Links
A selection of links which I regard as interesting.
Meetings
Pollination Conference in
Milwaukee, August 2-3, 2008
"A two-day conference on the Ecology and Evolution
of Plant-Pollinator Interactions will be held on August 2-3, 2008, immediately
prior to the Ecological Society of America Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
USA. The goal of this conference is to highlight the most exciting
recent advances in community and evolutionary pollination biology, and foster
interaction among pollination biologists. We aim to encourage a unified
framework to the study of community and evolutionary approaches, and to draw
attention to largely unexplored questions at the intersection of these disciplines."
The evolutionary ecology
of plant-animal interactions: from genes to communities Symposium of
the AEET in Mallorca April 21-23, 2008
"Plant-animal interactions (mutualistic
or antagonistic) constitute the basis of the functioning of many ecosystems,
playing a key role in the evolution of terrestrial biodiversity. Despite
the great abundance of studies on the ecological interactions between plants
and animals, we are still far from understanding how coevolution works
in these types of ecological interactions. The main goals of this symposium
are to evaluate the advances in different research lines within the evolutionary
ecology of plant-animal interactions, the patterns found, and the existing
theoretical as well as methodological limitations. From their respective
fields of specialization, a selected representation of national and international
scientists will provide the ingredients for the analysis." pdf
tentative programme
Sizemic 1st Workshop of the ESF Research Networking Programme SIZEMIC Trophic dynamics in ecosystems: feeding interactions, species identity and body size, April 4-7, 2008, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Organisers: Richard Law (University of York) and Julia Blanchard (Cefas), Supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF), and the Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) and the University of York. pdf tentative programme
Organizations
Plant Ecology Leiden University
"The
section studies interaction between plants and animals, which includes both
herbivory and pollination. Also the relation between plants and micro-organisms
in the soil is included in the research. Section leader is Peter Klinkhamer."
RMBL Rocky Mountains
Biological Laboratory.
"For nearly 80 years, leading scientists
and students from around the country arrive at our remote field station high
in the Rocky Mountains to work side-by-side studying the still-wild ecosystems
of this rugged, yet fragile land. Few places are as well understood, or documented.
Research at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory is contributing scientific
knowledge that is vital to understanding our rapidly changing world."
IVN Dutch
Organisation
for Environmental Education
"The IVN
is an organisation for Environmental Education, where some 150 professionals
and 17.000 volunteers throughout the Netherlands have a joint mission:
to contribute to a sustainable society by connecting people with their
nature and their environment."
IVN Den Haag
Website of the IVN
Den Haag (in Dutch)
KNNV Royal Dutch Society for Natural History
"Nature encompasses all that
lives, grows and flowers. Nature can be experienced. Nature can be studied.
Royal Dutch Society for Natural History (KNNV) is a society which aims at
active participation in and with nature: through the enjoyment of nature,
through natural history studies and through nature conservation. In other
words the KNNV is a society for field biology."
KNNV Den Haag
Website of the KNNV Den Haag
Sizemic ESF (European Science Foundation) Research Networking Programme: "Body-size and ecosystem dynamics: Integrating pure and applied approaches from aquatic and terrestrial ecology to support an ecosystem approach."
