Contributions for this week's FIU come from Peter Csoka, Bill Feidt, Louis Iverson, Will McWilliams, Scott Miller, and Vivek Varma. Thanks for taking the time to share with others!
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS The email address of the State Forest Service of Hungary have been changed. The new address is aesz@aesz.hu. For URLs and emails addresses of other National Forest Departments see http://home.att.net/~gklund/mof.html.
NO 20 AUGUST FIU. Please note I will be in travel 13-21 August so there will be no FIU for 20 August. If you have any email messages or information items to contribute, please hold off sending them to me until 22 August. Thanks, Gyde
Clark, D.A. 1998. Deciphering landscape mosaics of neotropical trees: GIS and Systematic sampling provide new views of tropical rainforest diversity. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 85 18-33.
Haggar, J. P.; C. B. Briscoe and R. P. Butterfield. 1998. Native species: a resource for the diversification of forestry production in the lowland humid tropics. Forest Ecology and Management 106: 195-203.
Hoekman, D.H.; C. Varekamp, J.J. de Jong, E.H. van Valkengoed en M.A.M. Vissers 1999. Remote sensing monitoring system for sustainable forest management and land cover change in Indonesia. BCRS project 3.3/AP-01. BCRS report 99-04. Netherlands Remote Sensing Board. Abstract at: http://www.minvenw.nl/rws/mdi/bcrs/en/index.htm. Email: p.b.bcrs@mdi.rws.minvenw.nl.
Iverson, L. R. Prasad A. M. and M. W. Schwartz. 1999. Modeling potential future individual tree-species distributions in the Eastern United States under a climate change scenario: a case study with Pinus virginiana. Ecological Modelling 115:77-93.
Iverson, L. R. and A. M. Prasad. 1998. Predicting abundance of 80 tree species following climate change in the eastern United States. Ecological Monographs 68:465-485.
Lawrence, S., and C. L. Giles. 1999. Accessibility of information on the web: Search engines do not index sites equally, may not index new pages for months, and no engine indexes more than about 16% of the web. Nature 400:107-109.
Long, Laura. 1998. Managing natural resources with GIS. ESRI. 140 p.
Longley, Paul; Goodchild, Michael; Rhind, David; Maquire, David. 1999. Geographic information systems, Principles and Applications. John Wiley & Sons. 1101 p.
Luteyn, James L. 1999. Páramos: A checklist of Plant Diversity, Geographical Distribution and Botanical Literature. The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY. 278 p.
Majer, J. D.; Delabie, J. H. C. 1999. Impact of tree isolation on arboreal and ground ant communities in cleared pasture in the Atlantic rain forest region of Bahia, Brazil. Insectes Sociaux 46(2):281-290. http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00040/bibs/9046003/90460281.htm
Renz, Andrew. 1999. Remote Sensing for Earth Sciences. Manual of Remote Sensing, 3rd Edition, Vol. 3. John Wiley & Sons. 672 p.
Walker, Stewart. Photogrammetry and GIS: an acquired taste. GEOEurope 8(8):24-25.
Waters, Nigel. 1999. Spatially organised information. GEOEurope 8(7):22-23.
25-26 August 1999. Northeastern Mensurationist Organization (NeMO) Third Annual Meeting, Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachuesetts, USA. Contact: Dr. L. Zhang, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210 USA.
5 September 1999. Scientific Seminar on The Full Value of Forests to Society. Canton Thurgau, Switzerland. Contact: Ms. Brita Pajari (Brita.Pajari@efi.fi). The seminar will be free to one participant from each EFI member organisation and to invited guests, but there will be a registration fee of 100 EUR (tentative price) for others. The fee for non-EFI members is 120 EUR (tentative price).
20-23 September 1999. Food and forestry: global change and global challenges. (reminder) Reading, UK. Contact: John Ingram, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, GCTE Focus 3 Office, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 3BB, UK. Fax: +44-1491-692313. Email: j.ingram@ioh.ac.uk. http://www.elsevier.nl:80/homepage/sag/gcte99/ (Very slow to load)
20-24 September 1999. 2nd European Ecological Modelling Conference. Pula, Croatia. Contact: Prof. T. Legovic, R. Boskovic Institute, P.O.Box 1016, Bijenicka 54, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia, Tel: + 385 1 425 498, Fax: + 385 1 425 497, E-mail: Legovic@rudjer.irb.hr . UR: http://rudjer.irb.hr/~legovic/
22-25 September 1999. Landscape futures. (Reminder) Armidale, Australia. Contact: Dr. David Brunckhorst, UNESCO Institute for Bioregional Resource Management, University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia. Fax: +61-2-6773-2769. Email: dbrunckh@metz.une.edu.au. http://www.ibrm.une.edu.au/future/conf.htm
28-30 September 1999. GIS99. London, UK. URL: http://www.gisexpo.com
4-9 October 1999. Congreso de Ordenación y Gestión Sostenible de Montes. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (reminder). See website at http://www.tragsatec.es/internew/internet/congreso/congreso.htm or Email: congreso_ordenacion@tragsatec.es. See the preliminary program at http://home.att.net/~gklund/programa.htm.
7-9 October 1999. Biodiversity conservation of the Dniester River's basin. Kishinev, Moldova. Contact: BIOTICA, Ecological Society. Tel/Fax +373-2-24-3274. Email: biotica@mdearn.cri.md.
10-15 October 1999. The Role of NGOs in the 21st Century - Inspire, Empower, Act! Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea. Contact: The Korea Organizing Committee, #305 Wonseo Bldg., 171, Wonseo-dong, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-280, Korea. Tel: +(82-2)762-2323 Fax: +(82-2)762-9833. E-mail: seoul@ngo99korea.org Website: http://www.ngo99korea.org
2-4 November 1999. BioGeo99 - Applications of Geospatial Technology to Biological Sciences: A Symposium. Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. Contact: Monique Stutes, USL Continuing Education, University of Southwestern Louisiana, P.O. Box 42411, Lafayette, LA 70504-2411 USA. Tel: +1- 318-482-6344. URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/geotech/activities/biogeo99/registration.html
29 November-2 December, 1999. International Symposium on Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Regions - WORLD SEMI-ARID '99). João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil. Contact: Prof. Dorival C. Bruni, President of BIOSFERA, Brazilian Society for the Environment (BIOSFERA), P.O.Box 2432, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP: 20001-970, Brazil. Tel/Fax: (+55 21) 221-0155/ 2217626. Tel: (+55 21) 252-1631. E-mail: biosfera@biosfera.com.br. Web site: www.biosfera.com.br
17-18 November. 1999. Conference on Measurements and Quantitative Analysis and Management & The 1999 Southern Mensurationists Meeting. Jekyll Island, Georgia. USA. Call for papers open until 2 November 1999. Registration $150 USD. Contact: Chris J. Cieszewski Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602, USA. E-mail (biomat@smokey.forestry.uga.edu). Fax: 1-706-542-8169. URL: http://www.forestry.uga.edu/wsfr1/cfb/html/1999_sm_announcement.htm
27-29 March 2000. GEO 2000. 4th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition. Bahrain. Contact: Fawzi Al-Shehabi, Arabian Exhibition Management, PO Box 202000, Manama, Bahrain. Tel: +973-55-00-33. Fax: +973-55-32-88. Email: aemexhib@batelco.com.bh.
17-19 April 2000. EOGEO 2000. Earth Observation and Geospatial Web and Internet Workshop 2000. London, U.K. Contact: Jeremy Morley, Dept. of Geomatic Engineering, University College, London, UK. Tel: +44-171-504-2083. Fax: +44-171-380-0453. Email: jmorley@ge.ucl.ac.uk. URL: http://www.ge.ucl.ac.uk/EOGEO2000.html.
8-12 May 2000. The Role of Forests and Forestry in the Global Carbon Budget. Edmonton, Canada. Call for papers open until 1 November 1999. Contact: Carbon Conference Coordinator, 5320-122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6H 3S5. Web Site: http://www.nofc.forestry.ca/carbon. E-mail: carbon@nofc.forestry.ca. Fax: +1-780- 435-7356
5-8 July 2000. International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) Biennial Conference. Canberra, Australia. To find out about the ISEE 2000 physical conference in Canberra go to: http://www.anu.edu.au/cce/isee/. Associated with that conference will be a 12 month, internet-based program on "Business, the economy and sustainability" - which begins now. The program involves an electronic mini- conference and pre-conference networking and email-based preparatory workshops and seminars. You are invited to subscribe *immediately* to this electronic program. The electronic program costs $40 (Australian) if you register for it alone or it comes ‘free’ if you have registered for the physical conference to be held in Canberra, Australia in July 2000. To subscribe send a blank message to: isee2000-bes-involve-subscribe@onelist.com. To unsubscribe, at any time, send a blank message from the *same* email address to: isee2000-bes-involve-unsubscribe@onelist.com.
From the Forest-Inventory list - There is a new version of WIN SVS (Stand Visualization System) available from http://faculty.washington.edu/mcgoy. This is the 32-bit version that has been in development for almost a year. See the README file on the web site for version details. If you run into problems, contact: Bob McGaughey, tel: +1-206-543-4713, Fax: +1-206-685-3091. Email mcgoy@u.washington.edu
Organization of Tropical Studies Home Page - see http://www.ots.duke.edu.
FIA News - A Monthly Newsletter on Activities of the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis program. http://www.srsfia.usfs.msstate.edu/wo/latenews.htm
As always, please share as appropriate. Until 27 August - Cheers, Gyde