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Please, see the Detailed Program (pdf, 65 KB) for the time schedule including all presentations.
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Sunday,
7 September 2008
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- Individual arrival at Centre Loewenberg and external hotels
- Registration at the Centre Loewenberg
- Business meeting (IUFRO officers)
- Reception and ice breaker at the Centre Loewenberg
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Monday,
8 September 2008
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- Opening introduction and historical
background
- Marcus Schaub,
James Kirchner, Elena Paoletti, Rainer Matyssek and Gerhard Wieser
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- Opening keynote presentation
- "Elements of climatic change and extremes relevant to forests"
- Martin Beniston, University of Geneva, CH
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- Session 1: Mechanisms of action and indicator development
- Chair: Madeleine Günthardt-Goerg,
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH
- Keynote: "Air pollution
and plant effects"
- Rainer Matyssek, Technical University Munich, DE
- + voluntary presentations
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- Session 2: Atmospheric deposition, soils and nutrient cycles
- Chair: Yusuf Serengil, University of Istanbul, Turkey
- Keynote: "Forest CO2 responses"
- Christian Körner, University of Basel, CH
- + voluntary presentations
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Tuesday, 9 September 2008
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- Session 3: IUFRO-, ICP Forests- and NAFC-joint session on
concept and application of critical loads for forests
- Chair: Martin Lorenz, ICP Forests, BFH,
DE
- Keynote: "Estimates of critical acid loads and exceedances for forest soils across the conterminous United States"
- Steve McNulty, NAFC, USDA Forest Service,
NC, USA
- Keynote: "Critical loads assessments for acidity and nitrogen by ICP Forests"
- Martin Lorenz, ICP Forests, BFH,
DE
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- Session 4: Integrated effects of
multiple stressors
- Chair: Gerhard Wieser, BFW, AT
- Keynote: "Plasticity in ecophysiological traits of
western U.S. conifers along elevational and latitudinal gradients: implications for
response to environmental uncertainty"
- Nancy Grulke, USDA Forest Service, CA, USA
- + voluntary presentations
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- Excursion
- 1/4-day
excursion with an ice breaker, offered by the township of Murten. There will be possibilities for site seeing, shopping or a guided tour through the historical part of Murten, followed by a conference dinner. For more details, see Excursions.
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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- Session 5: Genetic aspects
- Chair: Gerhard Müller-Starck, Technical University Munich, DE
- Keynote: "Tree genes, air pollution and climate change"
- Gail Taylor, University of Southampton, UK
- + voluntary presentations
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- Session 6: Detection, monitoring and evaluation
- Chair: Marcus Schaub, Swiss
Federal Research Institute WSL, CH
- Keynote: "CO2 flux measurements near the alpine treeline at Davos: the need for long-term research"
- Werner Eugster, ETH Zuerich, CH
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- Session 7: Risk assessment and modeling
- Chair: Annemarie Bastup-Birk, University of Copenhagen, DK
- Keynote: "Fundamental influence of carbon-nitrogen cycle coupling on climate-carbon cycle feedbacks"
- Peter Thornton, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CO, USA
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- Concluding
remarks
- Chairs:
Rainer Matyssek, Elena Paoletti, Gerhard Wieser and Marcus Schaub
- Press conference
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Thursday,
11 September 2008
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- Pfyn Forest, Valais Nature Park. Return at Centre Loewenberg by approximately 23:00.
- Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe. Return at Centre Loewenberg by approximately 19:45.
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Friday, 12 September 2008
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- PanEurOz Consortium Meeting
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