会议名称：2013世界木材日研讨会(2013 World Wood Day Symposium)
会议时间：2013年3月19-20日
会议地点：Karimjee Hall, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
报 告 人： Dr. Pieter Baas
　　　　　Editor of the IAWA Journal

Abstract
The PROTA Handbooks 7 (1 & 2) on about 1200 commercial timber species from Tropical Africa (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa, see also www.prota4u.org) contain a wealth of information on over 1200 indigenous and cultivated tree species. Although most information in the handbooks is derived from published information, the data on wood anatomy were gathered in two workshops in Montpellier, France (2007) and Kumasi, Ghana (2010) by young African wood scientists and a team of international senior wood anatomists. The resulting information is of great value for wood identification (in the service of wood culture, wood trade, and implementing legislation to combat illegal logging), tree biology, silviculture, forest dynamics and for wood quality research. In this talk I will give some examples to underpin this general statement. Information of the many uses of certain timbers for construction material, for carving, charcoals, pulp and paper and multiple traditional applications invites further analyses so that alternative species can be suggested for similar end-uses.

Speaker Profile
Pieter Baas (1944) studied Biology at Leiden University, and completed his PhD thesis (cum laude) on the phylogenetic position of Ilex and putative relatives in 1975. From 1969 onwards he is associated with National Herbarium of the Netherlands (NHN), currently part of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center. From 1991--2005 he was director of the NHN. Currently is active as Professor Emeritus of Systematic Botany.
His main areas of interest are in ecological and functional wood anatomy, systematic and phylogenetic plant anatomy, microscopic wood identification, biodiversity, biohistory, and wood culture.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of the Netherlands (KNAW) and of the International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS); he is an Honorary Member of the International Association of Wood Anatomists and of the Indian Association of Plant Taxonomists; a Corresponding Membership of the Botanical Society of America; Recepient of the Linnean Gold Medal (Botany) 2003; and Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion.
From 1976 onwards he is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Association of Wood Anatomists Journal. He published over 220 scientific papers, and 6 books.

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