Conferences

It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the Sixth International Conference on Plants & Environmental Pollution (ICPEP-6) , to be held in in Lucknow, India， in 27th–30th November 2018. The meeting is organized by the IUFRO’s Oak Unit (1.01.06: Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks).

Oak (Quercus spp.) trees are an important component of many hilly forests in sub-tropical and tropical areas in Central America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Oak forests in these parts of the world are declining and becoming vulnerable to climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, forest fires, mudslides, and cyclones. In addition, deforestation, poverty, rising level of pollution, and lack of sustainable forest management practices further contribute to the degradation of oak forests. This represents a significant ecological crisis because oak forests are known for high biodiversity and provide a wide range of ecosystem services to local populations. Therefore, immediate focus should be given to conservation and sustainable management of oak forests. However, our understanding of the ecology and silviculture of many subtropical and tropical oak species is inadequate. In this session, we welcome submissions of research and review works on subtropical and tropical oaks on a wide range of topics in the field of (but NOT limited to): forest ecology, restoration ecology, silviculture, soil science, biodiversity conservation, forest management, forest economics, forest entomology, forest pathology, traditional ecological knowledge, genetics, etc. The contributions in this session will be published in a special issue of an appropriate peer-reviewed journal(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/oak_global).

We invite you to find more information on our website:

https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10100/10106/