Call for Abstracts - Decision support tools for mountain forest management

The conference "Mountain Forest Management in a Changing World" will provide the opportunity to present and discuss the potentials and limitations of current and possible future approaches to mountain forest management for providing portfolios of ecosystem services under current and future climatic and socio-economic conditions.

Themes of the conference are:
- Potentials and limitations of current management approaches to provide multiple ecosystem services
- Climate change impacts on ecosystem service provisioning in mountain forests
- Disturbance regimes in mountain forests and implications for ecosystem services
- Alternative management strategies in mountain forests and consequences on ecosystem service provisioning
- Decision support tools for mountain forest management
- Governance approaches to secure multiple ecosystem service provisioning in the future

The call for abstracts is available at
http://www.nlcsk.sk/mfm-conference.

Important dates:
Abstract submission: 15 February 2015
Feedback on acceptance of abstracts: 15 March 2015
Early registration deadline: 30 March 2015
Late registration deadline: 15 May 2015

Contact:
Prof. Manfred J. Lexer
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
mj.lexer@boku.ac.at