Electronic Conference on: Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation

The organisers of the UK presidency meeting of the European Platform for
Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS) and the Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology (CEH) invite you to participate in the electronic conference
‘Climate Change and Biodiversity Conservation: Knowledge needed to support
development of integrated adaptation strategies’ which will run from 29th
August to 16th September 2005. The results of the Electronic Conference will
be presented at the EPBRS delegates meeting in Aviemore (Scotland), from 2nd
to 5th October 2005.

The main scientific theme of UK EPBRS meeting is how climate change impacts
biodiversity and what adaptation strategies might be conceived. The meeting
will review the scientific evidence and provide recommendations feeding
directly into the EU Nature Directors meeting (to be held in Aviemore from
5th to 7th October 2005). It is anticipated that the recommendations will
cover three areas:
(i) what we already know about impacts of climate change on biodiversity and
the policy options available;
(ii) what are the most important things that we need to find out in order to
develop adaptation strategies;
(iii) how we can ensure the flow of knowledge from research into policy
development.

The e-conference preceding the meeting will focus on the knowledge gaps and
research priorities regarding:
1. The development of adaptation strategies in terms of sites and
ecological networks;
2. The development of adaptation strategies working with other sectors such
as agriculture, forestry, water, energy etc;
3. Understanding, predicting and adapting to change in marine and coastal
ecosystems.

You are kindly invited to subscribe to the electronic conference by filling
the subscription form available at:
http://www.nbu.ac.uk/biota/e-conference.htm. In case of any difficulty
subscribing, please e-mail Juliette Young j.young@ceh.ac.uk. Note that
there is no need to subscribe if you subscribed to the last BioPlatform
e-conference – you will automatically have access to this e-conference.
This e-conference will run jointly with the MARBENA project
(http://www.vliz.be/marbena/).

Source: Marbena

I hope this is of your interest. Regards,

Jorge Brenner