Past GCTE Meetings

25-27 February, 1998, Canberra, Australia
Impacts of Global Change on Australian Temperate Forests. Contact: Mark Howden, CSIRO Wildlife & Ecology, Barton Highway, Gungahlin ACT 2902. Tel: 61-2-6242-1679, Fax: 61-2-6242-1512, E-mail: Mark.Howden@dwe.csiro.au

10-12 March, 1998, Montpellier, France
Functional analysis of vegetation responses to disturbance. Sandra Lavorel, CEFE-CNRS UPR 9056, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 05, France. Tel: 33-04-6761-3268, Fax: 33-04-6741-2138.

14-18 March 1998, Barcelona, Spain
GCTE-LUCC Science Conference. Contact: Pep Canadell, GCTE Focus 1, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA, Tel: 1-415-723-1530; Fax: 1-415-723-9253, E-mail: jcanadel@leland.stanford.edu

14 March 1998, Barcelona, Spain
Biospheric-Atmospheric Stable Isotope Network (BASIN) workshop. Contact: Jim Ehleringer. Focus 1. E-mail: Ehleringer@bioscience.biology.utah.edu

June/July 1998, Potsdam, Germany
Third GAIM/DIS/GCTE Workshop on Comparing Global Biogeochemical Models. Contact: Prof Dr Wolfgang Cramer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, Postfach 60 12 03, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany, Tel: 49-331-288-2521; 49-331-288-2600, E-mail: wolfgang.cramer@pik-potsdam.de

August 1998, Montpellier, France
GCTE Special Session at International Soil Science Congress. Contact: John Ingram, GCTE Focus 3 Officer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Walingford OX10 8BB, United Kingdom, Tel: 44-1491 692 410, Fax: 44-1491 692 313, E-mail: j.ingram@ioh.ac.uk

15-26 September, Bogor, Indonesia
Training Workshop on Assessing and Modelling Global Change Impacts on Pest. Contact: Daniel Murdiyarso,
E-mail: d.murdiyarso@icsea.or.id

24-27 September 1998, Capri, Italy
Elevated CO₂ effects on litter quality and decomposition. Focus 1. Contact: Pep Canadell, E-mail: pep.canadell@dwe.csiro.au

16-19 November 1998, Potsdam, Germany
GCTE Wheat Network workshop. Contact: John Ingram, GCTE Focus 3 Officer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Walingford OX10 8BB, United Kingdom, Tel: 44-1491 692 410, Fax: 44-1491 692 313, E-mail: j.ingram@ioh.ac.uk

1-5 February 1999, Santa Barbara, California
A Cross-biome Synthesis of ecosystem response to global warming. Focus 1. Contact: Lindsey Rustad. E-mail: jrustad@maine.maine.edu or Sara Duke, E-mail: duke@biology.utah.edu

16 March 1999, Quito, Ecuador
"Global Initiatives in Late Blight" Congress. GCTE Special Session. Contact: John Ingram, GCTE Focus 3 Officer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford OX10 8BB, United Kingdom, Tel: 44-1491-692-410, Fax: 44-1491-692-313, E-mail j.ingram@ioh.ac.uk

23-28 May 1999, Purdue, USA
10th meeting of the International Soil Conservation Organization (ISCO99). GCTE Special Session. Contact: John Ingram, GCTE Focus 3 Officer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford OX10 8BB, United Kingdom, Tel: 44-1491-692-410, Fax: 44-1491-692-313, E-mail: j.ingram@ioh.ac.uk

19-22 March 1999, Stockholm, Sweden
Functional analysis of vegetation response to land use change in Europe. Focus 2.2 workshop. Contact: Ove Eriksson, E-mail: ove.eriksson@botan.su.se

15-18 June 1999, Abisko, Sweden
How nutrient cycles constrain carbon balances in boreal forests and Arctic tundra. Focus 1. Contact: Peter Hogberg, E-mail: peter@nana.slu.se or Sara Duke, E-mail: duke@biology.utah.edu

15-17 July 1999. Brisbane, Australia
Functional Analysis of Vegetation Response to Grazing. Focus 2.2 Workshop. Contact: Sue McIntyre, Task Leader, E-mail: sue.mcintyre@tag.csiro.au; Sandra Diaz, Task Leader, E-mail: sandra@imbiv.edu.ar

19-23 July 1999, Townsville, Australia
Range Management and Plant Functional Types. Session in: VI International Rangeland Conference. Focus 2.2 workshop. Contact: Sue McIntyre, Task Leader, E-mail: sue.mcintyre@tag.csiro.au; Sandra Diaz, Task Leader,
E-mail: sandra@imbiv.edu.ar

July 1999, Colorado, USA
Intercomparison of Gap Models and Examination of How Much Physiology is Needed in Them. Focus 1/Focus 2 Workshop. Contacts: James Reynolds, Activity Leader, E-mail: James.F.Reynolds@duke.edu and Louis Pitelka, Activity Leader, E-mail: pitelka@al.umces.edu

31 July - 4 August 1999, Rio, Brazil
GCTE Soil Erosion Network, Gully Erosion. Focus 3 Workshop. Contact: Tony Guerra, Avenida Canal de Marapendi, 1100, apto. 608, Bloco II, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro - RJ CEP. 22.631-050, Brazil. Tel +55 21 4912837; Fax +55 21 5983280, E-mail: guerra@igeo.ufrj.br

20-23 September 1999, Reading, UK
Food and Forestry: Global Change and Global Challenges. The GCTE Focus 3 Open Science Conference. Contact: John Ingram, GCTE Focus 3 Officer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford OX10 8BB, United Kingdom, Tel: 44-1491-692-410, Fax: 44-1491-692-313, E-mail: j.ingram@ioh.ac.uk

30 September to 2 October, 1999, Gif sur Yvette (near Paris), France
Modeling Root Water Uptake in Hydrological and Climate Models. A joint workshop sponsored by BAHC, GCTE, and GEWEX. Contact: Holger Hoff, E-mail: holger.hoff@pik-potsdam.de or Rob Jackson, E-mail: jackson@duke.edu .

19-22 October, 1999, Townsend, TN, USA
Effects of Global Change on Fine Root Physiology and Turnover. 5th New Phytologist Symposium/GCTE Focus 1 workshop. Contact: Rich Norby, Task Leader, E-mail: rjn@ornl.gov or Sara Duke, Focus 1 Officer, E-mail: duke@biology.utah.edu

November, 1999, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Biodiversity/Ecosystem Function relationship: theoretical and experimental approaches. NCEAS/F4 workshop. Contact: Ann P. Kinzig, Stephen Pacala, Dave Tilman and Osvaldo Sala.

15-16 November 1999, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Landscape Fire Modelling. Focus 2.2 and Canadian Forest Service Workshop. Contact: Mike Flannigan, E-mail: mflannig@nrcan.gc.ca or Brad Hawkes, E-mail: bhawkes@nrcan.gc.ca

23-25 November, Melbourne, Australia
GCTE Focus 3 Weed-Crop Competition Modelling Workshop. Contact: Prof. Roger Cousens, Head, Crop Production Department, Institute of Land & Food Resources, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. Phone: +61 3 9344 7390; Fax: +61 3 9344 4665; E-mail: r.cousens@landfood.unimelb.edu.au

February, Santa Barbara CA, USA
The Carbon Balance of Eurasia and North America. NCEAS/GCTE workshop.Contact: Chris Field, E-mail: chris@jasper.stanford.edu

March, Santa Barbara CA, USA
The Carbon Balance of Eurasia and North America. NCEAS/GCTE workshop. Contact: Chris Field, E-mail: chris@jasper.stanford.edu

15 March - 7 April, South Africa/Botswana
Kalahari Transect Traveling workshop. GCTE/IGBP Workshop. Contact Bob Scholes, E-mail: BScholes@csir.co.za.

30 March - 2 April, Jena, Germany
GCTE Focus 1 pre-workshop: What controls the carbon isotopic composition of soil respiration? Contact: Diane Pataki, E-mail: pataki@biology.utah.edu

12-13 May, Pretoria, South Africa
Non-linear initiative workshop. Contact: Sheila Lunter, GCTE IPO, PO Box 284, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia. Tel: (+61-2) 6242 1748, Fax: (+61-2) 6242 1512, E-mail: sheila.lunter@dwe.csiro.au

1-5 August, Snowbird UT, USA
Scaling processes through time and space - from plots to landscapes and regions. Task 2.2.4 workshop, as part of the LTER All-Scientists Meeting. Contact: Debra Peters, E-mail: debpeter@nmsu.edu

2-4 August 2000 in 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. Contact: Sandra Diaz,
E-mail: sdiaz@gtwing.efn.uncor.edu and Terry Chapin,
E-mail: fschapin@bonanza.lter.uaf.edu

4-5 August, Snowbird UT, USA
Assessing the Role of Biodiversity on Ecosystem Functioning through Experimental Removals. Launching Workshop of the GCTE Network of Removal Experiments on the Role of Biodiversity in Ecosystem Functioning. GCTE workshop as part of the LTER All-Scientists Meeting. Contact: Sandra Diaz,
E-mail: sdiaz@gtwing.efn.uncor.edu and Terry Chapin,
E-mail: fschapin@bonanza.lter.uaf.edu

20-26 August, Iguassu Falls, Brazil
XXI-ICE Symposium: Global Change and Sustainable IPM in Crops. Contact: Robert Sutherst, CSIRO Entomology, Long Pocket Laboratories, 120 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, Australia. Contact: Robert Sutherst, E-mail: robert.sutherst@ento.csiro.au

7-10 September, Switzerland
Mountain Biodiversity in a Changing World. International conference under the auspices of DIVERSITAS, Contact: Christian Körner, E-mail: koerner@ubaclu.unibas.ch

15 September, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Worldwide functional analysis in relation to fire. Activity of the GCTE (Task 2.2.1) Fire Network. Meeting associated with the MEDECOS 2000 Conference. Contact: Juli Pausas, E-mail: juli@ceam.es

5-17 October, Isle-sur-Sorgues, France
Building a global key of plant functional types. Contact: Sandra Lavorel, E-mail: lavorel@cefe.cnrs-mop.fr

13-17 November, Mexico
GCTE Wheat Network Workshop. Following the ASA meetings. Contact: John Ingram, E-mail: jsii@ceh.ac.uk

6-9 December, Paris, France
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: synthesis and perspective. This workshop will aim to synthesise experiments and theories on the role of biodiversity and ecosystem 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. Contacts: Shahid Naeem, E-mail: naeems@u.washington.edu and Michel Loreau, E-mail: loreau@biologie.ens.fr

14 December, San Francisco, USA
BASIN workshop: Collecting and Interpreting Keeling Plot Data. Contact: Diane Pataki, E-mail: pataki@biology.utah.edu or to obtain more details visit http://www.gcte-focus1.org/meetings/BASIN-AGU2000.html

16 December, San Francisco, USA
IGBP-Nonlinear pre-meeting. Contact: Pep Canadell, E-mail: Pep.Canadell@gcte.org

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2001

29 January-1 February, Kobe, Japan
Land use change and the terrestrial carbon cycle in the Asian-Pacific Region. APN funded workshop with GCTE, LUCC, STAR, IDGEC [IGBP-IHDP]. Contact: Pep Canadell

26-28 March, Beijing, China
XII GCTE-SSC meeting (restricted access). Contact: Pep Canadell

29-30 March, Beijing, China
Chinese-GCTE Global Change Conference. Contact: Guangshen Zhou and Pep Canadell

28- 30 March, Oslo, Norway
International symposium : Snowmelt erosion and related problems. Contact: Lillian Øygarden. For more information please visit http://www.jordforsk.no/Avdmiljo/snowmelt.htm

9-13 April, Montpellier, France
Estimating rare long-distance dispersal to predict plant persistence and migration. Contact: Steve Higgins

22-24 April, Albequerque, New Mexico
Developing guidelines and strategies for scaling patterns and processes in heterogeneous landscapes: Applicability to current issues in ecology. (co-sponsored by LTER). Contact: Debra Peters

26-27 April, Mexico
Tropical Cereals Modelling. Contact: John Ingram

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

10-12 May, Santa Barbara, USA
GCTE/NCEAS working group meeting. Progressive nitrogen limitation of plant and ecosystem responses to elevated CO2. Contacts: Yiqi Luo and Chris Field

13-16 May, Santa Barbara, USA
GCTE/NCEAS Integrating disturbance and land-use change in global vegetation models. This workshop is part of a continuing series called "The carbon balance of Eurasia and North America". The abstract for this meeting is available on https://www2.nceas.ucsb.edu/admin/db/web.ppage?projid_in=3880. Contact: Chris Field

17-18 May, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
BASIN Steering Committee. Meeting of the organizers of the Biosphere-Atmosphere Stable Isotope Network (BASIN) to plan activities in 2001-2002. Contacts: Diane Pataki and Jim Ehleringer

26-29 May, Duke University, Durham, North Caroline, USA
Nonlinear responses to Global Environmental Change: Critical Thresholds and Feedbacks. IGBP Nonlinear Initiative. Contact: Pep Canadell

26-30 May,Beijing, China
GCTE Soil Erosion and Land-use Change. (as part of the 12th Conference of ISCO). Contact: John Ingram

10-15 June, Berlin, Germany
An Integrated Assessment of the Ecological, Meteorological, and Human Dimensions of Global Desertification. This Dahlem Conference will address key questions and issues related to land degradation in arid and semiarid regions of the world. Contact: James F. Reynolds

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

10-13 July, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Challenges of a Changing Earth. A Global Change Open Science Conference. Visit: www.sciconf.igbp.kva.se

19-21 July, Tune, Denmark
GCTE Focus 3 "Agroecology and Production Systems" "Production Systems" Open Planning Workshop. Contact: John Ingram

10-12 August, Las Cruces, New Mexico
The Role of Biodiversity in Ecosystem Functioning: What Can be Learnt from Community 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, Wolfgang Weisser and Winfried Voigt

12-15 Glaciar National Park, Montana, USA
Gloval Change and fire effects at landscape scales. Sponsored by US Forest Service. Contact: Bob Keane

19-22 September, Barcelona, Spain
Global analysis of base rates and impacts of biotic invasions. 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. Contacts: Montserrat Vila, Mark Lonsdale, and Richard Mack

6-8 October, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
The 2001 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community. Particular emphasis will be placed on research reports that include a regional or "place-based" perspective and that make a linkage between natural and social sciences, as well as between local, regional and global scales. Enquiries can be addressed to open.meeting@ciesin.org. or for more information please visit http://sedac.ciesin.org/openmeeting/

19-21 Durham, NC, USA
GCTE Focus 1 Workshop: Tracing carbon in elevated CO2 experiments: a workshop on isotopic analyses of where the carbon is going. Contact: Diane Pataki

7-11 November, The Netherlands - POSTPONED TO APRIL 2002
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

12-16 November, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Global Change and fire effects at landscape scales. Sponsored by NCEAS. Contact: Mike Flannigan and Sandra Lavorel

November,Tskuba, NIAS, Japan
Rice FACE model analysis workshop. Contact: John Ingram

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