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– Mixed-species forests can fulfil many forest functions and services better than mono-specific stands and receive growing attention in forest science and practice. Hans Pretzsch, professor at the Technical University of Munich has his expertise in silviculture and has worked...
One aim of the Ph.D project is to gather the overall existing information on the differences between and within the different provenances of subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) with regards to mortality, growth, tree properties, resistance to aphids and fungi, post-harvest...
NordGen Forest policy brief: Is Nordic forestry prepared for climate change? Climate change is recognised as one of the most important challenges for both society and many ecosystems. Although forest ecosystems are generally robust, there is a concern that the...
The Nordic cooperation aims for carbon neutrality within the energy sector by 2015. – This goal is difficult to reach if one does not include forest biomass to a greater degree, with foreign tree species playing an important part when...
Text: Ditte C. Olrik, Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, Nature Agency Ash dieback disease is characterised by necrosis in the bark and basal part of the stem, as well as leaf loss, formation of epicormic shoots and crown dieback....
Text: Juho Hautsalo, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) Finnish pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) populations are very small, isolated and when compared to Central European oak populations they have higher genetic diversification rate and lower diversity. This is typical for populations...
Text: Kari Leinonen (Finland) and Claes Uggla (Sweden) The directive[1] is applied for most of the important forest tree species in Europe, 47 in total (see annex 1 of the Directive, link below). Other tree species are not covered by...
What does it mean; wise use of FRM? The speakers introduced the topic from breeding of improved forest material via planting and silviculture to the use of forest and deliverance to industry. In addition the use of forest tree species...
As an introduction to the meeting, Aðalsteinn Sigurgeirsson from the Icelandic Forest Research gave the audience an overview of past and ongoing forest tree breeding activities in Iceland. He further stated that “Iceland is to be regarded as a developing...
Seeds of Norway spruce and Scots pine from the Nordic countries were brought into the seed vault at Svalbard by Dan Jørgensen, Sven-Erik Bucht and Sylvi Listhaug, Ministers of Food and Agriculture in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The work on...
