Save the date: Transnational Seminar: Strategies for managing and preventing drought impacts in forests in the Sudoe Mountains

Date: Thursday, 30 September, 2021

Organise: Montclima project

Location:

Institut d’Estudis Catalans (c/Carme 47, Barcelona)

Save the date: Transnational Seminar: Strategies for managing and preventing drought impacts in forests in the Sudoe Mountains

We are pleased to announce that the MONTCLIMA SUDOE project is organizing a seminar on Strategies for managing and preventing drought impacts in forests in the SUDOE mountains that will take place in Barcelona on 30^th September 2021.

This transnational seminar will focus on sharing knowledge and experiences concerning good practices on drought management and prevention strategies in SUDOE forests in order to contribute to forest drought management policies. It will also be an opportunity to present the progress of the MONTCLIMA Project and objectives.

Registration will take place via this registration form. It will be possible to attend the seminar in a completely virtual way. The Seminar will be held in the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (c/Carme 47, Barcelona) and will include a field visit to MONTCLIMA pilot experience in the afternoon. Registration includes coffee break, an informal lunch and the transportation to the field visit.

Registration for participation in the seminar in person will close on Monday, 27 September, at 9 p.m. Registration for virtual participation will be open until the start of the seminar

Spanish, French and Portuguese simultaneous translation will be provided.

We look forward to meeting you and discussing this challenging topic with you!

OBJETIVE

This thematic seminar pusues to share knowledge and experiences concerning good practices on drought management and prevention strategies in SUDOE forests witf the objetive to contribute to forest drought management and prevention policies.

The progresses of the MONTCLIMA project will be presented specificcaly the pilot case estudies in order to improve governance and natural risks management through trasnational cooperation and the development of a risk management and prevention common strategy.

PROGRAMME

WELCOME BY THE MONTCLIMA PROJECT Eva García-Balaguer (CTP - OPCCOPCC, coordinator of MONTCLIMA project)	10:00-10:05
INSTITUTIONAL OPENING M. Rosa Amorós i Capdevila (Presidency of the Working Community of the Pyrenees, Catalan Government) Joan Pino (Director of CREAF)	10:05-10:20
BLOCK 1: RISK OF DROUGHTS IN THE SUDOE SPACE - HISTORICAL DATA AND FUTURE PROJECTIONS Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano (Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, IPE-CSIC)	10:20-10:50
BLOCK 2: STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING AND PREVENTING DROUGHT IMPACTS IN FORESTS IN THE SUDOE MOUNTAINS	10:50-13:50
HOW DROUGHT IMPACTS ON FORESTS IN THE SUDOE SPACE Jordi Martínez Vilalta (CREAF)	10:50-11:05
HOW TO MONITOR THE DROUGHT IMPACTS ON FORESTS Experiences from Portugal Experiences from Portugal. Evaluating the impact of hot and dry extreme events on forest productivity (University of Lisbon) Experiences from Catalonia, Spain. The DEBOSCAT programme: The Catalan monitoring network of the drought impacts. Mireia Banqué (CREAF) Experiences from France. The French forest health monitoring network: actions of the Forest Health Department Morgane Goudet (Forest Health Department, DSF, Ministry of Agriculture and Food )	11:05-11:50
COFFEE BREAK	11:50-12:05
HOW TO MANAGE FORESTS AND FOREST LANDSCAPE TO REDUCE DROUGHT IMPACTS AT LOCAL SCALE Experiences from Castile and Leon, Spain.Forest management in the province of Valladolid: Adaptation to climate change scenarios. Alfonso González Romero (Junta de Castilla y León). Experiences from France. Strategy and tools for silvicultural management in French public forests. Thierry Sardin (ONF) Experiences from SUDOE MONTCLIMA project. Adaptative forest management in a Holm oak forest in Montnegre-Corredor massif (Barcelona). Diana Pascual (CREAF). Experiences from SUDOE MONTCLIMA project. Rethinking the forest resilience in the face of an increasing drought scenario -Risk interaction and protective forests (Andorra) Marc Font (Andorra Recerca + Innovació)	12:05-13:05
MODELLING TOOLS FOR INCREASING DROUGHT RESILIENCE THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF FOREST MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES Experiences from Valencia, Spain. Forest management for multiple objetives, the model of LIFE RESILIENT FOREST project. María González Sanchís (Technical University of Valencia) Experiences from Portugal. Potential shifts of bioclimatic niches of forest species in Portugal. Joao A. Santos (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, UTAD) Experiences from France. The tool CLIMESSENCES. A took for understanding the evolution of forest species in the context of climate change. Xavier Bartet (National Forestry Office ONF - RMT AFORCE) (Virtual)	13:05-13:50
CONCLUSIONS AND ORIENTATIONS: LESSONS LEARNED Juan Terrádez (CTP-OPCC)	13:50-13:55
INSTITUTIONAL CLOSURE Eduard Pla (CREAF)	13:55-14:00
LUNCH. Catering at IEC's building	14:00-15:00
FIELD VISIT: EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS OF SUDOE MONTCLIMA AT MONTNEGRE CORREDOR (LLINÁRS DEL VALLÉS, BARCELONA) 15:00 Departure from IEC's Building in minibus 16:00 Start of the field visit in Montnegre Corredor 17:30 Return to Barcelona 18:30 Arrival to IEC's Building and end of the field visit Field visit organised by CREAF and the Forest Owners' Association of Montnegre-Corredor Massif.	15:00-18:30