Dear colleagues,
we would like to invite you to the 9th international Meeting on
Vegetation Databases, hosted from 24-26 February 2010 at the
University of Hamburg, Germany. The motto this year is "Vegetation
Databases and Climate Change".
We particularly invite contributions based on vegetation databanks
and related archives on the following topics
* detection of climate-induced changes in community
composition and functional traits
* modelling of species niches
* modelling of current and future distributions of species and
vegetation types
* separating long-term trends in vegetation composition from
methodological artifacts caused by subjective sampling,
unequal plot sizes, incomplete relevés etc.
* disentangling effects of climate change, land use change,
eutrophication, and biotic invasions
* forecasting landscape change
* estimating vulnerability of species, and vegetation types
* dealing with scenarios, uncertainty, and risk
Aditionally, we welcome presentation of new methods, new software
tools, or new databases. In particular, we invite all persons who host a
vegetation database to present its scope and content on a poster. We
intend to publish a comprehensive overview of vegetation databases
worldwide in a peer-reviewed conference volume (see
HUhttp://www.botanik.uni-greifswald.de/373.htmlUH).
The meeting will comprise keynote lectures by Niklaus E.
Zimmermann (WSL, Switzerland) and Ingolf Kühn (UFZ, Germany),
and Michael C. Rutherford (South African National Biodiversity
Institute, South Africa) as well as three software workshops related to
establishment and analyses of large databases.
Visit our conference homepage at
HTUhttp://www.botanik.uni-greifswald.de/workshop2010.htmlUTH
where you find further details. Deadline for registration and abstract
upload is 30 November 2009.
We are looking forward to welcome you in Hamburg in less than five
months.
Best regards,
Jürgen Dengler, Manfred Finckh, and Jörg Ewald
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Local Organising Committee: J. Dengler ([email protected]
hamburg.de) and M. Finckh ([email protected])
NetPhyD Section Vegetation Databases: J. Ewald (ujoerg.ew...@fh-
weihenstephan.de)
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Dr. Jürgen Dengler
Plant Systematics and Vegetation Ecology
Biocentre Klein Flottbek
University of Hamburg
Ohnhorststr. 18
22609 Hamburg
GERMANY
Phone: +49-40-42816-403
Phone private: +49-4131-935038
Fax: +49-40-42816-539
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/bzf/fbha063/fbha063.htm
European Dry Grassland Group: http://www.edgg.org
Conference "Vegetation Databases and Climate Change":
http://www.botanik.uni-greifswald.de/workshop2010.html
