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Resolution:
The 2013 Target - A new perspective for biodiversity in Europe

More than 500 scientists from 34 nations discussed the future of the biological diversity on the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the GfOe. The adopted resolution is now available here (in German).

From August 30 to September 3, 2010 the

The GfÖ 40th Anniversary Meeting 2010

was helt at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. The Natural Sciences Campus provided the perfect environment.

The main theme of the conference was

The Future of Biodiversity - Genes, Species, Ecosystems

addressing the thematic areas

Learning from the past
Understanding today's world
Exploring the future
Applied biodiversity
Open topics

Book of Abstracts & Programme

Take a look at the Book of Abstracts and the Programme of our this year's GfOe Conference here.

Session schedule (including accepted orals and poster)

The session schedule (August 24, 2010) is available here.

Special funding of up-and-coming scientists attending the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the GfOE 2010 in Giessen

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has provided an amount of 10,000 Euro for funding up-and-coming scientists attending the 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria & Switzerland in Giessen 2010. Many conference participants have applied for funding. We thank the BMBF for the generous support.

Merchandising products

For the upcoming GfÖ 40th Anniversary Meeting in Giessen you can order especially designed cups, T-Shirts and Cotton Zip-Ups with conference logo. (click here to read more)

What was provided?

Keynote lectures such as

Perspectives of Ecosystem Research (Nina Buchmann, ETH Zürich)
Marine Ecology and Sustainability (Antje Boetius, HGF-MPG Group for Deep Sea Ecology and Technology, Bremen)
Conservation and Biodiversity in Japan (Izumi Washitani, University of Tokyo)
Context-dependent invasion and management of invasive species (Katriona Shea, Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University)
Network Analysis in Conservation Biogeography (Graeme Cumming, University of Cape Town)

Symposia such as

Biodiversity in man-made habitats
Creeping environmental desasters
Restoring ecosystems - how to cope with climate change?
Invasibility of plant communities
Effektiver Artenschutz bei Säugetieren
Alpine ecology
Island ecology and biogeography
How can we better link empirical studies and models in functional biodiversity research?
Learning from latitudinal and altitudinal gradients in the face of climate change
Drought, stress and variability: drylands as model ecosystems
Hidden diversity on a small scale - linking species and function in soil

Workshops and counseling sessions

The first GfÖ EcoSlam session

A salsa night and much more

Important deadlines

June 03, 2010

Submission of symposia proposals