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12/28/2009 - ATBC2010 in Bali, Indonesia

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation is the world's largest professional society devoted to the furtherance of tropical biology and tropical conservation. It was founded in 1963 to promote research and to foster the exchange of ideas among biologists working in tropical environments. The ATBC published the journal Biotropica. ATBC has grown into a truly global organization with members from over 100 countries. In 2006, an Asia-Pacific Chapter was formed to further these objectives in this region, but the general annual meeting has not yet met in Southeast Asia. The 2010 annual meeting will be held between 19-23 July 2010 in Bali, Indonesia. Join ATBC.

 

09/01/2009 - This website is live but not active anymore

This website will not be updated anymore, will be closed and archived  by June 2010. If you are seeking for information about the Association for Tropical Biology and Association (ATBC), please, go to tropicalbio.org. The 2009 ATBC meeting was in Marburg, Germany (Website). Next Annual ATBC meeting is in Bali, Indonesia (Website). ATBC2008 Association will however continue to organize scientific meeting such as FSD in France in 2010 (Website), in partnership with ATBC and GTOE. See you there.

 

 

08/19/2009 - Follow up of the Declaration fo Marburg in the media and internet

Scientists Say Vanishing Species must be Key Part of International Carbon Trading. Two leading scientific organizations today urged international carbon traders to help save some of the world's most endangered forests and wildlife. Meeting this week in Marburg, Germany, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and the Society for Tropical Ecology (GTOE) jointly issued a “Marburg Declaration”- Follow up of the Marburg declaration in the media and internet (pdf).

 

08/01/2009 - Declaration of Marburg : Scientists Say Vanishing Species must be Key Part of International Carbon

Scientists Say Vanishing Species must be Key Part of International Carbon Trading. Two leading scientific organizations today urged international carbon traders to help save some of the world's most endangered forests and wildlife. Meeting this week in Marburg, Germany, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and the Society for Tropical Ecology (GTOE) jointly issued a “Marburg Declaration” that highlighted potentially serious weaknesses in current efforts to slow global warming and tropical deforestation. “If we're going to limit harmful climate change, we simply must reduce the rampant destruction of tropical forests, which spews 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year,” said Scientists. “But it's not enough just to reduce carbon emissions—we also have to save imperiled species.”

The problem, say the scientists, is that international carbon traders will often focus on protecting disappearing forests where land is cheapest, such as in the Brazilian Amazon. Under agreements to be negotiated this December at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, such carbon trading could soon amount to billions of dollars each year. “The most critically endangered species are not only in Amazonia,” said William Laurance, a former ATBC president and a professor at James Cook University in Australia. “They're also in the last surviving scraps of forest in places like the Philippines, Madagascar, India, West Africa, and the Andean Mountains of South America. These places are biodiversity hotspots—final refuges for thousands of endangered plants and animals.”

“There's enormous potential to help protect vanishing forests with carbon money, but if we're not careful we could squander our chance to save critically endangered wildlife,” said Scientists. “We urge all nations and corporations to invest in carbon funds to help preserve disappearing forests,” said Manfred Niekisch, president of the GTOE and director of the Frankfurt Zoo in Germany. “But when you do so, pay a little extra so you're protecting the most imperiled habitats. That way we can slow global warming and also save some of the most amazing and imperiled wildlife on earth.” Declaration fo Marburg (pdf en-fr) at ATBC website.

 

07/24/2009 - Call for pictures to illustrate the new colored edition of Primack-Corlett's book

Richard Corlett and Richard Primack are seeking new photos to illustrate the second edition of their successful book: Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison (2005) to be published by Wiley. Please send the files as TIFs at 300 dpi or higher, though JPEGs can also be used. If possible, all photos should be from rain forest areas, or at least tropical forest areas; though pictures from elsewhere will be considered as well. Please send photos, ONE AT A TIME, to: richardprimack-at-gmail.com. Call for pictures (pdf)

 

07/24/2009 - ATBC and the Society for Tropical Ecology (gtö) are meeting in Europe

The first joint meeting of the gtö and the ATBC will be held in the medieval city of Marburg, located in the center of Germany, from July 27-30, 2009. Concentrating the strength of two renowned international societies is an excellent opportunity to profoundly foster international collaboration in the field of tropical ecology. The University of Marburg, particularly the faculties of biology, geography and ecomomy will host the meeting at the main lecture hall building of the university. The truly interdisciplinary theme of the meeting will be "IMPACTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE ON TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS - CROSS-CUTTING THE ABIOTIC, BIOTIC AND HUMAN SPHERES". Website


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