Tuesday, 4 September 2012
9.00 - 9.15 Welcome and opening of the school, UVa Academic authorities, Felipe Bravo & C. Antón
9.15 - 10.30 Potential sources and effects of measurement error during model fitting and model use, C. Antón
10.30 - 11.00 Modelling growth and yield for Forest Inventory: IBERO model and its parametrization, F. Bravo & C. Ordóñez
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00 Natural regeneration modelling in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Challenges ahead, I. Ruano & E. Rodríguez-García
12.00 - 12.30 Improving IBERO diameter growth estimation by using a Multinomial approach, E. Escalante
12.30 - 12.50 Potential errors in dendrochronology, J. Olivar
12.50 - 13.10 Forest assessment plot network in Ecuador, R. Vera
13.10 - 13.30 Site index curves for Cedrela odorata: How accurate is the model in a tropical environment such as Tabasco?, J. Boosener
13.30 - 14.00 Discussion
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
9.00 - 10.30 Challenges and alternatives to deal with measurement error, C. Antón
10.30 - 11.00 Estimation of Coarse Woody Debris from inventory structures, C. Herrero
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00 To be defined, A. Pascual
12.00 - 12.30 Uncertainty of tree stem volume, A. Berger
12.30 - 13.00 Icelandic National Forest Inventory: brief description, error factors and projections, B. Kjartansson
13.00 - 13.30 Discussion
13.30 - 14.00 National Forest Inventory (structure and current situation) Spain, I. Alberdi
15:30-18:30 Field trip to experimental site at Cuéllar and the historical site in this town
Thursday, 6 September 2012
9.00 - 10.30 Uncertainty in forecasting forest development, C. Antón
10.30 - 11.00 Assessing prediction uncertainty from the tree to the landscape: Some insights from Quebec, Canada, M. Fortin & H. Wernsdörfer
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.00 Uncertainty in process-based forest growth models. The Bayesian Melding approach, A. Bravo-Oviedo
12.00 - 12.30 Growth and survival of selected tree species in the Ethiopian degraded highlands, M. Tesfaye
12.30 - 12.50 Matching diameter data from consecutive NFI: the case of the Spanish Forest Inventory, W. Lara
12.50 - 13.10 To be defined, M. Dumitru
13:10 - 13:30 New biomass models for estimating carbon stocks of Spanish forest species , R. Ruiz-Peinado
13.30 - 14.00 Discussion
Friday, 7 September 2012
9.00 - 11.00 A hands-on example: estimating the uncertainty of the biomass stock in the South of Norway using R, C. Antón
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.30 A hands-on example: estimating the uncertainty of the biomass stock in the South of Norway using R, C. Antón
12.30 - 12.50 Climate-based model for predicting the production of wild edible mushrooms in Pinus sylvestris forests in Spain, M. Otárola
12.50 - 13.10 The Prosopis caldenia woodlands. The challenge of initiate the forest management in the agricultural frontier in Argentina, L. Risio
13.10 - 13.30 Science, Policy or practice: Forest Carbon Accounting for Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Coutries, F. E. Alice
13.30 - 14.00 Discussion