelinger

Session 3: FOREST REGENERATION – REPRODUCTIVE MATERIAL AND SILVICULTURE APPROACHES

  1. Contributions of tree breeding to create forests for the future. Heino Wolf, Maria del Carmen Dacasa Rüdinger, Marianne Kadolsky, Wolfgang Hüller, Christian Steinke
  2. National Forest Tree Seed Bank.  Pavel Kotrla, Josef Cafourek, Lena Bezděčková, Hana Bajajová, Kamila Surovcová
  3. The Kostrzyca Forest Gene Bank. Czesław Kozioł, Michał Raj
  4. Alternative ways of calamity clearings restoration using birch and poplar as pioneer tree species. Václav Buriánek, Helena Cvrčková, Luďka Čížková, Jan Leugner, Pavlína Máchová, Olga Trčková
  5. Natural regeneration in the area after bark beetle calamity in the Beskidy Mountains (Poland). Tadeusz Zachara, Sławomir Ambroży
  6. Reforestation on salvage clear cuts and following silviculture management of new stands in the Czech Republic.  Jan Leugner, Ondřej Špulák, Jiří Souček, David Dušek, Dušan Kacálek, Jiří Novák
  7. Adaptive forest management in Slovenian spruce Forests.  Matjaž Čater, Tom Levanič, Aleksander Marinšek, Primož Simončič
  8. FORRISK Cross-border risk management in forestry in consequence of bark beetle calamity (information on project Intterreg ATCZ251). Radek Pokorný, Dalibor Šafařík

Session 4: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES

  1. Sustainability of Czech forest management during the bark beetle calamity.  Martin Fojt, Stanislav Janský
  2. Tiny but powerful: How bark beetles are changing forest policies.  Norbert Weber
  3. Cross-border forest risk management – Economic and Forest Policy. Eduard Hochbichler, Thomas Resl, Dalibor Šafařík
  4. Towards a pan-European forest risk knowledge mechanism.  Jens Haertel

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