ESF Exploratory Workshop EW04-049:Towards a Census of Canopy Life

SolVin Bretzel in Brussels and IBISCA exhibition

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Workshop participants in front of Manneken Pis IBISCA project

Assessing where the greater proportion of biodiversity is distributed is just as vital as knowing how many species there are. Ecologists, taxonomists and theoricians have to cooperate to understand the patterns of distribution of the mega-biodiversity (arthropods) in tropical forests. The workshop capitalized on the newer and largest dataset available to date (IBISCA project) to develop innovative lines of research related to arthropod beta-diversity and vertical stratification in tropical rainforests.

 

European Science Foundation - Life, Environmental and Earth Sciences (LESC)

With co-funding from

and with additional support from Solvay S.A. and Biotrac sprl

5-9 July 2005, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium. Convened by: Maurice Leponce (BE) and Yves Basset (PA)

Documents

Final scientific report (password protected, ver 2 Sept 2005)

Pictures (photographer: Isabelle Bachy)

Practical informations (ver 5 July 2005)

Pre-workshop events

23-29 June 2005: presentation of the SolVin-Bretzel in Parc du Cinquantenaire / Jubelpark and IBISCA exhibition on the biodiversity of tropical forests and on the IBISCA project (organized by RBINS with the support of Solvay)

1-8 July 2005: at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, IBISCA exhibition  

 Links

ESF Exploratory Workshops 
IBISCA project: website at RBINS (public)

 

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