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Dr. Saverio Francini

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Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of Florence, 50145 Florence, Italy
Interests: remote sensing; forest modeling; forest inventories; artificial intelligence; forest disturbance; climate change; Google Earth Engine
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Dr. Todd Fredericksen

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School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA 24088, USA
Interests: wildlife; forestry; forest ecology; silviculture; biodiversity; forest regeneration
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Dr. Lina Fusaro

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Sapienza University of Rome | La Sapienza, Department of Environmental Biology, Ple Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, RM, Italy
Interests: plant ecophysiology; plant functional traits; multi-stress environment; climate change; nitrogen deposition; air pollution effects on Mediterranean tree species; green infrastructures; urban and peri-urban forests; regulating ecosystem services; multi-scale approach
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Prof. Dr. Luis García Esteban

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Departamento de Sistemas y Recursos Naturales, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: wood; ontogeny; cell wall; anatomy; physical properties; mechanical properties; modified wood
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Dr. Ignacio García-González

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Departamento de Botánica, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, EPSE, Campus Terra, 27002 Lugo, Spain
Interests: tree-ring dating; dendroecology; wood anatomy; forest history
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Dr. József Geml

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ELKH-EKKE Lendület Environmental Microbiome Research Group, Eötvös Loránd Research Network and Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Leányka u. 6., 3300 Eger, Hungary
Interests: community ecology; DNA metabarcoding; landscape ecology; microbial ecology; secondary succession
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Dr. Salvador Gezan

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SN International, Hemel Hampstead, UK
Interests: mixed linear models; quantitative genetics; design of experiments; plant breeding; forest and agricultural statistics; genomics

Dr. Luisa Ghelardini

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Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari Ambientali e Forestali, Università degli Studi di Firenze (University of Florence), Piazzale delle Cascine 18, 50144 Firenze, Italy
Interests: forest pathology; emerging diseases; alien forest pathogens; molecular diagnostics; tree dormancy; tree phenology; ontogenetic disease resistance; disease escape; tree breeding for disease resistance
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Dr. Eustaquio Gil-Pelegrín

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Departamento de Sistemas Agrícolas, Forestales y Medio Ambiente, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón (CITA), Avda. Montañana 930, 50059 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: drought; tree functioning; ecophsyiology; environmental stresses
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Dr. Alessio Giovannelli

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Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), National Research Council (CNR), 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Interests: carbon allocation; growth; cambial phenology; dendrometer
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Dr. Carolina Girometta

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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia , Via Sant’Epifanio 14, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: mycology; plant pathology; systematics; taxonomy; ecology; bioremediation; mushroom cultivation
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Prof. Dr. Douglas Godbold

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Institute of Forest Ecology, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Universität für Bodenkultur, Peter Jordan Str 82, 1190 Vienna, Austria
Interests: forest biodiversity; mycorrhizas; C and N cycling
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Prof. Dr. Dušan Gömöry

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Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, TG Masaryka 24, 96001 Zvolen, Slovakia
Interests: forest genetics; forest reproductive materials; forest genetic resources

Prof. Dr. Luís González

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Plant Biology & Soil Science Department, Universidad de Vigo, 36310 Vigo (Pontevedra), Spain
Interests: invasive species; plant ecophysiology; control and restoration; plant–soil micro-organisms interactions; plant–plant interactions; plant–insect interactions
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Dr. Ronalds Gonzalez

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Department of Forest Biomaterials, NC State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: bioeconomy; evaluating alternative materials; sustainable manufacturing pathways and bio-based products

Dr. Carlos Gonzalez-Benecke

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Vegetation Management Research Cooperative (VMRC), Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Oregon State University, 240 Peavy Forest Science Center (PFSC), Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Interests: ecophysiology; reforestation; vegetation management; silviculture; seedling production; process-based modeling
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Dr. Stefano Grigolato

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Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, Università degli Studi di Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro PD, Italy
Interests: forest mechanization and forest operations; precision forestry; forest and rural roads and forest and rural area accessibility; production processing for forest biomass and forest wood biofuels
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Dr. Qinfeng Guo

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Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Interests: biological invasions; community ecology; ecology
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Dr. Mykola Gusti

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1. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
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Interests: mathematical modeling; climate change impacts; forest ecosystem model
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Dr. Brice B. Hanberry

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Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Rapid City, SD 57702, USA
Interests: coupled human-environment systems; fire; grasslands; land use and land change
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Prof. Dr. Mark E. Harmon

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Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Interests: carbon management forest carbon dynamics; Net Primary Production; mortality; decomposition; simulation modeling; uncertainty analysis
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Dr. Keizo Hirai

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Department of Forest Soils, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization, 1 Matsunosato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687, Japan
Interests: forest soil; nutrient cycling; biomass and bioenergy; site evaluation; tropical forests; effects of silvicultural practices on forest soil

Dr. Björn Hoppe

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Julius Kühn Institute (JKI) – Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for National and International Plant Health, Braunschweig, Germany
Interests: forest microbiology; forest nematology; forest health; forest ecology; deadwood ecology; invasive forest pests; pest management

Dr. Koen Hufkens

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INRA Bordeaux Aquitaine - Water Relations and Ecosystem Functioning, 71 Avenue Edouard Bourlaux, 33140 Villenave-d'Ornon, France
Interests: vegetation phenology; forest demography; carbon sequestration; drought and disturbance resilience; dendrochronology; model data fusion; computer vision and remote sensing
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Dr. Richard Flint Hughes

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Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 60 Nowelo Street, Hilo, HI 96720, USA
Interests: forest health/pathology; forest C; invasive species; tropical and island forests; nutrient cycling in forests; forest succession

Prof. Dr. Miha Humar

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Biotehnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: wood science; wood decay; wood protection; wood modification; service life prediction; water exclusion efficacy
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Dr. Fujio Hyodo

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Research Core for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama 7008530, Japan
Interests: trophic ecology; stable isotopes; nutrient cycling; biogeochemistry

Prof. Dr. Juha Hyyppä

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Finish Geospatial Research Institute, 02431 Masala, Finland
Interests: laser scanning (airborne, mobile and terrestrial); 3D remote sensing; individual tree detection; virtual forests
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Dr. John Innes

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Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2045-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Interests: forest management; forest-dependent communities; climate change; criteria and indicators; certification; Chinese forestry; international forest policy; Indigenous forestry practices; tropical forest ecology; illegal logging

Prof. Dr. Akira Itoh

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Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka 5588585, Japan
Interests: plant ecology; tropical forest; plant adaptation; plant reproduction; plant evolution
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