Working groups
IAVS
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Disturbance Dynamics in Boreal Forests
Contact person: Ola
Engelmark, Umeå, Sweden
Email: ola.engelmark@ieh.se
European Vegetation Survey
Contact person: John
Rodwell, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Email: johnrodwell@tiscali.co.uk
The 17th International Workshop
"European Vegetation Survey" will take place in Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, on 1-4 May 2008. The main topic
of the workshop is "Using phytosociological data to address ecological
questions".
Please find detailed information at the
workshop website http://botzool.sci.muni.cz/EVS/index.php.
If you intend to participate in this
workshop, we kindly ask you to fill in the Declaration of Interest form at http://botzool.sci.muni.cz/EVS/index.php?wh=form and submit it electronically
by 30 November 2007.
Long-term Vegetation Dynamics
Contact person: Jan
Bakker, Groningen, the Netherlands
Email: j.p.bakker@biol.rug.nl
The Working Group tried to organise a meeting duirng the past years.
But this was not successful. In the meantime the new Working Group
‘Ecoinformatics’ was established. This group intends to incorporate long-term
data sets. Hence, it is obvious that both Working groups will merge into the
new Working Group ‘Long-term vegetaion dynamics linked to
Ecoinformatics’. We announced this
during the IAVS meeting in Wales 2007.
Nomenclature Commision
Contact person: JeanPaul
Theurillat, Champex, Switzerland
Email jeanpaul.theurillat@cjb.villege.ch
Working Group
for Eco-informatics
Contact person: Robert
Peet, Chapel
Hill, USA & Stephan Hennekens, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Homepage: http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/peet/vegdata/
This past year Robert Peet endorsed on behalf of the Eco-informatics
Working Group a research
coordination network proposal to the US NSF specifically to develop a
trait database for North American
taxa. We have recently learned that the proposal will be funded. The
initial steering Committee is
expected to consist of D. Bunker (Chair), S. Diaz, S. Naeem, M. Schildhauer, and R.
Peet.
The Working Group maintains a website as well as an E-mail mailing
list to which you can
subscribe:
http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/peet/vegdata/
http://lists.unc.edu/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=vegdata%20
Regional Section North America
Contact persons: Chair
Janet Franklin or Secretary Susan Will-Wolf
E-mail: mailto:mjanet@sciences.sdsu.edu (Franklin) & swwolf@wisc.edu (Will-Wolf)
homepage: http://biology.memphis.edu/esa/index.htm
The North American section of the International
Association of Vegetation Science coordinates its activities with the
Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Vegetation Section, including a
combined annual business meeting and a web site. We also work together
to sponsor special symposia at the annual ESA meeting, and we are responsible
for judging a number of student competitions at that meeting, including the
Ton Damman award for the best student presentation in vegetation science (
http://www.uga.edu/srel/esavegsec/awards.htm).
Regional
Section South Africa
Contact person ad interim:
Prof. Laco Mucina, Pretoria, South Africa
Email: Lm3@sun.ac.za
Regional Section for Pacific Islands
Contact person: Prof. Dieter
Mueller-Dombois
E-mail: AMDHAWAII@aol.com
From August 7-11, 2006, an initial synthesis meeting
of PABITRA (the Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Transect) Network was held in the
island Republic of Palau. The PABITRA Coordinator for
Micronesia, Dr. Harley Manner, with the
cooperation of Ms. Tarita Holm, Chairperson of the Palau Natural Resources
Council, organized the workshop. In addition to Dr. Manner, two overseas
PABITRA core members, Dr. Dieter Mueller-Dombois (Emeritus Professor of
Botany and Ecology) and Dr. Curtis Daehler (expert on invasive species), were
invited to explain the PABITRA concept under the capacity building and
training project funded by APN (the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change
Research CAPaBLE Grant CBA 2006-01NSY-Manner). The meeting comprised several
seminars and fieldtrips. A first attempt was made to synthesize existing
information of Palauan ecosystems and to define potential PABITRA transects
and landscape segments from the central mountain range inland to the coast.
The Palau PABITRA group selected the Ngerikiil and Diongradid watersheds as
PABITRA study sites for the 2007 Joint Analysis Workshop planned for 28
March-5 April, 2007. The group was asked to
review the PABITRA Manual and to begin a consultation process with the local
communities about the 2007 workshop and the potential study sites, and to
recruit students from PCC (Palau Community College) and interested villagers in
an effort to build capacity for ecological biodiversity assessment.
Regional Section for Japan
Contact person: Prof. Kasue Fujiwara, Yokohama, Japan
E-mail: kazue@ynu.ac.jp
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