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BES Annual Meeting
10 - 12 September 2007
University of Glasgow, UK

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The events will begin with a Civic Reception mixer in the beautiful Kelvingrove Art Gallery on the evening of Sunday 9 September. The meeting itself will run for two and a half days, with sessions starting on the morning of Monday 10 September and running until about lunchtime of Wednesday 12 September.

The Society is planning another exciting programme of events, including the following Thematic Topics, all with invited keynote speakers.

Risk Assessment for Biodiversity: Pan-European Ecological Research
Endocrine Responses to Environmental Change
The Evolutionary Ecology of Senescence
Antioxidants as a Signal of Individual and Ecosystem Health
Life in Extreme Aquatic Environments
Self-organised pattern formation at ecosystem and landscape scales
Ecological networks: food webs and beyond
Ecosystem Services

For more details on these Thematic Topics, click here.

The BES is running a Student Session preceding the main Annual Meeting on Sunday 9th September.  All students wishing to attend the main meeting are welcome to come and will be charged an additional fee of £10 to cover lunch and registration.  Bookings can be made through the Annual Meeting online booking form, just select the relevant tick box. For more information, please use this link.

Together with the plenary lectures given by eminent international scientists, broad ranging parallel sessions and AGM, we also have our hugely popular free afternoon – incorporating Specialist Group meetings, events for students and various topical and challenging workshops and presentations. For more details, click here.  On the same day will be the British Ecological Society's AGM; all of our members are warmly invited, we will also have an informal drinks reception directly afterwards. If you would like to view the Annual Report ahead of time, please use this link.

The BES has pleasure in announcing that the Chief Scientific Advisor for Scotland, Professor Anne Glover FRSE, FAAM has agreed to give the annual British Ecological Society Lecture at 09:30 on Monday 10th September.  For more details of Professor Glover's lecture, please click here.  

This year, the Tansley Lecture will be held at 17:15 on Tuesday 11th September. We are pleased to say that it will be given by Gretchen Daily: professor of biological sciences, director of the Tropical Research Program at the Center for Conservation Biology, a senior fellow at CESP, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and Resources (IPER). For more information on Gretchen Daily's lecture, please click here.

The BES is keen our delegates not only enjoy the science, networking and social elements of our Annual Meetings, but also take advantage of the host city; Glasgow was voted ‘Favourite UK City 2006’ by the readers of Condé Nast Traveller magazine.

It was also the UK's ‘City of Architecture and Design’ in 1999, impressing with an array of buildings from the medieval and Victorian periods through to the present day. But it’s most famous for the Art Nouveau 'Glasgow Style' and the designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh – one of Glasgow's most celebrated sons. The city has 200 arts organisations, including the Scottish Ballet and Scottish Opera, creating the cutting-edge productions and high-profile exhibitions that led to Glasgow being crowned ‘European City of Culture’.

The BES is always keen that delegates enjoy the Annual Meeting from a social aspect, please use this link to see some of the confirmed events we have planned.

Please click here for joining instructions, detailing how to reach Glasgow University, click here for a general campus map , here for a variety of other campus maps, here for a glossary to the map and here for a more general map of the area. If you have not received your confirmation letter and joining instructions within two weeks of your booking submission, please contact the BES office immediately.  

Surrounding the city is some of Scotland's best scenery; from the rolling hills of the Clyde Valley to the beautiful walking country of East Dunbartonshire that borders the south-west Highlands. Exploring further, there are towns and villages which make great day excursions, including the amazing New Lanark World Heritage Site.

To know more about what Glasgow has to offer, please use this link. For more information on Scotland in general, click here.

Exhibitors

If you are interested in exhibiting at our meeting, or including inserts in the delegate bags, please click here for more details. To see a floor plan of where our exhibitors will be situated, please click here.

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