Forward; Yvo de Boer
1.Introduction; Trevor Fenning
PART 1. Sustainable Forestry & Conservation Objectives
2. A burning issue: Tropical Forests and the Health of Global Ecosystems; Paul McMahon
3. Silviculture of planted forests managed for multi-functional objectives: lessons from Chinese and British experiences ; Bill Mason & Jiaojun Zhu
4. Forests for all? Considering the conservation implications of human-species interactions in the context of multifunctional forestry; Mariella Marzano, Christopher P. Quine & Norman Dandy
5. Human engagement with forest environments – implications for physical and mental health and wellbeing; Simon Bell & Catharine Ward Thompson
6. Sustainable forest management in China: Achievements in the past and challenges ahead; Li Nuyun
7. The Value of Forest: An Ecological Economic Examination of Forest People’s Perspective; Debal Deb
PART 2. Forest Resources Worldwide
8. Global trends and outlook for forest resources; Adrian Whiteman
9. Save the forests : Use more wood; Wink Sutton
PART 3. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change
10. Forests in the global carbon cycle; David Schimel
11. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change; John Grace, James Morison & Mike Perks
12. The Influence of Climate Change on Insect Invasions in Temperate Forest Ecosystems; Patrick C. Tobin, Dylan Parry & Brian H. Aukema
PART 4. The Economics of Forestry
13. How cost-effective is forestry for climate change mitigation?; Gregory Valatin & Colin Price
14. Additionality of climate change mitigation activities; Gregory Valatin
15. Different Economic Approaches to Forest Management; David B. South
PART 5. Tree Breeding & Commercial Forestry
16. A Roadmap to Eucalyptus Breeding for Clonal Forestry; Gabriel Dehon S.P. Rezende, Marcos Deon V. de Resende & Teotônio F. de Assis
17. Conifer Somatic Embryogenesis and Multi-varietal Forestry; Yill-Sung Park
18. Modern Advances in Tree Breeding; Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Fikret Isik & Ross W. Whetten
19. A ‘reality check’ in the management of tree breeding programmes ; Heidi S. Dungey, Alvin D. Yanchuk & Rowland D. Burdon
20. Seed orchards and aspects on supporting tree breeding; Dag Lindgren
PART 6. Biotechnological approaches
21. Biosafety considerations in the context of deployment of GM trees; Hely Häggman, Suvi Sutela, Christian Walter & Matthias Fladung
22. Scientific research related to genetically modified trees; Armand Séguin, Denis Lachance, Annabelle Déjardin, Jean-Charles Leplé & Gilles Pilate
23. Forest Biotechnology Futures; Kevan M.A. Gartland & Jill S. Gartland
24. Research and Application of Transgenic Poplar in China; Jianjun Hu, Lijuan Wang, Donghui Yan & Meng-Zhu Lu
PART 7. Genomic studies with forest trees
25. Genome resequencing in Populus: Revealing large-scale genome variation and implications on specialized-trait genomics; Wellington Muchero, Jessy Labbé, Priya Ranjan, Stephen DiFazio & Gerald A. Tuskan
26. Comparative and evolutionary genomics of forest trees; Andrew Groover & Stefan Jansson
PART 8. Bio-energy, lignin and wood
27. Willows as a source of renewable fuels and diverse products; Angela Karp
28. Woodfuel production in the UK – unlocking the existing resource and growing for the future; Ian Tubby
29. Bioenergy opportunities from forests in New Zealand; Peter Hall & Michael Jack
30. Creating the wood supply of the future; Barry Gardiner & John Moore
PART 9. Forest Science, including ecological studies
31. Community genetics applications for forest biodiversity and policy: Planning for the future; Adam S. Wymore, Helen M. Bothwell, Zacchaeus G. Compson, Louis J. Lamit, Faith M. Walker, Scott A. Woolbright & Thomas G. Whitham
32. The long reach of biogenic emissions in the atmosphere; Sanford Sillman
33. Ecological interactions of the host-insect system Quercus robur and Tortrix viridana; Hilke Schroeder & Riziero Tiberi
34. Forests have survived climate changes and epidemics in the past. Will they continue to adapt and survive? At what cost? Stephanos Diamandis
35. Horse chestnut bleeding canker – a 21st Century tree pathogen; S. Green, B.E. Laue, R. Nowell, & H. Steele
36. The use of small footprint airborne LiDAR for the estimation of individual tree parameters in Sitka spruce stands; Juan C. Suárez
