More than 30 years after the creation of IUFRO´s Forest Landscape Ecology Working Party, the field of forest landscape ecology continues to evolve, driven by the urgent challenges of global change and rapid technological innovation. This symposium invites research that pushes conceptual, methodological, and technological boundaries to better understand forest mosaics, their structures, processes, and management, and to inform sustainable forest stewardship worldwide.

By bringing together leading scientists from multiple disciplines, the symposium will showcase emerging concepts, cutting-edge methods, and innovative tools that integrate ecological science with practical management strategies.

About the Conveners

João Azevedo is Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal), researcher at the Mountain Research Centre (CIMO) and the Associate Laboratory for Sustainability and Technology in Mountain Regions (SusTEC), and holds the UNESCO Chair "Water and Peace" (Spain). With MSc and PhD degrees in Forestry from Texas A&M University, he serves as Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO Division 8 (Forest Environment) and Chair of the IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Party. His research focuses on landscape ecology, ecosystem services, sustainability, and resilience in changing forested landscapes.

Pınar Pamukçu-Albers is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bonn (Germany) focusing on eco-hydrological systems, feedbacks between biophysical and hydrological processes, and flood/drought risk. She coordinates the UNESCO Chair in Human-Water Systems and serves as Regional Coordinator for Europe in the IUFRO Landscape Ecology Working Party, contributing expertise in forest hydrology and greenhouse gas inventories.

Syed Ajijur Rahman has over 20 years of field research experience across Asia and Europe, with a PhD in Agroforestry (Bangor University, UK) and additional doctorates in Agricultural Economics (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Sociology (University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh). His work links environmental conservation with livelihoods-oriented development, and he actively engages in science-policy dialogue through international collaborations and outreach activities.

The symposium also counts on the expertise of Peilei Fan, Jose Alberto Gobbi, Cynnamon Dobbs, Giovanni Sanesi, Kevin Potter, Maria Meza Elizalde, Sonia Carvalho-Ribeiro, Toshiya Matsuura, and Zhihua Liu, who bring global perspectives that make this event a key platform for advancing forest landscape ecology research in the Anthropocene.