Dr Stanturf is a visiting Professor, Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences and Retired Senior Scientist, US Forest Service. His research focuses on forest landscape restoration, disturbance ecology, climate change adaptation, and bioenergy. He earned MSc and PhD Forest Soils from Cornell University. Awards include an Honorary Doctorate from the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Distinguished Science Award from the Chief of the Forest Service, and the Distinguished Service Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). He has conducted research in temperate and tropical forests in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He also worked on REDD+, climate change vulnerability, and related issues in Africa through consultancies with the US Agency for International Development. He continues to consult and conduct training through IUFRO on Forest Landscape Restoration in support of the Bonn Challenge and on sustainable forestry through InNovaSilva Aps, a Danish consulting firm. Marcin Klisz is Associate Professor in Dendrolab IBL, Department of Silviculture and Forest Tree Genetics, Forest Research Institute (Poland). He has extensive research experience in species selection and SDM, forest tree breeding, provenance experiments, dendrochronology and dendroanatomy. He has closely cooperation with State Forests in Poland. He maintains an extensive international collaboration network and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He is guest editor of Frontiers in Plant Science. Home office: Forest Research Institute, Department of Silviculture and Forest Tree Genetics, Braci Lesnej Street, No 3, Sekocin Stary, 05-090 Raszyn (POLAND). Email: m.klisz@ibles.waw.pl Pedro Villar Salvador is Associate Professor in Ecology at the Department of Life Sciences, Universidad de Alcalá (Spain). He has extensive research experience in forest restoration, plant nursery cultivation, ecophysiology of Mediterranean woody species, and oak natural regeneration. He has worked as a freelance researcher on the quality and cultivation of forest plants for the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture and Environment for 10 years. He maintains an extensive international collaboration network and has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He was associate editor of New Forests and Canadian Journal of Forest Research and coordinated the Ecosystem Restoration master's degree for 8 years. Barbara Mariotti is a researcher and course holder of Species Silviculture at DAGRI Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry, University of Florence, Italy. Her main research interests are forest nursery stock production and quality assessment, natural and artificial regeneration; silviculture of planted forests, ; and chestnut stands cultivation. Home office: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali (DAGRI), Università degli Studi di Firenze Vladan Ivetić is a Full Professor at University of Belgrade – Faculty of Forestry, on a group of subjects related to forest reproductive material, forest establishment, and forest plantations, at all three academic levels. He was a visiting professor at University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland, University in Voronjez, Russia, and University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland. He is a member of IUFRO International Council; Editor-In-Chief of Reforesta journal (focused on reforestation and forest establishment issues), and an expert in various projects of IUCN, UNDP, and FAO. He has published 171 references, including 94 in peer- reviewed journals, one University Book, one Practicum, and two patents, all related to forest reproductive material and active forest restoration. He participated in a total of 51 research projects, including 13 of them as leader. Contact info: Faculty of Forestry, Kneza Višeslava 1, 11030 Belgrade, Serbia Palle Madsen is principal of InNovaSilva ApS with a mission to advance and improve sustainable management and restoration of forests and forest landscapes challenged by climate change by innovations through applied research and development. Intelligent use of wood and woody biomass, in tandem with sustainable forest restoration and management, is seen as the strongest and most cost-effective tool we have available for making our modern societies more sustainable but the challenges are in many ways larger than ever, but so are our opportunities to implement good solutions. I bring to this challenge more than 35 years of experience in silvicultural research, development, dissemination, and implementation. The approach of InNovaSilva ApS is to collaborate with practitioners and stakeholders to combine forest science with innovative methods to underpin implementation that is relevant to meeting needs. Antonello is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Applied Botany at the University of Insubria. His work is dedicated to the plant morpho-physiological responses to environmental and anthropogenic drivers such as soil erosion, drought, fire, and mechanical constraint. He is interested in plant root development, including coarse and fine root traits as a function of plant stability, water and nutrient adsorption strategy, and genes, hormones, and proteins involved in root formation. He works at both the seedling and mature tree growth stages and the single plant or community level. More recently, his studies have focused on phytoremediation, invasive species management, plant biomass utilization for energy production, indoor plant cultivation, automatic plant phenotyping, and laser scan analysis for remote biomass estimation, as well as the impact of biochar on plant performance.Enrique Andivia is Associate Professor in Ecology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). His research is focused on the management and restoration of forest ecosystems under global change. Ieva Bebre is a forester and works in research and development for a private company providing direct seeding services using pelleted seeds and drones. Her main research interests are forest regeneration, ecosystem restoration, direct seeding and cover crops for forestry Dr. Anastazija Dimitrova is a Research Associate at the Hans Em Faculty of Forest Sciences, Landscape Architecture, and Environmental Engineering in North Macedonia at the Department of Seed Science and Forest Stands. She has an interdisciplinary background in forestry, sustainable agriculture and applied biology and has been involved in numerous national and international projects focusing on forestry, ecosystem conservation, and sustainable resource management.
