Monitoring, Managing and Restoring Forests to Enhance their Role in a Changing World
Rieti (Italy), 13th – 18th June 2027

Selected Conference Topics
Forest Response to Global Change
Forest, carbon cycle and climate mitigation
Forest, water cycle and natural disasters prevention
Silviculture for optimising forest products and ecosystem services
Conservation and restoration of natural forests and their biodiversity
Advances in field and remote monitoring of forest dynamics
Applied Tree Genetics
Urban Forestry
The Human Dimension of Forests
A IUFRO Conference organized by the following Research Groups – Task Forces:
- Ecology and Silviculture of Beech
- Ecology and Silviculture of Chestnut
- Ecology and Silviculture of Oak


- Old-growth forests and forest reserves
- The Forest-Water-Livelihood-Governance Nexus
- Hydrological processes and water quality
- Agroforestry
Scientific Board
Constanca Camilo-Alves, MED – Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura, Ambiente e Desenvolvimento
(Portugal)
Sanjeev Chauhan, Department of Forestry & Natural Resources (India)
Stacy Clark, University of Florida (USA)
Daniel C. Dey, Research and Development (USA)
Maria do Sameiro Patricio, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal)
Frédérik Doyon, Science Institute of Temperate Forest (Ripon, Quebec, Canada)
Silvio Ferraz, Department of Forestry Sciences (Brazil)
Ana Cristina Gonçalves, MED – Instituto Mediterrâneo para a Agricultura, Ambiente e Desenvolvimento (Portugal)
Atsuhiro Iio, Laboratory of Silviculture (Japan)
Julia Jones, Geography and Geospatial Science (USA)
Magnus Löf, Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre (Sweden)
Bill Keeton, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources (USA)
Veronica Loewe Muñoz, Forest Diversification (Chile)
Swoyambhu Man Amatya, Faculty of Forestry (Nepal)
Enrico Marcolin, Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, Università di Padova (Italy)
Martin Maxence, Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts (Canada)
Agustin Merino, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry (Spain)
Toshiaki Owari, The University of Tokyo Forests (Japan)
Parisa Panahi, National Botanical Garden of Iran (Iran)
Viliam Pichler, Faculty of Forestry (Slovakia)
Iaviantsoa Ramanandraibe, Tropical Agriculture and Sustainable Development (Madagascar)
Md. Nazmus Sadath, Khulna University (Bangladesh)
Nadeem Shah, Northern Research Station (United Kingdom)
Miroslav Svoboda, Fakulta lesnická a drevarska (Czechia)
Yana Valachovic, Cooperative Extension (USA)
Yanhui Wang, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute (China)
Pengtao Yu, Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute (China)
Mingfang Zhang, School of Resources and Environment, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China)
Conference Chair
Alfredo Di Filippo
Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences – DAFNE, Università della Tuscia (Italy)
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