Dead Wood Meeting 2021

 

Registration

Registration is free, open until 10 October 2021. Prepare your 150 words abstract (presenters only) and register here.

Program

All times CET, Oslo time. Check your time zone here. Meeting is carried out online using Zoom. Connection details will be e-mailed to the registered participants. Mondays and Fridays are satellite workshops; the main meeting program will run from Tuesday to Thursday. Sessions will be recorded for the internal use only by the organizers, recordings will not be shared.

Workshop 1     25 October 2021, Monday     Managing interactions data

Leader: Jorrit Poelen.
Time:
09:00 – 12:00 and 14:30 – 17:00
Following the introductory lecture on data as the “first class research citizen” and data papers by Dmitry Schigel, the workshop will introduce the basics of current informatics methods in working with interaction data to students and researchers of dead wood systems. Pre-workshop reading required.

Day 1     26 October 2021, Tuesday     Habitat & fungi

10:00 Welcome
10:10 Opening Dmitry Schigel Dead wood people, meetings, and courses
10:30 Contributed talk Vojtech Tlaskal Bacteria associated with deadwood: from their isolation to metatranscriptomics
10:45 Contributed talk Oleh Prylutskyi Colonize a young tree, wait, and fruit when the tree dies. The case of an oyster mushroom Pleurotus calyptratus suggests a pattern that might be common among wood-inhabiting agarics
11:00 Short break
11:15 Keynote lecture Lynne Boddy Getting to the heart of the matter: decay of veteran trees
12:00 Long break

1400 Symposium resumes
14:00 Keynote lecture Martin Hofrichter Physiology and biochemistry of wood degradation
14:45 Contributed talk Syed Badshah Isolation, characterization and bioassays of Phaelous mushroom polysaccharides
15:00 Short break
15:15 Lightning talks
          Nina Filippova Mukhrino field station and dead wood research in taiga zone of  West Siberia
          Sergey Volobuev Wood-inhabiting aphyllophoroid fungi of the Republic of Dagestan, Russia: species diversity, ecology, distribution
          Darta Klavina Norway spruce wood fungal community in 20-41 years-old spruce dominant stands in Latvia
          Lilith Weber Wood decay as a driver for lichen community assembly in a central European montane forest
          Glen Dierickx Decay on the Beech
16:00 End of the day

Day 2     27 October 2021, Wednesday    Invertebrates & more

09:00 Symposium resumes
09:15 Keynote lecture Tone Birkemoe Dead wood decomposition – does insects contribute?
10:00 Short break
10:15 Keynote lecture Nick Porch Resilience of dead wood fauna on oceanic islands; dead wood macro
11:00 Short break
11:15 Keynote lecture Rannveig Margrete Jacobsen Insect-fungus interactions
12:00 Long break

14:00 Symposium resumes
14:15 Keynote lecture Bjarte Jordal Wood boring beetles as early stage decomposers
15:00 Short break
15:15 Contributed talk Yu Fukasawa Invertebrate assemblages on Biscogniauxia sporocarps on oak dead wood: an observation aided by squirrels
15:30 Contributed talk Farzaneh Kazerani Diversity of saproxylic flies (Brachycera) in the Hyrcanian forests, Iran
15:45 Contributed talk Ina Gorban Bibionomorpha and Tipulomorpha in dead wood in Lithuania
16:00 Contributed talk Aistė Lekoveckaitė Short review: dead wood is not that dead – different tree species holds rich diversity of beetles
16:15
 Short break
16:30 Contributed talk João Gonçalo Soutinho Deadwood, large trees and stag-beetles of Portugal
16:45 Contributed talk Clayton Traylor Assessing the recovery of southern Appalachian forests with two low-mobility, saproxylic beetles
17:00
End of the day

Day 3     28 October 2021, Thursday     Conservation & restoration

0900 Symposium resumes
0915 Keynote lecture Jacob Heilmann-Clausen Fungal biodiversity on beech logs in Europe – disentangling biogeographical patterns and management effects
10:00 Short break
10:15 Keynote lecture Jogeir Stokland Dead wood dynamics in old boreal forests – importance for carbon cycling and biodiversity conservation
11:00 Short break
11:15 Keynote lecture Vikki Bengtsson Veteranisation – using tools instead of time to create decaying wood habitats in trees – does it work for biodiversity?
12:00 Long break

1400 Symposium resumes
14:05 Contributed talk Aku Korhonen Urban forests as potential dead-wood refugia – perspectives from the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland
14:20 Contributed talk Larisa Khanina Deadwood 15 years after a catastrophic windthrow event in a Quercus mesic deciduous forest: decay rates, elements dynamics, soil characteristics, and fungal diversity
14:35 Contributed talk Michał Gorczak Białowieża Primeval Forest – finally safe or again in danger?
14:50 Lightning talk Asiya Zagidullina
Dead wood and forest cover dynamics in primary forests of Dvino-Mezen middle taiga under climate changes
14:55 Lightning talk Trude Magnussen Saproxylic Diptera in Norway
15:00 Short break
15:15 Keynote lecture Alexey Yaroshenko Dead wood legislation and practice in Russia
16:00 Closing

Workshop 2     29 October 2021, Friday   Analysis and visualization of interaction datasets

Leader: Jorrit Poelen
Building on your existing or newly acquired experience with interaction data (e.g. Workshop 1), this event will familiarize you with main principles of analysis and visualization of interaction data. Pre-workshop reading required

09:00 – 10:00 Talya Hackett Introduction to network ecology
10:00 – 10:30 Q&As and discussion

14:30 – 17:00 Workshop 

Scope

The intensive three-day symposium program is comprised by keynote and contributed lectures by established dead wood researchers, and student presentations. In addition, satellite workshop on managing interaction data are arranged. The target group is advanced master and PhD students, but anyone with research interest and experience in dead wood ecology is welcome. The symposium is not suitable for absolute beginners in dead wood research, but use books recommended below to build or update your knowledge before joining the event. The goal of this symposium is to create an environment for communication among dead wood scholars and to close the gap between the university lectures and the real-life of a researcher and a conservationist, as well as promote connections across disciplines. We will go through a broad range of topics, such as biodiversity in dead wood in boreal and temperate environments, biodiversity conservation and restoration, and of course all kinds of lignicolous organisms: fungi, insects, and more. Мертвая древесина живее всех живых!

Assignment and study credits

No ECTS credits are provided for attendance only, and attendance certificates are only provided upon request; however, students giving a presentation will earn 1 ECTS and active participation in workshop and carrying out all workshop tasks will bring 1 ECTS per workshop (graded pass / fail).

Books

  • Bobiec A, Gutowski JM, Zub K, Pawlaczyk P, Laudenslayer WF 2005. The Afterlife of a Tree. WWF Poland, 252 pp. ISBN 83-920712-1-2
  • Stokland JN, Siitonen J, & Jonsson BG 2012. Biodiversity in Dead Wood. Cambridge Univ. Press, 524 pp. ISBN 9780521717038.
  • Boddy L 2021. Fungi and Trees: Their complex relationships. Arboricultural Association, 306 pp. ISBN: 9780900978708
  • Boddy L, Frankland J, Van West P, eds. 2007. Ecology of saprotrophic basidiomycetes Elsevier, 386 pp. eBook ISBN 9780080551500 / ISBN 9780123741851.
  • Ulyshen MD, ed. 2018. Saproxylic Insects. Diversity, Ecology and Conservation. Springer, 904 pp. eBook ISBN 978-3-319-75937-1 / ISBN 978-3-319-75936-4.

Cost and membership

There is no symposium fee. Particpants are encouraged to become ForBio members or associates here and are also invited to join the ξ group on saproxylic biodiversity and wood ecology. 

Symposium team

The course team is comprised by dead wood experts from Norway and Russia: Bjarte Jordal – University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Steffen Roth – University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Alexander Kurakov – Moscow State University, Rannveig Jacobsen – Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Håvard Kauserud – Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Tone Birkemoe – Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Inger Skrede – Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson – Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and Dmitry Schigel – University of Helsinki.

Keynote speakers

Lynne Boddy
Martin Hofrichter
Tone Birkemoe
Nick Porch
Rannveig Margrete Jacobsen
Bjarte Jordal
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Jogeir Stokland
Vikki Bengtsson
Alexey Yaroshenko
Talya Hackett

Workshops

Jorrit Poelen
Talya Hackett
Dmitry Schigel

Support and administration

Nataliya Budaeva – University of Bergen
Hugo de Boer – University of Oslo
Steffen Roth – University of Bergen
Miguel Angel Meca Jimenez – University of Bergen

Organizers and funders

The course is organized by the the Research School in Biosystematics – ForBio and University Museum of Bergen, with the support from Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, the University of Oslo, the Voronezhsky State Nature Biosphere Reserve, the University of Helsinki. Funding is provided by the Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research (formerly Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education (Diku) and the Research School in Biosystematics – ForBio.

Participants and abstracts

See names and affiliations of 120+ participants from 28 countries (Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland , Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Ukraine, USA) together with abstracts of presentations.

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