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Home Overview of Focus 4 Networks Benefits and Commitments Data and Model Sharing Policy Activities and Tasks Research Highlights Meetings and Events Directory Sitemap   Contact details: GCTE Focus 4 Pablo Inchausti (Scientific Officer) Laboratoire d'Ecologie Ecole Normale Superieure 46 rue d'Ulm Paris 75005 France Tel: (+33) 1.44.32.23.16 Fax: (+33) 1.44.32.38.85	Meetings and Events 3-7 April, The Netherlands GCTE-F4/Diversitas - Trophic Interactions in a Changing World. World-wide terrestrial ecosystems are severely affected and dominated by human activities leading to strong declines in environmental and ecosystem quality and biological diverstiy. The aim of the meeting is to present actual themes on trophic interaction research having a direct link with changes in terrestrail ecosystems and attempts to counteract these changes by ecological restoration. This workshop will aim at bringing together reserach from different disciplines in ecology, thus linking evolutionary and systems ecologists, above-and-below ground ecologists, and empiricists and theoretical ecologists. Contact: Peter de Ruiter, W.H. van der Putten, Jeff A. Harvey, and Martin Wassen 4-7 April, Ascona, Switzerland GCTE-F4/Diversitas - Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. This workshop aims to bring together theoretical and empirically working aquatic ecologists with an interest in a diversity of systems (marine and freshwater, lakes and rivers, benthic and pelagic), taxa (microbes to vertebrates) and focus (populations, communities and ecosystems) to examine the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in aquatic ecosystems. Contact: Mark Gessner and Pablo Inchausti TBA GCTE-F4/Diversitas - The Functional Significance of Biodiversity. The workshop will synthesize existing knowledge on various aspects of the functional significance of forest diversity and will explore the linkage between species and funcitonal group diversity among various categories of biota, i.e. asking the question, whether diversity in one functional group trophic level (in this case trees) affects diversity in other functional groups (e.g. soil fungi or canopy insects) and vice versa. We will explore in particular the significance of the presence of a multitude of players for ecosystem processes such as stand productivity, water relations, nutrient retention, volatile carbon emissions, only to mention a few examples. Contact: Michael Scherer-Lorenzen     2001 Past meetings
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