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Start Date
23 May 2011
Description
The biannual meeting of IUFRO Working Party 7.02.02 Foliage, Shoot and Stem Diseases of Forest Trees, took place at Montesclaros Monastery in Cantabria, Spain, from 23-28 May 2011. There were 73 participants from 18 different countries, and a total of 71 presentations. The meeting offered the chance of discussing different aspects related to global change and forest pathology, mainly concerning globalization, climate change, and forest policies. The venue of the event, the Monastery of Nuestra Señora de Montesclaros, surrounded by temperate forest close to the Cantabrian Mountains, was the perfect setting for the event.
The meeting provided an opportunity for the presentation, exchange and dissemination of information and experiences related to forest pathology, especially about new pathogens and diseases which threaten forest stands worldwide, fungal phylogeny, pathogenicity assays, control strategies, etc. New strategies to avoid their spread were mainly discussed in the sessions concerning globalization and invasive species.
Following the meeting, the concerned scientists have developed a proposal to phase out such international trade in high-risk plants. The document is entitled the "Montesclaros Declaration".