Nutrient Dynamics of Planted Forests

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Agenda

Start Date: November 27, 2012
Location: Vancouver, WA

Location: Vancouver, WA
Start Date: 2012-11-27
End Date: 2012-11-28
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES:
This IUFRO symposium is intended to provide a forum for exchange of ideas related to principles of nutrition in nursery seedlings and juvenile forest trees. Emphasis will be placed on the development of effective and environmentally sound technologies to optimize seedling quality and promote reforestation and forest restoration operations. The first day will focus on Nutrition in the Nursery and at Field Establishment and the second day will focus on Juvenile Stand Nutrition. The program is aimed toward an international audience of nursery and forest practitioners, scientists, and educators. Presentations will be of excellent scientific quality while also providing new, useful information which can be readily and widely applied to nursery and forest practices. Selected authors will be invited to prepare a paper for the symposium proceedings to be published in a special issue of the international journal, New Forests.

ORGANIZERS:
The symposium is being organized by Western Forestry and Conservation Association, Purdue University, and USDA Forest Service with support from IUFRO divisions 1.01.03 (Temperate Forest Regeneration), 1.06.00 (Restoration of Degraded Sites), and 3.02.00 (Stand Establishment and Treatment).

INVITED SPEAKERS and TOPICS:

Barbara Hawkins, University of Victoria, Canada	Influence of species and soil temperature on N-form preference and uptake
Simon Landhausser, University of Alberta, Canada	The role of carbon reserves in seedling nutrition and stress tolerance
Juan Oliet, Politecnica University, Spain	Seedling nutrient loading to improve planting success: A Mediterranean perspective
Pedro Villar-Salvador, University of Alcala, Spain	Nursery fertilization of oaks: consequences for plant quality and outplanting performance
Joshua Sloan, Purdue University, Indiana, USA	Improved fertilizer use efficiency and growth of tree seedlings on reclaimed oil sands
Jordi Cortina, University of Alicante, Spain	The role of nutrients for improving seedling quality in drylands
Tom Fox, Virginia Tech University, USA	Juvenile fertilization of loblolly pine plantations
Leonardo Gonçalves, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil	Nutrition and fertilization of short-rotation eucalypt plantations of high productivity
Cindy Prescott, University of British Columbia, Canada	Nutrition of cedar and hemlock plantations in coastal BC
Shucai Zeng, South China Agricultural University	Comparison of soil properties under plantations and natural forests in South China
Rob Harrison, University of Washington, USA	Nutrition management of Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir plantations
Owen Burney	The role of seedling nutrition on ungulate herbivory pattern
John Turner, Forsci Pty Ltd, New South Wales, Australia	Site specific management and inter-rotational productivity of radiata pine
Johanna Riikonen, Finnish Forest Research Institute	Effects of boron fertilization applied in nursery or after planting on the performance of Norway spruce seedlings on boron-poor sites

CALL FOR PRESENTERS:
If you would like to participate in this event with a presentation or poster, please send an abstract (max. 300 words including title, authors and affiliations) to DLHaase@fs.fed.us by July 15, 2012.

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