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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
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2000 |
2-4
August 2000, Snowbird, USA
Network of Removal Experiments. The main goal of this
network is to develop a strong scientific basis, common
objectives and methodological protocols to analyse and
synthesise the results of removal experiments to assess the
role of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning. Organizers:
Sandra
Diaz
and Terry
Chapin.
6-9 December 2000, Paris, France
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: synthesis and perspectives. This workshop will aim to synthesise experiments and theories on the role of biodiversity and ecosystenm functioning across ecosystem types (marine, freshwater, and terrestrial) and components (animal, plants and microbes), and to discuss and to stimulate new perspectives in this area. Organizers: Shahid Naeem and Michel Loreau.
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2001 |
9-11
May 2001, Valencia, Spain
Plant functional types. This workshop is intended to
present the comparative sythesis of individual studies that
have investigated functional attributes or types, focusing
seperately on three types of disturbances: grazing, fire,
and land-use change. The three sub-networks have collected
and analyzed the information through meta-analyses.
Organizer: Sue
McIntyre
and Juli
Pausas
19-23
June, 2001, Montpellier, France
Plant dispersal and migration modelling for global
change. This group aims to test the consequences of
long-distance dispersal (i.e. beyond the 'normal' range, or
statisticaly speaking where 99% of the seeds land) as an
essential aspect of the ability of natural comunities to
persist in the face of changes in the disturbance regimes
and land use changes. Organizer: Steve
Higgins,
Sandra
Lavorel
and Lou
Pitelka
10-12
August, Las Cruces, New Mexico
The Role of Biodiversity in Ecosystem
Functioning: What Can be Learnt from Communicty
Reduction Studies. The meeting will develop a work plan
for compiling information on community reduction
experiments, to outline a resulting synthesis publication,
and to maximize possible links of these experiments with
on-going removal experiments on the role of biodiversity in
ecosystem function. Contacts:Sandra
Diaz
and Laura
Huenneke
19-22
September, 2001, Barcelona, Spain
Impacts of biotic invasions in terrestrial
ecosystems: spatial assessment, base rates and
consequences. This working group aims to test general
hypotheses on global patterns and correlates of invasion and
intrinsic community vulnerability. The main objectives are
to estimate base rates of entry, naturalization and invasion
for different functional groups, to characterise, and
eventually quantify the extent of invasions among different
biomes and with the aim of integrating measurements of
impact that would include the range, abundance per unit area
across that range, and the per-capita effect of the invading
species. Organizers: Mark
Lonsdale
, Montserrat
Vila
and Richard
Mack.
22-26 September,
Jena, Germany
Manipulating insect herbivory in biodiversity-ecosystem
function experiments. Friedrich-Schiller Universitat
Jena, Germany. The workshop aims to provide a forum for
discussing how existing knowledge on insect herbivory can be
used in furture studies on the functional role of
biodiversity. In particular, the advantages and
disadvantages of various techniques of manipulating insect
herbivory will be considered in relation to experimental
biodiversity-ecosystem functioning studies. Organizers:
Valarie Brown, E-mail: v.k.brown@reading.ac.uk;
Wolfgang Weisser, Email: b9wewo@uni-jena.de;
Winfried Voigt, E-mail: b5wivo@uni-jena.de
7-11 November, The
Netherlands
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, E-mail: p.deruiter@frw.ruu.nl;
W.H. van der Putten, Email: putten@cto.nioo.knaw.nl;
Jeff A. Harvey, Email:harvey@cto.nioo.knaw.nl;
Martin Wassen, Email:M.Wassen@geog.uu.nl