Événements biodiversité

mercredi 15 mai 2013 - mardi 21 mai 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
The 3rd International Congress on Planted Forests aims to investigate the contribution of planted forests to sustainable development in the context of global changes. Topics will include the sustainability of planted forests in the context of changing climates and the future role of planted forests in environmental protection and REDD+. The congress will comprise two successive and complementary events spread over a week: 1. Three parallel scientific workshops , each held in a European Atlantic city (Bordeaux, Dublin and Porto) on the16 and 17 May, followed by a field excursion focusing on issues discussed in the workshop on 18 May. 2. A plenary meeting held in Estoril near Lisbon in Portugal on 20 and 21 May.

day 19 mai 2013 - samedi 25 mai 2013, Saint-Laurent, Montreal
Pour célébrer la Journée internationale de la diversité biologique décrétée par l'ONU le 22 mai et dans le cadre du plan local de développement durable 2011-2015 de l'arrondissement de Saint-Laurent, celui-ci a proclamé la semaine de la Biodiversité du 19 au 25 mai 2013. En diffusant de l'information relative à  la biodiversité, l'arrondissement souhaite ainsi sensibiliser les citoyens et les inciter à  agir pour sa préservation. Diverses actions sont déjà  en cours sur le territoire de Saint-Laurent pour protéger la biodiversité et l'arrondissement souhaite poursuivre le développement de projets allant dans cette direction. Par ailleurs, la biodiversité fait partie d'un des pivots de son Plan de foresterie urbaine.

mardi 21 mai 2013 - jeudi 23 mai 2013, Montreal, Quebec
En mai, la Ville de Montréal accueillera la rencontre du Comité consultatif des villes du Partenariat mondial sur l'action locale et infranationale pour la biodiversité, en lien avec la Convention sur la diversité biologique des Nations Unies (CDB). Cette rencontre s'effectue dans le cadre des travaux relatifs au Plan d'action sur les gouvernements infranationaux, les villes et autres autorités locales pour la biodiversité. Elle se déroulera autour de la Journée internationale de la biodiversité, le 22 mai, et dans le cadre de la Décennie des Nations Unies pour la biodiversité (2011-2020).

mardi 21 mai 2013 - jeudi 23 mai 2013, Montreal, Quebec
En mai, la Ville de Montréal accueillera la rencontre du Comité consultatif des villes du Partenariat mondial sur l’action locale et infranationale pour la biodiversité, en lien avec la Convention sur la diversité biologique des Nations Unies (CDB). Cette rencontre s’effectue dans le cadre des travaux relatifs au Plan d’action sur les gouvernements infranationaux, les villes et autres autorités locales pour la biodiversité. Elle se déroulera autour de la Journée internationale de la biodiversité, le 22 mai, et dans le cadre de la Décennie des Nations Unies pour la biodiversité (2011-2020).

mercredi 22 mai 2013, Saint-Hyacinthe
Saint-Hyacinthe: le mercredi 22 mai, de 9h00 à 17h00, à la Faculté de Médecine vétérinaire Québec: le mardi 28 mai, de 9h00 à 17h00, à l’Université Laval, Pavillon Alphonse-Desjardins, salle 2320 Importance de la formation Les animaux de la faune québécoise peuvent transmettre plus d’une vingtaine d’infections parasitaires à l'homme. Les biologistes et les autres professionnels qui travaillent en milieu naturel risquent de s’infecter et pourraient même propager certaines maladies parasitaires. Les biologistes devraient être les premiers informés sur les zoonoses parasitaires étant un domaine de la biologie, ainsi que sur les mesures à prendre pour s’en protéger. Ils pourront alors mieux informer les autres professionnels de leur milieu de travail sur les risques encourus et les mesures à prendre pour réduire les risques d’infections parasitaires.

day 26 mai 2013 - Lundi 27 mai 2013, Montpellier, France
The first international workshop on 'Semantics for Biodiversity' (S4BioDiv) will be held on May 26/27, 2013, preceding the 10th ESWC 2013 -‘Semantics and Big Data’, Montpellier, France. Semantic web standards, tools, ontologies and related technologies have considerably matured in the recent years. Nowadays, accessing a wide catalogue of biological, social, environmental, and ecological data sources helps stakeholders working on biodiversity to answer their complex questions. Will the real time access to web resources effectively support the definition of strategies to conserve and manage biodiversity? How might semantic web technologies help us to handle the complex and heterogeneous big data related to biodiversity? The workshop aims to identify the key challenges faced by the bioinformatics community, discuss potential solutions and identify the opportunities emerging from the trans-disciplinary interactions between Plant Science and Informatics experts. Therefore, we expect the bioinformatics experts to explain how they apply semantic web standards and tools to their scientific topic, from biology, agriculture, agro-ecology, genomics, environmental studies, to social sciences, citizen sciences. Research papers presenting various aspects of semantic web technologies applied to biodiversity data, ranging from position papers to implemented systems descriptions and their evaluation, will be selected. We are particularly interested in the use of the semantic technologies to design and develop systems that supports research on agricultural and wild biodiversity conservation and management for food security. Examples may include strategies for resilience to climate change pressures, sustainability of productive ecosystems, ecosystems services monitoring or territories management, rather than systems supporting only research on climate patterns or soil erosion.

Lundi 27 mai 2013 - vendredi 31 mai 2013, Trondheim, Norway
Since the first Trondheim Conference held in 1993, the world population has grown by 25 %, the total GDP by 75 % and world trade has tripled. Despite positive achievements, loss of biodiversity along with global warming is undermining human wellbeing, especially that of the poor and vulnerable. The Trondheim Conference in 2013 will explore how to cut development pathways towards a sustainable society by aligning policy, business, economy and ecology across borders, scales and systems. Participation and registration Participation in the conference is by invitation only. Each country has been invited to send two experts, one from each field of biodiversity and economy/planning. Invitees may register for the conference on the

samedi 01 juin 2013 - mercredi 05 juin 2013, Kamloops, BC
L’art et la botanique: Comment l’art soutient-il la recherche et l'apprentissage? La conférence comprendra une exposition d'art qui mettra en vedette la rencontre entre l'art et la science!

day 02 juin 2013 - day 09 juin 2013, Lviv, Ukraine
The aims of the conference are to:Exchange and share state-of-the-art knowledge on the dynamics, diversity and ecological functions of primeval beech forests; Reflect the current scientific achievements with regard to sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation; Discuss them in the perspective of global change and the increasing demand for renewable energy; Identify additional research needs; Draft an international and interdisciplinary research program on primeval beech forests

vendredi 21 juin 2013 - mardi 25 juin 2013, Snowbird, Utah, USA
Evolution 2013 is the joint annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB), and the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), on June 21-25, 2013, at the Snowbird Alpine Village. This meeting is the premier annual opportunity for sharing scientific research related to evolution. Symposia presentations, concurrent contributed papers, and poster sessions will be presented by the 1,500 expected participants.

samedi 22 juin 2013 - day 29 septembre 2013, Jardin botanique de Montréal
Préparez-vous à mettre vos sens à l’épreuve, du 22 juin au 29 septembre 2013, au cœur du Jardin botanique de Montréal! C’est le 4 février 2013 qu’avait lieu l’annonce officielle de la tenue de la compétition d’art horticole la plus prestigieuse sur la scène internationale : Mosaïcultures Internationales Montréal 2013 (MIM2013). Pour l’occasion, de nombreux invités de marque ont assisté au dévoilement de la thématique orientée vers la biodiversité de la planète. De plus, pour donner le coup d’envoi, la maquette de l’œuvre maîtresse « L’arbre aux oiseaux », illustrant une soixantaine d’espèces d’oiseaux et de batraciens les plus menacées sur Terre, a été offerte au Jardin botanique de Montréal.

Lundi 24 juin 2013 - vendredi 28 juin 2013, University of Colorado Boulder
VertNet is pleased to announce the second Biodiversity Informatics Training Workshop (BITW), June 24-28, 2013. The workshop will provide training/experience in the use of primary biodiversity data sources and the tools necessary to become proficient in biodiversity informatics to conduct high-level research. Led by experienced informaticists and researchers, the BITW will emphasize the use and analysis of aggregated biodiversity data from VertNet, and other sources, for research.

mardi 25 juin 2013 - vendredi 28 juin 2013, Ghent, Belgium
ICG-Europe 2013 introduction: ICG Europe 2013 will feature presentations from prominent researchers, international industry leaders and top policy makers on next-gen sequencing and advanced bioinformatics technologies, and their growing application in drug discovery and development, disease research, clinical diagnostics. The meeting aims to promote research in basic and applied genomics and provide a foundation for innovative approaches on sequencing and bioinformatics. It would be an excellent opportunity for European researchers, academia and industries to exchange ideas, share the latest findings and to form new collaborations in Genomics and related fields.

jeudi 27 juin 2013 - vendredi 28 juin 2013, Lyon, France
Suite au succès des premières Rencontres R (Bordeaux, 2-3 juillet 2012), la deuxième édition se déroulera à Lyon du 27 au 28 juin 2013. L’objectif de ces rencontres est de fournir à l’échelle nationale un lieu d’échange et de partage d’idées sur l’usage du logiciel R dans différentes disciplines (visualisation, statistique appliquée, biostatistique et bioinformatique, statistique bayésienne, analyse des données, modélisation, machine learning, high performance computing).

day 07 juillet 2013 - jeudi 11 juillet 2013, Chicago, IL

day 21 juillet 2013 - jeudi 25 juillet 2013,
The congress features a dynamic scientific program with more than 100 cutting edge symposia, workshops, posters, and focus groups; countless networking opportunities, fantastic field trips, and world-renowned speakers.

Lundi 22 juillet 2013 - jeudi 25 juillet 2013, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada
Scientific sessions at this international conference will include presentations on a wide range of topics within forest genetics including population, quantitative, and conservation genetics, genomics, tree breeding, and seed orchard management.

samedi 27 juillet 2013 - mercredi 31 juillet 2013, New Orleans
The annual Botany Conference is a multiple scientific society conference serving over 6000 plant scientists whose research and practice span the globe. The conference hosts the most diverse group of practicing plant scientists and students in the country

day 18 août 2013 - vendredi 23 août 2013, London, UK
Will be held in London as part of the centenary celebrations of the British Ecological Society.The theme of the Congress is advancing ecology and making it count, and will present world class ecological science that will truly move the science forward.

Lundi 19 août 2013 - samedi 24 août 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
Important Dates NowRegistrations 8 March 2013:New Abstract submission deadline 31 March 2013:Early payment deadline

mercredi 28 août 2013 - vendredi 30 août 2013, Pokhara, Nepal
The Institute of Forestry/Tribhuvan University, is organizing the International Conference on Forests, People and Climate: Changing Paradigm in collaboration with the Department of Forest Research and Survey/Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation, Nepal and Forest and Landscape/University of Copenhagen, Denmark with a theme “Forest for livelihood prosperity in the face of climate change”. It aims to disseminate up-to-date information and practical experiences from natural resource management, where the community plays a central role in biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement particularly in rural areas.

day 08 septembre 2013 - mardi 10 septembre 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
It is our pleasure to announce the second Current Opinion Conference on Plant Genome Evolution, to be held in Amsterdam, September 8-10th, 2013. We are delighted to be holding this (now biannual) event again after a very successful first meeting in 2011 where renowned plant researchers gave inspiring talks and where many discussed their latest research in the field. For the 2013 meeting, which will be at least half a day longer, we are even more ambitious and are trying to put together an even more exciting program focused on plant genomes, natural variation, and systems biology, of course all with a strong emphasis on evolution and evolutionary aspects. This meeting will be the unique opportunity to meet and discuss with colleagues, get updated on the newest developments and insights in plant genome evolution, and will provide unique possibilities to network and discuss collaborations. Also, we are delighted already that Prof. Doug Soltis (University of Florida, USA) has agreed to deliver the plenary lecture on Sunday, opening the meeting.

Lundi 09 septembre 2013 - mercredi 11 septembre 2013, City of Joondalup, Perth, Australia
The nature of things to come Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate The City of Joondalup in collaboration with the ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Centre is pleased to present the official dates for the 2013 BiodiverCities Conference. This three day conference will be held on the 9-11 September 2013 at the Joondalup Resort, Perth, Western Australia. Not only will you get to enjoy an extensive conference program but it will be Spring and wildflower season, a perfect time to visit the Southwest of Western Australia, one of 34 International Biodiversity Hotspots, and see the diverse array of native wildflowers bloom in spectacular colour. The program will feature, group discussions, field trips and presentations from environmental experts addressing biodiversity conservation in a changing climate. Topics covered will be: Managing impacts of climate change Assessing and managing coastal vulnerability Partnerships to enhance biodiversity Community education and public participation Biodiversity for carbon sequestration Integration of biodiversity into the urban landscape

Lundi 09 septembre 2013 - jeudi 12 septembre 2013, Halifax
BioMarine is a unique 4 days international business convention dedicated to marine bio resources, marine renewable energies, green shipping, ports and environmentals. It brings together the business, scientific, finance and civil society communities to draw out innovative and concrete solutions to advance ocean development.

mercredi 11 septembre 2013 - vendredi 13 septembre 2013, Rovaniemi and Pyhä, Finland
The conference brings together scientists, sacred natural sites custodians, Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations, policy makers, conservation and civil society leaders, to evaluate options for international and national law, policy and practice in order to better recognize, safeguard, conserve and manage Sacred Natural Sites (SNS) of Indigenous Peoples in Northern and Arctic regions. SNS are being increasingly recognized as an important means for the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, and the transmission of culture and identity. Yet, legal protection of SNS and related policies are still often insufficient or absent. It becomes increasingly difficult for custodians in the North to protect these ancient sites, due to economic developments (tourism, mining, forestry) and infrastructural development (roads, dams, mega projects). At the same time the need for protection may be challenged by some protection measures (identifying of location, mapping) and may raise the question of keeping intimacy and sensitivity of these places. At international level, SNS have been receiving increasing legal attention; they are now mentioned in several international legal instruments (e.g., CBD, UNDRIP). Yet, effective and culturally appropriate implementation is often still lacking.

Lundi 16 septembre 2013 - vendredi 20 septembre 2013, CRM, Uniersité de Montréal
This workshop will provide an overview of recent theoretical and methodological developments for modeling the complex evolutionary dynamics that have shaped the structure of contemporary biodiversity. Theoretical work at the interface between ecology and evolutionary studies will be presented, as well as its applications to empirical data. This will include mathematical and probabilistic modeling, statistical methodologies, and new insights obtained from biological data.

mardi 17 septembre 2013 - vendredi 20 septembre 2013,
Today, the Evolutionary Biology Meeting at Marseilles has reached a worldwide dimension and plays a paramount role in the international scientific life: allowing the gathering of high level specialists, it encourages the exchange of ideas and stimulates the works of the researchers all through the world. The following subjects will be discussed: Evolutionary biology concepts and modeling; Biodiversity and Systematics; Comparative genomics ans post-genomics (at all taxonomic levels); Functional phylogeny; Environment and biological evolution; Origin of life and exobiology; Non-adaptative versus adaptative evolution; The "minor" phyla: their usefulness in evolutionary biology knowledge; Convergent evolution; Evolution of complex traits (Evo-Devo)

Lundi 23 septembre 2013 - vendredi 27 septembre 2013, CRM, Université de Montréal
This workshop will investigate, among others : (a) the latest mathematical and computational approaches to the development of sophisticated biology-grounded sequence or genome evolution models, (b) the latest evolutionary biology studies on the way in which selection imposes constraints and dependencies on sites, and (c) the use of such models for the investigation of the function or structure of biological sequences.

Lundi 30 septembre 2013 - jeudi 03 octobre 2013, Orlando, Florida, USA
This dynamic event unites industry professionals from all sectors of the world’s algae utilization industries including, but not limited to, financing, algal ecology, genetic systems, carbon partitioning, engineering & analysis, biofuels, animal feeds, fertilizers, bioplastics, supplements and foods.

mardi 01 octobre 2013 - jeudi 03 octobre 2013, San Francisco, USA
Beyond the Genome 2013 Hosted by Genome Biology and Genome Medicine, the 4th annual Beyond the Genome conference will take place 1-3 October 2013, at the Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, USA. Following on from the success of the first three events, and set against the backdrop of the beautiful Bay Area, Beyond the Genome 2013 will provide an outstanding forum for the discussion of recent advances in the field of genomics. Particular focus will be on informatics, plant genomics and single cell and single molecule analyses.

samedi 05 octobre 2013 - vendredi 11 octobre 2013, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
24th IUFRO World Congress Title: Sustaining Forests, Sustaining People The Role of Research • Forests for People • Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services • Forests and Climate Change • Forest and Water Interactions • Forest Biomass and Bioenergy • Forests and Forest Products for a Greener Future • Forest Health in a Changing World

day 27 octobre 2013 - jeudi 31 octobre 2013, Kunming, Yunnan, China
he theme of the conference is “Global Change and the Barcode of Life: Challenges and Opportunities”. Like previous meetings, the 5th Conference will provide a very important opportunity for delegates from around the world to showcase and discuss scientific advances in DNA barcoding and the wide-ranging socio-economic applications made since the Adelaide Conference in 2011. It will also allow barcode researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, plan new research, and learn more about barcoding activities in China and other regions.

Lundi 28 octobre 2013 - jeudi 31 octobre 2013, Toulouse, France
We would like to invite you to attend the next conference of the International Society for Ecological Modelling (ISEM 2013) on: Ecological Modelling for Ecosystem Sustainability in the context of Global Change to be held on October 28 – 31, 2013 in Toulouse, France. The details of the conference is available at: http://www.meteo.fr/cic/meetings/2013/ISEM/index.html Contact for more info: isem.toulouse2013@gmail.com The deadline for abstract submission is on *May 20th, 2013*.

mercredi 20 novembre 2013 - samedi 23 novembre 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina

day 20 juillet 2014 - Lundi 28 juillet 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.), Canada
The proposed conference theme is based on a very relevant question: Domestication of Populus and Salix: How far have we come, and how far do we still have to go? The meeting in Vancouver will bring us an excellent opportunity to compare our views and assemble the “right answer.” The answer will represent the view of the people interested in the science of poplar and willow genetics, physiology and pathology. It will serve as a guide for the future of poplar and willow cultivation in the world. Ultimately, the answer should also be a guide for the amelioration of the environment, industries, and the standard of living of rural communities wherever poplars and willows are cultivated. This symposium strives to address these issues and therefore invites researchers, practitioners, regulatory and policy experts to help define what the challenges are and where we are going.