Policy issues discussed at the Workshop "Forest Bioenergy and Soil Sustainability" and the Round table Forest Bioenergy Guideline Development; Description of the Workshop Outcome of the discussions at the Workshop ; Conclusions of the Round Table discussions ; Programme and page numbers for short papers and abstracts; Presentation short papers ; Poster abstracts Leena Finér: Presentation of OECD Co-operative Research Programme; Rolf Björheden: Economic and technological potential of forest bioenergy and the conditions for development ; Inge Stupak: Approaches to soil sustainability in guidelines for forest biomass harvesting and production in forests and plantations; Brian Titus: Harvesting residue removal guidelines to protect soils in Canada and the science behind them; Tom Nisbet: Development of Forest Bioenergy Guidelines for Soil and Water Protection - Experience from the UK; Break: coffee and refreshments 15.30-15.45 Gustaf Egnell: Forest biomass for energy and sustainable management of forest soils - what do we need to know; Klaus Katzensteiner: Impacts of increased biomass use on soil sustainability in Austria; Elena Vanguelova: Forest bioenergy and soil sustainability in the UK; Klaus v. Wilpert: Assessing harvest potential and nutrient sustainability in temperate forests based on monitoring data ; Rene Guénon: Impacts of short and very short rotation coppices of Populus and Salix species on soil C, N and P cycling; Heljä-Sisko Helmisaari: Forest bioenergy and soil sustainability in Finland, Viktor Bruckmann J.: Biomass utilization and its consequences for soils - a retrospective view; Linnea Hansson: Impacts of disc trenching on soil water and heat flows in a forest regeneration area in Sweden; Ryan Heiderman: Examining whole site productivity when intercropping giant miscanthus(Miscanthus × Giganteus) with loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) for bioenergy feedstock production in south-eastern United States; Lilli Kaarakka: Whole-tree harvest at final felling: long-term effects on soil properties in a Norway spruce stand; Eero Kubin: Effects of forest biomass harvesting on hydrological processes and leaching of nutrients ; Nicholas Nguyen: Soil biological activity in eucalyptus and poplar SRC; Stefania Papa: Enzyme activities in the soil profile of two beech forests on the Campania Apennines; David Paré: Getting quantitative: how much slash should remain on site to sustain tree growth? ; Anna Repo: Forest bioenergy climate impact can be improved by allocating forest residue Removal; Hendrik Stark: Nurse crops: long term effects on forest soil nutrient and carbon pools; Brian Titus: Results from intensive harvesting field trials: how does Europe compare with North America; Gregory van der Hejden: Long-term sustainability of forest soil fertility assessed by nutrient input-output budgets and a modelling approach
