08:00 Registration and Information desk

09:00 Welcoming Coffee - Atrium

09:30 Opening Session – Auditorium

Which includes the Rector of the University of Évora, Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar (or representative), the Research Director of INRAE and IUFRO Div8 Coordinator, Sandra Luque, the Director of the Research Unit MED, Fátima Batista and the Conference Chair, Teresa Pinto Correia

Chair: Teresa Pinto Correia

10:00 PL 1 Fire regimes of Portugal: pastoral, periurban, wild, and agricultural

José Miguel Cardoso Pereira

10:30 PL 2 Living labs for systemic innovations in silvopastoral systems: opportunities and challenges

Pier Paolo Roggero

11:30 Coffee Break - Atrium

12:00 Poster Session – Small square

13:00 Lunch – Room 129

Chair: Helena Guimarães

14:00 OC 1.1 Finding the path in the forest – An interdisciplinary approach towards multifunctionality in northern forests

Cecilia Akselsson

14:15 OC 1.2 Effective Communication: Key to Advancing Multifunctional Forestry in the Climate Change Period

Marcel Riedl

14:30 OC 1.3 Urban greenspace for Nature, Society and Culture across diverse landscapes and contexts in Eastern Europe

Marine Elbakidze

14:45 OC 1.4 Where Forest Meets the Ocean: Operationalising an Integrated Landscape-Seascape Approach in Eastern Taiwan (2016-2023)

Kuang-Chung Lee

15:00 OC 1.5 Our Common Water

Lars Högbom

Chair: Pierre Sicard

14:00 OC 2.1 Canopy-based Classification of Urban Vegetation from Very High-Resolution Satellite Imagery

Fatimatou Coulibaly

14:15 OC 2.2 The role of spaceborne LiDAR systems for forest monitoring

Sérgio Godinho

14:30 OC 2.5 Close range remote sensing of relative humidity

Alexandru Claudiu Dobre

Chair: Sergio Prats

14:00 OC 3.1 Effect of mixture and management of a Southern European beech forest on carbon stocks and sinks

Lorenzo MW Rossi

14:15 OC 3.2 Impact of five tree species conversion modalities on fauna and fungi soil biodiversity as monitored by DNA-metabarcoding in temperate forests

Vicent Moulin

14:30 OC 3.3 Pyrenean oak forests under global change - integrating projected suitable areas in management plans

Isabel Passos

14:45 OC 3.5 Tree growth responses to climate variability provide insight about future tipping points in subalpine forests of western North America

Elizabeth Campbell

Chair: Marina Castro

14:00 OC 5.1 Developing soil early indicators on Montados’ soil functions

Oscar Gonzalez-Pelayo

14:15 OC 5.2 The positive effect of trees on pasture quality and soil carbon sequestration in holm oak savannas

Alejandro Carrascosa Becerril

14:30 OC 5.3 The relationship between Canopy greenness and water availability in Cork and Holm Oak within the Portuguese Montado

Danielle Rudley

14:45 OC 5.4 Towards satellite remote sensing of quality of Mediterranean grasslands to support management in agro-silvo-pastoral systems

Jesús Fernández Habas

Chairs: Anna Barbati; John Devaney; João Carlos Azevedo

14:00 RT 1 Forest Landscape Restoration: resilient socioecological landscapes in the making

René Zamora Cristales,Mónca Toro-Manriquez, Alejandro Huertas

Chair: Nuno Guiomar

16:00 OC 2.5 Improving conservation targets for forest biodiversity: toward operational solutions from space

Sandra Luque

16:15 OC 2.6 Species distribution models using remote-sensed dynamic habitat index

Samuel Alleaume

16:30 OC 2.7 Using remote sensing to model the breeding habitat of the Black Grouse, in open forest

Alexandre Defossez

16:45 OC 2.8 Matching the effects of forest structure with management for predicting species occupancy at multiple spatial scales

Adriano Mazziotta

Chair: Ana Cristina Gonçalves

16:00 OC 3.6 How will climate change impact maritime pine forest distribution and productivity in Portugal?

Cristina Alegria

16:15 OC 3.7 SWAT based responses on two contrasting eucalypt-dominated catchments under different climate scenarios

João Rocha

16:30 OC 3.9 Soil organic carbon stock in managed, unmanaged, and disturbed Nothofagus forests in Chilean Patagonia

Mónica Toro-Manriquez

Chair: Mª Helena Guimarães

16:00 OC 4.1 Landscape transformation through collaborative approaches

Sandra Valente

16:15 OC 4.2 Collaborative and strategic landscape planning for wildfire management – evidence from Portugal

Teresa Pinto Correia

16:30 OC 4.3 Poor performance of community forests to sustainable livelihoods in Cameroon: long-term impact assessment and ways forward

Guillaume Lescuyer

16:45 OC 4.4 Assessing Connectivity and Habitat Suitability of Green Infrastructure in the Boreal Forest of Sweden

Ewa Orlikowska

Chair: Marina Castro

16:00 OC 5.5 The transformation of the silvopastoral landscape of Montesinho Natural Park (1995 – 2021)

Vitor Seripieri

16:15 OC 5.6 Stakeholder-informed assessment of grassland management for ecosystem services in dehesa/montado systems

Verena Arndt

16:30 OC 5.7 Don't Put All your Eggs in One Basket: Montado silvo-pastoral system as a case study of resilience

Isabel Ferraz de Oliveira

16:45 OC 5.8 Potential of Bituminaria bituminosa as a new forage perennial legume in Montados and Dehesas of the Iberian Peninsula

Jesús Fernández Habas

Chairs: Pierre Sicard; Alessandra De Marco

16:00 RT 2 Air Pollution and Climate Change Impacts

Yasumoto Hoskhika;Ovidiu Badea; Cristina Branquinho; Melania Michetti

08:00 Registration and Information desk

08:30 Field Trip: Arrival to the meeting point

09:00 Field Trip: Bus departure

Tiago Marques

The Montado is a multifunctional silvopastoral system that is known for its high levels of biodiversity and sustainable use of natural resources. However, in recent times, a general decline in the system has been observed in many areas due to various causes such as diseases, climate change, overgrazing, changes in land use and soil fertility. This decay is having negative impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the livelihoods of local communities. The Montado is a Mediterranean agro-sylvo-pastoral system, characterized by the presence of cork oak (Quercus suber) and holm oak (Quercus rotundifolia) trees, that are the main elements of the landscape. The scrub communities are diverse and typical of Mediterranean regions, and the landscape is also home to various freshwater habitats such as streams and temporary ponds, which enrich the biodiversity of the area. The cork oak is especially valuable for its bark that is harvested for cork production, which is an important economic activity. The acorns of the holm oak can feed the black pigs that graze in the undergrowth.
During this walk, we will explore a Montado landscape in the Mediterranean region, characterized by its well-preserved riparian areas. We will cover a distance of 10-12 kilometers and discuss the natural and social values of the landscape, as well as the management practices that are necessary to maintain them. This visit will provide an opportunity to learn about the biodiversity, ecosystem services, and cultural significance of the Montado, as well as the challenges and opportunities for its sustainable management.

Duration: 7.5 hours
Location: Serra de Monfurado, a Natura 2000 site near Évora

Isabel Ferraz de Oliveira & Elvira Sales Baptista

Our visit will take us to different sustainable integrative approaches of sylvopastoral systems based on Montado. The Montado is a unique silvo-pastoral system based on native pastures under a canopy of evergreen oaks, where animals are raised free-ranging all year round. These systems have low labour and capital inputs and can provide a variety of ecosystem services. The oak trees are central to the multifunctional sylvopastoral Montado as, besides the cork and acorns’ production, they also provide shade and shelter to livestock. Regarding feed resources, the Montado main constraints are related to low soil fertility and rainfall variation that have a huge impact on pasture biomass and animal productivity. Sustainable integrative solutions at the landscape level to cope with uncertainty within this system will be discussed. The farms are located within 50 Km from Évora, in the heart of the Montado.
Visit to two estates to see, in situ, the different activities, with special emphasis on forestry and grazing, which contribute to the integrated and sustainable management of the Montado.

Duration: 7.5 hours
Location: Farms near Évora

Ana Cristina Gonçalves

Visit to the Amorim cork factory and cork oak and umbrella pine forest stands. Corticeira Amorim is the world’s biggest cork processing group and makes an unparalleled contribution to the business, market, economy, innovation and the sustainability of the entire cork industry. Founded in 1870, the company soon realized the infinite potential of this 100% natural raw material, transforming it into a widely-appreciated object in the context of an open, curious, alert, informed and prosperous society.
Cork oak and umbrella pine forest stands are multiple use systems characterized by its low density, heterogeneous spatial distribution, in which the main productions are bark (cork oak) and fruit, frequently associated to other productions such as grazing and non-woody products.

Duration: 7.5 hours
Location: Coruche

08:00 Registration and Information desk

Chair: Sandra Luque

09:00 PL 3 Forest governance in transition - caught between global agendas and local needs

Camilla Sandström

09:30 PL 4 Innovations to Enable, Invest and Monitor Landscape Restoration Implementation: Public and private finance to restore 350 million hectares of degraded landscapes globally

René Zamora Cristales

Chair: Sérgio Prats

11:00 OC 3.10 Even Cooler Insights: On the power of forests to (Water and Earth and) cool the Planet

David Ellison

11:15 OC 3.11 Landscape fire severity: a multi-scale analysis of the drivers

Nuno Guiomar

11:30 OC 3.12 Temporal and spatial patterns of extreme wildfire events at the European landscape scale

Vanda Acácio

11:45 OC 3.13 Assessing the economic value of the Fire Protection Ecosystem Service in a mountainous landscape in northern Portugal

Ângelo Sil

Chair: Mónica Toro-Manríquez

11:00 OC 4.5 Moving to clear-cut free alternatives in Swedish forestry

Renats Trubins

11:15 OC 4.7 Spatial decision support tools for assessing land-based climate mitigation actions

Ekaterina Tarasova

11:30 OC 4.8 The Impact of Forest Management Plans on Forest Disturbances in Logging Concessions of the Congo Basin

Marc Bouvier

11:45 OC 4.9 Characterization and Analysis of Rural Property Register as an Instrument for Land Management

Maria de Belém Costa Freitas

Chair: Isabel Ferraz de Oliveira

11:00 OC 5.09 How many trees to fall: how and where are we losing the Montado silvo-pastoral system?

J. Tiago Marques

11:15 OC 5.10 Assisted Cork Oak regeneration; The effect of shading and herbaceousvegetation removal

Maria C. Caldeira

11:30 OC 5.11 Impact of cattle grazing spatiotemporal variation on cork oak seedling survival

Abdullah Ibne Wadud

11:45 OC 5.12 Effects of conservation zones on the biodiversity and ecosystem services of Mediterranean evergreen oak woodlands

Miguel Nuno Bugalho

12:00 OC 5.13 MIXED production at the landscape level: an emergy assessment on different agricultural systems under the same management

Joana Marinheiro

Chair: Patrícia Bacalhau

11:00 OC 6.1 Learning from the past to face future challenges: gathering expert knowledge on the evolution of forest restoration in Europe

Maitane Erdozain

11:15 OC 6.3 Trees4water- Tree based solutions for water quality improvement

Cláudia Carvalho Santos

11:30 OC 6.4 Seedballs: Exploring its potential for an alternative planting strategies in elevating forest landscape restoration effort for Sarawak, Malaysia

Annya Ambrose

Chairs: Sandra Luque and Paulina G. Karimova

11:00 RT 3 A Nexus approach to improving biodiversity and ecosystem services for sustainable landscapes on the road towards 2030 conservation targets

Kuang-Chung Lee; Marine Elbakidze

Chair: Sandra Luque

14:30 OC 2.9 Priority areas identification and management strategies for landscape forest restoration in Mozambique

Frédérique Montfort

14:45 OC 2.10 Hurricane Activities in Gulf of Mexico Lead to Conversion of Forested Land: Implications for Water Quantity/Quality

Latif Kalin

15:00 OC 2.11 Assessing the Fragmentation, Canopy Loss and Spatial Distribution of Forest Cover in Kakamega National Forest Reserve

Erick O. Osewe

15:15 OC 2.13 Prioritizing Woodland Expansion with ECOFOREST: A Web-Based Tool for Ecosystem Service-Based Spatial Targeting

Alessandro Gimona

Chair: Francesca Giannetti

14:30 OC 4.10 Forest certification and economic valorization in Europe: main drivers and limitations

Sofia Corticeiro

14:45 OC 4.11 Matching policy and academic practices – the case of the Montado results-based payments

Mª Helena Guimarães

15:00 OC 4.12 Riparian buffer zones in production forests create unequal costs among forest owners

Tristan Bakx

15:15 OC 4.13 Institutional structures for protecting biodiversity and preventing illegal activities in forested landscapes in selected Western Balkan countries

Maja Radosavljevic

15:30 OC 4.14 Private forest owners’ organizations adherence to policy tools in Portugal

Paula Simões

Chair: Athanasios Ragkos

14:30 OC 5.14 Perceived benefits from agroforestry landscapes across North-Eastern Europe: What matters and for whom?

Marine Elbakidze

14:45 OC 5.15 Agroforestry business model innovation network (AF4EU)

Maria Rosa Mosquera-Lousada

15:00 OC 5.16 Modelling shepherds’ decision-making about grazing on forested mountain landscapes - contributions for keeping discontinuity

Catarina Esgalhado

15:15 OC 5.18 Residual signature of sewage sludge in soil bacterial communities 15 years after application

Maria Rosa Mosquera-Lousada

Chair: Miguel Bugalho

14:30 OC 6.6 Rehabilitation of Nothofagus pumilio forests in northern Chilean Patagonia

Alejandro Huertas Herrera

14:45 OC 6.7 Can biochar amendment of forest fire-affected soil reduce soil erosion by water?

Oscar Gonzalez-Pelayo

15:00 OC 6.8 Climate Resilient Forest Restoration

Patricia Maloney

15:15 OC 6.9 What’s the value of Seed Dispersal?

José Benedicto Royuela

15:30 OC 6.10 Upscaling forest restoration with SUPERB: The Spanish demonstrative area

Judit Torres Fernández del Campo

Chairs: David Ellison; Mingfang Zhang

14:30 RT 4 IUFRO Forest and Water Task Force Roundtable Discussion: Managing the Forest-Water & Energy Nexus in an Increasingly Competitive & Challenging World

Nadeem Shah; Irena Creed; Lars Högbom; Adam Wei

Chair: João Azevedo

16:30 OC 1.6 Post-abandonment landscape trajectories in Terras de Trás-os-Montes, Portugal

Lien Imbrechts

16:45 OC 1.7 Expert's Perception Analysis on Alternatives to Compensate Feed Deficits for Livestock during Shortage Periods in Dehesas

Verena Arndt

17:00 OC 1.8 How people perceive the ecosystem services provided by Pyrenean oak forests

Anabela Paula

Chair: Ana Cristina Gonçalves

16:30 OC 2.14 Landscape Approaches as operational artifacts to move towards more sustainable governance of rural land-uses in the Mediterranean macro-regional context

José Muñoz-Rojas

16:45 OC 2.15 Towards a Forest Bocage: multifunctionality of a network of broadleaved hedgerows in a pine plantation landscape

Nattan Plat

17:00 OC 2.16 Functional connectivity models to inform sustainable management practices in standard production forests

Pedro A. Salgueiro

17:15 OC 2.17 Critical biomass harvesting for policy support in northern forests

Cecilia Akselsson

Chair: J. Tiago Marques

16:30 OC 3.15 Unravelling bat species’ response to environmental structure and patterns of occupancy in a Mediterranean landscape

Frederico Martins

16:45 OC 3.16 Trends in airborne oak pollen: climate change effects in Oaks Forest in Alentejo Region (South Portugal)

Elsa Caeiro

17:00 OC 3.17 Mediterranean woodlands on the edge – Road pressure on rodent-mediated seed dispersal

João Craveiro

17:15 OC 3.18 Responses of Quercus ilex seedlings to combined, drought and Phytophthora cinnamomi, stresses: a metabolomic analysis

Marta Tienda Parrilla

Chair: Marine Elbakidze

16:30 OC 4.15 Prescribed fire management strategy for post-harvest eucalypt plantations in Portugal

Sofia Corticeiro

16:45 OC 4.16 Forging fire-resilient landscapes: fire-smart solutions for sustainable wildfire risk prevention

Anna Barbati

17:00 OC 4.17 How willing are individuals to be involved in forest fire prevention in Portugal?

Maria Eduarda Fernandes

17:15 OC 4.18 The effect of knowledge in stakeholders’ involvement in forest management: the example of Matas do Litoral public forest

Maria Eduarda Fernandes

Chair: Pia Katila

16:30 RT 5 Context matters for forest restoration

Glenn Galloway, Wil de Jong, Pablo Pacheco, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Georg Winkel

Chair: Gerardo Moreno

09:00 OC 1.10 The Portuguese natural resin sector: from resin tapping to the second transformation industry

Joana Vieira

09:15 OC 1.11 Pine-based forestry deters forest restoration in tropical mountain landscapes with traditional agriculture in southern Mexico

Mario González-Espinosa

09:30 OC 1.12 Charcoal production in Licuati key biodiversity area: A participatory assessment of forest management and degradation

Filipa Zacarias

Chair: J. Tiago Marques

09:00 OC 2.18 Fire severity effects on soil Carbon and Nitrogen stocks in southern Iberian Peninsula: comparing prescribed and wildfires

Sergio Prats

09:15 OC 2.19 Effects of land-use changes and fire events in the population dynamics of Acacia dealbata: a hybrid modelling approach

Cristina Lima

09:30 OC 2.20 National Evaluation of Invasive Tree and Understory Forest Plant Prevalence across the United States

Kevin Potter

Chair: J. Tiago Marques

10:00 OC 3.19 Increasing disturbance activity in forest ecosystems – Tipping points and adaptive management

Dominik Thom

10:15 OC 3.20 Bridging experimental and monitoring research for the assessment of ozone impacts on Mediterranean trees

Yasumoto Hoshika

Chair: Gerardo Moreno

10:00 OC 4.19 Is Woodland Expansion an Economically Efficient Alternative for Offsetting Carbon?

Paola Ovando

10:15 4.21 Pruning the economy: implications of degrowth scenarios for the forest sector

Paul Rougieux

Chair: Teresa Pinto Correia

11:30 RT 6 Facing Global Change, which policies to support the resilience of Mediterranean forests?
Organization: CHANGE – Institute for Global Change and Sustainability, Portugal

With
Athanasios Ragkos, Agricultural Economics Research Institute , Athens & coordinator of the Prima Project PASTINNOVA
Rosa Onofre, Regional Directorate for Planning and Environment (CCDRA), Alentejo, Portugal
Gerardo Moreno, Universidade de Extremeadura, Spain
Ana Cristina Cardoso, Cork Supply

& Launching of the Research Group SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS and PASTORALISM, in IUFRO Div 8 – Forest Environment