2023 IAVS Symposium – Abstract submission deadline extended to May, 12

Abstract submission deadline extended to 12th May (excluding submissions for travel grant applications)

The 65th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science – IAVS 2023 – will be held from Sunday 3rd to Friday 8th September 2023 at Opal Cove, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia. Opal Cove is a beachside resort on the Pacific Ocean with an enviable subtropical maritime climate. The Gumbaynggirr are the original people of the Coffs Harbour region.

Coffs Harbour, on the East Coast of Australia between Sydney and Brisbane, is a tranquil seaside nature destination for visitors and tourists. It is surrounded by World Heritage-listed national parks and state forests, as well as a marine park. The weather in Coffs Harbour is humid subtropical. September has a comfortable mean daily maximum and minimum of 22°C and 11°C, respectively, and is normally relatively dry, with monthly rainfall averaging 60 mm.

The symposium theme is ‘The Future of Vegetation in the 22ndCentury’. Given the stark manifestations of climate change in recent years, both globally and in Australia, IAVS2023 presents an important opportunity for the world’s vegetation scientists to meet, take stock of recent events and recalibrate predictions about the prospects for the world’s vegetation by the22nd century.

Key Dates

• Specialsession and workshop proposals deadline: 20 April 2023

• IAVS travel grant applications and abstracts deadline: 20 April 2023

• Abstract submission (excluding IAVS travel grant application submissions) deadline: Extended to 12 May 2023

• Notification to authors on abstract acceptance: 20 May 2023 (first round)

• Travel grant decisions announced: 20 May 2023

• Earlybird Registration Deadline: 15 June 2023

Abstract submission – deadline extended to 12 May 2023

Please note that abstract submission is only available via the symposium website. Please click here for further information

Presentation Topics:

Open Forum
Virtual Excursions (particularly for young scientists and new commencing projects – deadline for virtual excursions proposals extended to 30 June)
Special Sessions:

• Alpine vegetation and climate change

• Asian biodiversity in the Anthropocene

• Classification of the world’s biomes

• Climate change impacts on ecosystems, communities and populations

• Conservation prioritisation

• Covert vegetation – understanding and managing propagule banks in dynamic ecosystems

• Cultural burning

• Ecological connectivity – how it all comes together

• Gondwana Rainforests of Australia: evolution, threats and management

• Grazing management and biodiversity conservation

• Historical vegetation ecology in the southern hemisphere: exchanging experience and perspectives

• Impacts of megafires on biota

• Indigenous stewardship and vegetation management of natural areas

• Integrated vegetation data for New South Wales

• International vegetation classification

• Managing fire in a warming planet

• Managing vegetation for ecosystem service provision

• Miyawakimini forests and smart green networks based on vegetation science

• Monitoring biodiversity

• Offsets and vegetation management

• Plant community responses to extreme drought: current understanding and future prospects

• Plant genomics, conservation and management

• Protected area management for the 22nd century

• Refugia: identification and securing for the future

• Remote sensing techniques in state-wide vegetation monitoring

• Revegetation for ecosystem service provision

• Role of vegetation ecology in the nature-positive economy

• Shields of green – riparian vegetation in embattled landscapes

• Technological advances in monitoring vegetation

• Tree dieback

• Vegetation classification systems from local to global scales: understanding vegetation dynamics, integrating ecological processes and predicting future scenarios in changing environments

• Vegetation decline and its mitigation

• Vegetation futures

• Vegetation management in agricultural landscapes

• Vegetation mapping

• Vegetation on farms as natural capital

Registration – Earlybird rates close 15 June

Registration for IAVS2023 is open. Please note that accommodation at the symposium venue and numbersfor some mid-week excursions are limited, so please register early to avoiddisappointment. Please click here for more information.

Further information

For further information on IAVS 2023, please visit the symposium website – www.iavsaustralia2023.com or contact the symposium organisers:

IAVS 2023 Symposium Managers

East Coast Conferences
Jayne Hindle, Amy McIntosh, Jasmine Durbidge

Phone: +61 2 6650 9800
Mobile: +61 423 497 038
Postal: PO Box 848, Coffs Harbour
NSW 2450, Australia
jayne@eastcoastconferences.com.au
ABN: 56 515 955 798