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Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0331, USA
Interests: forest ecology; fire ecology; invasion ecology; forest soils

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Unit of Research SPHERES, Behavioural Biology, University of Liège, Quai Van Beneden 22, 4020 Liège, Belgium
Interests: seed dispersal; biodiversity; plant species modelling; plant-animal interactions; climate change effects
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Agricultural & Environmental Research Station, West Virginia State University, F. Ray Powers Bidg., Room 423, 5000 Fairlawn Ave., Dunbar, WV 25064, USA
Interests: soil chemistry; water quality; biochar; remediation and reclamation of mining and disturbed lands

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USDA-FS Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI 53726, USA
Interests: bioeconomy; circular economy; solid wood products; timber construction; wood modification; wood science and technology
Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Vecna pot 83, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: forest inventory; stand structure; landscape ecology; urban forestry; GIS; remote sensing
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School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant genomics; plant genetics and breeding; plant developmental biology

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Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: quantitative genetics; tree breeding; hybrids; wood properties; NIR spectroscopy
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Institute of Dendrology Polish Academy of Sciences, Parkowa Str 5, 62-035 Kórnik, Poland
Interests: forest ecology; forest regeneration; litter decomposition; forest conservation; land reclamation; biomass and carbon sequestration; nutrient cycling
Department of Botany, Institute of Horticultural Plant Biology, Szent István University, H-1118 Budapest, Menesi street 44, Hungary
Interests: diversity of plant populations; demography; adaptive variation in tree populations; phylogenetics and phylogeography

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Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University, Brașov, Romania
Interests: forest policy; forest certification; management; sustainability; standardisation
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Department of Forest Sciences and Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: forest engineering; forest hydrology; watershed management; ecological engineering
Department of Environmental, Biological, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Via Vivaldi 43, 81100 Caserta, Italy
Interests: ecological modelling; environmental botany; morphometrics; mountain forests; soil biological activity
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Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Şirul Beethoven 1, 500123 Brasov, Romania
Interests: engineering of forest roads and development of forest road networks; mechanization of forest operations; biomass and bioenergy; forest ecosystem services
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Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, ul. Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznań, Poland
Interests: wood properties; timber quality; wood anatomy; non-wood forests products; dendrochronology; dendroclimatology
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Department of Forestry and Wood Economics, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Praha, Czech Republic
Interests: forest and environmental policy; policy analysis in forest-based sector; stakeholder analysis; forest ownership issue

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Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego Str. 71 A, 60-625 Poznan, Poland
Interests: forest science; wood science; wood biology; tree biomechanics; forest utilisation; wood quality; wood structure; ergonomics
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Faculty and Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sceince, The University of Tokyo, Furano 113-8654, Japan
Interests: forest entomology; population ecology; community ecology; long-term ecology studies

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Department of Algology and Mycology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
Interests: trees; fungi plant interactions; mycorrhiza; fungal diversity; fungal ecology; fungal conservation
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1. Laboratory of Plant Ecophysiology and Experimental Phytoecology of the Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), Tyumen State University, Volodarskogo Street, 6, Tyumen, 625003 Tyumen Region, Russia
2. Joint Directorate of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve and National Park “Smolny” (Scientific Department), Krasnaya Street, 30, Saransk, 430005 Saransk, Republic of Mordovia, Russia
Interests: plant diversity; threatened plants; invasive alien plants; IUCN Red List; biodiversity & conservation; plant conservation
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Depatment of Environmental Protection, Faculty of Geology, Geophysisc and Environmental Protection, AGH University of Science and Technology, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Interests: ecological and environmental risk assessment; environmental geochemistry; geochemistry of trace elements; environmental pollution

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1. Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Technische Universität Dresden, 01737 Tharandt, Germany
2. Department of Geography, The University of Bamenda, Bambili 00237, Cameroon
Interests: governance and institutions in forest and natural resource management; migration and land use change; livelihoods and natural resource dynamics; rural stabilization; climate change adaptation
1. SERQ—Centro de Inovação e Competências da Floresta (Innovation and Competence Forest Centre), 6100-711 Sertã, Portugal
2. ISISE (Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering)—University of Coimbra, 3030-788 Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: timber products; timber properties; wood based products
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Faculty of Natural Resources, Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Noor 46417-76489, Mazandaran Province, Iran
Interests: soil ecology; soil biology; biogeochemistry; land use/cover

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Slovenian Forestry Institute, Vecna pot 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: sustainable forest development; indicators for sustainable forest management; indicators for forest landscape and forest ecosystems biodiversity; developing good practices for sustainable forest and forest habitat types development; planning and managing forest resources and protected forest areas; forest planning and its theory; forest monitoring
Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Ecosystems Protection, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Al. 29-Listopada 46, 31-425 Krakow, Poland
Interests: tree ecophysiology and biochemistry; molecular biology; plant senescence; plant abiotic stress physiology

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Laboratory of Gluing and Finishing of Surface, Department of Wood Science and Thermal Techniques, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 38/42 St., 60-627 Poznan, Poland
Interests: wood; wood-based composite; adhesive; lacquer product; coating; substrate; wettability; strength; adhesion
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Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Lodz, ul. Lindleya 3/5, 90-131 Lodz, Poland
Interests: environmental anthropology; ethnobotany; medicinal plants; wild edible plants; Atlantic Forest; western Amazonia

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Faculty of Science, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 111, FIN-80100 Joensuu, Finland
Interests: wood and fiber science; materials science; continuum solid mechanics; fluid mechanics; fracture mechanics; scaling analyses; thermodynamics; hygroscopicity physics; extremal dynamics; replicator systems; symmetry groups; time-series statistics; phase transitions economics; management and finance; growth; capitalization; financial management; environmental policies
Nucleo di Ricerca Sulla Desertificazione (NRD), Università degli Studi di Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: soil respiration; soil carbon; soil management; fertilization; grassland; cork oak
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