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Syllabus

PFG0071 Enhancing forest resilience for an uncertain future, 3.0 Credits

Subjects

Forest Management

Education cycle

Postgraduate level

Grading scale

Language

English

Prior knowledge

Open to PhD students but MSc students in their last year and postdocs are also welcome./ Öppen för doktorander, studenter på masternivå inne på sitt sista år och postdocs.

Objectives

The purpose of the course is to acquire an in-depth theoretical understanding about forest resilience under climate change, and to develop analytical skills for evaluating forest resilience. The course will address different aspects of forest resilience:

• Concepts-from gene to landscape: impact of climate and management strategies to increase resilience 
• Socio-economic and political analysis; risk assessment 
• Novel data and inter-disciplinary approaches to study resilience

Content

During the course students will have:

1. Pre-course assigned readings from provided scientific literature in forest resilience related to the topics in preparation for the intensive in-door and out-door classes during the course week 
2. Individual oral presentation of the students PhD project
3. Individual short assignment where students will present a forest resilience issue of the students’ choice representative of the region which they come from in relation to the literature provided
4. Lectures from invited national and international guests/experts in the various fields related to forest resilience 
5. Focussed group discussion topics within lectures
6. R lab sessions focussed on quantifying resilience using specific packages such as persistR- working in groups with assigned data 
7. Field excursions to discuss experimental design for forest resilience to various forest disturbances 
8. Final group presentations

Additional information

City: 6-13 November distance learning; 13-17 November at a venue in Östad säteri ([https://www.ostadssateri.se/]()).

After completing the course, the students should be able to:

1. Describe the concept of forest resilience and how to enhance it through sustainable management taking into account the natural science background together with the socio-economic and political conditions

2. Design experiments to quantify forest resilience

3. Measure and evaluate forest resilience

4. Reflect about their own work in a forest resilience context and discuss possible benefits of interdisciplinary approaches in their field


For more information about course fees and transportation please see course page: [https://www.slu.se/en/ew-calendar/2023/11/ph.d.-course-enhancing-forest-resilience-for-an-uncertain-future/]()

Responsible department

Department of Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre