COST Strategic Workshop 2008
“Forest ecosystems in a changing environment:
identifying future monitoring and research needs”
The workshop took place from 11-13 March 2008 in
Istanbul, Turkey
It assembled around 170 experts from 30 countries
workshop report
The report emphasizes the need for more integration between forest ecosystem research, monitoring and modeling.
Main requirements for a future information system are outlined. Read more ... (pdf, 5 MB)
more information
Summary information was published in the COST newsletter No 8/2008. Available here ...
Objectives, agenda, registered participants and abstracts. Download here ...
All presentations are available as pdf in a zip file for download Download here ... (zip, 170 MB)
planned publications
The proceedings of the workshop (oral presentations and poster presentations) will be published electronically as a special issue of "iForest". Please, send your abstracts as soon as possible to Marcus Schaub.
Selected papers of the workshop proceedings will be published in the peer-reviewed journal "Annals of Forest Sciences". Responsible editor for this special issue is Matthias Dobbertin. The organizing committee will select suitable manuscripts and approach the authors.