New Zealand: New home; new habitat! New ideas?

Palmerston North, New Zealand: 12-16 February 2007
Website: http://iavs2007.massey.ac.nz
Contact: Jill Rapson. G.Rapson@massey.ac.nz

Ecology,
Institute of Natural Resources,
PN 624,
Massey University,
Palmerston North,
New Zealand.
Ph: +64 6 356 9099 Ext 7963; Fax: +64 6 350 5623

The 49^th Annual Conference of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) is to be held at Massey University’s Turitea Campus in Palmerston North from 12^th to 16^th of February 2007. There will be excursions both before and after the conference, as well as a selection of day-long mid-conference excursions.

Planned symposia are:

• New Zealand forest dynamics – doing it our way? (Organiser: Glenn Stewart);
• Invasive plants: novel functional groups and ecosystem effects? (Organisers: Peter Bellingham and Peter Williams);
• Evolved to be eaten? (Organiser: Sandra Diaz);
• Bioinformatics – Temporal and spatial syntheses of vegetation data (Organiser: Susan Wiser);
• Drivers of global change (Organiser: Martin Sykes);
• Better than alone? – The role of symbioses in vegetation (Organiser: Helga Bültmann);
• Urban vegetation, or just a lot of plants? (Organiser: Ken Thompson).

Conference costs

Registration includes lunch and the Drinks, Nibbles, and Posters session, as well as your choice of mid-conference excursion (though a surcharge may apply).