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Volume 25 Issue 1 Pages 1 - 74 (April 2008)

Congress Announcements
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GEWÄSSERENTWICKLUNG UND LEBENSRAUMKORRIDORE FÜR UND MIT DER LEITTIERART FISCHOTTER

March 6-7 2008

Mauth, Germany

The “Wildland - Stiftung Bayern” and the “Ökologische Bildungsstätte Oberfranken” invite you to the Workshop "Gewässerentwicklung und Lebensraumkorridore für und mit der Leittierart Fischotter" (Wetland Development and Corridors with and for Otters as the Key Species) into the Bavarian Forest. The workshop will take place from 6th to 7th of March 2008 at the “Otterhaus” in Mauth.

Please contact the organisation if you want to participate, as the number of participants is limited due to available space.

Dr. Katrin Ruff
Projektbearbeitung OttERFRANKEN
Ökologische Bildungsstätte Oberfranken
Naturschutzzentrum Wasserschloß Mitwitz e.V.
Unteres Schloß
96268 Mitwitz
Tel. ++49-(0)9266-6286
mobil ++49-(0)1520-1827256
Fax ++49-(0)9266-6442
Katrin.Ruff@oekologische-bildungsstaette.de
www.oekologische-bildungsstaette.de

ASSOCIATION FOR TROPICAL BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION (ATBC) SYMPOSIUM

June 9-13, 2008

Paramaribo, Suriname, South America

Dear colleagues,

The next congress of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) will be held in Paramaribo-Suriname-South America in June 9-13, 2008. Registrations are open at www.atbc2008.org/register/ or http://www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/atbc2008/.

We (Pia Parolin and Florian Wittmann) are organizing a symposium on "Tropical wetlands: Diversity, ecophysiological processes and conservation"

Hoping to see you soon in our symposium in Suriname.

Pia

Title: Tropical wetlands: Diversity, ecophysiological processes and conservation

Organizers:

  • PIA  PAROLIN, University of  Hamburg, Biozentrum Klein Flottbek, Dept. Plant Systematics, Germany; 
    pparolin@botanik.uni-hamburg.de
  • FLORIAN  WITTMANN, Max Planck Institute of Chemistry,  Biogeochemistry, Mainz, Germany; 
    F-Wittmann@web.de

Abstract and goals

Tropical wetlands cover huge areas and belong to the most diverse ecosystems worldwide. They are the habitat for many partially endemic plant and animal species and they are indispensable for hydrological cycles, water resources management, etc. Whether fringed by grasslands or forests, wetlands are the source of many valuable timber and non-timber products and represent the main food source for many fish and mammal species, which in turn are the main protein base for large part of the rural population.

In spite of their ecological importance, wetlands belong to the most threatened ecosystems worldwide as they underlie a severe use conflict by human demands on water supply, timber, agriculture and pasture area, fish and wildlife, wastewater disposal and leisure activities. Biodiversity is especially affected in wetlands, among other reasons because of the recently drastic reduced area of undisturbed sites.

Wetlands are characterized by a high organismic and functional diversity. The occurring gradients (e.g. flood duration and amplitude, sedimentation and erosion, etc.) cause the need for a series of morphological, physiological and anatomical adaptations of the biota inhabiting them. Inundation dynamics create a mosaic of environmental conditions, which are closely linked to the diversity and distribution patterns of wetland species at different spatial and temporal scales. In past and recent scientific research, efforts dealt with the basic understanding of functioning and processes in wetland ecosystems.

The present symposium aims at highlighting the status quo of organistic and functional diversity research, understanding traits of species composition and diversity, ecophysiological processes and adaptation strategies of plant and animal species, and discuss the possibilities of implementation of scientific results into sustainable management and conservation schemes in wetlands.

Some potential topics of the proposed symposium are:

  • Organistic, functional and structural diversity: Which databases can be used or created?
  • How do wetlands create favourable or adverse conditions for biodiversity?
  • Which species traits make organisms successful in wetlands?
  • Plant life in oxygen-deficient environments: ecological, physiological and molecular perspectives
  • Does biodiversity influence organic matter exchange between aquatic and terrestrial systems?
  • Modelling of wetland dynamics
  • Interactions between plants and geochemical processes
  • Interaction between nitrogen enrichment and global change in wetland ecosystems
  • Palaeoecology and long-term wetland function dynamics 
  • Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment and Pollution Control
  • Which are the most important threats to biodiversity and wetland ecosystem services?
  • Which conception approaches aid prediction of diversity changes?
  • Science-based conservation and social needs: How to combine them in practice?      

Dr. Pia Parolin
Universität Hamburg - Fachbereich Biologie
Biozentrum Klein Flottbek, Abteilung Systematik der Pflanzen
Ohnhorststr. 18, D-22609 Hamburg
pparolin@botanik.uni-hamburg.de

26TH MUSTELID COLLOQUIUM

28-31 August 2008

Eötvös Loránd University
1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter s. 1/C
Hungary

The colloquium will include plenary and poster sessions; workshops for special topics also can be organised. Traditionally, a poster competition will be organised for students, the winners will be awarded.
Proposed major topics concerning with the target taxa, Mustelidae:

  • Methodology: new aspects for the field work and data evaluation
  • Land use dynamics and its changes
  • Effects of increasing urbanisation on carnivore communities
  • Evaluation of the molecular investigations
  • Biogeographical patterns and phylogenetical connections
  • Conservation biology and ecology
  • Behavioural studies
  • Parasitology and diseases of mustelid species.

Organizer and contact person:
Mária Tóth-Ronkay, e-mail: maria.ronkay@gmail.com
Web: http://mustelid2008.elte.hu

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