Scientific Programme
Europe is a continent of long cultural history, where land use, hunting and fishing have become embedded in traditional practises. It once harboured a large diversity of wild species in its terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. But ever since traditional practises have been replaced by industrialized agriculture and fisheries, this biodiversity has been strongly declining. However, some lessons have been learnt and some hotspots remain. New policies and education tools have been designed to improve the coexistence of people and biodiversity. Many countries could benefit from these programmes and avoid mistakes made by others. As pressures on natural resources continue to increase worldwide, the European experience could be seen as a case study for the global nature conservation community.
By studying the needs of biodiversity, deepening our dialogue with stakeholders and all citizens, and looking beyond the countdown 2010, the 2nd European Congress of Conservation Biology “Conservation biology and beyond – from science to practice” welcomes biologists, practitioners, consultants, policy makers, social scientists, teachers and students to discuss, design and disseminate new guidelines, tools and strategies in an attempt to win the race to significantly reduce the loss of biodiversity.
The scientific program will include plenary sessions, invited symposia, workshops, organized discussions, short courses, poster sessions, and concurrent sessions of contributed oral presentations and speed presentations.
Call for abstracts is open from October 01, 2008!!!
More information is available in the folder of Menu: Call for Abstracts.
First 3 plenaries of ECCB 2009
We are delighted to announce the first three plenary speakers that have agreed to talk at 2nd ECCB:
Prof. William Sutherland (Great Britain)
University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology
Bill Sutherland’s interests are wide in particular in conservation biology. He is interested predicting the impacts of environmental change, especially on bird populations.
Prof. Joan Martinez-Alier (Spain)
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Department of Economics and Economic History
Martinez-Alier's research interests are in the field of agrarian studies, ecological economics and political ecology. He has become recognized as Europe's foremost scholar and spokesman of the new field of "ecological economics".
Dr. Petr Pyšek (Czech Republic)
Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Science
Petr Pyšek`s research interests include various aspects of plant invasions, with recent focus on global patterns of biological invasions, determinants of the naturalization process, role of traits in plant invasion, habitat invasibility, dynamics of species spread, comparative analyses of invasive floras and population ecology of invasive congeners. Recently, he has been involved in European projects ALARM and DAISIE, which brought together international consortia to address the problems of biological invasions in this continent.