Topical Advisory Panel

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Department of Earth Science and Geography, California State University Dominguez Hills, 1000 E Victoria St, Carson, CA 90747, USA
Interests: climate change and vegetation response; dendrochronology; dendroclimatology; forest ecology; RS and GIS
Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: extreme environments; extremophiles; fungi; drylands; climate change; astrobiology; metagenomics

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Department of Agri-Food Production and Environment Sciences, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy
Interests: human-caused fires; fire; forest ecology
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Smart Forest Research Group, Polytechnical School of Mieres, University of Oviedo, 33600 Mieres, Spain
Interests: forest management; reforestation; tree growth; forest ecology; silviculture; tree plantation; restoration; forestry; biomass production; short rotation forestry
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1. Department of Forest Mycology and Plant Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Almas Allé 8, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
2. Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry & Forest Melioration, 86 Pushkinska St., 61024 Kharkiv, Ukraine
Interests: forest pathology; forest health and forest protection; tree devastating insects and vectored microorganisms biology and control of invasive tree pests and pathogens; pests and diseases in forest nurseries and afforestation
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Bordeaux INP, G&E, EA 4592, F-33600 Pessac, France
Interests: modification of plant-plant interactions along stress gradients

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Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection IPSP, Biology Agriculture and Food Sciences, National Research Council CNR, Via Madonna del Piano, 10-50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
Interests: forest pathology; tree physiology; terpenoids; wildland fire; alien pathogens; fungi; induced resistance
Department of Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Universitatii 13, 720229 Suceava, Romania
Interests: forest management planning; forest biodiversity; forest sustainability; close-to-nature-forestry; uneven-aged forestry

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Institute of Dendrology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Parkowa 5, 62-035 Kórnik, Poland
Interests: invasive tree species; invasion ecology; urban ecosystems; climate change; forest productivity; vegetation ecology; biodiversity conservation; forest management; functional traits
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Landscape, Policy and Governance Team, Manaaki Wheuna—Landcare Research, Level 6, 17-21 Whitmore Street, The Terrace, P.O. Box 10345, Wellington 6043, New Zealand
Interests: forest policy and governance; forest bioeconomy; public perceptions; social license to operate; afforestation programs; forests and climate change
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Department of Botany and Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia, Jelgavas ielas 1, LV-1004 Riga, Latvia
Interests: dendroclimatology; dendrochronology; forest ecology; forest adaptation
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Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW 2753, Australia
Interests: climate change; vulnerability; plant ecophysiology; ecology; species distribution modelling; urban ecology
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laval University, Quebec City, QC G1V 0A6, Canada
Interests: operations research; biomass-to-bioenergy; value-creation network; forest logistics; forest planning; decision-support system

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Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
Interests: ecological stoichiometry; biogeochemistry; ecosystem ecology; food webs; trophic interactions; food chain; nutrient cycling; nutritional ecology; plant-insect interactions; life history; bee; wild bees; xylophages, saproxylophages; fungi
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Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali—DAGRI, Università Degli Studi di Firenze, Via San Bonaventura 13, 50145 Firenze, Italy
Interests: fire ecology; forest fuels dynamics; forest operations in fire prone areas; wildfire models; post fire recovery operations
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Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Laval University, 2405 rue de la Terrasse, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Interests: insect ecology; forest entomology; pest management; insect-plant interactions; forest protection; ecology
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USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 501 Four Mile Road, New Lisbon, NJ 08064, USA
Interests: wildland fire; prescribed fire; remote sensing; fire behavior; fire effects; fire severity
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy
Interests: forest biometrics; forest management; landscape ecology; spatial and temporal scaling; theoretical ecology and epidemiology; complex systems

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Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901-83 Umeå, Sweden
Interests: forest breeding; genomic selection; trees local adaptation; genetics of wood formation; forest biodiversity; inbreeding/inbreeding depression
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Agricultural and Forest Science and Technology, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Higher Technical School of Agricultural and Forest Engineering, 02071 Albacete, Spain
Interests: biomass and productivity in coniferous forests and Juniper woodlands; C cycle; adaptive forest management; sustainable management; forest resilience and climate change; forest fires and regeneration; soil quality for sustainability of forest management; dendrochronology; energy crops: evaluation and yield tables
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Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: tree physiology; tree anatomy and morphology; abiotic stress; xylem anatomy and hydraulics; leaf structure
Department of Forest Harvesting, Logistics and Ameliorations, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, 960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
Interests: agroforestry; environment; sustainable development; forest economics; natural resource economics; resource management; natural resource management; wood products; forest management; sustainability
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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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Department of Biological Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, QC G5L 3A1, Canada
Interests: ecology; forest science; interdisciplinary research; computer and statistical modeling
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Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry, University of Banja Luka, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Interests: silviculture; forest management; forest planning; old-growth forest; uneven-aged forests; thinning response

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Department of Agronomy, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 2100 Gödöllő, Hungary
Interests: biomass; woody energy crops; soil management
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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