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Strømman (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) highlighted the outcome of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report in his talk, introducing the overall topic of the conference; Need for seed – Nordic forests in coming decades....
PhD thesis by Ville Kankaanhuhta, Finland Changing operational environment and non-existent feedback as a challenge At the end of 1990’s, signs of poor implementation of forest regeneration activities, delayed operations, and poor quality of young stands were observable in the...
Also, pests and diseases may be favoured, creating a greater threat to tree health. Even though trees are long lived and generally adapted to varying conditions over a life cycle, new climatic conditions call for phenotypic matching of growth rhythm...
Text: Tor Myking and Kjersti Bakkebø Fjellstad/NordGen Forest The conference Genetic resources for food and agriculture in a changing climate at Lillehammer on 27-29 January, organised by NordGen, included three keynote presentations specifically on forest trees. Antoine Kremer (INRA, France) commenced...
Mechanisms The most basic mechanism for adaptation is selection. Generations of trees are genetically shaped by climate and other environmental conditions during the course of time, favouring some genes and discarding others. Thus, tree populations occupying different environmental habitats usually...
The full article can be read at fao.org.
– In habitat protection areas, forest trees are protected in their natural environment. The new strategy emphasizes that these protected areas from now on also include the conservation of genetic variation, says Sanna Black-Samuelsson, forest geneticist at the Swedish Forest...
In June 2012 the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre launched the Black list which is a risk assessment of introduced species. We will here briefly review the method used in the assessment and some experiences with risk assessments of introduced forest...
Healthy trees are an important resource for ensuring local regeneration of ash, and for the long-term work concerning preservation and breeding of healthy ash stands. Mapping of healty ash trees has been initialized in Denmark this year, in order to...
Forestry in Iceland increased dramatically during the years 1990 – 2007, counting more than 5 million seedlings per year after 2003. With increased afforestation the surveillance of new plantings has increased and many of those have revealed high mortality of...
