June 11, Tuesday

08:00?08:30

Welcome and Introduction

• President of BFU

• Prof. Xiuhai Zhao and Klaus v. Gadow

East Wing of the Main Building, BFU

08:30?09:00

Group Photograph

In Front of the Main Building

09:00?12:10

Session 1 ? Moderator ? Dr. Timo Pukkala

East Wing of the Main Building

09:00?09:30

Forest Restoration in Abandoned Agricultural Lands in Post-soviet Period: a Comparative Analysis of Two Bordering Regions in Russia and Belarus

• Dr. Elena V. Tikhonova, Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity of Russian Academy of Science (CEPL RAS), Russia

09:30?10:00

Creating Stand Compartments from ALS Grid Data

• Dr. Timo Pukkala, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

10:00?10:10

Coffee Break

10:10?10:40

Ecosystem Responses to Long-term Application of Biosolids to a Pine Forest in New Zealand

• Dr. Jianming Xue, New Zealand Forest Research Institute, New Zealand

10:40?11:10

Hybridization in Pinus and Its Implications in Forest Management

• Dr. M. Socorro González-Elizondo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

11:10?11:40

Survival Strategy of the Light-demanding Korean Pine under Dense Deciduous Forest

• Dr. Qijing Liu, Beijing Forestry University, China

11:40?12:10

Forest Diversification as a Solution to Counteract Climate Change Effects on Oak and Beech?

• Dr. Kris Verheyen, Ghent University, Belgium

12:10?14:10

Lunch

Beijing Xijiao Hotel

14:10?17:30

Session 2 ? Moderator ? Dr. Jianming Xue

East Wing of the Main Building

14:10?14:40

Forestry Remote Sensing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: a Review Focusing on the Data, Processing and Potentialities

• Dr. Joaquim J. Sousa, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

14:40?15:10

The Northeast Asian Temperate Mixed Broadleaved-Conifer Forests Face the Profound Transformation in the Nearest Future: Results from Retrospective and Prognostic Niche Modeling

• Dr. Pavel Krestov, Botanical Garden-Institute FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia

15:10?15:40

Forest-Level Optimization Using a Differentiable Model

• Dr. Ulises Diéguez-Aranda, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

15:40?16:00

Coffee Break

16:00?16:30

Long-Term Ecological Research; Insights into Dry Forest Dynamics at Peninsular India

• Dr. H. S. Suresh, Indian Institute of Science, India

16:30?17:00

Thermal and Water Effects on Ectmycorrhizal Fungi Foraging in Abies fraxoniana

• Dr. Lulu Chen, Beijing Forestry University, China

17:00?17:30

Using SAD's, SAR's and CDM's for Characterizing the Biological Features of Forest Communities

• Dr. Klaus v. Gadow, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and Geory-August University in Gottingen, Germany