Building on the success of its inaugural edition in 2023, the Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU), EVOLTREE and IUFRO will collaboratively host the fourth Summer School on Adapting Forests to Climate Change: Operationalizing Assisted Migration.
Who can participate?
Master’s students, doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, practitioners, or professionals passionate about adapting forests to climate change while utilising and conserving genetic variation within tree species.
Registration
Register by 15 May 2026! Find the registration form and guidelines here.
What are the topics?
This summer school aims to provide in-depth insight into the Assisted Migration of forests in climate change with a focus on models to guide decision support. Specific topics are:
- Develop machine-learning based models to identify and spatially map adapted and maladapted populations of forest tree species in climate change.
- Quantitative genetic mechanisms of local adaptation and, through excursions to forest provenance trials.
- Integration of assisted migration with forest tree breeding, and the primary delivery systems of adapted forest reproductive material, including seed orchards and forest nurseries.
- Digital innovation technologies in forestry: high-throughput phenotyping for analysing biotic and abiotic stressors and much more under controlled conditions.
Lectures and excursions will be held in English. Elementary knowledge of statistics and R programming is expected. Please bring your laptop.
