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Prof. Dr. Gabriela Bielefeld Nardoto

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Department of Ecology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia, Brasília 70910-900, DF, Brazil
Interests: isotope biogeochemistry; nutritional soil-plant interactions; litter decomposition; soil organic matter dynamics

Dr. Carla Nati

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Institute of BioEconomy (IBE), National Research Council (CNR), Via Madonna del Piano, 10 - 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy
Interests: timber and wood biomass harvesting systems; wood biomass quality and employment; remote sensing; ergonomics; forest certification schemes; environmental impacts; economics
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Dr. Rafael María Navarro-Cerrillo

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Laboratory of Dendrochronology, Silviculture and Climate Change, ERSAF, Department of Forestry, School of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Cordoba, Edif. Leonardo da Vinci, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Interests: adaptive forestry; dendrochronology; remote sensing
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Dr. Peter F. Newton

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Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 2E5, Canada
Interests: density management decision-support systems; non-destructive evaluation of end-product potential; wood quality and fibre attribute modelling; stem analysis analytics
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Dr. Craig Nitschke

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School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Interests: forest ecology; plant ecology; disturbance ecology; landscape ecology; forest dynamics; climate change; conservation biology; biodiversity; ecosystem management; sustainable forest management; social-ecological systems
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Dr. Michela Nocetti

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CNR IBE, Institute of BioEconomy, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Interests: wood; wood products for structural uses; strength grading; mechanical characterization of wood; non-destructive techniques; assessment of historical wooden structures
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Dr. Eduardo Notivol

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Department of Environment, Agricultural and Forest Systems, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA), Avda. Montañana 930, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: population differentiation; genetic and plant breeding; genetic adaptation; forest adaptation; population genetics

Dr. Romà Ogaya

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Global Ecology Unit, Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Valles, 08193 Catalonia, Spain
Interests: plant ecology; climate change; forest dieback; phenology; drought
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Dr. Sandra Oliveira

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Centre for Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, 1600-276 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: environmental risks; spatial modeling; wildfires; forestry; risk assessment; geographic information systems (GIS); climate change

Prof. Dr. Shuai Ouyang

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Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha 410004, China
Interests: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; ecosystem mutilfunctionality; subtropical forests; forest ecology
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Prof. Dr. Barbara Ozarska

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School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond, VIC 3121, Australia
Interests: plantation wood processing and manufacturing; development and design of high quality timber products; durability of timber and timber products and utilisation of plantation timber resource
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Prof. Dr. Palaiologos Palaiologou

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Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management, Agricultural University of Athens, 36100 Karpenisi, Greece
Interests: wildfires; fuel management; forest management; geographic information systems; risk assessment; forest entomology
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Dr. Sabrina Palanti

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Italian National Research Council Institute for Bio-Economy (CNR-IBE), 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Interests: natural durability of wood and wood-based products; wood preservatives; wood modifications; wood insects; wood fungi and marine organisms; biomaterial based on fungal mycelium and lignocellulosic wastes
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Prof. Dr. Tiziana Panzavolta

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Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of Florence, 50144 Florence, Italy
Interests: insect pests; bark beetles; insect pheromones; forest insects; invasive alien insects; saproxylic insects
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Prof. Dr. Antonios Papadopoulos

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Laboratory of Wood Science, Chemistry and Technology, Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, School of Geotechnical Sciences, International Hellenic University, Thermi, Greece
Interests: wood; wood composites; lignocellulosic materials; chemical and thermal modification technologies; nanotechnology and nanomaterilas; adhesives
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Prof. Dr. Ari Pappinen

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School of Forest Science, University of Eastern Finland, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland
Interests: industrial forest biotechnology and biorefining; fungal biotechnology; sustainable exploitation of forests
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Dr. Marta Pardos

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Department of Forest Dynamics and Management, CIFOR (INIA-CSIC), Ctra. La Coruña Km 7.5, 28010 Madrid, Spain
Interests: forest dynamics; natural regeneration; ecophysiological traits; mitigation and adaptation to climate change

Prof. Dr. Pil Sun Park

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Department of Forest Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: forest ecology; forest stand dynamics; disturbance; regeneration ecology; silviculture; mixed forests; forest restoration
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Prof. Dr. Mathieu Petrissans

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Wood Sciences Laboratory, Université de Loarraine, 88000 Epinal, France
Interests: wood; heat treatement; torrefaction; pyrolysis; thermodegradation; wettability

Dr. Chayanard Phukhamsakda

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Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
Interests: Dothideomycetes; fungal diversity; fungal evolution; metabolomics
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Prof. Dr. Marcin Pietrzykowski

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Department of Ecological Engineering and Forest Hydrology-Head, University of Agriculture in Krakow, al. Mickiewicza 21, 31–120 Krakow PL istopada 46, 31-425 Krakow, Poland
Interests: forest ecology; restoration ecology; soil-plant relationships; nutrient cycling; carbon sequestration
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Dr. Radu-Daniel Pintilii

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Department of Human and Economic Geography, University of Bucharest, 1, Nicolae Bălcescu, 010041 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: forests; land use and land cover; tourism; GIS
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Dr. Benedetto Pizzo

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National Research Council of Italy, Institute of BioEconomy (IBE, CNR), Via Madonna del Piano N.10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Interests: study of the interactions involving wood: between wood and the other materials to which it is coupled (e.g., adhesives and coatings) and between wood and the environment in which it is preserved; interphase properties; mechanical and thermal properties and aging tests; structural and non-structural wood adhesive; protein-based products
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Dr. Isabel Pôças

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CoLAB ForestWISE—Collaborative Laboratory for Integrated Forest & Fire Management, Quinta de Prados, Campus da UTAD, 5001-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: forestry; agricultural sciences; remote sensing; vegetation monitoring

Prof. Dr. Boštjan Pokorny

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Environmental Protection College, Trg Mladosti 7, 3320 Velenje, Slovenia
Interests: wildlife management; wildlife ecology; ecology; environment

Dr. Tomas Pypker

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Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, 900 McGill Road, Kamloops, BC, Canada
Interests: micrometeorology; plant ecophysiology; hydrology; disturbance ecology; ecosystem management; climate change

Dr. Jinda Qi

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Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 117566, Singapore
Interests: urban heat island; urban heat mitigation strategies; decision-making framework; sustainable urban planning
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Prof. Dr. Zhangcai Qin

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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
Interests: climate change mitigation; forestation; land use change; natural climate solutions; soil carbon

Dr. Chunying Ren

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Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
Interests: tree species classification; biomass estimation; forest fire; disturbances
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Dr. Zhibin Ren

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Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China
Interests: urban forest; urban biodiverstiy; ecological function; landscape multifunction; remote sensing
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