Climate change

Summary: Global change challenges forestry around the world by changing both environmental and social conditions. This fact is especially true in the Mediterranean basin, one of the biodiversity hotspots, where climate change and demographic development will likely have strong impacts in the near future. The Meeting faces the following key challenges: a. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the physiological and ecological responses of different Mediterranean pine species (in terms of nutrient uptake, growth, biotic stress factors, etc.) to climate change and water availability is needed to define new adaptive management regimes for reducing water use and ensuring the long-term soil preservation. b. Understanding the ecological and genetic adaptive capacity of pine species in response to environmental changes and various forest management scenarios. c. Anticipating the effects of interactions between different components of future environmental changes.Programme The Meeting is estructured in three main sessions:
Session 1: Forest Management. Forestry strategies to cope with global change
Session 2: Genetics. Genetic adaptations to climate change
Session 3: Ecology. Interaction between factors affecting Mediterranean pines under global change conditions The complete programme also includes inaugural and closing sessions, two poster sessions and a field trip, being structured as follows:

Summary: Global change challenges forestry around the world by changing both environmental and social conditions. This fact is especially true in the Mediterranean basin, one of the biodiversity hotspots, where climate change and demographic development will likely have strong impacts in the near future. The Meeting faces the following key challenges: a. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the physiological and ecological responses of different Mediterranean pine species (in terms of nutrient uptake, growth, biotic stress factors, etc.) to climate change and water availability is needed to define new adaptive management regimes for reducing water use and ensuring the long-term soil preservation. b. Understanding the ecological and genetic adaptive capacity of pine species in response to environmental changes and various forest management scenarios. c. Anticipating the effects of interactions between different components of future environmental changes.Programme The Meeting is estructured in three main sessions:
Session 1: Forest Management. Forestry strategies to cope with global change
Session 2: Genetics. Genetic adaptations to climate change
Session 3: Ecology. Interaction between factors affecting Mediterranean pines under global change conditions The complete programme also includes inaugural and closing sessions, two poster sessions and a field trip, being structured as follows: