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Dr. Sabine Kasel

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School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, 500 Yarra Boulevard, Burnley, VIC 3121, Australia
Interests: plant community dynamics; soil seed banks; plant functional traits; forest landscape restoration; disturbance; regeneration; eucalypt; temperate

Dr. Colin T. Kelleher

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DBN Herbarium and Plant Molecular Laboratory, National Botanic Gardens of Ireland, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, D09 VY63, Ireland
Interests: forest genetic resources, phylogeography; conservation; molecular ecology; population genetics

Dr. David Kenfack

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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Washington, DC 20560, USA
Interests: plant ecology; evolution and systematics

Dr. Viacheslav I. Kharuk

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Sukachev Institute of Forests, Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Academgorodok 50/28, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia
Interests: climate-driven forests dynamic; forests monitoring; wildfires; pest outbreaks; northern and alpine treelines; remote sensing

Prof. Dr. Namhun Kim

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Department of Wood Science, College of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Republic of Korea
Interests: wood anatomy; wood physics; wood quality

Dr. Kyriaki G. Kitikidou

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Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University, Pandazidou 193, 68200 Orestiada, Greece
Interests: forest biometry; forest biometrics; biostatistics; bioinformatics; geomatics

Prof. Dr. Jae-Heung Ko

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Department of Plant and Environmental New Resources, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant science; wood formation; secondary wall biosynthesis; biotechnological improvement
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Prof. Dr. Yingzhen Kong

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College of Agronomy, Qingdao Agricultural University, Changcheng Rd 700, Qingdao 266000, China
Interests: cell wall polysaccharides; pectin; xyloglucan; transcriptional regulation; secondary cell wall; pectin demethylesterification

Dr. Davor Kržišnik

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Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: decay; wood technology; discolouration; mould; service life; wood
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Dr. Anuj Kumar

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Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Production Systems, Viikinkaari 9, FI-00790 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: wood composites; wood modification; wood adhesives; coatings; biobased building materials; biopolymers; biofoams
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Prof. Dr. Francisco Antonio Rocco Lahr

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Department of Structural Engineering, University of São Paulo (USP), Av. Trabalhador São Carlense, 400, São Carlos 13566-590, Brazil
Interests: wood properties and applications; wood-based composites; roofing structures; bridges; frameworks; standardization; testing methodology; alternative inputs in panel production

Prof. Dr. Ferenc Lakatos

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Institute of Forest and Natural Resource Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of Sopron, Bajcsy-Zs. u. 4., 9400 Sopron, Hungary
Interests: bark and ambrosia beetles; biogeography; invasive/non-native species; pest monitoring and management; climate change and insects; population dynamics.
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Prof. Dr. Pankaj Lal

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Department of Earth and Environmental Studies, Clean Energy and Sustainability Analytics Center, Montclair State University, CELS 426, Montclair, NJ 07043, USA
Interests: energy and environmental economics and policy; climate change; resilient development; resource management and conservation; life cycle analyses
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Dr. Marco Landi

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: abiotic stresses; fruit quality; plant nutrition; plant allometry; tree physiology; secondary metabolism; tree species
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Dr. Guy R. Larocque

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Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 du P.E.P.S., P.O. Box 10380, Stn. Ste-Foy, Québec, QC G1V 4C7, Canada
Interests: growth and yield; succession; modelling; biometry; caribou population dynamics
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Dr. Seng Hua Lee

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Department of Wood Industry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA Pahang Branch Campus Jengka, Bandar Tun Razak 26400, Pahang, Malaysia
Interests: wood composites; wood treatments; wood adhesives; wood modification; polymers
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Dr. Xiangdong Lei

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Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
Interests: forest growth model; multifunctional forest management and planning; the impact of climate change on forests and adaptive forest management
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Prof. Dr. Giovanni Leonelli

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Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Università di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 157/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
Interests: dendrochronology; treeline; tree-ring stable isotopes; climate change; climate reconstructions; geomorphology; GIS

Prof. Dr. Manuel T. Lerdau

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Department of Environmental Sciences and Department of Biology, University of Virginia, Clark Hall, 291 McKormick Rd., Charlottesville, VA, USA
Interests: biosphere-atmosphere interactions; environmental physiology; functional ecology

Dr. Boštjan Lesar

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Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: wood; wood modification; wood decay fungi; water repellent; natural waxes; recycled wood; sorption properties of protected wood; low energy houses; leaching of wood preservatives; wood service life; outdoor performance
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Prof. Dr. Hui Li

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Shenyang Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
Interests: aboveground-belowground interactions; climate change microbiology; microbial biogeography; Soil microbial ecology; forest soil microoraganisms
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Prof. Dr. Qiang Li

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Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Interests: tree-ring isotopes; climate change; climate reconstruction
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Dr. Chul-Hee Lim

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College of General Education, Kookmin University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Interests: climate change adaptation; deforestation; spatial modeling; disaster risk reduction
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Prof. Dr. Chinsu Lin

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Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, National Chiayi University, Chiayi 600355, Taiwan
Interests: lidar remote sensing; spectral remote sensing; growth modeling; carbon budgeting; forest management; sensing of climate change signals
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Dr. Jie Liu

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CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China
Interests: evolutionary biology; biogeography
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Prof. Dr. Qingsheng Liu

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State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: vegetation dynamic monitoring; individual tree extraction; multispectral remote sensing data analysis; vegetation pattern formation

Dr. Shaoqing Liu

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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Interests: ecohydrology; ecosystem modeling; global change ecology; data assimilation; earth system model

Prof. Dr. Wenjie Liu

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School of Ecology, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Interests: soil organic carbon stability; nitorgen deposition; global change; greenhouse gases; nutrients cycles
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Dr. Raquel Lobo-do-Vale

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Forest Research Center (CEF), University of Lisbon, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: climate change; plant ecophysiology; tree physiology; cork oak woodlands; shrub encroachment; drought; extreme events; water relations
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Dr. José Antonio López Sáez

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Archaeobiology Research Group, Institute of History, CCHS, CSIC, c/ Albasanz 26-28, 28037 Madrid, Spain
Interests: palynology; environmental archaeology; climate change; palaeoecology
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