Topical Advisory Panel

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Latvijas Valsts mežzinātnes institūts "Silava", LV-2169 Salaspils, Latvia
Interests: forest regeneration; forest restoration; recultivation; afforestation; short rotation coppice and forestry; tree plantings out side forest lands; agroforestry; fertilization

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Production Systems, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), 80100 Joensuu, Finland
Interests: forest decline; mediterranean oak woodlands; oak decline; forest modelling; mediterranean forest management; LiDAR; species distribution models; ecology; oak ecosystems

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Department of Forestry Policy Research, Korea Rural Economic Institute, Naju 58321, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea
Interests: forest economics; dynamics
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Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: tree ecophysiology; tree structure and function; tree hydraulics; drought stress; freezing stress; winter ecophysiology

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Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), University of Torino, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, I-10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy
Interests: forest pathology; forest decline; theoretical plant pathology; infectious forest diseases; alien and invasive plant pathogens; mycology; climate and climate change effects on plant pathogens; ecology and epidemiology; host-pathogen-environment interactions; risk assessment; disease management; citizen science; statistics, biostatistics and data analysis; mathematical modelling and in silico simulations; R programming; algorithms and software design; GIS

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1. FÖRA Forest Technologies SLL, Campus Duques de Soria s/n, 42004 Soria, Spain
2. Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute, University of Valladolid-INIA, Campus Duques de Soria s/n, 42004 Soria, Spain
Interests: forestry; forest modelling; LiDAR; forest inventory; remote sensing; forest management
Natural Resources Institute Finland, Yliopistokatu 6, P.O. Box 68, FI-80101 Joensuu, Finland
Interests: drones; precision forestry; forest fires; forest growth; tree-wise forest inventory; laser scanning
1. Institute of Forest, Environmental and Natural Resource Policy, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria;
2. European Forest Institute, Forest Policy Research Network, Feistmantelstr. 4, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Interests: policy analysis; institutional analysis; forestry sciences; social science methods; comparative case study analysis; regional development; gender analysis

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Director of Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Profsouznaya str., 84/32, Moscow, Russia
Interests: forest ecology; forest soils; forest biodiversity; forest ecosystem services; forest policy
Department of Plant Sciences, North Dakota State University, 1340 Administration Ave, Fargo, ND 58105, USA
Interests: plant genetics and breeding; molecular biology; genomics; cytogenetics

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Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology (FFWT), Mendel University, Zemedelska 1, Brno 61300, Czech Republic
Interests: forestry; forest typology; forest ecology; woody plant ecology; dragon trees; frankincense trees; dracaena; Boswellia
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Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, 20A Carol I Bvd., 700505 Iași, Romania
Interests: botany; floristic studies; biodiversity conservation; plant and vegetation ecology; natural 2000 habitats; climate change

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CAVElab - Computational & Applied Vegetation Ecology, Department of Environment, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
Interests: vegetation modelling; belowground competition for water; liana and tropical tree ecology and physiology; plant hydraulic traits and ecosystem resilience in drought conditions
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Forestry Faculty, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Universitatii Street 13, 720229 Suceava, Romania
Interests: forest protection; forest entomology; integrated pest management in forestry; integrate management of forest resources (temperate forests); GIS tools used in forest protection
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Department of Forest Ecology and Silviculture, Forestry Faculty, University of Zagreb, Svetošimunska 25, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: forest ecology; silviculture; dendroecology; climate change

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Department of Economics, Geography, Law and Tourism, Centre for Research on Economic Relations, Mid Sweden University, SE-851 70 Sundsvall, Sweden
Interests: economics optimization of forestry; optimization in forest supply chain; environmental economics; data envelopment analysis (DEA); game theory; dynamic programming
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Laboratory of GIS technologies, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 8 Marta St., 202, 620144 Ekaterinburg, Russia
Interests: climate-induced dynamics of forest-steppe and highlands vegetation
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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 1, 20126 Milano, Italy
Interests: invasive alien plants; plant conservation; threatened plants; prioritization protocols (Red and Black lists); plant distribution in space
State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Sciences, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: land-use modeling; climate change; deforestation and soil moisture; crop yield; biomass and carbon emission; remote sensing & GIS applications in earth system studies; top-down downscaling to enhance the spatial resolution of gridded datasets; improve understanding of agroecosystem-environment interaction; land-atmosphere interaction studies; climate system modeling
British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, #401 Victoria Street, Nelson, BC V1L 4K3, Canada
Interests: forest disturbance ecology; climate driven tree declines; high elevation conservation biology
Department of Geography, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
Interests: wildfires; hydrology; soil erosion; modeling; water contamination; risk mitigation; volcanic soils

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Department of Forestry and Environmental Technology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: bioenergy; short rotation woody crops; extreme storms; rhytoremediation; forest land treatment systems
Centre for Applied Ecology "Professor Baeta Neves", School of Agronomy, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: mixed-species forests silviculture; forest management; ecology of mixed forests; forest monitoring; national forest inventory; forest biodiversity indicators; old-growth forests; conservation; natural resources management; ecosystem services

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Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, 68200 Orestiada, Greece
Interests: forest soils; mycorrhizal symbiosis; gas soil emissions; roots
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Department of Forest Protection, Forest Research Institute in Sękocin Stary, Braci Leśnej 3, 05-090 Raszyn, Poland
Interests: forest protection; plant pathology; oomycetes; biodiversity; e-nose; BCA; IPM; VOC; GC-MS; phosphites; phosphogipsum; silicon
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Institute for BioEconomy - Department of Bio Agri-food Sciences - National Research Council, Research Area of Florence - Via Madonna del Piano, 10 - 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, FI, Italy
Interests: biodegradation and preservation of wood; natural durability; wood modification; natural substance as potential biocides against fungi and insects, termites, marine organisms
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Walker College of Business, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608, USA
Interests: bioeconomy; corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility; business management in the forest industry
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Interests: forest products market modeling; natural resource policy; economic impact and contribution analysis; timberland investment and valuation; non-industrial private forest landowners; development economics
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Institute of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia, ul. Bedzinska 60, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland
Interests: forest disturbance; windstorm; machine learning; biomorphodynamics; geohazards
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Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Interests: ecology; global change; insect diversity; soil fauna; tropical forests; tropical dry forest restoration; ecosystem functioning & services
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