9th TreeDivNet Workshop - (ISE) | UQAM

9th TreeDivNet Workshop
                 Wednesday August 28th to Thursday August 29th 2019
                                Montréal/Canada

The next TreeDivNet meeting will take place at Université du Québec à Montréal (host: Christian
Messier and Alain Paquette, Dept. Biological Sciences and the Centre for Forest Research and the
Institut des Sciences de l’environnement).
Please see the following link for a presentation of the different research units:
     Institut des Sciences de l’environnement
     Département des Sciences biologiques
     CEF
     NSERC/Hydro-Québec Chair

Costs for organization of the meeting will be covered by the NSERC/Hydro-Québec Chair, and no fees
will be charged for participation in the meeting. However, participants need to cover their own
costs for travel, accommodation and meals.

Accommodation
is available in Montreal city center.
We recommend two Hotels near the Science campus. First choice would be at the Appartements Trylon
(https://www.trylon.ca/) with a short walk of 7 minutes to the campus or at the Château de l'Argoat
(https://www.hotel-chateau-argoat.com/), a 15-minute walk from the Faculty of Sciences.

You may also search for hotels via the tourism information of the city – Montreal is a large city with
many hotels and other types of accommodations, and the campus is located downtown.

Travel
Airports
Aéroport international Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau de Montréal: 20 km away, city bus connection to Montréal
metro (30 – 45 min) – route 747 (named after the famous airplane).

Going to the Campus
The UQAM Science campus is located downtown and can be accessed easily using the metro (subway)
at station Place-des-Arts. A map of UQAM can be found here: https://carte.uqam.ca/

The Science campus is the one located to the south-west. Biology is located in the SB building
(https://carte.uqam.ca/pavillon-sb).

List of Participants

                                                   presenting   attendance
1    Christian   Messier                 Canada       yes
2    Alain       Paquette                Canada       yes
3    Kris        Verheyen                Belgium      yes

4    Michaël     Belluau                 Canada
5    Rita        Silva                   Canada
6    Jon         Urgoiti Otazua          Canada
7    Florentin   Jaeger                  Canada
8    Johanna     Andrea Martinez Villa   Canada
9    Daniel      Schönig                 Canada
10   Catherine   Potvin                  Canada
11   Charles     Nock                    Canada
12   Els         Dhiedt                  Belgium
13   Hervé       Jactel                  France
14   Joannès     Guillemot               France       yes
15   Tania       Maxell                  France
16   Jürgen      Bauhus                  Germany      yes
17   Florian     Schnabel                Germany
18   Simone      Mereu                   Italy
19   Jefferson   Hall                    Panama       yes
20   Nadia       Barsoum                 UK
21   John        Parker                  US

     Dominique Gravel                    Canada                   Skype
     Peter     Reich                     US                       Skype

Meeting program

We are planning the meeting over TWO full days: Wednesday August 28th and Thursday August 29th.
A site visit of the Montreal IDENT site is planned for Thursday afternoon.

The meeting will start at 9h00 and finish at around 17h00 on each day.

Tea/coffee (AM/PM) and lunch (on Wednesday) will be provided.
Please let us know if you have any food allergies or special dietary needs.

Location:
SB-1115 Salle de conférence du Département des Sciences biologiques de l’UQAM
Pavillon des Sciences biologiques de l’UQAM
141, Av. du Président-Kennedy – (access to the conference room)
Métro Place-des-Arts

Agenda:

Wednesday August 28th

 9:00-10:00      Update of the status of network, developments since last meeting in Freiburg
                 (Kris/Els/Michäel)
                          Network update & links with FAO
                          Website and metadata
                          Submitted research proposals (BNP, Dr FOREST, …)
                          Discussion on TreeDivNet’s system boundaries

 10:00-10:30     Update on some tree biodiversity experiments
                        Agua Salud (Jefferson)

 10:30-10:50     Coffee break

 10:50-11:25     Update on some tree biodiversity experiments (continued; 15’ each)
                        Update on the Sardinia final harvest (Catherine?, Michäel, Juergen)
                        Slaughtering the IDENT Freiburg site (Michäel, Juergen)
                        …

11:25-12:15   Proposals for new TreeDivNet experiments
                     Three new IDENT sites, one in Bangladesh (2019), one in Ethiopia, and
                        one in Quebec (2020) (Bart, Alain, Christian)
                     MataDiv in Brazil (Joannès)
                     New ‘food forest’ experiment in Belgium (2019-2020) (Kris)
                     Others (Costa Rica, ….)

12:15-13:30   Lunch

13:30-14:00   Update of the status of joint research projects (Kris)
                     Survival (Simon, Bart, Andy)
                     Microbial community (Simone)
                     Tea bag decomposition (Juan, Bart, Kris)
                     Meta-analysis herbivory (Hervé, Bastien)
                     Caterpillars (Luc, Bastien, Julia)
                     Leaf isotopes (Koenraad)
                     Carbon storage (Emily Warner & Andy Hector)
                     …

14:00-14:30   New joint projects/ideas
                      Changing soil properties in developing tree diversity experiments (Els
                         Dhiedt)
                      …

14:30-17:00   Discussion on a paper to be published in Nature/Science on "Rebuilding the world
              forest via multi-species plantations: where and how" (Led by C. Messier & J. Bauhus)
              (with coffee break some time in between)

18:00-21:00   Dinner in downtown Montreal (not included)

Thursday August 29th

9:00-10:45     Continue working on the paper

10:45-11:00    Coffee break

11:00-12:00    Future development and strategy of the network: Where are we going?
                       New project proposals (DFG Networking project, Biodiversa call, H2020
                         calls…)
                       Next meeting

12:00-14:00    Lunch at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (not included)

14:00-17:00    Visit of IDENT/Montreal (Led by A. Paquette)

      For those staying longer in Montreal, there will be a pilgrimage to IDENT-Cité and the millionth
      tree planted for science by the TreeDivNet (~20 minutes by metro from UQAM) Friday afternoon.
      From there, those who still have time are invited to my place (Alain) to meet my students and
      colleagues for a lab party at my place.