| Dear
Colleagues,
you are kindly invited to
the International Congress
"Biodiversity Hotspots
in the Mediterranean Area:
species, communities and landscape
level", which will be
held in Cagliari, Italy, from
22nd to 24th
and from 25th
to 29th June
2009.
The congress will cover the
following subjects in three
different sessions:
FLORA
AND EVOLUTION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
AREA
PHYTOSOCIOLOGY
AS PLANT SYNECOLOGY
TOWARDS
AN ECOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION
OF MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES
The first day will also be
devoted to 2 parallel side
events:
Plants
species and communities
in the Mediterranean mining
areas: biodiversity, landscape
evolution and their use
in phytoremediation;
Important
plant areas in Italy and
in the Mediterranean context.
The second day
will also be dedicated to
the following side events:
Origins
of plants endemic to the
Corso-Sardinian microplate:
an integrative phylogenetic
approach;
Conservation
studies on threatened plants
in the Mediterranean area.
The congress will include
3 poster session, social events
and the visit to the Botanical
Gardens, Germplasm Bank, Botanical
Museum and Herbarium of the
University of Cagliari.
Two post-congress excursions
(IGIS
Iter Geobotanicum Insulae
Sardiniae)
to Sulcis-Iglesiente biogeographic
sector and to Gennargentu,
Supramonte and Sarcidano areas,
with a limited number of participants,
will be organized on 25th
to 29th June.
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