ATBC 2008 - Flora of the Guianas

ATBC

The Flora of the Guianas (FoG)

Following the last General Meeting of the Flora of the Guianas (FoG) Project in Berlin in August 2006, the next meeting will be hosted at Anton de Kom University of Suriname Paramaribo and will run in parallel to the ATBC meeting. The meeting will take place on the 11th June. The General Meeting will be preceded by a Board Meeting. Board members will give presentations concerning plants and plant conservation in the Guianas. The meeting will be preceded by a botanical collecting trip to the Bakhuis area outside the mine concession organised by Caroline Rahan-Chin, (ADEKUS) with logistic support from the mining companies. The botanical specialists of the Flora of the Guianas board will visit the National Herbarium of Suriname where they will examine the collections and contribute specimen identifications.

Program

Scott Mori: Electronic floras and monographs: the future is now!

Odile Poncy: Biodiversity assessment and impact studies : how to ensure scientific independent expertise ?

Pedro Acevedo : Sapindaceae in the Guianas

Karen Redden, Patrick Herendeen: Morphological and molecular phylogeny of Elizabetha), Heterostemon, Paloue, and Paloveopsis (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae) from northeastern South America

Sophie Gonzalez: A review of field surveys to Bakhuis mountains in 2005-2006

Eve Lucas, Charlotte Murray-Smith, Steve Bachman, Neil Brummitt: Plant diversity hotspots in the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil

Harrie Sipman: Tropical urban lichens: observations from Singapore

Hans ter Steege: Tree diversity in the Amazon: actuo- or palaoecology?

Contact : atbc2008.org -at- uvs.edu

Astrocaryum farinosum at Central Suriname Nature Reserve

 

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