Meetings and Events

BES Annual Symposium 2011
Forests and Global Change

University of Cambridge, UK
28 - 30 March 2011

Download the full programme with travel details and instructions for presenters [Adobe PDF, 2499 Kb]

See the TALKS and POSTER sessions here

See the programme overview here

Booking has now closed, but on site day registration is available:
BES Members: £90 per day
BES Student Members £50 per day
Non Members £100 per day
It is now not possible to book accommodation or catering; however there are restaurants and cafes near the symposium venue.

An international conference of temperate and tropical forest ecologists, providing an opportunity to integrate perspectives on the changing nature of forests across biomes. The conference will address emerging themes in forest ecology based on new data from spatially dispersed permanent plot networks, fully mapped stands and satellite imagery. As well as plenary sessions featuring keynote speakers there will be opportunities for contributed talks and posters.

Sessions will cover:

  • Forest dynamics, functional traits and species coexistence mechanisms - integrating new data-sets to develop a global perspective
  • Community assembly and biogeography - the evolutionary history of forests across biomes
  • Ecosystem services and forest conservation - the future of forests in a changing world

The symposium is organised by David Coomes, University of Cambridge, UK and David Burslem, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Scientific advisory committee:

  • Stuart Davies - Center for Tropical Forest Science, USA
  • Oliver Phillips - University of Leeds, UK
  • Toby Pennington - Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, UK
  • Michael Scherer-Lorenzen - University of Freiburg, Germany
  • Adrian Newton - Bournemouth University, UK
  • Drew Purves - Microsoft Research, UK

Forest and Global Change image. Tree canopy image for the British Ecological Society's Annual Symposium, Forest and Global Change, University of Cambridge, UK, 28 - 30 March, 2011.

For more details, please contact either David Coomes or David Burslem.

 

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