Overall schedule of the workshop

 

August 26

Meeting at the airport. Transfer to the hotel (we will be at place at ca. 8.30), rest until 13.00

13.00 Lunch (hotel)

16.00 Bus excursion over Krasnoyarsk city

17.30 Krasnoyarsk regional museum

19.00 Dinner.

 

August 27

7.00 – Breakfast (hotel)

8.00-12.00 Meeting

12.00-13.00 Lunch (hotel)

13.00-16.40. Meeting

17.00-20.00 Bus excursion to the Siberian afforestation experiment

20.00 – Dinner.

 

August 28

7.00 – Breakfast (hotel)

8.00-12.00 Meeting

12.00-13.00 Lunch (hotel)

13.00-17.00 Meeting

17.30-18.30 Siberian tea traditions. Excursion on the ship St. Nikolai

19.00- Dinner. Restaurant Krasnoyarsk.

 

August 29

(all day excursions)

8.00 Breakfast in the hotel

9.00 Boat trip to Divnogorsk. Excursion over Divnogorsk.Bus trip to Ovsyanka village. Excursion over Ovsyanka and visiting Viktor Astafjev’s house Bus trip to the nature reserve “Stolby-Stones”.

13.00. Open-air barbecue (if the weather is good) Rising up to the Coming down. Bus to the hotel. We will arrive at the hotel approximately at 17.20-18.00

19.00 – Dinner at the hotel Oktyabrskaya.

 

 

Tentative schedule of presentations

 

August 27

 

8:10 Welcoming words from Workshop’s directors and director of the Institute of Forest in Krasnoyarsk, member of Russian Academy of Sciences Dr. Eugeny Vaganov

 

8:30 Dan Binkley. (USA). How nitrogen-fixing trees alter soils

8:50 Cindy Prescott. (Canada). Effects of tree species on soils: case studies from western Canada.

9:20 Andreas Rothe. (Germany). Influence of tree species and stand age on nitrate leaching in forests of Southern Bavaria.

 

9:50 Break

 

10:10 Ludmila Shugalei. (Russia). Creation of the Siberian Afforestation Experiment. History, methodology and problems.

10:40 Valery Kuzmichev. (Russia). Dynamics of six tree species in 35-year old plantations

11.10 Jacek Oleksyn. (Poland). Linking leaf and root traits to ecosystem processes and properties: results from a common garden study of 14 temperate tree species        

11.40. Christian Giardina. (USA). Belowground carbon allocation in forests in response to global change.

 

12.10. Lunch

 

13:30 Zdenek Filip. (Czech Republic). Microbial processing of humic substances from soils under forest and permanent meadow

14:00 Marta Tesarova. (Czech Republic). Effect of air pollution on some biogeochemical processes in forest soils

14:30 Liviu-Daniel Galatchi. (Romania). Analysis of the Potential for Increased Carbon Sequestration on Forested Areas. An Example From Romania

 

15:00 Break

 

15:20 Gene Kelly. (USA). Afforestation effects on soil development in the Ecuadoran Andes.

15:50. Estella Vedrova. (Russia). Biogeochemical processes of the carbon and mineral elements cycles in the Siberian afforestation experiment

 

16:30 Bus trip to the Siberian Afforestation experiment

 

August 28

 

9:00 Jordi Cortina. (Spain). Functional consequences of ecosystem restoration in drylands.

9:30 Roman Sobachkin. (Russia). The productivity of coniferous forests grown  at different density levels

10:00 Ludmila Mukhortova. (Russia). The transformation dynamic of plant residues in the soil under different tree species in Siberian afforestation experiment

 

10:30. Break

 

10:50 Irina Bezkorovainaya. (Russia). The case study of formation of soil invertebrate complexes  at the Siberian afforestation experiment.

11:20 Mikhail Makarov. (Russia). Phosphorus compounds in primitive soils of artificial soil formation experiment under different plants.

 

12:00 Lunch

 

13:00 Hans Papen. (Germany). Effects of tree species on C- and N-cycling and biosphere-atmosphere exchange of trace substances in forests

 

13:30 Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern. (Austria). Nutrient turnover, Greenhouse Gas Balance and Biodiversity in Natural Forest Communities of Central Europe

14:00 Hana Santruchkova. (Czech Republic). Linking of soil microbial transformation with ecosystem nutrient cycling.

 

14:30-Break

 

14:50 Phil Ineson (England). New ways of using carbon stable  isotopes to study C cycling in ecosystems

15:20 Klaus Butterbach-Bahl. (Germany). Significance of forests as sources for atmospheric N-trace gases.

15:50 Oleg Menyailo. (Russia). The effect of Siberian tree species on consumption and production of greenhouse gases. Novel approach for distinguishing the biological sources of N2O.

 

17:00 Russian tea traditions. St. Nikolai ship excursion