Potential Dissertation Themes

Examples of topics that may be addressed as potential areas of research to develop a Ph.D. thesis in the SUSFOR programme, and that constitute established lines of research of the host institution, are the following:

• Biodiversity conservation
• Physiology of stress
• Carbon and water balances
• Impacts of climate change
• Tree genetics for adaptability and breeding
• Wildlife ecology and management
• Fire ecology and management
• Pest ecology and management
• Landscape ecology and land use dynamics
• Environmental remote sensing
• Valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Forest certification
• Sustainable forest management
• Intensification of and precision silviculture
• Forest models: merging process models and statistics
• Individual-based competition in forest stands
• The forest-to-consumer chain
• Innovative forest-based products
• Non-wood forest products
• The cork chain: from fundamentals to innovation
• Forest-based green chemistry and products
• Forest products in a biorefinery concept
• Biomass and bioenergy