Large and Old Trees: Ecological and Cultural Significance

Author Biography

Malgorzata Blicharska is Associate Professor in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development and works as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Earth Sciences of Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research is focused on biodiversity and other environmental policy implementation, policy coherence, individual and organizational learning related to implementation of new policies and concepts, spatial planning for biodiversity conservation, public participation in environmental decision-making, conservation conflicts, ecosystem services, and Nature-based Solutions. She works with forests, freshwater and coastal ecosystems, as well as urban areas. Her recent research focuses on development of new strategies for governance and management that strengthen the landscape's biodiversity and promote its multifunctionality. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals and over 40 other articles, book chapters and reports. Professor Grzegorz Mikusiński is based at the School for Forest Management of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden. His research focuses primarily on forest biodiversity conservation and management, with particular emphasis on forest birds and their ecological relationships with forest structure, natural forest dynamics and habitat conservation. His research spans forest ecosystems in Sweden and internationally. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Freiburg in Germany and the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża, Poland. He served as lead editor of Ecology and Conservation of Forest Birds, published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. He is internationally recognised for his research on woodpeckers, a group of birds with particularly strong ecological associations with trees, dead wood and old-growth forest habitats. Professor David Lindenmayer AO Professor David Lindenmayer, Fenner School of Environment and Society is a world-leading expert in forest and woodland ecology, resource management, conservation science, and biodiversity conservation. He has maintained some of the largest, long-term research programs in Australia, with some exceeding 43 years in duration. He is among the world's most productive and most highly-cited scientists, particularly in forest ecology and conservation biology and has published more than 1630 scientific articles including 1015 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals. He has also published 51 books, including many award winning textbooks and other seminal books. David Lindenmayer held a prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship from 2013-2018. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (elected 2008), Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (elected 2026), a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (elected in 2019), Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society (elected 2022), and Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences (elected 2023). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2014. His research has been recognized through numerous awards.