Final program
| Location: | UNI BOKU VIENNA Wilhelm Exnerhaus Peter Jordan-Strasse 82, A-1190 Vienna |
Tuesday, April 1
16:00 – 18:30 |
Registration; Location: EH01 |
Wednesday, April 2
08:00 – 09:00 |
Registration; Location: EH01 |
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Opening addresses; Location: EH01 |
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09:00 – 09:15 |
Ingela Bruner (Rector, BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna) |
09:15 – 09:30 |
Gerhard Mannsberger (Head, Section of Forestry, Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water) |
09:30 – 09:40 |
Roque Rodriguez-Soalleiro (Deputy Coordinator, Mountain Forest Management, IUFRO – International Union of Forest Research Organizations) |
09:40 – 09:50 |
Douglas McGuire (Coordinator, Mountain Partnership Secretariat, FAO – UN Food and Agriculture Organization) |
09:50 – 10:00 |
Pier Carlo Sandei (Associate Mountain Programme Officer, Regional Office for Europe, UNEP – United Nations Environment Programme) |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee break |
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Plenary lectures I; Location: EH01 |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Mountain forests in a changing world (Gerhard Glatzel) |
11:00 – 11:30 |
Wood, food, water, fuel – integrated approaches to future land use (Sten Nilsson) |
11:30 – 12:00 |
Stewardship of mountain environments: Learning from locals (Thomas Hinckley) |
12:00 – 12:30 |
Education and capacity building (Douglas McGuire) |
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12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch break |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Tutorial: 5 Years MS-Curriculum "Mountain Forestry" at UNI BOKU VIENNA (Hubert Hasenauer and students of the masters course in mountain forestry) |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Coffee break |
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15:30 – 17:30 |
Scientific sessions I and II: parallel |
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Session I |
Location: EH02; Chairman: Sten Nilsson |
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15:30-15:50 |
The role of academic education for mountain forest management: A perspective from plantation forestry in southern Europe (Roque Rodriguez- Soalleiro) |
15:50-16:10 |
Global scenarios and regional perspectives in biodiversity and sustainable utilization of fragile ecosystems after the Brundtland Report (Yoseph Assefa Woldeamanuel) |
16:10-16:30 |
Climate Change & Himalayan mountains: Mitigation and adaptation options for meeting challenges of sustainable livelihoods, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services (Vivek Saxena) |
16:30-16:50 |
The forest resources in the Carpathian mountains: Problems and challenges for the implementation of an international cooperation policy (Pier Carlo Sandei) |
16:50-17:10 |
Examining the nexus between depletion of mountain forests and green cover and the deepening water crisis in Uganda. (Twesigye Morrison Rwakakamba) |
17:10-17:30 |
Recreation and wildlife management – challenges for forestry: possibilities of conflict identification and conflict management (Christiane Brandenburg) |
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Session II |
Location: EH04; Chairman: Thomas M. Hinckley |
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15:30-15:50 |
Links between mountain communities and environmental services: a case study in the Italian Alps (Sandra Notaro) |
15:50-16:10 |
Silvicultural contributions to conservation and rehabilitation of forest resources in the Andes of Ecuador (Sven Günter) |
16:10-16:30 |
Species-specific response to disturbance – examples from a spruce-fir-beech forest (Bernhard Splechtna) |
16:30-16:50 |
Physiological and morphological response to light of young beech in |
16:50-17:10 |
Long-term seedling demography in a natural beech-fir-spruce forest: Mechanisms behind species coexistence (Jerzy Szwagrzyk) |
17:10-17:30 |
Lessons from old growth natural forests – influences of tree masting on small mammal communities, seed and seedling fate (Gerald Muralt) |
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20:00 |
Conference Dinner: Invitation of the governing mayor of the city of Vienna to a |
Thursday, April 3
Plenary lectures II; Location: EH04 |
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09:00 – 09:30 |
Mountain forests under pressure (Steven Running) |
09:30 – 10:00 |
Ecological genetics and environmental change. Case study of phenological response of trees along altitudinal gradients (Antoine Kremer) |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30 – 12:30 |
Scientific sessions III and IV: parallel |
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Session III |
Location: EH04; Chairman: Steven Running |
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10:30-10:50 |
A global meta-analysis of temperate old-growth forests: Structural characteristics, carbon storage, and management implications for montane ecosystems (William Keeton) |
10:50-11:10 |
Climate change and tree species elevation shift in French mountain forests: a contribution from early developmental stages (Jonathan Lenoir) |
11:10-11:30 |
Integrated monitoring of air pollution effects in the Austrian Limestone Alps: Long-term trends in forest soils, ground vegetation, bryophytes and lichens (Thomas Dirnböck) |
11:30-11:50 |
Soil carbon dioxide emission in the soil warming experiment Achenkirch (Andreas Schindlbacher) |
11:50-12:10 |
Addressing climate change in practical silvicultural decision support: A vulnerability assessment to amend decision making in the Austrian Federal Forests (Rupert Seidl) |
12:10-12:30 |
Forest restoration in a municipal watershed in the United States (Bill Richards) |
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Session IV |
Location: EH02; Chairman: Michael Kleine |
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10:30-10:50 |
Land-use conflict and forest rehabilitation in Ba Den Mountain, South Vietnam. (Thi Kim Phung Dang) |
10:50-11:10 |
Supporting sustainable forest management in community forest user groups in Nepal - a case study from Makawanpur and Chitwan (Chiranjeewee Khadka) |
11:10-11:30 |
Silvicultural aspects in high mountain ecosystems in the Black Sea region (Ibrahim Turna) |
11:30-11:50 |
Determining functional classification of the subalpine pure Oriental spruce (Picea orientalis (L.) Link) stands on mountain forests in Turkey (Ali Oemer Uecler) |
11:50-12:10 |
Comparisons of closed and unclosed forest management systems in restoring degraded dry Afromontane forest of northern Ethiopia (Ermias Aynekulu) |
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12:30 – 13:30 |
Lunch break |
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Plenary lectures III; Location: EH04 |
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13:30 – 14:00 |
More than production: forests, livelihoods and social significance for mountain people (Anna Lawrence) |
14:00 – 14:30 |
Mountain forest and tree resources in Africa: Opportunities, threats and challenges (Demel Teketay Fanta) |
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14:30 – 17:10 |
Scientific sessions V and VI: parallel |
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Session V |
Location: EH04; Chairman: Douglas McGuire |
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14:30-14:50 |
Profitability and competitiveness of mountain forest enterprises - empirical evidence from Switzerland and Austria (Walter Sekot) |
14:50-15:10 |
From mountain forest to coast: Sustainability and market value of medicinal plants in Northern Peru (Rainer Bussmann) |
15:10-15:30 |
Historical deforestation patterns influence the conservation value of church forests in the northern Ethiopian highlands (Raf Aerts) |
15:30-15:50 |
Biophysical and socioeconomic importance of farm forests in the mountainous landscapes of central Ethiopia. (Kindu Mekonnen) |
15:50-16:10 |
A disturbance to ‚integrated‘ management: the framing of knowledge in conservation and management of juniper forests in South Kyrgyzstan (Birgit Habermann) |
16:10-16:30 |
International Model Forest Network – a case study in a Spanish mountain range (Sven Mutke Regneri) |
16:30-16:50 |
Indigenous knowledge in natural resource utilization by the hill people: A case of the Mro Tribe in Bangladesh (Mohammad Shaheed Hossain Chowdhury) |
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Session VI |
Location: EH02; Chairman: Antoine Kremer |
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14:30-14:50 |
Effects of silvicultural measures on resistance and elasticity of pure Norway spruce stands (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) in the montane zone of the Bavarian Alps. (Sebastian Hoellerl) |
14:50-15:10 |
Scots pine stand structure and growth after snow damage under different thinning regimes (Miren del Río Gaztelurrutia) |
15:10-15:30 |
Blue spruce forest stand in small pole stage on the extreme mountain locality and its relation to European beech interplantings prosperity (Dusan Kacalek) |
15:30-15:50 |
Gnawers in the process of the ecological stability of forest ecosystems (Kamil Turek) |
15:50-16:10 |
Elaboration of density management diagrams for Douglas fir plantations in mountain areas of northern Spain (Roque Rodriguez-Soalleiro) |
16:10-16:30 |
An investigation on a methodology about determination of visual quality-preference relationship in mountain forests (Arzu Kalin) |
16:30-16:50 |
Gap dynamics in temperate conifer forests in central and western Bhutan Himalayas (Kinley Tenzin) |
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17:00 – 19:00 |
Poster session with snacks; Location: EH05 |
Friday, April 4
09:00 – 11:00 |
Scientific sessions VII and VIII: parallel |
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Session VII |
Location: EH02; Chairwomen: Anna Lawrence |
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9:00-9:20 |
Medicinal plant resources, ethnopharmacology, community management interventions and developments of Nepal Western Himalaya (Ripu Kunwar) |
9:20-9:40 |
Impact of changing forest tenure regime on Livelihoods, Income, Forest Condition and Equity (LIFE) in the mid hills of Nepal (Ganga Ram Dahal) |
9:40-10:00 |
Sustainability of community based forest management: case study of Margahovit community in Northern Armenia (Anna Jenderedjian) |
10:00-10:20 |
Assessment, conservation and management of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in the Arun Valley, Sankhuwasabha District of Eastern Nepal Himalaya (Ram Bhandari) |
10:20-10:40 |
Comparison of regeneration, species composition and structure in single-tree and group selection logged and unlogged stands in mixed conifer forests of the Western Bhutan Himalayas. (Mani Ram Moktan) |
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Session VIII |
Location: EH04; Chairman: Gerhard Glatzel |
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9:00-9:20 |
Effects of substrate, bamboo competition and grazing on regeneration of Tsuga dumosa (Andras Darabant) |
9:20-9:40 |
Physiological and growth response of European larch (Larix decidua Mill.) in upper timberline (SE Alps) (Matjaz Cater) |
9:40-10:00 |
Value-based analysis of trade-offs in rockfall protection forest management. A case study from the Eastern Alps. (Werner Rammer) |
10:00-10:20 |
Potential application of Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in hill forests (Amin Uddin Mridha) |
10:20-10:40 |
Bark beetle dynamics after wind disturbance in Tatra Mountains, West Carpathians (Peter Zach) |
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10:40 – 11:30 |
Coffee break |
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11:30 – 13:30 |
Scientific sessions IX and X: parallel |
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Session IX |
Location: EH04; Chairman: Georg Gratzer |
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11:30-11:50 |
Differentiation of current vegetation cover and direct anthropic impact in the Pradìd National Nature Reserve (Hrubý Jeseník Mts., Czech Rep.) by means of remote sensing (Kamil Kral) |
11:50-12:10 |
Investigation causes of mountain forest degradation with local community participation. Case study Fandoglu Mountain Forest, Ardebil Province, Iran, July 2007 (Peiman Yousefyazary ) |
12:10-12:30 |
Land use change and forest carbon sink in the mountainous territory of Veneto Region (NE Italy) in order to apply the Kyoto Protocol. (Elena Dalla Valle |
12:30-12:50 |
Understanding people to reduce uncertainty in managing survivable forested land: A case study in karstic mountainous region, Indonesia (Dwiko Budi Permadi) |
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Session X |
Location: EH02; Chairman: Demel Teketay Fanta |
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11:30-11:50 |
Developing concepts for sustainable management of forest resources (SFM) in north western forests of Iran (Arasbaran) (Morteza Tashakori) |
11:50-12:10 |
Growth dynamics of fine roots in forest ecosystems (Hans Persson) |
12:10-12:30 |
Chestnut orchards in Italy: Combining the satisfaction of needs and the enjoinment of amenities (Lorenzo Venzi) |
12:30-12:50 |
Ethnoveterinary medicinal plants at Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia (Haile Yineger) |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
Lunch |
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14:30 – 15:30 |
Plenary discussion; Location: EH04 |
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Future challenges in management of forested mountain landscapes |
Saturday, April 5
Post-conference excursion to the Nasswald forestry enterprise of the municipality of Vienna in the northern Limestone-Alps.
08:30 Morning 12:00 – 13:30 Afternoon |
Start at BOKU, Vienna Introduction into the forest management units of the City of Vienna Invited lunch by the City of Vienna; - Forest and wildlife management for protection of drinking water for the City of Vienna |