This IUFRO Landscape Ecology international conference aims to bring together scientists, planners and managers to share science and experiences on approaches, methods and tools to assess change, to forecast change in structures and processes, and to optimize goods and services provided at multiscale-multifunctional levels under a context of change. Topics to be addressed include: scaling in landscape analysis, patterns and processes in changing landscapes, disturbances in changing landscapes, biodiversity conservation and planning in changing landscapes, monitoring landscape change, tools of landscape assessment and management, management and sustainability of changing landscapes, and urban forestry in changing regions.  

dates: 21-27 September 2010  
location: Portugal  
additional: Braganca  
contact: Jo  
phone: 351-273-303-341  
fax: 351-273-325-405  
e-mail: Iufrole2010@ipb.pt  
www: http://www.ipb.pt/iufro2010/