Designing trees for future
Abstract
TREES4FUTURE will make a significant contribution to helping the European forestry sector respond, in a sustainable manner, to increasing demands for wood products and services (among which preservation of forest biodiversity) in a context of changing climatic conditions. To do so TREES4FUTURE will integrate for the first time major, yet rarely interacting forestry communities (and their resources) from geneticists to environmentalists and from communities working at the tree/population scale to those working at forestry landscape/wood basin levels as well as industry concerns. These scientific communities will combine their complementary infrastructures, tools and knowledge and thus fill in the current gaps 1) physical environment vs genetics, 2) basic wood properties vs end-products quality and 3) individuals to forests scales of study. This collaboration will result in a holistic approach integrating abiotic and biotic environmental aspects through biological responses (eco-physiological and pest/disease risk studies), biomass production (breeding and silviculture) and industrial technology (wood quality and technology). The long-term objective of TREES4FUTURE is to provide not only the partners but the whole European forestry community, with an easy and comprehensive access to complementary but currently scattered sources of information and expertise to optimise the short and long-term exploitation of the forest resources by both the research community and the socio-economic players. Providing access to the wider research community to a wide variety of forestry research infrastructures (from state-of-the-art analytical tools to predictive models) via the project will enable TREES4FUTURE to improve, coordinate and validate its offer to the European and International researchers from both public and private sectors and thus ensure the future sustainability of the consortium as well as that of the wider European Forestry community at large.
Publikationen
Project staff
Barbara Hinterstoisser
Univ.Prof. Mag. Dr. Barbara Hinterstoisser
barbara.hinterstoisser@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89120
BOKU Project Leader
01.11.2011 - 30.10.2015
Michael Grabner
Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Michael Grabner
michael.grabner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-89128
Project Staff
01.11.2011 - 30.10.2015
Sabine Rosner
Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Sabine Rosner
sabine.rosner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-83101, 83117
Project Staff
01.11.2011 - 30.10.2015
BOKU partners
External partners
Federal Forest Office (BFW)
Berthold Heinze
partner
AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology
Silvia Fluch
partner
Bavarian office for forest seeding and planting
Monika Konnert
partner
University of Ghent
Joris Van Acker
partner
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz
partner
Vlaams Gewest
none
partner
Finnish Forest Research Institute
Egbert Beuker
partner
INRA - Unité d' Amélioration, de Génétique et de Physiologie des Arbres forestiers
Luc E. Paques
coordinator
INSTITUT TECHNOLOGIQUE FORETCELLULOSE BOISCONSTRUCTION_x000D_ AMEUBLEMENT
none
partner
JOHANN HEINRICH VON THUENEN-INSTITUT, BUNDESFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER LANDLICHE RAUME,_x000D_ WALD UND FISCHEREI
Bernd Degen
partner
Staatsbetrieb Sachsenforst
Heino Wolf
partner
French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
Philippe Ciais
partner
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
none
partner
Fondazione Edmund Mach
Franco Miglietta
partner
STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK
none
partner
INSTYTUT BADAWCZY LESNICTWA_x000D_ Department of Silviculture and Genetics
Jan Kowalczyk
partner
Instytut Dendrologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
none
partner
Kostrzyca Forest Gene Bank
Magdalena Jałowska
partner
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACAO CIENTIFICA TROPICAL
José Rodrigues
partner
Institutul de Cercetari si Amenajari Silvice
none
partner
Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria CIT-INIA
José Climent
partner
Innventia AB
Sven-Olof Lundqvist
partner
Forest Research
Steve Lee
partner
European Forest Institute
none
partner