IAVS Working Groups - Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests
Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests
Contact: Igor Drobyshev
Email: igor.drobyshev@uqat.ca
Report: 2009
In 2007 Natural Disturbance Dynamics group held its 5th workshop entitled Climate Change Impacts on Boreal Forest Disturbance Regimes in Fairbanks, Alaska (May 30 - June 2007). The meeting was hosted by The School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences Department of Forest Sciences and the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Program at the University of Alaska. Information about this event can be found at http://www.icddbf.uaf.edu/.
In the year 2010, the Working Group plans a meeting focused on primeval boreal forests. The conference entitled Northern Primeval Forests: Ecology, Conservation and Management will be help in Sweden, August 9 - 13, 2010. The website of the conference is http://www.prifor2010.org/scicom.html.
Another meeting is planned in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada in 2011. Further information on this event is available from Hubert Morin (hubert_morin@uqac.ca).
Report: 2004
The 5th International Conference on Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests was held in Russia
(Dubna, Moscow region, 1-5 August, 2004). All types of disturbances and their ecological effects in
boreal forests were discussed (logging, wind throw, pest outbreaks, fire, herbivory and other types), and the meeting was attended by a wide range of forest ecologists, vegetation scientists, forest managers, and governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in forest management and nature conservation issues.
