Past Meetings
2011
20 June - 24 June: #54 -- Vegetation in and around water: patterns, processes and threats
Lyon, France
Second Circular
Social Program
Abstracts
Excursions
Pre-symposium: Mediterranean landscapes (12-18 June)
Post-symposium: Alps (27 June - 1 July)
Participation: 399 persons representing 43 countries (including 23 European countries.
2010
18 April - 23 April: #53 -- Changing Gradients in Vegetation and the Environment.
Ensenada, Mexico.
Excursions:
Pre-symposium -- Southern California,
Post-symposium -- The Baja Peninsula.
Program.
Participation: 180 persons representing 33 countries.
Presentations: 105 papers and 45 posters.
Note: a significant number of Europeans had to cancel participation at the last moment owing to disruption of air travel caused by the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano. Participation & presentation data reflect 126 known participants plus 54 others listed in the program, some of whom did not manage to attend.
2009
30 May - 04 June: #52 -- Vegetation processes and human impact in a changing world.
Crete, Greece.
Excursion: Crete & Santorini.
Program: Coles, S. & Dimopoulos, P. (eds.) 2009. Vegetation processes and Human Impact in a Changing World. University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece.
Abstracts:
Participation: 265 persons representing 36 countries.
Presentations: 116 papers and 75 posters.
2008
07 September - 12 September: #51 -- Frontiers of vegetation science: an evolutionary angle.
Stellenbosch, South Africa.
Excursions:
Pre-symposium #1 - Namibia,
Pre-symposium #2 - Namaqualand, South Africa,
Pre-symposium #3 - SW Cape, South Africa,
Pre-symposium #4 - Blommetjie, South Africa,
Post-symposium - Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Powerpoints, posters, photographs.
Program and abstracts: Mucina, L., Kalwij, J.M., Smith, V.R., Chytrý, M., White, P.S., Cilliers, S.S., Pillar, V.D., Zobel, M. & Sun, I.-F. (eds.) 2008. Frontiers of Vegetation Science—An Evolutionary Angle. Keith Phillips Images, Somerset West.
Participation: 232 persons representing 32 countries.
Presentations: 126 papers and 42 posters.
2007
12 February - 16 February: #49 -- New Zealand: new home, new habitat, new ideas.
Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Excursions:
Pre-symposium -- North Island of New Zealand.
Post-symposium -- South Island of New Zealand.
Program and abstracts.
Participation: 178 persons representing 30 countries.
Presentations: ~ 94 papers, ~46 posters.
22 July - 27 July: #50 -- Cultural landscapes - changing landscapes.
Swansea, Wales.
Excursion: Ireland, Cornwall.
Program and abstracts.
Photographs.
Participation: 127 persons representing 32 countries.
Presentations: 79 papers and ~35 posters.
2005
24 July - 29 July: #48 -- Marginal landscapes (and nutrient-poor ecosystems) - processes and adaptations.
Lisbon, Portugal.
Excursion: Azores.
2004
18 July - 23 July: #47 -- Landscape change and ecosystem disturbances: Islands and continents.
Kona, Hawaii, United States.
Excursion: The Islands of Hawai’i, Maui, and Kauai.
Program and abstracts.
Participation: 227 persons representing 35 countries.
Presentations: 133 papers.
2003
08 June - 13 June: #46 -- Water resources and vegetation.
Naples, Italy.
Excursion: Southern Italy -- Sicily to Naples.
Program.
Presentations: 125 papers, 105 Posters.
2002
03 March - 08 March: #45 -- Vegetation dynamics in space and time.
Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Excursion: Southernmost Brazil.
2001
29 July - 04 August: #44 -- Vegetation and ecosystem function.
Freising - Weihenstephan, Germany.
Excursion: Alps transect.
Participation: ~400 persons representing ~48 countries.
2000
23 July - 28 July: #43 -- Global to local perspectives of vegetation science: search for new paradigms for the 21st century.
Nagano, Japan.
Excursion: Japanese archipelago.
1999
26 July - 30 July: #42 -- Vegetation and climate.
Bilbao, Spain.
Excursion: Iberian peninsula.
Participation: ~300 persons representing ~43 countries.
1998
26 July - 01 August: #41 -- Vegetation Science in retrospect and perspective.
Uppsala, Sweden.
Excurions: Lapland, Oeland.
1997
18 August - 23 August: #40 -- Vegetation mapping, experimental tests of mechanistic hypotheses of community patterns, and closely related species in plant communities.
Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
Excursion: Bulgaria.
Participation ~250 persons representing ~31.
1996
09 September - 11 September: #39 -- Vegetation science and landscape ecology.
Lancaster, United Kingdom.
Excursion: South Africa.
1995
04 June - 09 June: #38 -- The importance of spatial & temporal perspective for understanding vegetation pattern & process.
Houston, Texas, United States.
Excursion: Southeastern United States -- Texas to North Carolina.
1994
19 September - 23 September: #37 -- Large-scale vegetation surveys.
Bailleul, France.
Excursion: Caribbean and French Guyana.
1993
12 April - April: #36 -- Island and high mountain vegetation: biodiversity, bioclimate and conservation.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Excursion: Canary Islands.
1992
21 September - 25 September: #35 -- Applied vegetation ecology.
Shanghai, China.
Excursion: Eastern China.
1991
26 August - 30 August: #34 -- Mechanisms in vegetation dynamics.
Eger, Hungary.
No excursion.
1990
08 April - 12 April: #33 -- Vegetation processes as subject of geobotanical maps.
Warsaw, Poland.
Excursion: Southwestern Australia.
1989
20 August - 27 August: #32 -- Forests of the world.
Uppsala, Sweden.
No excursion.
1988
11 April - 15 April: #31 -- Spontaneous vegetation in settlements
Frascati, Italy
Excursion: Southwestern North America.
No 1987 symposium owing to the International Botanical Congress in Berlin.
1986
26 March - 31 March: #30 -- Recording and evaluation of anthropogeneous changes in vegetation.
Halle, DDR
Excursion: Norway.
1985
01 April - 04 April: #29 -- Large area vegetation surveys.
Bailleul, France.
Excursion: Algeria.
1984
16 April - 19 April: #28 -- Dependent plant communities.
Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Excursion: Honshu, Japan.
1983
01 April - 01 April: #27 -- ?
Corrientes, Argentina.
Excursion: Northern & central Argentina.
Dates unknown (ignore posted month and day)
1982
03 April - 09 April: #26 -- Chorological phenomena in plant communities.
Prague, Czechoslovakia.
1981
13 April - 16 April: #25 -- Struktur und Dynamik von Wäldern.
Rinteln, Germany.
1980
31 March - 04 April: #24 -- Syntaxonomie.
Rinteln, Germany.
1979
09 April - 11 April: #23 -- Epharmonie.
Rinteln, Germany.
1978
20 March - 23 March: #22 -- Werden und Vergehen von Pflanzengesellschaften.
Rinteln, Germany.
1977
04 April - 07 April: #21 -- Assoziationskomplexe (Sigmeten) und ihre praktische Anwendung.
Rinteln, Germany.
1976
12 March - 15 March: #20 -- Vegetation und Fauna.
Rinteln, Germany.
1975
24 March - 27 March: #19 -- Vegetation und Klima.
Rinteln, Germany.
1974
08 April - 11 April: #18 -- Landschaftsgliederung mit Hilfe der Vegetation.
Rinteln, Germany.
1973
16 April - 19 April: #17 -- Sukzessionsforschung.
Rinteln, Germany.
1972
27 March - 31 March: #16 -- Gefährdete Vegetation und ihre Erhaltung.
Rinteln, Germany.
1971
05 April - 08 April: #15 -- Vegetation als anthropoökologischer Gegenstand.
Rinteln, Germany.
1970
23 March - 26 March: #14 -- Grundfragen und Methoden in der Pflanzensoziologie.
Rinteln, Germany.
1969
31 March - 03 April: #13 -- Vegetation und Substrat.
Rinteln, Germany.
1968
08 April - 11 April: #12 -- Tatsachen und Probleme der Grenzen in der Vegetation.
Rinteln, Germany.
1967
20 March - 23 March: #11 -- Gesellschaftsentwicklung (Syndynamik).
Rinteln, Germany.
1966
04 April - 07 April: #10 -- Gesellschaftsmorphologie (Strukturforschung).
Rinteln, Germany.
1965
12 April - 15 April: #9 -- Experimentelle Pflanzensoziologie.
Rinteln, Germany.
1964
23 March - 26 March: #8 -- Pflanzensoziologische Systemat.
Stolzenau, Germany.
1963
08 April - 11 April: #7 -- Pflanzensoziologie und Landschaftsökologie.
Stolzenau, Germany.
1962
16 April - 19 April: #6 -- Pflanzensoziologie und Palynologie.
Stolzenau, Germany.
1961
27 March - 31 March: #5 -- Anthropogene Vegetation.
Stolzenau, Germany.
1960
11 April - 14 April: #4 -- Biosoziologie.
Stolzenau, Germany.
1959
23 March - 26 March: #3 - Vegetationskartierung.
Stolzenau, Germany.
1956
26 March - 29 March: #2 -- Pflanzensoziologie und Bodenkunde.
Stolzenau, Germany.
1953
30 March - 02 April: #1 -- Pflanzensoziologie als Brücke zwischen Land- und Wasserwirtschaft.
Stolzenau, Germany.
