会议时间：2019年3月21-23日
会议地点：奥地利·格拉茨
演讲嘉宾：Gerald Koch
　　　　　Thuenen Institute of Wood Research, Hamburg, Germany

摘要：Illegal logging is one of the main causes of worldwide deforestation and, by releasing green-house-relevant gasses, contributes to climate change. Moreover, trade with illegal timber and wood products creates market disadvantages for products from sustainable forestry. As a contribution to global forest protection international laws and timber regulations are enacted, such as the USA Lacey Act, the European Timber regulation (EUTR) and, the Illegal Logging Prohibition Act in Australia. All these regulations prohibit the import and trade of illegally logged wood and require that timber and timber products have to be produced in accordance with the respective national legislation. Controls are based on a due diligence system which requires the correct declaration of the wood genus/species (botanical name) and origin. The clear identification of internationally traded timber is also of prime importance in enforcing CITES policies regarding protected species, e.g., the entire Dalbergia species = Rosewood or Swietenia spp. = True Mahogany. In the context of these important requirements and new challenges wood anatomy provides the most valuable support for practical wood identification and is routinely applied in the daily control of wood and wood products. Using light microscopic techniques, up to 100 anatomical characters can be used following the internationally standardized IAWA lists of “Microscopic Features for Hardwood and Softwood Identification”. Overall, the microscopic descriptions of about 8,700 taxa of hardwoods are currently available and documented in several computerized databases, e.g., InsideWood or Commercial timbers and CITESwoodID (Delta-Intkey-System). By using these important references, the Thuenen Centre of Competence on the Origin of Timber, Germany has executed more than 4,500 official requests (including approx. 50,000 specimens) for microscopic wood identification since the implementation of the European Timber regulation in Germany.