5th International Conference onMediterranean Pines (Medpine5)

Solsona, Spain, September 22-26, 2014

Conference secretariat

Chair of the conference: Lluís Coll (lluis.coll@ctfc.cat)Co-chair of the conference:

José Climent (climent@inia.es)

Conference secretariat:Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)

Ctra Sant Llorenç km 2, 25280 Solsona (Spain)Phone: + 34 973 48 17 52 (ext. 212#)

Fax: + 34 973 48 04 31Mail: medpine5@ctfc.es

Web: http://medpine5.ctfc.es/

Important dates

June 4, 2013 First announcement January 15, 2014 Second announcement with call for papers March 31, 2014 Deadline for submission of oral/poster abstracts

June 2, 2014 Acceptance of abstracts June 28, 2014 Deadline for registration with reduced fees

July 15, 2014 Third announcement with scientific program

August 31, 2014 Deadline for registration (regular fees) August 31, 2014 Definitive program

Registration fees(*)

Early registration (before May 15, 2014) 250 €Late registration 350 €Students 150 €(*) Registration fees include: Entrance to conference, conference

material, ice breaker, coffee breaks (6), excursion to experimental

sites, lunches (3), conference dinner and city tour.

Special sessions

• Endangered Mediterranean pines (P. nigra subspecies, P. heldreichi marginal populations…)• Non-wood forest products in pine forests (mushrooms, resin, nuts, honey…)• The role of Mediterranean pines in ecological restoration• The use of pines for bioenergy• Biotic interactions

Tentative schedule

- Monday, 22 Sept Arrival, registration, ice breaker (evening)

- Tuesday, 23 Sept Sessions (morning & afternoon) City tour (night)

- Wednesday, 24 SeptSessions (morning)Excursion to different experimental sites (afternoon)Conference dinner (night)

- Thursday, 25 Sept Sessions (morning & afternoon)Closing session

- Friday, 26 Sept Optional short field visit (morning)

International scientific board

Margarita Arianoutsou (University of Athens, Greece) marianou@biol.uoa.gr

José Climent (INIA, Spain) climent@inia.es

Lluís Coll (CTFC-CREAF, Spain)lluis.coll@ctfc.cat

Sergio de Miguel (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) sergio.demiguel@uef.fi

Miren del Rio (INIA, Spain) delrio@inia.es

José Ramón González Olabarria (CTFC, Spain) jr.gonzalez@ctfc.es

Kani Isik (Akdeniz University, Turkey) kani@akdeniz.edu.tr

Gidi Ne’eman (University of Haifa, Israel) gneeman@research.haifa.ac.il

Javier Retana (CREAF, Spain) javier.retana@uab.es

Eric Rigolot (INRA, France) eric.rigolot@avignon.inra.fr

Tahar Sghaier (INRGREF, Tunis) sghaier.tahar@iresa.agrinet.tn

Costas A. Thanos (University of Athens, Greece) cthanos@biol.uoa.gr

Margarida Tomé (ISA, Portugal) magatome@isa.utl.pt

Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin (CNR, Italy)gg.vendramin@gmail.com

The 5th edition of the International Conference on Mediterranean Pines will be held in the beautiful city of Solsona, in the heart of the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees (northeastern Spain). The conference will be co-organized by the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CTFC) and INIA Forest Research Cen-tre in close collaboration with the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF).

Aim

Advancing in the understanding of the vulnerabi-lity and adaptive mechanisms of Mediterranean pine(*) ecosystems to the different components of global change.(*) Understood like eu-Mediterranean pine species (Pinus brutia, P. halepensis, P. heldreichii, P. pinaster, P. pinea) or other pines living in the Mediterranean mountains (P. nigra, P. sylvestris, etc.), but contributions on phylogenetically related species (P. canariensis and P. roxburghii) and pines from other Medite-

rranean Climate Zones (MCZs) will also be welcome.

Main topics

• EvOLUTION AND ADAPTATION

• BIODIvERSITy AND CONSERvATION

• FIRE SCIENCES

• ABIOTIC INTERACTIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE

• BIOTIC INTERACTIONS

• STAND DyNAMICS AND FOREST MANAGEMENT

• POLICy AND SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS