GMBA activities 2003 - 2004
GMBA activities 2003 - 2004
Estimados Colegas,
Adjunto un mensaje de Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA) sobre el Reporte Anual del 2003 y las nuevas actividades programadas para el 2004.
Para mayor información sírvase dirigirse a la siguiente dirección gmba@unibas.ch
También puede visitar la web de GMBA en http://www.unibas.ch/gmba
Atentamente,
José Collazos
CONDESAN - InfoAndina
Foro de Montañas en América Latina
www.condesan.org
E-mail: InfoAndina@cgiar.org
Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA)
activities 2003 - 2004
Dear colleagues,
It is time again to give you a brief update on the Global Mountain Biodiversity (GMBA) activities in 2003, and wha will be planned for 2004:
... The Moshi-La Paz Research Agenda on "Land use effects on tropical and subtropical mountain biodiversity" was published recently in the DIVERSITAS newsletter No. 5. It is the first result of two GMBA workshops in Moshi, Tanzania 8/2002 and La Paz 8/2003. A synthesis book will be published next year. The Research Agenda and further info can be downloaded at: http://www.unibas.ch/gmba/GMBA_researchAgenda.pdf
... GMBA became a major scientific partner of the Convention on Biological Diversity (Montréal) for the theme "MountainTechnical and Technological Advice meetings 8 & 9. Download at: http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meetings/sbstta/sbstta-09/official/sbstta-09-12-en.pdf
... GMBA coordinated and contributed to Chapter 27 (Mountain systems, lead by Ch. Körner) of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (see http://www.millenniumassessment.org).
GMBA has scheduled the following international workshops in 2004 on specific mountain biodiversity themes:
... "High alpine land use under global change"
15th January 2004, Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Sion, Switzerland, NFP 48, organised by Dr. Erika Hiltbrunner, Basel, Switzerland
.. "Monitoring and Identifying Signals of Global Change", 7-11 May 2004, Vienna, Austria, a GLOCHAMORE workshop (see: http://mri.sanwnet.ch/pages/GLOCHAMORE/G_Workshops.html)
... "High alpine grazing and biodiversity"-Symposium, European Grassland Federation meeting, 21-24 June 2004, Luzern, Switzerland
... "Functional significance of mountain biodiversity" at the ESA annual conference, Portland, USA, 1-6 August 2004
... "Mountain biodiversity and slope stability", Symposium at the International conference on eco-engeneering, 13-17 September 2004, Thessaloniki Greece
You can download the Annual Report of 2003 at: http://www.unibas.ch/gmba/GMBA_AnnualReport2003.pdf
Please feel free to forward this mail to interested colleagues and send us your feedback and suggestions!
With best wishes for a peace- and successful 2004,
Eva Spehn (coordinator) and Christian Koerner (chair)
Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA)
Dr. Eva Spehn, GMBA office
Institute of Botany, University of Basel
Schoenbeinstr.6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: ++41 (0)61 267 35 11, Fax: ++41 (0)61 267 35 04
email: gmba@unibas.ch
http://www.unibas.ch/gmba
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