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Dr. Rastislav Jakuš

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Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
Interests: bark beetles; remote sensing; pheromones; anti-attractants; forest protection; risk assessment
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Dr. Āris Jansons

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Latvian State Forest Research Institute Silava, Rigas Street 111, 2169 Salaspils, Latvia
Interests: forest adaptation; forest tree breeding; natural disturbances; carbon sequestration; windthrow
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Prof. Dr. Julia Jones

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College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Wilkinson 220, 104 CEOAS Administration Building, Corvallis, OR 97331-5503, USA
Interests: land use; climate change; aquatic ecosystems; landscape ecology; spatial analysis
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Dr. Rebecca Jordan

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College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Michigan State University, Room 133, Natural Resources Building, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: education; resilience; participatory modeling; citizen science
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Dr. Vasiliki Kamperidou

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Department of Harvesting and Technology of Forest Products, School of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: wood modification; improvement; treatments; thermal treatment; hydrothermal treatment; impregnation; characterization; chemistry of wood; chemical products of wood; chemical technologies; biomass; biomass biofuels; bioenergy
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Prof. Dr. Kyu Suk Kang

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Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Bioresources, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: tree seed; seed orchards; quantitative genetics, forest genomics
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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. Nam-hun 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. Grant Kirker

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USDA-FS Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Interests: biodeterioration; wood decay fungi; naturally durable wood; genetic identification; wood durability; wood protection; treated wood disposal
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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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1. Department of Wood Science and Technology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
2. NOVA School of Science and Technology, MARE—Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, NOVA University Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal
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. 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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Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Wood Science and Technology, University of Ljubljana, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: wood protection and preservation; structural wood protection; wood ageing and accelerated greying; field testing of wood; wood modification; natural insulation; wood decay fungi; water repellents for wood; recycled wood; sorption properties of protected wood; leaching of wood preservatives; moisture monitoring of wood in buildings; assessment of wood decomposition; remediation of wooden buildings infested with fungi; low-energy houses; building whit wood; wood cultural heritage
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Prof. Dr. Chenghao Li

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School of Forest, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Interests: forest tree; transcription factor; biotic and abiotic stress; adaptive growth; genetic improvement
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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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