The 18th Workshop of the I.A.V.S. Working Group for the European Vegetation Survey was in Rome, from Wednesday March 25 to Saturday March 28, 2009.
The main theme of the workshop was "Thermophilous vegetation", which can be interpreted at any scale, from plot-size studies, through ecosystem and landscape scale, to the impacts of global change and which could include, for example, geographical relationships between syntaxa and temperature regimes, impacts of global warming on vegetation and species distributions, ecophysiological experiments on plants and temperature.
Two additional topics were proposed:
What does “Favourable Conditions” for Habitat of the EC Directive mean? What are the implications for management (EU Life+ & FESR Projects, other Natura 2000 projects);
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Coenology and the Historical ecology of Plant Communities.The total participants has been 149 from 24 countries, the total contributions has been 44 lectures, in 9 sessions, and 46 posters, in 3 sessions.
Programme Committee:
Francesco Spada (Roma, Italy)
Sandro Pignatti (Roma, Italy)
John Rodwell (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
Joop Schaminee (Wageningen, Netherlands)
Organizing Commitee:
Laura Casella (Roma, Italy)
Emiliano Agrillo (Roma, Italy)
Andrea Savoia (Roma, Italy)
Loretta Gratani (Roma, Italy)
Fabio Attorre (Roma, Italy)
Organized by:
EVS-Italia Orto Botanico di Roma – Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale di Roma “La Sapienza”, Largo Cristina di Svezia,24 - 00165 Roma
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