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Prof. Dr. Valerie A. Thomas

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Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech, Cheatham Hall, RM 307A, 310 West Campus Dr, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: forest ecosystem remote sensing; forest disturbance; multitemporal analysis; LiDAR; imaging spectroscopy; data fusion
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Dr. Matthew P. Thompson

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USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 240 W Prospect, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA
Interests: risk and decision analysis; operations research; forest engineering; wildland fire management
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Dr. Brian Tobin

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School of Agriculture & Food Science and UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Interests: forest ecosystem carbon cycling; tree biomass allocation; woody decomposition; forest ecology; silviculture; disturbance effects; conservation of forest; genetic resources
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Dr. Luigi Todaro

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School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE), University of Basilicata, V.le Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: wood characterization; extractives; natural resource management; wood modification
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Prof. Dr. Roberto Tognetti

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Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, Università degli Studi del Molise, Campobasso, Italy
Interests: climate-smart forestry; forest ecophysiology; forest monitoring; biogeochemical cycles; resilience; mitigation; adaptation; biodiversity; forest restoration; disturbance
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Prof. Dr. Timo Tokola

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School of Forest Science, University of Eastern Finland, 80101 Joensuu, Finland
Interests: forest management; forest IT; remote sensing; GIS applications; terrain mobility
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Prof. Dr. Ioannis Tsiripidis

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Department of Botany, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: vegetation ecology; plant ecology and geography; conservation of plant diversity
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Dr. Otmar Urban

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Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Bĕlidla 4a, CZ-60300 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: plant physiology; plant stress physiology, ecophysiology of photosynthesis; impact studies; global change; impact of radiation regime; impacts of elevated CO2 concentration and UV radiation; manipulative experiments; plant environmental metabolomics; ozone and volatile organic compound fluxes; stable isotopes in terrestrial ecosystems

Dr. Giorgio Vacchiano

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European Commission, Joint Research Centre, D1 Bio-Economy, Via Enrico Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Interests: forest modeling; carbon; climate change; mitigation; adaptation; silviculture; dendrochronology; natural disturbances; forest fire; ecosystem services; biomass
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Prof. Dr. Riccardo Valentini

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Department for Innovation in Biological, Agrifood and Forestry Systems, Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy
Interests: forests; biology; ecosystems; livestock products; floods; droughts; gross primary productivity; urbanization; greenhouse gas emission; life cycle assessments; soil organic carbon; eddy covariance; net ecosystem exchange; citizen science; satellite imagery; mathematical modeling; artificial neural networks
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Prof. Dr. Joris Van Acker

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Laboratory of Wood Technology (Woodlab), Ghent University, Coupure links 653, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: wood protection; wood modification; wood anatomy; mechanical testing; physical testing
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Dr. Mark Vanderwel

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Department of Biology, University of Regina, 3737 Wascana Pkwy, Regina, SK S4S 0A2, Canada
Interests: tree demography; stand dynamics; forest simulation modelling; global change; forest distributions; carbon sequestration; LiDAR
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Dr. Mikko Vastaranta

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School of Forest Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Yliopistokatu 7, P.O.Box 111, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland
Interests: remote sensing; laser scanning; precision forestry; forest structure
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Prof. Dr. Andrew P. Vayda

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520, USA
Interests: causes and effects of tropical forest and peat fires; causes of tropical deforestation; methodology of research on people/forest and people/peatland interactions

Dr. Cédric Véga

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Laboratoire d’inventaire forestier, Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques, Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière, 54000 Nancy, France
Interests: forest inventory; forest resources; remote sensing; Lidar; photogrammetry

Dr. Martin D. Venturas

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Department of Natural Systems and Resources, School of Forest and Environmental Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: plant hydraulics; water relations; drought resistance; forest ecology; modelling

Dr. Cristina Vettori

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Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse (IBBR), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Interests: forest genetics and genomics; conservation of genetic resources; population genetics; epigenetics and epigenomics; tree biotechnology; adaptive silviculture; functional genomics and adaptation
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Dr. Joana Vieira

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Center for Functional Ecology, Univertsity of Coimbra, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: dendrochronology; tree physiology; cambial activity; xylogenesis

Dr. Alberto Vilagrosa

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1. Mediterranean Centre for Environmental Studies (CEAM Foundation), Joint Research Unit University of Alicante–CEAM, University of Alicante, C. Sant Vicent del Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain
2. Department of Ecology, University of Alicante, C. Sant Vicent del Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain
Interests: plant functional ecology; ecological restoration; dryland ecology; forest decline; climate change
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Dr. Marcello Vitale

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Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome (UNIROMA1), Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: forest ecology; forest growth and carbon-water balances; stress physiology; adaptation–mitigation of forests to global change and air pollution; process-based and statistical modeling; litter decomposition
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Dr. Jason G. Vogel

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School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: forest soils; forest productivity; disturbance; management; carbon and nutrient cycling

Dr. Pierre Vollenweider

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Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Interests: plant functional anatomy and ecology; plant ecophysiology; stress physiology; tree autecology; forest ecology; climate change; tropospheric ozone; drought stress; heavy metals; mineral nutrition

Prof. Dr. Jordi Voltas

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Joint Research Unit CTFC-Agrotecnio, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
Interests: tree physiology; forest genetics; dendroecology; adaptation
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Prof. Dr. Witold Wachowiak

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Faculty of Biology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Interests: ecological genomics; evolutionary genetics; natural selection; local adaptation; hybridization; development of molecular tools and resources; demographic inferences; conservation and management

Prof. Dr. Bradley B. Walters

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Department of Geography and Environment, Mount Allison University, 144 Main Street, Sackville, NB E4L1A7, Canada
Interests: people-forest interactions; non-timber forest products; tree planting; agroforestry; deforestation; afforestation; mangroves; Caribbean forests

Dr. Michael Walters

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Department of Forestry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: silviculture; forest stand dynamics; northern hardwood forests; functional ecology; deer herbivory; tree seedlings
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Dr. Guangyu Wang

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Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Interests: forest management; forest policy; land-use change; conservation; ecosystems
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Dr. Christopher Weston

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International School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Interests: forest ecology; biogeochemistry; carbon and nutrient cycling; bushfire fuel dynamics; soil science
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Dr. Gerhard Wieser

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Department of Alpine Timberline Ecophysiology, Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Rennweg 1, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Interests: treeline; ecophysiology; climate change; ecosystem manipulation; biogeochemistry
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Dr. Martin Wiesmeier

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TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany
Interests: soil carbon management; agroforestry; land use change; carbon sequestration; soil fractionation; digital soil mapping
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