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Wood formation and tree adaptation to climate

May 23, 2018 - May 25, 2018
Conference

Hôtel Dupanloup
1 rue Dupanloup
45000 Orléans
France

Presentation

Wood plays key roles in living trees, providing not only mechanical support but also storing and transporting water and nutrients to the leaves, thus allowing them to fix carbon. For this reason, wood characteristics are important in determining the ability of a tree to face environmental cues, including climate change. Indeed, under normal climatic variability, wood anatomy, structure and function usually fit the environmental conditions the trees are living in. However, under a strongly and rapidly changing climate these characteristics need to be adjusted to fit the environmental conditions through phenotypic plasticity and/or evolutionary adaptation.
To promote a sound and future oriented management of forest resources it is fundamental that tree breeders and forest managers select and promote individuals, provenances and species that best fit the future conditions. It is therefore important and urgent that plant scientists provide tools and knowledge helping to identify and select the most relevant adaptive traits.
With this conference, we aim at gathering experts from different disciplines to present, exchange and discuss their recent advancements related to a better understanding of plant adaptation to climate, with special focus on the trees. The conference will be held on May 23-25 in Orléans (France) and will include five successive sessions, namely:
1)    Environmental and/or genetic control of wood formation
2)    Methodological developments for the study of wood formation and tree adaptation to climate
3)    Potential adaptive wood traits, future selection traits: which and why?
4)    Ecophysiological approaches to wood functioning
5)    Wood/Climate modeling and information systems

Main topics

Tree rings, climate change, evolutionary adaptation, phenotypic plasticity, cambial activity, cell profile, seasonal growth, process-based simulation.

Convenors

  • Pr Vladimir Shishov, LE STUDIUM / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow.
    FROM: Siberian Federal University - Mathematical Methods and IT Department - RU
    IN RESIDENCE AT: BioForA, Centre Inra Val-de-Loire / ONF - FR
  • Dr Philippe Rozenberg,
    BioForA, Centre Inra Val-de-Loire / ONF - FR

Confirmed Speakers

Scientific Committee

  • Dr Philippe Rozenberg, BioForA, Centre Inra Val-de-Loire / ONF - FR
  • Pr Vladimir Shishov, Siberian Federal University - RU
  • Dr Luc Pâques, BioForA, Centre Inra Val-de-Loire / ONF - FR
  • Pr Annie Deslauriers, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi - CA
  • Pr Saul Espinosa, Autonomous University of Chiapas - MX
  • Dr Patrick Fonti, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL - CH
  • Dr Alejandro Martinez-Meier, National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA) - AR

ORAL PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS

Abstracts for oral presentation should be submitted before Tuesday 20th of March 2018. The number of oral presentations is limited, convenors will process a selection and confirm your presentation not later than Friday 23rd of March 2018.

Abstracts for posters should be submitted during the registration. Please note that we do not print the posters, but racks & pins will be provided for up to A0 sizes.

Announcement: selected papers will be published in a special issue of international scientific journal Annals of Forest Science

Location

Hôtel Dupanloup : 1, rue Dupanloup - 45000 ORLEANS - FR

The conference venue is unique. Located right next to the Orléans’ cathedral, the episcopal palace of Orléans, built between 1635 and 1641, locally known as the Hôtel Dupanloup, is a classical French building which served until 1905 of residence to the bishops of Orléans.  Since 2014, the renewed palace hosts the International University Center for Research and Le Studium Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies.

Participants will be welcomed in this exceptional surrounding, blending Middle Age and Renaissance cultures with modern design and will have the opportunity to discover French cuisine and wines.

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

IMPORTANT ! Please note there are works on the train line between Paris and Orléans during the day: no train between 09h30 and 16h30. Furthermore, there is a scheduled strike on Wednesday 23th & Thursday 24th May with a limited number of trains (all lines in France are concerned).

PROGRAMME

Wednesday May 23rd 2018 (Plenary Session, Main Conference Room)

  • 09:30    Welcome coffee & registration
  • 10:15    Official Opening

Session 1 : Environmental and/or genetic control of wood formation

  • 10:30    Dr Cyrille Rathgeber - Deciphering wood formation mechanisms in larch trees along a 1,000 m elevation gradient to better understand tree adaptation and forest response to climate change
  • 11:00    Pr Sergio Rossi - Ecotypic differentiation in bud and xylem phenology
  • 11:30    Dr Philippe Rozenberg - Climate warming differently affects Larch ring formation at each end of its altitudinal distribution
  • 11:50    Dr Marina Fonti - Seasonal wood formation of Siberian larch and Scots pine in southern taiga of Central Siberia
  • 12:10    Dr Marc Abrams - The impact of global change on tree species dominance and annual xylem production in the eastern U.S.
  • 12:30    Lunch
  • 13:30    Thibaud Chauvin - Intraspecific variation of Douglas fir cavitation resistance is rooted in local adaption
  • 13:50    Dr Alberto Arzac - Evidences of wider latewood in Pinus sylvestris from a forest-steppe of Southern Siberia
  • 14:10    Pr Franco Biondi - Wood formation and climatic response of Great Basin conifers at two NevCAN observatories
  • 14:30    Dana Harris - Xylogenesis and growth responses to changing weather conditions at the northern range limits of Pinus banksiana, Northwest Territories, Canada
  • 14:50    Dr Minhui He - Research progress of dendrochronology in China
  • 15:10    Dr Maria Elena Fernández - Unraveling the functional and adaptive role of Eucalyptus wood: what do we know and what do we still ignore
  • 15:30    Coffee break
  • 16:00    Dr Bernadette Nanayakkara - Seasonal cambial dynamics of New Zealand Pinus radiata growing in the central North Island climate
  • 16:20    Dr Peter Prislan - Xylem formation in Fagus sylvatica under climate change

Session 4 : Ecophysiological approaches to wood functioning

  • 16:40    Dr Sabine Rosner - Conductivity loss related to moisture release: New insights into stem water storage of trees
  • 17:10    Pr Emilia Gutierrez - Forests at the limit: facing the worst to survive
  • 17:40    Pr Annie Deslauriers - Carbon contribution in primary and secondary growth under changing environmental conditions and defoliation in boreal forest
  • 18:30    Public Lecture in French : Dr Nicola Macchioni - À la recherche du bois perdu : le bois archéologique, témoin de notre passé
  • 20:00    Wine & cheese cocktail

Thursday May 24th 2018 (Plenary & Parallel Sessions)

  • 08:30    Welcome coffee
  • 09:00    Pr Kathy Steppe - Stamping sensor time upon wood anatomical images: key to decrypting tree responses to drought
  • 09:30    Pr Eugene Vaganov - Chronologies of cell parameters as particular addition to the analysis of tree-ring seasonal kinetics
  • 10:00    Coffee break

Parallel sessions

 

Session 2 : Methodological developments for the study of wood formation and tree adaptation to climate

(Max Jacob room)

Session 4 : Ecophysiological approaches to wood functioning

(Main conference room)
10:30 Dr Patrick Fonti - XCELL - a platform for collecting dated intra-ring cell anatomical and density data Dr Eric Badel - Secondary growth regulation by mechanical stimulations: from strain-sensing to wood formation
10:50 Pr Marco Carrer - Extending the time frame of xylem phenology analysis through quantitative wood anatomy Dr Matteo Campioli - Exploring intra-seasonal wood formation dynamics to elucidate the timing of leaf senescence in temperate and boreal deciduous trees
11:10 Arian Correa-Diaz - Linking remote sensing and dendrochronology data in high-altitude forests from Mexico Dr Félix Hartmann - Control of the kinematics of wood formation by morphogenetic gradients
11:30 Dr Tom De Mil - Non-periodical growth in a tropical moist semi-deciduous forest of Central Africa Dr Régis Fichot - Drought-induced plasticity in daily stem radius variations and relationships with xylem hydraulics in hybrid poplars
11:50 Margarita Escobar - Some reflections on the use of dendrometers in common gardens Dr Genaro Gutiérrez-García - Oxygen and carbon stable isotopes in tree-rings of two conifer species in the Baja California Peninsula (Mexico)
  • 12:30    Lunch
  • 13:30    Posters session

Plenary session (Main conference room)

  • 14:30    Dr Frank Berninger - Sink and Source limitations of trees what matters where and at what scale
  • 15:00    Dr Guillermo Gea-Izquierdo - Using model-data fusion to assess the role of climate and [CO2] on carbon allocation to secondary growth in forests
  • 15:30    Coffee break

Parallel sessions

 

Session 2 : Methodological developments for the study of wood formation and tree adaptation to climate

(Max Jacob room)

Session 4 : Ecophysiological approaches to wood functioning

(Main conference room)
16:00 Dr Fabrizio Cartenì - A process-based model to explain the physiological mechanisms behind the earlywood-to-latewood transition Pr Walter Oberhuber - Manipulation of carbon availability alters dynamic, quantity and quality of wood formation in Norway spruce particularly under drought
16:20 Dr Andrew Friend - Modelling tree growth to explore the carbon source/sink debate  Dr Aurélien Chateigner - Prediction of Black Poplar biofuel production based on gene expression gives insights into the genetic architecture of adaptation to climate traits
16:40 Margarita Popkova - Modeling intra-annual cell anatomy of Pinus sylvestris trees in southern Siberia Dr Raúl Sánchez-Salgueros - Resist, recover or both? Plasticity of Western Mediterranean Pinus pinaster forest growth to drought is linked to the species intra-specific variability
17:00 Dr Tatiana Shestakova - Ecogeography of spatial synchrony: insights from tree rings of conifer species Dr Vincent Segura - Genetic architecture of wood formation in natural populations of black poplar grown into two contrasting environments
  • 19:30    Social Dinner

Friday May 25th 2018 (Plenary Session, Main Conference Room)

Section 3 : Potential adaptive wood traits, future selection traits: which and why?

  • 08:30    Welcome coffee
  • 09:00    Dr Laura Fernández de Uña - Intra-annual dynamics of xylem conductivity in three species of different xylem structures
  • 09:20    Dr Alejandro Martinez-Meier - The Douglas-fir potential of adaptation to drought-fir: heritability of vulnerability to cavitation
  • 09:50    Dr Luc Pâques - Hybrid larch heterosis: is there any trade-off between growth and resistance to water stress?
  • 10:10    Dr Kiyomi Morino - Cambial phenology of false-ring production in Pinus ponderosa and Pseudotsuga menziesii in the semi-arid USA
  • 10:30    Coffee break
  • 11:00    Dr Claire Depardieu - A local adaptation signal for drought detected in white spruce woody traits
  • 11:20    Dr Anne-Sophie Sergent - Ecophysiological and wood density studies to elucidate Cordilleran cypress´s response to drought
  • 11:40    Ivan Tychkov - Simulation and analysis of shifts in phenology of conifer trees under effect of climate change in Siberia
  • 12:00    Pr Vladimir Shishov - Parameterization of process-based models and neural networks: Are there any needs of their using in dendroecology?
  • 12:20    Conclusion

PRICING

Private institutions 250 EUR
Public institutions 180 EUR
Students & PhD Scholars 60 EUR
Social dinner 60 EUR

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