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News Release from: Forestry Commission | Subject: Conference in Turkey
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Team on 14 April 2008
Forestry Commission at International
Conference
Scientists from Forestry Commission presented papers at conference in Turkey on 'Forest Ecosystems in a Changing Environment - identifying future monitoring and research needs'.
The conference was funded by the EU through its initiative to foster Co-operation in Scientific and Technical Research (COST), and held as a strategic workshop in partnership with the International Co-operative Programme on Forests (ICP Forests), an organisation that helps to co-ordinate forest research across Europe The work of ICP Forests has resulted in co-ordinated and extensive data collection that enables scientists to consider how forests are responding to international influences such as air pollution and climate change
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 15 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Dr Nadia Barsoum, a forest ecologist in Forest Research's Environmental and Human Sciences Division and leader of the UK's Intensive Forest Monitoring Network, commented, "We were delighted to be invited to this important conference to present research commissioned by the Forestry Commission".
"We were sharing the stage with more than 150 scientists from across Europe, so it was a welcome opportunity to contribute our findings to the wider forest research community, and to learn from them.
"Climate change is an issue that transcends country boundaries".
"This means that forest monitoring programmes must be designed carefully at a wide geographical scale and in close collaboration with other European nations".
Dr Rona Pitman, also an ecologist in the Environmental and Human Sciences Division, added, "The work at the Alice Holt Research Forest over the past 50 years has helped to demonstrate some of the effects of atmospheric pollution".
"The value of understanding how forests respond to environmental change is hugely important, especially with regard to climate change and how forests will respond in the future".
Information in poster form was presented at the conference on a range of topics, including:.
* the effects of forest pests on tree growth and soil nutrients.
* the effects of climate change on the ability of tree seeds to survive and grow.
* the ways in which ozone can damage young trees grown in commercial tree nurseries.
Other Commission staff who contributed material on these topics included Dr Peter Gosling, Dr Mark Broadmeadow, Dr Elena Vanguelova and Ms Sue Benham.
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