The Italian Society of Silviculture and Forest Ecology (, or SISEF), established in 1995, is a non-profit cultural association promoting the diffusion of scientific forest culture in Italy, and all over the world.
Mission The mission of SISEF is to promote researches on: structure, functionality and sustainable management of forest ecosystems forest habitat, forest biodiversity and genetics dendro-ecology, silviculture, wood production and technology, forest harvesting landscape, forest ecosystem services
SISEF aims also to promote
Coordination, strengthening and networking of forest research Forest education
SISEF supports communication among its members interested in studying forest science and forestry issues, covering all aspects of an interdisciplinary science, including biology, ecology, silviculture, wood production, climate change, environmental and socio-economy aspects.
SISEF is accredited by ANVUR, the Italian National Agency for the evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes; and is a member of AISSA, the Italian Association of Scientific Agriculture Societies.
SISEF's headquarters is in Viterbo, Italy, at the Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems, of Tuscia University.
Members All the Italian and foreign researchers interested in the activities carried out by the Society can be members of SISEF. The SISEF members elect every two years five members of the Board, one Secretary and one President. Three auditor board members are also elected for supervising the SISEF budgeting. An annual fee is due by the SISEF members. Currently, SISEF has about 260 members.
Board Years President Secretary Members of Board Auditor Board 2012-2015 Marco Marchetti Giovanni Sanesi Elena Paoletti, Gabriele Bucci, Giustino Tonon, Marco Fioravanti, Silvano Fares Marco Borghetti, Davide Travaglini, Federico Maetzke
Past presidents Years 2011-2015 Piermaria Corona 2007-2011 Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza 2003-2007 Marco Borghetti 1999-2003 Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza 1995-1999 Franco Viola
Research groups
SISEF coordinates research groups related to specific forest issues
Name of research group Coordinator Active since Pollution and forests Silvano Fares 1998 Terpenes in ecology Marco Michelozzi 1998 Forest Biodiversity Silvia Fineschi 1998 Wood production Gianfranco Minotta 1998 Forest Modelling 2008 Forests and Climate Change Paolo De Angelis 2000 Silviculture Andrea Cutini 2000 History and archeology of forest Landscape Mauro Agnoletti 2014 Soil Ecology Andrea Squartini 2006 Forest management Paolo Cantiani e Fabrizio Ferretti 2007 Forest geomatics Gherardo Chirici 2012 Communication Giorgio Vacchiano 2017 Agroforestry Pierluigi Paris 2013 Wood technology and forest harvesting Roberto Zanuttini 2014Management of Forest FireDavide Ascoli, Michele Salis, Luca Tonarelli2016Urban greeningFabio Salbitano2017
Congresses SISEF organizes a National Congress every two years, in order to create an opportunity for interaction and exchange between researchers and stakeholders.
11° SISEF National Congress - "La foresta che cambia. Ricerca, qualità della vita e opportunità in un paese che cambia" - Rome 10–13 October 2017 10° SISEF National Congress - "Sostenere il Pianeta, Boschi per la vita" - Florence, 15–18 September 2015 9º SISEF National Congress – “Multifunzionalità degli ecosistemi forestali montani: sfide e opportunità per la ricerca e lo sviluppo” - Bolzano, 16–19 September 2013 8º SISEF National Congress – “Selvicoltura e conservazione del suolo: la sfida Europea per una gestione territoriale integrata” - Rende (CS), 04-7 October 2011 7º SISEF National Congress – “Sviluppo e adattamento, naturalità e conservazione: opportunità per un sistema forestale in transizione” - Pesche (IS), 29 Set – 3 October 2009 6º SISEF National Congress – “La Gestione delle Foreste tra Cambiamenti Globali e Azioni Locali” -Arezzo, 25–27 September 2007 5º SISEF National Congress – “Foreste e Società: Cambiamenti, Conflitti, Sinergie” - Grugliasco (TO), 27–29 September 2005 4º SISEF National Congress – “Meridiani foreste” - Rifreddo (PZ), 07-10 October 2003 3º SISEF National Congress - “Alberi e Foreste per il Nuovo Millennio” - Viterbo, 15–18 October 2001 2º SISEF National Congress – “Applicazioni e Prospettive per la Ricerca Forestale Italiana”- Bologna, 20–22 October 1999 1º SISEF National Congress – “La Ricerca Italiana per le Foreste e la Selvicoltura” - Legnaro (PD), 04-6 June 1997
Journals
SISEF publishes two scholarly journals:
i Forest is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal. The journal encompasses a broad range of research aspects concerning forest science: forest ecology, biodiversity/genetics and ecophysiology, silviculture, forest inventory and planning, forest protection and monitoring, forest harvesting, landscape ecology, forest history, wood technology. iForest is freely and universally accessible online. It has been selected for coverage by Thomson Reuters Web of Science (Impact Factor 2013 JCR: 1.150) and SCOPUS.
Forest@ is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal published in Italian. It aims at disseminating scientific articles, short communications, technical reports, review papers about forest and environmental sciences.
References
External links Sisef.org Sisef.org Sisefcongressi.org Sisef.it