Organizers: University of Bucharest - Faculty of Geography

National Institute of Research and Development of Forests ”Marin Drăcea” “Ştefan cel Mare” Suceava University

In partnership with:

Parliament of Romania-Chambers of Deputies-Commission of Education, Research, Youth and Sport Institute of Geography - Romanian Academy

With the support of:

PROGRAM

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 REGISTRATION 16:00-20:30 Ramada Majestic Hotel, Calea Victoriei 38-40, Sector 1, Bucharest, Code: 010082,(http://www.ramadamajestic.ro/location.html)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, PARLIAMENT PALACE, STR. IZVOR, NO 2-4 REGISTRATION 7:30-9.00 Parliament Palace Entrance IZVOR, NO 2-4 (A3 S2) OPENING CEREMONY 9:00-9:40 C.A.Rosetti Hall (S1 Floor) Coffee break 9:40-10:00, Restaurant Room (S2 Floor) Plenary session 1 10:00-12:00 C.A.Rosetti Hall (S1 Floor) Ovidiu BADEA, Elena MATEI

Andrzej BYTNEROWICZ (Deputy IUFRO Research Group 7.01, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Riverside, CA, USA) Climate change and air pollution effects on the Carpathian Mountains with an emphasis on forests ecosystems and their services

Dan BĂLTEANU (Academician, Romanian Academy of Science, Director, Romanian Institute of Geography, Romania) Romanian Carpathians’ future-human impact and environmental hazards

Ioan IANOŞ (Bucharest University, Head, Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Research on Territorial Dynamics, Romania) Resistance to change of the Carpathian village in the adaptation process at the new challenges

William KEETON (University of Vermont, Head, Forestry Program, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources) Garrett MEIGS, Sabina BURRASCANO, Yurij BIHUN, Carlo BLASI, Jiquan CHEN, Mykola CHERNYAVSKYY, Dmytro KARABCHUK, Brigitte COMMARMOT, Jerry F. FRANKLIN, Georg GRATZER, Thomas SPIES, Mark E. SWANSON, Grant WARDELL-JOHNSON, Christopher DEAN, Miroslav SVOBODA, Volodymyr TROTSIUK, Magdalena MAIN-KNORN, Christine GOODALE, Gregory MCGEE, Jonathon THOMPSON, Andrew WHITMAN Carpathian Old-growth Forests in a Global Context: Shared Form and Function or Regional Distinctiveness?

Angheluţă VĂDINEANU (Bucharest University, Head, Research Center for Systems Ecology and Sustainability, Romania)

Common and operational framework for research and sustainable governance of Nested Socio-Ecological Systems across Carpathians

Partners and sponsors presentation, 12:00-12:30 Hall: C.A. Rosetti (entrance)

Thematic session 1 Hall: 1 Foreign Policy Commission (1st Floor) Smart Carpathians I 12:30-13:30

Tomáš VRŠKA, Ionel POPA, Iuliana Vijulie

1. Tibor STANDOVÁR, Ferenc SZMORAD , Bence KOVÁCS, Kristóf KELEMEN, Matthias PLATTNER, Tobias ROTH, Zsolt PATAKI, A novel forest state assessment methodology to support conservation and forest management planning

2. Laurentiu POPOVICI, Virgil IVAN, Margareta CRIVAT, Accordance between the Application of Silvicultural Operations in Protected Area with Standing Orders of Species Protection Management. Case Study: „Magura Odobesti“ – ROSPA 0075

3. Oksana PELYUKH, Marek FABRIKA, Lyudmyla ZAHVOYSKA, Peter VALENT, Simulation of changes in biodiversity during the conversion of secondary even-aged Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) into mixed uneven-aged stands in forest decision-making: the Ukrainian Carpathians case study

4. Constantin NECHITA, Ionel POPA, Maria RĂDOANE, Francisca CHIRILOAEI, Cătălin ROIBU, Andrei MURSA, Multidirectional analysis of a dendrochronological network from NE Romania in order to build a 600 years chronology used to reconstruct past climate

POSTER: János Bölöni, Réka ASZALÓS, Réka Ádám, Deadwood in managed and unmanaged oak dominated forest stands in the Hungarian Carpathians

Thematic session 2 Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) Sustainable Carpathians I 12:30-13:30 Jacek KOZAK, Bogdan MIHAI, Bogdan Olariu

1. Bogdan MIHAI, Ionuț SĂVULESCU, Marina RUJOIU-MARE, Constantin NISTOR, Recent forest covers changes (2003-2016) in Southern Carpathians.. A case study from Iezer Mountains, Romania

2. Marcin SZWAGRZYK, Dominik KAIM, Jacek KOZAK, Bronwyn PRICE, Agnieszka WYPYC, Future land use change and flood hazard in the Polish Carpathians 3. Ján HANUŠIN, Dagmar ŠTEFUNKOVÁ, Land cover and landscape diversity changes assessment as a contribution to sustainable use of traditional viticultural

landscape in the Malé Karpaty Mts. (Western Slovakia) 4. Monika DOBOSZ, Jacek KOZAK, Dominik KAIM, Urs GIMMI, Krzysztof OSTAFIN, Katarzyna OSTAPOWICZ, Natalia KOLECKA, Forest cover change trajectories from

historical maps: assessment of change detection uncertainties

POSTER: Roxana CUCULICI, Elena MATEI, Iuliana VIJULIE, Laura TARLA, Gabriela MANEA, The use of the GIS applications and remote sensing for the evaluation of vulnerability of the eco-environment through the abandonment of grasslands and mountain pastures in Brasov County

Thematic session 3 Hall: Education Commission (3rd Floor) Sustainable Carpathians II 12:30-13:30 Garrett W. MEIGS, Gabriela MANEA, Laura Tîrlă

1. Daniela STRAT, Simona MIHĂILESCU, Conservative status of the habitats of European Community importance from Alpine biogeographic region – Romania 2. Szabolcs LENGYEL, Márton SZABOLCS, Savrina CARRIZO, Danijela MARKOVIC, Jörg FREYHOF, Nuria CID, Mathias SCHOLZ, Hans D. KASPERIDUS, William R. T.

DARWALL, On the importance of Carpathian rivers and lakes in the conservation of Europe's freshwater biodiversity 3. Adrian-Radu REY, Andrei COCA, Preliminary study on the contribution of EU funds to the sustainable development of Romanian mountain area 4. Șerban CHIVULESCU, Ștefan LECA, Diana SILAGHI, Valentin CRISTEA , About virgin forests structural biodiversity and dead wood from Eastern Carpathians

POSTER: Roxana CAZACU, Constantin CAZACU, Georgeta IONESCU, Ovidiu IONESCU, Hunting management units and environmental protection in the Romanian Carpathians Milena MOYZEOVÁ, Zita IZAKOVIČOVÁ, Attitudes of involved subjects to the issue of biodiversity conservation in the Protected Area of the Little Carpathians

Lunch 13:30-15:00 Restaurant Room (S2 Floor)

Thematic session 4 Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) Sustainable Carpathians III 15:00-16:30

Andrzej BYTNEROWICZ, Ovidiu BADEA, Ecaterina Apostol

1. Alexandra de MARCO, Ionel POPA, Marcello VITALE, Alessandro ANAV, Diana SILAGHI, Stefan LECA, Augusto SCREPANTI, Ovidiu BADEA, Does ozone concentration influence the tree defoliation in a continental climate?

2. Marilena ONETE, Florian BODESCU, Minodora MANU, Roxana ION, Changes in the riparian vegetation of a river sector from Apuseni Mountains (Central Romania).

3. Jana SPULEROVA, Dagmar STEFUNKOVA, Marta DOBROVODSKA, Veronika PISCOVA, Katarina GERHATOVA, Miriam VLACHOVICOVÁ, Pavol KENDERESSY, Mária BARANCOKOVA, Viktoria MIKLOSOVA, Barbora SATALOVA, Ecosystem Services of Traditional Agricultural Landscape.

4. Jana LABUSOVA, Volodomyr TROTSIUK, Miroslav SVOBODA, Martin MIKOLAS, Pavel JANDA, Radek BACE, Tiphaine DESPRES, Hana MRHALOVA, Lenka MATEJU, Juraj VYSOKY, Marian JASIK, Stanislav KUCBEL, Patterns of structural and spatial dynamics in old-growth beech-fir-spruce forests in the Western Carpathians, Slovakia

5. Alexandru Liviu CIUVĂȚ, Ovidiu BADEA, Lucian DINCĂ, Elena EDU, Evolution of nutrition cycles in Carpathian spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) and beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests

POSTER: Mihai Daniel NIȚĂ, Nicu Constantin TUDOSE, Serban DAVIDESCU, Ioan CLINCIU, Hydrological land use mapping using European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2A orthorectified products in ROSCI0207-Postavarul, Natura 2000 site.

Jan ZARZYCKI, Joanna KORZENIAK, Grassland vegetation as a temperature change indicator?

Thematic session 5 Hall: 1 Foreign Policy Commission (1st Floor) Smart Carpathians II 15:00-16:30 Katarzyna OSTAPOWICZ, Ivan KRUHLOV, Mădălina Teodor

1. Bogdan APOSTOL Marius PETRILA, Adrian LORENȚ, Vladimir GANCZ, Ovidiu BADEA, Forest assessment and mapping based on field measurements, airborne laser scanning and UAV techniques - a case study for Romanian Southern Carpathians

2. Ivan BARTON, Géza KIRÁLY, Satellite based monitoring system for observing natural forest dynamic in the fragments of virgin forest of Carpathian region 3. Diana SILAGHI, Ștefan LECA, Ștefan NEAGU, Ion BARBU, Șerban CHIVULESCU, Ovidiu BADEA, Long term socio-ecological research in Romanian Carpathian forests 4. Marina-Ramona MARE-RUJOIU, Bogdan OLARIU, Bogdan-Andrei MIHAI, Constantin NISTOR, Land cover classification in Romanian Carpathians and

Subcarpathians using multi-temporal Sentinel 2 Remote Sensing Imagery POSTERS: Anatoliy SMALIYCHUK, Accuracy assessment of free digital elevation models, within low-mountain Carpathians Sergii GAPON, Ivan KRUHLOV, SRTM-based ecological regionalization of the Crimea Mountains: Following the case of the Carpathians Robert DOBRE, Marcel Ioan BOLOȘ, Ionuț SĂVULESCU, Laurențiu ILIE, Mădălina TEODOR, Relief sustainability for motorway projects implementation in mountains area. Case studies from Romania

Jarosław CEBULSKI, Activity of Bodaki landslide (Beskid Niski Mts) in 2 years period using terrestrial laser scanning

Thematic session 6 Hall: Education Commission (3rd Floor) Inclusive Carpathians 15:00-16:30 Christian HOFFMANN, Elena MATEI, Elena Bogan

1. Barbara TEMPL, Helfried SCHEIFINGER, Harald EGERER, Elisabeth KOCH, The need for Citizen Science in the Carpathian Basin – proposals after overview of phenological observation networks

2. Márta VETIER, Governance networks and network governance in the Carpathians

3. Heino MEESSEN, Dawid LASEK, Reconciling nature conservation with regional development in the transboundary Bieszady (PL) and Poloniny National Parks (SK) region

4. Nicolae CIANGĂ, Cristina BOLOG, The spa system in touristic arrangements of resort type from the area of Romanian Carpathians 5. Romulus GRUIA, Radu REY, Streamlining the Romanian Mountains through responsible tourism paradigm 6. Mihaela VERGA, Radu PITIGOI, Andreea TOPIRCEANU, Canyoning - an alternative for tourism development of Cerna Valley

POSTERS: Pavol KENDERESSY, Tatiana HRNČIAROVÁ, Veronika PISCOVÁ, Jana ŠPULEROVÁ, Marta DOBROVODSKÁ, Miriam VLACHOVIČOVÁ, Assessement the

impact of hiking in high alpine region between 1981 and 2014 Mădălina TEODOR, Robert DOBRE, Laurențiu ILIE, An analysis model of Romanian ski resorts. Sustainable development perspective.

Ana-Irina LEQUEUX – DINCĂ, Mihaela PREDA, Iuliana VIJULIE, Băile Herculane spa resort - between a promised rejuvenation and an inevitable decline Razvan OPREA, Monica OPREA, Alexandru NEDELEA, Roxana CUCULICI, The dynamics of the accommodation units in the context of developing mountain tourism - Case Study: Bucegi Mountains

Elena BOGAN, Dana Maria (Oprea) CONSTANTIN, Mihaela Ioana IAMANDEI, Sebastian GABOR, Viability of human communities in Trascău Mountains, Romania

Posters and coffee break: 16:30-17:00 (C.A. Rosetti entrance and Restaurant Room) Thematic session 7 Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) Sustainable Carpathians IV 17:00-18:30

William KEETON, Lucian DINCĂ, Ana Irina Lequeux Dincă

1. Martin MIKOLÁŠ, Marek SVITOK, Martin TEJKAL, Tobias KUEMMERLE, Volodymyr TROTSIUK, Pavel JANDA, Radek BAČE, Hana MRHALOVÁ, Marius THEODOSIU, Robert C. MORRISSEY, Miroslav SVOBODA, Habitat suitability, loss and connectivity of capercaillie populations in the Carpathians.

2. Ştefan NEAGU, Carpathian Forests’ Health Status and Risks 3. Volodymyr TROTSIUK, Miroslav SVOBODA, Pavel JANDA, Martin MIKOLÁŠ, Radek BAČE, Rupert SEIDL, Thomas A. NAGEL, Robert C. MORRISSEY, Vojtěch ČADA,

Hana MRHALOVÁ , Spatiotemporal synchrony in episodic disturbances in primary Norway spruce forest across Europe: legacies and consequences. 4. Minodora MANU, Daniel Petru POLIŢĂ, Marilena ONETE, Relationship among phoretic mites and Norway spruce bark beetles - Ips typographus and Pityogenes

chalcographus, from Romania 5. David DUSEK, Jiri NOVAK, Dusan KACALEK, Thinning of young spruce stands in areas affected by spruce decline

POSTERS: Ioan TĂUT, Vasile ȘIMONCA, The control of parasitic diseases of spruce plants from silvicultural nurseries and cultures through the usage of new generation fungicides Tatiana BLAGA, Vasile SIMONCA, Bogdan APOSTOL, The control methods of the pest Stereonychus fraxini Degeer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Workshop 1. Hall: Education Commission (3rd Floor) Education for Sustainable Development in the Carpathians 17:00-18:30 Tamara MITROFANENKO, Attila VARGA, Mioara CLIUS

1. Tamara MITROFANENKO, Attila VARGA, The role of Carpathian Convention in Education for Sustainable Development 2. Attila VARGA, Tamara MITROFANENKO, Education for Sustainable Development in the Carpathians – state of arts and opportunities 3. Mioara CLIUS, Beniamin STOICA-FUCHS, Bianca Laura ERIMIA, Andreea IONESCU, Iancu LAZĂR, Andreea POPA, Ana-Maria SANDU, Alexandru Ginel

VIJA, Assessing educational conservation projects implemented in the PNs and PNAs of the Romanian Carpathians

Workshop 2. Hall: 1 Foreign Policy Commission (1st Floor) The Potentials of a Carpathian Convention Protocol on Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (SARD) for Fostering Innovative Agricultural Initiatives to Promote the Vitality of Rural and Peripheral Areas in the Carpathians. Reconciling Nature Conservation and Local Development in the Carpathians: Participatory Management of Carpathian Protected Areas: Call for Examples of the Carpathian Countries 17:00-18:30.

Christian HOFFMANN, Harald EGERER, Filippo FAVILLI, Eleonora MUSCO THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Plenary session 2 9:00-11:00 Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) Jacek KOZAK, Marcel MINDRESCU

Keynote speaker: Elena PAOLETTI (Coordinator Research Group 7.01 of International Union of Forest Research Organizations, Italy) Old and new challenges from ozone to forests

Ivan KRUHLOV (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine) Dominik THOM, Robert SCHELLER, Garry SOTNIK, Oleh CHASKOVSKYY, William KEETON Future forest landscapes of the Ukrainian Carpathians

Catalina MUNTEANU (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Anna Pidgeon, Volker Radeloff Land use legacies and their implications for bird conservation in the Carpathian Mountains

Ľuboš HALADA (Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS, Slovak Republic) Stanislav DAVID, Peter BEZÁK, Matej MOJSES, Andrej BAČA Recent grassland changes in the marginal region of NE Slovakia

Mariana MELNYKOVYCH (Ukrainian National Forestry University, Ukraine) Maria NIJNIK, Albert NIJNIK, Ihor SOLOVIY Forest ecosystem services and the well-being of communities: a case of non-wood forest products in remote areas of the highlands in Scotland and the Ukrainian Carpathians Dirk PFLUGMACHER (Humboldt Universtiy of Berlin, Germany) Cornelius SENF, Julian OESER, Patrick HOSTERT Characterizing thirty years of forest disturbance dynamics using Landsat time series

Photos Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) Posters and coffee break: 11:00-11:30 (C.A. Rosetti entrance and Restaurant Room) Thematic session 8 Hall: 1 Foreign Policy Commission (1st Floor) Carpathians: Smart and Sustainable I 11:30-12:45 Bartłomiej WYŻGA, Liliana ZAHARIA, Mihaela Perşu

1. Bartłomiej WYŻGA, Artur RADECKI-PAWLIK, Wiktoria CZECH, Paweł MIKUŚ, Joanna ZAWIEJSKA, Virginia RUIZ-VILLANUEVA, Hydraulic conditions of flood flows in incised, channelized, and multi-thread reaches of a mountain river, the Czarny Dunajec, Polish Carpathians

2. Katarzyna DUDEK, Stanisław MAŁEK, Michał BROŚ, Hydromorphological assessment of the Malinowski Potok river in the Western Carpathians via RHS method,

3. Joanna ZAWIEJSKA, Bartłomiej WYŻGA, Artur RADECKI-PAWLIK, Twentieth-century incision of Polish Carpathian rivers: recognition, spatial pattern, and impacts on the hydraulics of flood flows

4. Paweł MIKUŚ, Bartłomiej WYŻGA, Artur RADECKI-PAWLIK, Joanna ZAWIEJSKA, Antoni AMIROWICZ, Paweł OGLĘCKI, Environment-friendly reduction of the erosional threat caused by a dynamic mountain river, the Czarny Dunajec, Polish Carpathians

5. Hanna HAJDUKIEWICZ, Bartłomiej WYŻGA, Antoni AMIROWICZ, Paweł OGLĘCKI, Artur RADECKI-PAWLIK, Joanna ZAWIEJSKA, Paweł MIKUŚ, Response of fish and benthic invertebrate communities to constrained channel conditions in mountainous Biała River, Polish Carpathians

POSTERS: Gabriela IOANA-TOROIMAC, Liliana ZAHARIA, Gabriel MINEA, Assessment of a restoration possibility for braided rivers in Curvature Subcarpathians (Romania) Valentina-Mariana MĂNOIU, Mădălina NEDA, Ioana IPATE, Elena TURCESCU, Alin OBĂGILĂ, Alexandru NEDELCU, Maria RADU, Iuliana OLARU, Iris ŢIŢINEANU, Alina DUMITRU, Eduard LUCA, Mariana FIERARU, Roxana MIHUŢ, Adrian CIOBANU, Andrei BARSOIANU, Water quality changes in Ialomiţa River under the influence of human settlements and activities Svetlana BIČÁROVÁ, Hana PAVLENDOVÁ, Zuzana SITKOVÁ, Helena HLAVATÁ, Anna BUCHHOLCEROVÁ, Marek KOLLÁRIK, Karel KUDELA, Ronald LANGER, Surface ozone at Lomnický štít - the highest monitoring site of the Carpathians

Thematic session 9 Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) Sustainable Carpathians V 11:30-12:45 Lubos HALADA, Cristian IOJA, Mihaela Verga

1. Georgeta MIHAI , Marius-Victor BIRSA , Maria TEODOSIU, Alexandru DUMITRESCU, Ionel MIRANCEA, Lucia IONITA, Paula IVANOV, Adaptive genetic potential of forest tree species under regional environmental changes: a case study on Norway spruce and European silver fir in Romania

2. Dragoş POSTOLACHE, Flaviu POPESCU, Ladislav PAULE, Peter ZHELEV, Dalibor BALLIAN, Unique postglacial evolution of the hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.) in the Carpathians and Balkan Mountains revealed by chloroplast DNA

3. Peter GAJDOŠ, Pavel ŽILA, Oto MAJZLAN, Biodiversity of selected invertebrate groups in different managed non-forest habitats in the Poloniny National Park (Slovakia)

4. Ancuta FEDORCA, Ovidiu IONESCU, Georgeta IONESCU, Mihai FEDORCA, Conservation strategies for largest brown bear population in the Carpathians 5. Ion BARBU, Marius CURCĂ, Cătălina BARBU, Carpathian landscapes changes during 1775-2012 periods. A case study: Bukovina

POSTERS: Isidoro de BORTOLI, Filippo FAVILLI, Your Steps towards Ecological Connectivity. The GreenAlps Project Romică TOMESCU, Constantin NETOIU, Vasile MIHALCIUC, Andrei BUZATU, Tatiana BLAGA The climate change and the evolution of Lymantria monacha L. population from Romania Iuliana VIJULIE, Elena MATEI, Gabriela MANEA, Laura TÎRLĂ, Roxana CUCULICI, Cătălina HAIDĂU, Ana-Irina LEQUEUX – DINCĂ, Threats on the Romanian Carpathians biodiversity: Rana temporaria (European common frog)

Thematic session 10 Hall: Education Commission (3rd Floor) Carpathians: Smart and Sustainable II 11:30-12:45 Katalin MAZSA, Pavel CUDLIN, Diana Silaghi

1. Ecaterina Nicoleta APOSTOL (CHESNOIU), Anca SEMENIUC, Cristiana - Georgeta DINU, Alexandru - Lucian CURTU, Neculae SOFLETEA, Leaves and xylem phenology of oaks, a tool of evaluate forest ecosystems from Eastern Carpathians tableland in the context of climate change

2. Maciej GĄSTOŁ, Iwona DOMAGAŁA-ŚWIĄTKIEWICZ, Adam KUŹNIAR, Aleksander GONKIEWICZ, Evaluation of Carpathian walnut (Juglans regia L.) ecotypes 3. Mihaita Iulian NICULAE, Gabriel Ovidiu VANAU, Maria PATROESCU, Evaluating forest landscape connectivity in the Romanian Alpine Biogeographical Region 4. Martin VALTERA, Pavel ŠAMONIL, Soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools along a disturbance gradient in a natural spruce-dominated volcanic-mountain forest in

Romania

POSTERS: Pavel CUDLIN, Vilem PECHANEC, Lenka STERBOVA, Onrej CUDLIN, Prediction of land use and biodiversity development in highland landscape of the most western part of Carpathians (Hostýnské vrchy, Czech Republic) under climate change Anna-Mária SZÁSZ-LEN, Maria TEODOSIU, Monika KONNERT, Genetic variability in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) seed stands in Romanian Carpathians Elena CIOCÎRLAN, Neculae ŞOFLETEA, Alexandru Lucian CURTU, Genetic diversity of common beech (Fagus sylvatica) in the Carpathian region Mihai FEDORCA , Ovidiu IONESCU, Georgeta IONESCU, Neculae ȘOFLETEA, Ancuta FEDORCA, Habitat suitability of capercaillie in the Romanian Carpathians

Thematic session 11 Hall: 1 Foreign Policy Commission (1st Floor) Sustainable Carpathians VI 12:45-14:00 Joanna ZAWIEJSKA, Flaviu POPESCU, Roxana Cuculici

1. László DEMETER, Réka RÁTI, Ferenc HORVÁTH, Zsolt MOLNÁR, Trends in uses and ecosystem services of hardwood floodplain forests of Transcarpathia (West Ukraine): perceptions of locals

2. Cristian IOJĂ, Maria PĂTROESCU, Gabriela Osaci-COSTACHE, Iulian NICULAE, Diana ONOSE, Alina HOSSU, Land-use changes and environmental conflicts in Natura 2000 sites. Case study: basins from Iron Gates Natural Park

3. Mihai DAIA, Cristina GUGIUMAN, Dragoş – Ioan PĂUNA, Ecaterina Nicoleta APOSTOL, Precipitation regime - factor with determinant and direct impact on the development of natural regenerations and plantation

4. Marius-Victor BÎRSAN, Alexandru DUMITRESCU, Dana MICU, Sorin CHEVAL, Heat and cold waves in the Carpathian Mountains region (1961-2010)

POSTERS: Alexandru NEDELEA, Laua COMANESCU, Razvan OPREA, The relationship between relief and spatial dynamic of Stone Pine (Pinus cembra) associations in Făgăraș Mountains (Southern Carpathians, Romania). Case study: Capra and Buda Valley Virginia RUIZ-VILLANUEVA, Bartłomiej WYŻGA, Paweł MIKUŚ, Maciej HAJDUKIEWICZ, Markus STOFFEL, Bridge clogging and wood-related risks during floods: the Czarny Dunajec River (Polish Carpathians) Eliza PŁACZKOWSKA, Where do fluvial processes begin in the Western Tatras (Poland)? Eliza PŁACZKOWSKA, Bartłomiej RZONCA, Janusz SIWEK, Marek GÓRNIK, Ewelina MOCIOR, Barbara PEEK, Piotr POTONIEC, Channel heads location in the Polish Flysch Carpathians

Thematic session 12 Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) Carpathians: Smart and Sustainable III 12:45-14:00 Yurij BIHUN, Stanisław MALEK, Ștefan Leca

1. Andrzej AFFEK, Radosław MICHALSKI, Modern mechanized logging as a threat to sustainable use of natural and cultural resources in the Carpathians 2. Krzysztof OSTAFIN, Konrad WNĘK, Dominik KAIM, Wojciech MACIEJOWSKI, Jakub TACZANOWSKI, Lidia ZYBLIKIEWICZ, Monika DOBOSZ, Concept of the Galicia and

Austrian Silesia Interactive Database (GASID) as an example of historical and geographical clearinghouse for the Central Europe 3. Filippo FAVILLI, Riccardo BROZZI, Isidoro DE BORTOLI, CentralHEMP. Boosting green economy reconsidering a high-valuable resource 4. Gheorghe KUCSICSA, Ana POPOVICI, Dan BĂLTEANU, Monica DUMITRAŞCU, Ines GRIGORESCU, Bianca MITRICĂ, Assessment of future forest cover changes in the

Romanian Carpathians. Regional scenarios using CLUE-S model

POSTERS: Viktória MIKLÓSOVÁ, Complex landscape-ecological analysis of the river arm Klátovské Rameno National Nature Reserve Barbora ŠATALOVÁ, River basin management to improve hydric significance Cristinel CONSTANDACHE, Radu VLAD, The structural diversity of pine stands on degraded fields in Vrancea Subcarpathians Laura TÎRLĂ, Sorin MIHALACHE, Ionuț ȘANDRIC, Elena MATEI, Iuliana VIJULIE, Roxana CUCULICI, Gabriela MANEA, Object-oriented analysis on the recent development of resorts in mountain environment (South Carpathians, Romania) Laurentiu ILIE, Laura COMĂNESCU, Robert DOBRE, Mădălina TEODOR, Using the fuzzy analysis in order to develop the ski areas in Carpathian Mountains

Thematic session 13 Hall: Education Commission (3rd Floor) Carpathians: Smart and Sustainable IV 12:45-14:00 Ionuţ SAVULESCU, Marcel MÎNDRESCU, Ionela Grădinaru

1. Michał JASIK, Stanisław MAŁEK, The impact of hydration of massif on spatial differentiation and spring water chemistry in the small Carpathians watersheds in Gorce Mts. (Poland)

2. Mihail HANZU, Building a holistic efficiency indicator for the optimization of forest governance in Romanian Carpathians 3. Mihai-Răzvan NIȚĂ, Irina-Iulia NĂSTASE, Denisa-Lavinia BADIU, Diana-Andreea ONOSE, Athanasios-Alexandru GAVRILIDIS, Evaluating the relationship between

urban forest location and urban functions in Romanian cities from the Carpathian region 4. Dariia KHOLIAVCHUK, Marta CEBULSKA , Variability of the highest monthly precipitation in the area of Ukrainian and Polish Carpathian Mountains in the years

1984-2013

POSTERS: Stanislav DAVID, The changes of hypsometric distribution of Ischnura elegans (VanDer Linden, 1820) of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountains Krzysztof KISZKA, Characteristics of rill erosion caused by heavy rainfalls on the experimental slopes in Szymbark (Polish Flysch Carpathians); Cezar UNGUREAN, Nicu Constantin TUDOSE, Serban DAVIDESCU, Andrei ADORJANI, Agafia DAVIDESCU, Characteristic of false acacia stands installed on bad lands from Romanian steppe and forest steppe Krzysztof KISZKA, Slopewash as the main process of soil erosion on the slope with bare fallow (Polish Flysch Carpathians). Krzysztof KISZKA, Małgorzata KIJOWSKA-STRUGAŁA, The participation of a splash in the total soil erosion on the foothill slope (Polish Flysch Carpathians)

Lunch 14:00-15:00 Restaurant Room (S2 Floor)

Plenary session 3 15:00-17:00 Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) Lubos HALADA, Monica Ştefania DUMITRAŞCU

Keynote speaker: Ioan Vasile ABRUDAN (Head, Transilvania University, Romania) Forest management and Chain of Custody Certification in Romania: progress and problems

Katarzyna OSTAPOWICZ (Cartography and Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Poland) Monika DOBOSZ, Ewa GRABSKA, Dominik KAIM, Krzysztof OSTAFIN, Marcin SZWAGRZYK, Zbigniew USTRNUL, Agnieszka Wypych, Matthias BÜRGi, Janine BOLLIGER, Bronwyn PRICE, Achilleas PSOMAS, Niklaus E. ZIMMERMANN, Urs GIMMI, Jacek KOZAK Past and future forest cover change and its determinants between 1860’s and 2065, in the Polish Carpathians.

Garrett W. MEIGS (Postdoctral Researcher, Forestry Program, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, USA),William S. KEETON Influence of wind disturbance on structural complexity and successional dynamics in temperate forest ecosystems: Implications for sustainable forest management

Ionel POPA (National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry “Marin Drăcea”, Romania) Constantin NECHITA, Cristian SIDOR Stand dynamics and disturbance history in mixed forest of Norway sprucean cembra pine from Eastern Carpathians

Lenka HÁJKOVÁ (Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Department of Biometeorological Applications, Czech Republic) Věra KOŽNAROVÁ, Tomáš VRÁBLÍK Drought impact on vegetation in 2015 in the Czech Republic

Roxana BOJARIU (National Meteorological Administration, Romania) Sorin Ionut DASCALU, Madalina GOTHARD , Liliana VELEA, Roxana CICA, Alexandru DUMITRESCU, Marius-Victor BIRSAN, Gheorghe STANCALIE Snow-related impact in the Carpathians under climate change conditions Coffee break: 17:00-17:30 Restaurant Room Thematic session 14 Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) Sustainable Carpathians VII 17:30-18:45 Jan KNORN, Dominik KAIM, Andreea Andra Topârceanu

1. Cristian IOJĂ, Laurențiu ROZYLOWICZ, Alina HOSSU, Denisa BADIU, Management structures of protected areas in Romanian`s Carpathian mountains 2. Agata ĆWIK, Hanna HREHOROWICZ-GABER, Causes and effects of spatial chaos in the Polish Carpathians – a difficult path to sustainable development 3. Piotr TRZEPACZ, Małgorzata LUC, Forests in spatial policy of Polish Carpathians municipalities 4. Gabriela MANEA, Elena MATEI, Iuliana VIJULIE, Laura TÎRLĂ, Roxana CUCULICI, Mihaela PREDA, Octavian COCOȘ, Empowering Carpathian communities in forestry

heritage management. Preliminary approach in selected communities

POSTERS: Lenka BARTOŠOVÁ, Pavol NEJEDLÍK, Miroslav TRNKA, Petr SKALÁK, Lenka HÁJKOVÁ, Martin MOŽNÝ, Zdeněk ŽALUD, Phenological observations with volunteers and students in Carpathian region Zofia RĄCZKOWSKA, Jarosław CEBULSKI, Combining of basic geomorphological monitoring and terrestrial laser scanning in evaluation of erosion within the tourist Cristinel CONSTANDACHE, Lucian DINCĂ, Diana VASILE, The use of sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.) for improving Romania’s degraded lands

Roxana CUCULICI, Iuliana VIJULIE, Laura TÎRLĂ, Elena MATEI, Gabriela MANEA, Razvan OPREA, GIS application for the identification of any potential routes for the development of mountain tourism - Case Study: Retezat Mountains

Workshop 3. Hall: 1 Foreign Policy Commission (1st Floor) Smart Marketing for Sustainable Carpathian Tourism Destination(s) 17:30-18:45 Felicia STANCIOIU, Puiu NISTOREANU Workshop 4. Hall: Education Commission (3rd Floor) Enhancing Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion in the Carpathians 17:30-18:45 Ioan IANOŞ, Liliana DUMITRACHE

1. Despina SAGHIN, Ionela GĂLBĂU, The Roma pupils’ access to education in the mountainous counties of Suceava and Neamt 2. Andreea Alexandra CIREASE, Demographic vulnerabilities in Romanian Carpathian area 3. Maria-Magdalena LUPCHIAN, Despina SAGHIN, Demographic and social dynamics in the rural area of the Eastern Carpathians

Official dinner 19:30 Bizantine Hall, National Military Circle Palace FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

Plenary session 4 and plans for future Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) 9:00-10:30 Ivan KRUHLOV, Pavel CULDIN

Keynote speaker: Nikolas KATSOULAKOS, (National Technical University of Athens, Chair South Eastern Europe Mountain Research Network, Greece), Mountains for Europe‘s Future. A Strategic Research Agenda

Emanuele MANCOSU (University of Málaga - Spain) Dania ABDUL MALAK, Antonio SANCHEZ ESPINOSA, Setting a forest data platform to support sustainable forest management in Carpathian area

Gabriela FLORESCU (Department of Geology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania) Simon M. HUTCHINSON, Anca GEANTĂ, Ioan TANŢĂU, Marcel MÎNDRESCU, Angelica FEURDEAN Palaeoecological assessment of human impact in the subalpine areas of the northern Romanian Carpathians: Prehistoric and historic perspectives

Juraj LIESKOVSKÝ (Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Slovak Republic) Pál BALÁZS, Dominik KAIM, Martin BOLTIŽIAR, Mateusz CHMIEL, Ewa GRABSKA, Ľuboš HALADA, Géza KIRÁLY, Éva KONKOLY-GYURÓ, Jacek KOZAK, Katarína KYSUCKÁ, Tetyana KUCHMA, Tobias KUEMMERLE, Peter MACKOVČIN, Matej MOJSES, Catalina MUNTEANU, Krzysztof OSTAFIN, Katarzyna OSTAPOWICZ, Oleksandra SHANDRA, Volker C. RADELOFF Historical land covers dataset of the Carpathian region: data, metadata, availability Katarzyna OSTAPOWICZ, Research Agenda for the Carpathian Mountains Coffee break: 10:30-11:00 (Restaurant Room)

Awards and closing ceremony Hall: C.A. Rosetti (S1 Floor) 11:00-12:30

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Post-Conference Tours

Tour 1 Open Air Village Museum

14:00-16:00

Tour 2 Mud Volcanoes

13:00-21:00

Tour 3 Fagaras Mountains

Start 14:00

Saturday, October 1

Tour 4

Brasov-Bran Old Castles

8:00-21:00

Tour 5 Bucegi Natural Park

8:00-21:00

Tour 3

(Continuation) Fagaras Mountains

End 21:00