The first FOREM meeting was held on June 15 2021, as a webinar, 40 people attended the meeting.

This meeting was dedicated to our colleague Jean-Marc Ottorini, who passed away recently. Jean-Marc was a growth modelling researcher at the UMR Silva of INRAE Nancy.

FOREM is the animation network of French-speaking researchers and developers involved in the modeling of forest-wood systems in their environments.

Its objective is to create opportunities for meetings and exchanges around the study of forest dynamics and the genetic, environmental and silvicultural factors that control it. Topics also cover interactions with the socio-economic sphere: forest-wood sector, ecosystem services, risk management, territories. Thesis and job offers are regularly sent to the network's mailing list.

The members of the Capsis project, a simulation platform for forest growth and dynamics models, meet within the framework of this network.

The FOREM network is an inter-organism and multidisciplinary scientific animation tool supported by INRAE's ECODIV department (formerly INRA's EFPA department). From 1999 to 2019, this network was called the CAQ network and then CAQSIS.

1. Forem – Introduction – Céline Meredieu, Thiéry Constant, Francois de Coligny (Inrae)

2. Capsis Project Activity: 2019 - 2021 - F. de Coligny (Inrae AMAP, Montpellier)

3. Utilisation du modèle Samsara sur marteloscope – Benoit Courbaud (Inrae Lessem, Grenoble)

4. Construction d’un modèle dynamique de croissance peuplier à l’échelle d’arbre et intégration dans CAPSIS – Seyed Mahdi Heshmatol Vaezin (University of Tehran, Iran), Alain Bouvet (FCBA, Champs sur Marne)

5. SimCoP: past, present & future Work “around” Jean-Marc Ottorini’s growth simulator – Holger Wernsdoerfer (AgroParisTech Silva, Nancy)

6. Bien-être animal et dynamique de l’ombrage généré par une strate arborée d’une parcelle agroforestière - Analyse de simulations sous la plateforme Capsis – Marc Saudreau, Chelton Desarmes (Inrae PIAF, Clermont-Ferrand)

7. PDG Light : modéliser et comprendre la résilience des forêts mélangées – Camille Rouet (Inrae URFM, Avignon)

8. Modelling the effect of tree species mixing on Quercus petraea regeneration with the French National Forest Inventory – Jeremy Borderieux (AgroParisTech Silva, Nancy)

9. Vers un nouveau cadre d'analyse comparative des modèles d'impact du changement climatique sur la foret – Nikola Besic (AgroParisTech Silva, Nancy)

10. Modèles de survie arbre individu basé sur des placettes permanentes expérimentales en Bade-Wurttemberg – Axel Albrecht (FVA, Freiburg, Allemagne)

11. What happens to growth of beech poles when controlling wind sways? – Joel Dongmo (Inrae Silva, Nancy)

12. Modélisation des effets de la sylviculture de peuplements forestiers irréguliers mélangés sur la résilience aux tempêtes et la durabilité des services écosystémiques – Nathéo Beauchamp (Inrae Lessem, Grenoble)

13. Les projets ExtraFor_Est et Gemm_Est : bilan et perspectives – Francis Colin (Inrae Silva, Nancy)

14. Quantité et qualité du bois de noyer hybride : systèmes agroforestiers vs forestiers – Lucie Heim (Arts et Métiers LaBoMaP, Cluny)