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College of Agricultural and Life Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
Interests: land-use change; tropical deforestation; forest degradation; REDD+; forest conservation and use; livelihoods; climate change
Division of Forest Protection and Game Management, Croatian Forest Research Institute, Cvjetno Naselje 41, 10450 Jastrebarsko, Croatia
Interests: forest pests; biological control; population dynamics of pests; integrated pest management; phoretic mites; arboriculture
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Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, 1, Nicolae Bălcescu Avenue, 010041 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: evaluation of the economic impact of deforestation; evaluation of the ecologic impact of deforestation; evolution of the forest areas; valorization of wood mass; urban and rural planning; the impact of tourism on local development
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Institute of Wood Science, Simonyi Károly Faculty of Engineering, Wood Sciences and Applied Arts, University of Sopron, H-9400 Sopron, Hungary
Interests: forest pathology; genetics; molecular diagnostics of fungi and insects; forest protection; forest mycology; management of quarantine pests and diseases for forests; pest risk analyses
Institute of Forest Genetics, Dendrology and Botany, Department of Forestry, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, University of Zagreb, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: population genetics; microsatellite markers; morphometric analysis; biodiversity; dendrology; conservation biology
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Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University, Brașov, Romania
Interests: forest economy; forest policy and regulation; protected areas management; forest certification; forest institutions; ecosystem services
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PLECO (Plants and Ecosystems), Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, 2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
Interests: volatile organic compound emission; proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS); proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-TOF-MS); plant abiotic stress; plant biotic stress; gas-exchange chamber; photosynthesis
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Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), The Volcani Center, HaMaccabim Road 68, P.O. Box 15159, Rishon Lezion 7505101, Israel
Interests: plant pathology; plant tissue culture; genetic engineering; plant-microbe interactions; plant genomics and proteomics; plant stress physiology
Department of Biology, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Interests: ecology; plant ecology; tree physiology; wood anatomy; dendroecology; dendroclimatology
Institute for Production and Logistics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Interests: logistics; process management; organisational design; forest industries; bioenergy; sustained raw material supply
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School of Agriculture, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-084 Castelo Branco, Portugal
Interests: population genetics; gene flow; relatedness; fingerprinting; natural resources conservation
Department of Forestry and Wood Economics, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamycka 129, 6 – Suchdol, 165 21 Praha, Czech Republic
Interests: bioeconomy in the forestry and wood-processing sector; market and trade with wood and wood products; support of use of wood and products made from wood; role and importance of sustainable chain of custody of forest-based products in bio-based industry

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Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
Interests: plant ecophysiology; ecological genetics and forest biology
Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Environment, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, Kralova Vysina 7, 400 96 Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
Interests: valuation of life supporting functions and services of ecosystems; monetary valuation of biotopes; landscape damages; efficiency of landscape restorations; importance of natural forests
Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences (IOES), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia
Interests: forest ecology and management; mangrove ecology and physiology; mangrove carbon cycle; mangrove biogeochemical cycle; forest productivity
1. Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
2. Xiamen Key Laboratory of Urban Metabolism, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China
Interests: urban science and sustainability; healthy city and public health; suicide and mental health; climate change and environmental management; quantitative methodology and artificial intelligence
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Area of Ecology, Faculty of Biology, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Interests: forest dynamics; patterns of tree diversity; dendrochronology; climate change; carbon uptake and storage in forests; tree ecophysiology; conservation of biodiversity; fire ecology in forests
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1. Slovenian Forestry Institute, Večna pot 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
2. Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: forest inventory; forest biometrics; remote sensing; ecosystem monitoring and modelling; mensuration; growth models

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Department of Xylogenesis and Biomass Allocation, Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Bělidla 986/4a, 60300 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: coppice; oak forest management; dendroecology; tree ecophysiology; sap flow; tree growth; xylogenesis; stem radial variations
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resources, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723, USA
Interests: LiDAR data analysis; object-based image analysis (OBIA); MODIS and Landsat phenology and other time series analysis; multi-sensor integration; forest ecology (structure and function); human ecology mapping; air pollution effects on forest ecosystems, and dendroecology
Department of Forest Economics and Management, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, 96053 Zvolen, Slovakia
Interests: forest legislation; property rights; forest ownership; markets in forestry; forestry services; management theory; outsourcing in forestry
School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0410, USA
Interests: forest management under uncertainty and risks forest optimization models; applied econometrics; climate change and forest-ecosystem services; and natural resource policy
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Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Stachki Ave. 194/1, 344090 Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Interests: environmental impact assessment; soil and water conservation; soil fertility; soil analysis; adsorption; sustainable agriculture
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Department of Forest Ecology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1665/1, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: forestry; stress ecology; forest ecology; tree growth; ecophysiology; climate change
Head Research Group Multifunctional Landscapes, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
Interests: multifunctionality as a strategy for healthy, biodiversity-friendly and sustainable productive urban and rural landscapes; innovation concepts for sustainable land management; planning instruments to strengthen health-related ecosystem services; nature-based solutions
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Department of Build Environment and Geoinformatics, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland
Interests: boreal forest; forest inventory; forest canopy structure; leaf area index; remote sensing of vegetation; field measurements; ground validation of satellite based vegetation products; boreal forest phenology; vegetation spectral properties; forest cover mapping and classification; description of (boreal) forests in global land cover products

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Department of Forest Utilisation, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 71A, 60-625 Poznan, Poland
Interests: wood and bark properties; wood structure; wood quality; wood formation; forest biomass; tree structure and function
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UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC, University of Bordeaux, Avenue des Facultés, 33405 Talence, France
Interests: plant community; stress; disturbance; biotic interactions; plant succession
Department of Forest Utilization, Engineering and Forest Techniques, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Kraków, 31-425 Kraków, Poland
Interests: physical characteristics of seeds; agrophysics; seed processing; mechanization of nursery works; construction and utilization of forest machinery; automation and robotization of production processes in forestry
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Department of Geography, University of Girona, Plaça de Sant Domènec, 3, 17004 Girona, Spain
Interests: GIS Science; remote sensing; landscape ecology; ecosystem services; conservation planning
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