Workshop COST E52 “Evaluation of beech genetic resources for sustainable forestry”

doi:10.3832/ifor0500-002

The main objective of the COST Action E52 “Evaluation of Beech Genetic Resources for Sustainable Forestry” is to make predictions of the future distribution range of beech forest ecosystems under the assumption of certain scenarios of climate change, based on the analysis of the reaction pattern of European beech populations of defined origin (progenies of natural beech stands) under changed climate situations in sets of pan European field trials. The results obtained will facilitate the joint evaluation of the genetic resources of beech for better economic utilization under observation of the requirements for a sustainable forest management. The MC5 and WGs meeting of the COST Action E52 has been held from the 17^th to the 19^th of April, 2008, in Florence (Italy). During this workshop oral presentations on beech have been given, and a selection of them is reported in the current issue of this journal.

Keywords

Fagus sylvatica, Climate change, Provenance trials, Genetic variability

Authors’ address

(1)

Department of Environmental and Forestry Technologies and Sciences, University of Florence, V. San Bonaventura 13, I-50145 Florence (Italy)

(2)

Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Institute for Forest Genetics, Sieker Landstr. 2, D-22927 Grosshansdorf (Germany).

Corresponding author

Raffaello Giannini
raffaello.giannini@unifi.it

Citation

Giannini R, von Wühlisch G (2009). Workshop COST E52 “Evaluation of beech genetic resources for sustainable forestry”. iForest 2: 104-104. - doi: 10.3832/ifor0500-002

Paper history

Received: May 21, 2009
Accepted: May 26, 2009

First online: Jun 10, 2009
Publication Date: Jun 10, 2009
Publication Time: 0.50 months

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