Provisional Program
This program is provisional and will be updated as planning proceeds. The sessions and function times may change in the final program, so please check this page regularly.
| Thursday 7 October 2010 | |
| Arrive in Melbourne, Australia | |
| Check into the Hotel Ibis, Therry Street (if applicable) | |
| 1500 | Registration at the the Hotel Ibis, Therry Street |
| Welcome Reception & Public Lecture at the State Library of Victoria |
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| 1800-1900 | Drinks and nibbles in the foyer |
| 1900 | Opening remarks: Chair: Gordon Duff, CEO of CRC Forestry Prof Andrew Holmes of the Australian Academy of Sciences to open meeting |
| 1920-2020 | Guest
Speaker: David Whitehead, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research Forests as carbon sinks - benefits and consequences |
| 2020 | Questions |
| 2030 | Lecture concludes |
| Friday 8 October 2010 | |
| 0700 | Breakfast |
| 0830 | Coaches depart from Hotel Ibis, 15-21 Therry Street |
| 1200 | Lunch |
| Check in to Howmans Gap Alpine Camp, Falls Creek | |
| 1830 | Dinner |
| Saturday 9 October 2010 | |
| 0700 | Breakfast |
| 0810 | Conference Opening |
| Oral session 1 Theme 1: Water and Carbon Fluxes, pools and turnover Chair: Chris Beadle |
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| 0830 | Unsolved Problems in Whole Tree Physiology Keynote Speaker: Dr Michael Ryan, USDA Forest Service |
| 0915 | Functional responses of California's redwoods to climate and water availability Dr Anthony Ambrose*, Dr Todd Dawson, Dr Stephen Sillett, Dr Bob Van Pelt |
| 0940 | Impact of elevated CO2 on carbon and water fluxes of Eucalyptus saligna Dr Craig Barton |
| 1005 | Morning Tea |
| 1030 | Unexpected CO2 by drought interaction can be explained by tree size at the Hawkesbury Forest Experiment Dr Remko Duursma*, Dr Craig Barton, Professor Derek Eamus, Dr Belinda Medlyn |
| 1055 | Thinning, pruning and fertilising influence growth and water use efficiency in a Eucalyptus nitens plantation Dr David Forrester*, Dr Thomas Baker, John Collopy, Dr Chris Beadle, Dr Charles Warren |
| 1120 | The response of forest growth to climatic variability and changes in European Russia Dr Alexander Olchev*, Professor Malcolm Hughes, Dr Andy Bunn |
| 1145 | The role of topography and wildfire in determining patterns of evapotranspiration in mixed species eucalypt forests Dr Patrick Mitchell*, Dr Richard Benyon, Dr Patrick Lane |
| 1210 | Lunch |
| 1300 | Water and energy fluxes above an Eucalyptus plantation in Brazil: environmental control and comparison with two eucalypt plantations in Congo Dr Yan Nouvellon*, Dr José-Luiz Stape, Dr Jean-Paul Laclau, Dr Jean-Marc Bonnefond, Dr Oliver Roupsard |
| 1325 | The impact of elevated CO2 and drought on nocturnal sap flow in Eucalyptus Dr Melanie Zeppel*, Dr Nathan Phillip, Professor David Tissue, Dr Remko Duursma, Dr Craig Barton |
| 1350 | Global nutrient limitation on land carbon uptake Keynote speaker: Ying-Ping Wang, Benjamin Z Houlton |
| 1435 | Summary discussion |
| 1500 | Afternoon Tea |
| 1530 | Site visit |
| 1800 | Dinner |
| Sunday 10 October 2010 | |
| 0700 | Breakfast |
| 0820 | Oral session 2 Theme 2: Structural and Physiological acclimation of forest canopies Chair: David Ellsworth |
| 0830 | Tall trees in a changing climate: does plasticity in functional traits
matter? Keynote speaker: Dr Maurizio Mencuccini, Edinburgh University |
| 0915 | Drought responses of plantation species from the low rainfall south to the tropical North of Australia Dr Donald White*, Dr Jennifer Carter, Dr Anthony O'Grady, Dr Chris Beadle, Dr Michael Battaglia |
| 0940 | Self organizing trees in physiology, morphology and growth from biophysical and evolutionary principles Dr Frank Sterck*, Dr Feike Schieving |
| 1005 | Morning Tea |
| 1030 | Impacts of elevated [CO2] and temperature on photosynthetic capacity in boreal Norway spruce during spring Dr Göran Wallin*, Dr Marianne Hall, Dr Michelle Slaney, Mats Räntfors, Dr Jane Medhurst, Professor Sune Linder |
| 1055 | Ontogenetic variation in whole-plant carbon balance of juvenile deciduous and evergreen trees Kerrie Sendall*, Dr Chris Lusk, Dr Peter Reich |
| 1120 | Why do imports grow higher up New Zealand mountains than native conifers? Ellen Cieraad*, Dr Margaret Barbour, Dr Robert Baxter, Dr Matt McGlone, Professor Brian Huntley |
| 1145 | Canopy development and photosynthetic traits of three species of birch saplings in northern Japan Professor Takayoshi Koike*, Dr Mitsutoshi Kitao, Dr Makoto Watanabe |
| 1210 | Lunch |
| 1300 | Effect of Low Water Availability on the Physiological Response of Eucalyptus globulus to Partial Defoliation Dr Audrey Quentin*, Dr Anthony O'Grady, Dr Chris Beadle |
| 1325 | Drought alters the responses of two Eucalyptus species to growth at pre-industrial, current and future atmospheric CO2 and elevated temperature Professor David Tissue*, Professor Nathan Phillips, Professor Barry Logan, Professor James Lewis, Professor Jann Conroy |
| 1350 | The carbon-balance approach to tree growth and survival: time to open the box Keynote speaker: Dr Anna Sala |
| 1435 | Summary discussion |
| 1500 | Afternoon Tea |
| 1540 | Poster session 1 There will be two poster sessions, one at Howmans Gap and one in Tarraleah. Poster presenters will be asked to give a five minute presentation to each poster with a few minutes for questions and discussion. A poster trail will be marked out at each venue and delegates will be divided into small groups to move around the venues and see each of the presented posters. Chairs: Anthony O'Grady, Melanie Zeppel |
| Shrub phenology on sahelian fallow systems and consequences for carbon and transpiration fluxes N. Boulain, B. Cappelaere, H.B.A. Issoufou, O. Halilou, D. Ramier, J. Seghieri, R. Whitley, D. Eamus, M. Oi, J.P. Chazarin |
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| Estimation of surface area of forest trees derived from tree architecture Yukihiro Chiba, Chiharu Migita |
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| Seasonality, convergence in bulk canopy traits, and ecohydrological feedback to climate change James Cleverly, Marcy Litvak |
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| Photosynthetic properties in Chamaecyparis obtusa growing on different topographies Daisuke Kabeya, Qingmin Han, Yukihiro Chiba, Takeo Mizoguchi |
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| Changes in photosynthesis and leaf nitrogen with tree age in Pinus densiflora Qingmin Han |
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| Temporal and Spatial Patterns of leaf area index in the Corin Catchment, Australian Capital Territory Joseph Henry, Floris van Ogtrop, Willem Vervoort, Mark Adams, Tarryn Turnbull |
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| Physiology of Australian tropical rainforests under climatic change Jeff Kelly, Belinda Medlyn |
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| Soil CO2 fluxes in tropical forest of southern Vietnam Kurbatova J., Kurganova I, Lopes de Gerenu V, Anichkin A, Kuznetsov A |
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| Temperature responses of photosynthesis: what is the best approach for leaf measurements in warming experiments? Yan-Shih Lin, Belinda Medlyn, David Ellsworth |
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| Leaf gas exchange and water use efficiency of Eucalyptus hybrid clones under different climates Rodolfo Araujo Loos, Tatiana da Silva Lopes, Ricardo Miguel Penchel, Jupiter Israel Muro Abad, José Eduardo Macedo Pezzopane |
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| Growth and Photosynthetic Responses of the Hybrid Larch F1 to Nitrogen and Phosphate Application Qiaozhi Mao, Makoto Watanabe, Kobayashi Makoto, Masakazu Imori, Kazuhito Kitas, Takayoshi Koike |
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| Impacts of a spruce and fir beetle outbreak on carbon balance in a subalpine spruce-fir forest Brianna Miles, Michael Ryan, John Bradford, William Massman, John Frank | |
| Post-wildfire changes in plant functioning and vegetation dynamics: implications for water fluxes in re-sprouting forests Rachael Nolan, Patrick Mitchell, Patrick Lane, Ross Bradstock |
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| Photosynthetic Nitrogen and Water Use Efficiency of Acacia and Eucalypt Seedlings as Afforestation Materials in Tropical Region Eka Novriyanti, Makoto Watanabe, Hideho Kohda, Takayoshi Takeda, Yasuyuki Hashidoko, Takayoshi Koike |
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| Acclimation of twenty species of eucalypt to growth temperature is structural, physiological and independent of ecological distribution Tarryn Turnbull, J Kruse, Mark Adams |
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| Photosynthetic traits of hybrid larch F1 under down-regulation of photosynthesis by elevated CO2 concentration Makoto Watanabe, Satoshi Kitaoka, Hajime Utsugi, Kazuhito Kita, Masazumi Kayama, Yoko Watanabe, Takayoshi Koike |
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| An Assessment of the Impact of Groundwater Availability on the Ecophysiology of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Sepideh Zolfaghar, Derek Eamus, Melanie Zeppel, James Cleverly |
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| Trees in an extreme environment – performance in a high light, temperature and VPD environment with a continuous water supply Claudia Keitel, Sebastian Pfautsch, Tarryn Turnbull, Mark Adams |
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| 1800 | Dinner |
| IUFRO Business Session Chairs: Chris Beadle, Mike Ryan |
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| Monday 11 October 2010 | |
| 0700 | Breakfast |
| 0820 | Depart for Melbourne |
| Lunch | |
| 1500 | Arrive at Melbourne airport, check-in to flight |
| 1620-1735 | Fly to Hobart, Tasmania DJ1328 |
| 1735 | Disembark and collect luggage, board coaches for Tarraleah Delegates joining us for the Tasmanian leg only join us at the Hobart airport or be collected from Hobart separately. Contact anna@cdesign.com.au if you want to be picked up in Hobart CBD |
| 1800-2000 | Travel to Tarraleah |
| 2000 | Dinner & check in to accommodation |
| Tuesday 12 October 2010 | |
| 0700 | Breakfast |
| 0820 | Oral session 3 Theme 3: Land and atmosphere exchanges from the leaf to the region Chair: Anna Sala |
| 0830 | Canopy carbon and water exchanges on forest sites with contrasting soil water availability. Keynote speaker: Dr Dennis Loustau, INRA France |
| 0915 | Photosynthetic enhancement by elevated atmospheric CO2 on fast-growing Eucalyptus is not sustained Dr David Ellsworth*, Dr Craig Barton, Dr Markus Loew, Yan-shih Lin, Dr Remko Duursma |
| 0940 | Scaling autotrophic respiration to the canopy and landscape scales in the Alaskan Arctic Professor Kevin Griffin*, Nicholas Mirotchnick, Dr Adrian Rocha, Dr Anja Kaja, Professor Syndonia Bret-Harte |
| 1005 | Morning Tea |
| 1030 | Does leaf and canopy scale mass and energy efficiency change along rainfall gradients in the seasonal tropics? Associate Professor Lindsay Hutley*, Associate Professor Jason Beringer, Dr Peter Isaac, Dr Lucas Cernusak |
| 1055 | Spatial-temporal patterns in satellite-derived fluxes across a tropical savanna moisture gradient Professor Alfredo Huete*, Professor Derek Eamus, Dr Nicholas Boulain, Associate Professor Lindsay Hutley |
| 1120 | Water energy and carbon exchanges in young coniferous plantations: effect of the presence of gorses Virginie Moreaux*, Denis Loustau, Eric Lamaud, Jean Marc Bonnefond, Alexandre Bosc |
| 1145 | Quantifying the ecohydrological effects of CO2 fertilisation Randall Donohue*, Dr Tim McVicar, Dr Michael Roderick, Professor Graham Farquhar |
| 1210 | Lunch in the Church |
| Theme 3: Land and atmosphere exchanges from the leaf to the region Chair: Belinda Medlyn |
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| 1300 | Temporal Variability in CO2 Exchange between Forest and Atmosphere Eva Van Gorsel*, Heather Keith, Vanessa Haverd, Ray Leuning |
| 1325 | Gross primary productivity of a mixed boreal pine and spruce forest in Sweden in relation to long-term trends in drivers Professor Anders Lindroth*, Dr Meelis Mölder, Dr Margareta Hellström, Patrik Vestin, Elin Sundqvist |
| 1350 | Water, Forests and Fire Keynote speaker: Professor Michael Roderick, Australian National University |
| 1435 | Summary discussion |
| 1500 | Afternoon Tea |
| 1530 | Poster session 2 There will be two poster sessions, one at Howmans Gap and one in Tarraleah. Poster presenters will be asked to give a five minute presentation to each poster with a few minutes for questions and discussion. A poster trail will be marked out at each venue and delegates will be divided into small groups to move around the venues and see each of the presented posters. Chairs: Anthony O'Grady, Jane Medhurst |
| Organic Nitrogen Promotes Root Growth of Trees Torgny Näsholm, Ross McMurtrie |
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| Combined effects of elevated [CO2] and mineral nutrition on intrinsic water-use efficiency of Norway spruce John D Marshall, Sune Linder |
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| Annual height and volume increment of mature Norway spruce trees grown for three years in elevated [CO2] at ambient or elevated air temperature and contrasting nutrient availability Bjarni Sigurdsson, Jane Medhurst, Olafur Eggertsson, Sune Linder |
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| Forest productivity is sensitive to rates of nutrient movement in soils Ross McMurtrie, Torgny Näsholm, Richard Norby, Colleen Iversen, Roderick Dewar |
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| Will elevated CO2 mean trees have more leaves, or more efficient leaves? Ross McMurtrie, David Pepper, Richard Norby, Colleen Iversen |
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| Foliar and shoot morphology of mature Norway spruce trees grown for three years in elevated [CO2] at ambient or elevated air temperature and contrasting nutrient availability Jane Medhurst, Bjarni Sigurdsson, Helena Stefansdottir, Göran Wallin, Sune Linder |
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| Patterns of Carbon Flux and Partitioning in Eucalyptus grandis Plantations over a Gradient of Productivity in Brazil Otávio Camargo Campoe, José Luiz Stape, Jean Paul Laclau, Claire Marsden, Yann Nouvellon |
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| Photosynthetic responses of field-grown Pinus radiata trees to artificial and aphid-induced defoliation Alieta Eyles, David Smith, Elizabeth Pinkard, Ian Smith, Caroline Mohammed |
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| Photosynthetic capacity of Eucalyptus globulus is increased when grown in mixture with Acacia mearnsii David Forrester, Kate Lancaster, John Collopy, Charles Warren, Michael Tausz |
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| Effects of [CO2] and temperature elevation on shoot carbon assimilation rates in Norway spruce: a model-based analysis Marianne Hall, Belinda Medlyn, Mats Räntfors, Gab Abramowitz, Oskar Franklin, Sune Linder, Göran Wallin |
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| Optimisation modelling and measurement integration for forest canopies – important uncertainties affecting carbon balance David Pepper |
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| Determining photosynthetic responses of forest species to elevated [CO2]: alternatives to FACE Elizabeth Pinkard, Chris Beadle, D. S. Mendham, J. Carter, M Glen |
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| Vertical distribution of live and dead branches and leaf area over an age sequence as a tool for eucalypt pruning decisions Maria das Graças Reis, Geraldo Reis, Moacir Almeida, Ana Paula Lima, Roosevelt Almado |
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| Response of leaf respiration and photosynthesis of seven tropical tree species to phosphorus deficiency K.W.L.K. Weerasinghe, Keith Bloomfield, Jon Lloyd, Patrick Meir, Owen K. Atkin |
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| Quantifying Nitrogen Fixation of Acacia mangium Willd. Plantations
Grown at Different Levels of Phosphorus in Sumatra M. Gunawan Wibisono, Daniel Mendham, Erik J. Veneklaas |
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| Effect of Leaf Anatomy on Photosynthesis in Isobilateral versus Dorsiventral Leaves in Eucalyptus Species Elke Vermeulen, Professor David Ellsworth |
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| Stand-volume production and carbon sequestration of Acacia mangium plantations at a small-holder scale in Vietnam Nguyen Thi Thuy, Phan Minh Sang, Chris Beadle, Auro Almeida |
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| Linkages between diel carbon and water fluxes in six Eucalyptus species James Lewis, Nathan Phillips, Barry Logan, David Tissue |
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| 1800 | Dinner in Highlander & Wildside Restaurants |
| Wednesday 13 October 2010 | |
| 0700 | Breakfast |
| Field trip: Florentine Valley | |
| 1800 | Conference Dinner Great Hall |
| Thursday 14 October 2010 | |
| 0700 | Breakfast |
| 0820 | Oral session 4 Theme 4: Emerging technologies and approaches-the canopy processes toolkit Chair: Donald White |
| 0830 | New stable isotopic techniques to investigate links between terrestrial carbon and water cycles Keynote Speaker: Dr Margaret Barbour, ARC Future Fellow University of Sydney |
| 0915 | Structural and functional analyses of California’s Redwoods in relation to recent climate change Professor Todd Dawson*, Professor Stephen Sillett, Dr Anthony Ambrose and Dr Robert Van Pelt |
| 0940 | TreeNet - The biological drought and growth indicator network of forest ecosystems Dr Roman Zweifel*, Dr Werner Eugster, Dr Rudolf Häsler |
| 1005 | Morning Tea |
| 1030 | Seasonal patterns of stem growth and physiology in open-grown and suppressed Callitris intratropica Dr David Drew*, Dr Anna Richards, Dr Geoffrey Downes, Dr Patrick Baker, Dr Garry Cook |
| 1055 | Acclimation to short term environmental variation is reflected in d13C of leaf and phloem-sap Dr Andrew Merchant*, Dr Thomas Buckley, Dr Sebastian Pfautsch, Dr Tarryn Turnbull, Glen Samsa, Professor Mark Adams |
| 1120 | Reconciling the optimal and empirical models of stomatal conductance Keynote speaker: Dr Belinda Medlyn, Macquarie University |
| 1200 | Lunch in the Church |
| Oral session 5 Theme 5: Prediction and uncertainty in mechanistic models of forest canopies Chair: Margaret Barbour |
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| 1300 | Optimisation comes of age: new directions in forest modelling Keynote speaker: Prof. Roderick Dewar, Australian National University |
| 1350 | Representing C4 grass behaviour as well as the trees in a tropical savanna using a SPA model: mesic savannas are energy limited not water limited Professor Derek Eamus*, Dr Cate Macinnis-Ng, Rhys Whitley, Dr Jason Beringer, Associate Professor Lindsay Hutley |
| 1415 | Estimating forest productivity under future climates: adding pests into the equation Dr Libby Pinkard*, Dr Michael Battaglia, Stephen Roxburgh, Jody Bruce |
| 1440 | Estimating effects of climate change scenarios on Vietnamese forests Dr Auro Almeida*, Dr Hoang Viet Anh, Dr Chris Beadle, Dr Keryn Paul, Anders Siggins |
| 1505 | Afternoon Tea |
| 1530 | Summary discussion & Conference wrap up |
| 1800 | BBQ dinner on the lawn |
| Friday 15 October 2010 | |
| 0700 | Breakfast |
| 0730 | Early bus departs for Hobart (Tranzfor workshop delegates) |
| 0900 | Second bus departs for Hobart Conference delegates will be returned to Hobart & Hobart airport by 1pm at the latest Return flight from Hobart to Melbourne not provided |