Group 2: Adaptation

Key issue and tasks

Key issue

The issues will be discussed all through the Working Group meetings. The preliminary list of several key issues could be read below.

Enhancement of stand resistance/resilience and natural adaptation capacity:

• Soil structure, water balance and nutrient cycle;
• Species and species/sites combinations threatened by climate change;
• Risk assessment and management (natural and economic risk);
• Diversity of stands and stand characteristics including species composition, structure and scale considerations;
• Production time (maturity) and spacing regime (thinning schedule);
• Biological and genetic diversity;
• Interactions between adaptation and conservation issues.

Enhancement of new and renewed stands:

• Site analyses and mapping;
• Natural regeneration versus plantation or sowing;
• Identification and conservation of genetic resources (in/ex situ);
• New trials (species, provenances, mixed species) and networking of present trials.

Policy measures, instruments and governance:

• Decision methods under uncertainty, no regret options, decision space between options;
• Identification of robust silvicultural alternatives;
• Management planning at the landscape level;
• Protocols, instruments and indicators for the evaluation of the efficiency of the different measures or recommended practices;
• Education, training and capacity building;
• Communication and information.

Tasks

Year 1: State of knowledge = one report / country

Years 2 & 3: Work on key issues

• Management
• Tree stands replacement
• Policies: Assessment of present policy management measures in order to adapt to climate change (survey among countries).
• Coordination
• Information / communication

Year 4:	Guidelines and recommendations for managers and forest manager
	Identification of needs in the future researches and development projects

And throughout the duration of the action: updating the national reports




List of members

Country	Name	Organization	Email
Lithuania	Olgirda Belova	Lithuanian Forest Research Institute	Baltic.Forestry@mi.lt
Switzerland	Peter Brang	WSL Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research	peter.brang@wsl.ch
Belgium	Hugues Claessens	FUSAGx	claessens.h@fsagx.ac.be
Italy	Paolo Di Martino	University of Molise	dimartin@unimol.it
Bulgaria	Georgi Georgiev	University of Forestry - BG	doc_georgi_kostov@abv.bg
Cyprus	Erodotos Kakouri		ekakouri@cytanet.com.cy
Sweden	Carina Keskitalo		carina.keskitalo@geography.umu.se
Estonia	Henn Korjus	Estonian University of Life Sciences	henn.korjus@emu.ee
EFI	Marcus Lindner	European Forest Institute	marcus.lindner@efi.int
France	Myriam Legay	Office National des Forêts	myriam.legay@nancy.inra.fr
Austria	Manfred Josef Lexer	University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna; Institute of Silviculture	mj.lexer@boku.ac.at
Finland	Annikki Makela		annikki.makela@helsinki.fi
Germany	Franz Makeschin	Dresden University of Technology Faculty Forest, Geo and Hydro Sciences	makeschin@t-online.de
Italy	Marco Marchetti	Università degli Studi del Molise	marchettimarco@unimol.it
Switzerland	Andreas Meyer	Ernst Basler + Partner, Zurich	andreas.meyer@ebp.ch
Switzerland	Urs Mühlethaler	Bern university of applied sciences, forest ecology	urs.muehlethaler@bfh.ch
Serbia	Sasa Orlovic	Institute of Lowland Forestry and Environment	sasao@uns.ns.ac.yu
Croatia	Ivan Pilas	Forest Research Institute	ivanp@sumins.hr
Greece	Yannis Raftoyannis	Department of Forestry, TEI Lamias	rafto@teilam.gr
Germany	Peter Schall	Department of Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, Georg-August University Göttingen	peter.schall@forst.uni-goettingen.de
Lithuania	Vidas Stakenas	Lithuanian Forest Research Institute	v.stakenas@mi.lt
Slovak Republic	Igor Stefancik	National Forest Centre - Forest Research Institute in Zvolen	stefancik@nlcsk.org
Czech Republic	Miroslav Svoboda	Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Silviculture	svobodam@fld.czu.cz
Italy	Lorenzo Venzi	University of Tuscia - Dept.of Ecology and Sust. Econ.Devel	lvenzi@unitus.it