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DIVERSITAS news With 700 participants from 70 countries the DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference 2 "Biodiversity and Society: Understanding connections, Adapting to change" was a great success!
DIVERSITAS is seeking your feedback on the conference. Please participate in the online survey.
DIVERSITAS thanks D Capistrano, K Kogure and A Duraiappah, who rotated off the Scientific Committee in December 2009, and welcomes B Turner and H Matsuda as new members. The SC DIVERSITAS will meet on 24-25 March 2010 in Nagoya, Japan.
DIVERSITAS welcomes Makiko Mimura as the new Project Officer for bioGENESIS. The IPO is hosted by the Department of Biology at Kyusyu University, Japan.
DIVERSITAS welcomes D Faith as co-chair of the bioGENESIS Scientific Committee.
Welcome to Lucilla Spini, who has been appointed as the Project Officer for the ESSP Joint Project on GEC and Human Health (GECHH). The IPO will be hosted by the UNU-INWEH in Hamilton, Canada.
2nd Ad Hoc Ingovernmental and Multi-stakeholder meeting on an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Interface on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), 5-9 October 2009 - Nairobi, Kenya; DIVERSITAS was represented by H Mooney and A Larigauderie. Final report
New website for agroBIODIVERSITY. More...
The DIVERSITAS Annual Report 2008/09 is now out. Click here for the pdf.
DIVERSITAS contributed to the expert segment of the World Climate Conference - 3, which recommended the establishment of a Global Framework for Climate Services to deliver on-demand climate predictions. More...
Congratulations to Sandra Diaz, member of the SC-DIVERSITAS, and Associate Professor, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, for her election as Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences. More...
A new phase in the DIVERSITAS - GISP partnership. More...
The US National Academies symposium: Science and Policy for Managing the Living World Two Centuries after Darwin, organised by the US National Committee for DIVERSITAS was a great success. View the web casts here.
DIVERSITAS signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Platform for Biodiversity Research (EPBRS) to strenghten their collaboration to support policy decisions on biodiversity. Contact: Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard.
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Upcoming conferencesInternational GMBA-DIVERSITAS conference: Functional significance of mountain biodiversity
27-30 July 2010 - Chandolin (Valais), Switzerland. More...
Annual meeting of the DIVERSITAS Scientific Committee (upon invitation) 24-25 March 2010 - Nagoya, Japan
COP10 PreConference science-policy forum, co-organised by the Japanese Ministry of Environment and DIVERSITAS 21-23 March 2010 - Nagoya, Japan
DIVERSITAS publications
H. Mooney et al.: Biodiversity, climate change and ecosystem services, 2009, COSUST, vol. 1, pp. 46-54.
S. Diaz et al.: Biodiversity in forest carbon sequestration initiatives: not just a side benefit, 2009, COSUST, vol. 1, pp. 55-60.
H. Mooney, G. Mace: Biodiversity Policy Challenges, Science editorial, 2009, Science, vol. 325, no. 5947, p. 1474.
Special issue of the Journal of Biogeography "Origin and Evolution of Biota in Mediterranean Climate Zones: An Integrative Vision", vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1209-1422, July 2009, following a conference co-sponsored by DIVERSITAS bioGENESIS. Read the frontispiece of the editors Elena Conti and Robert J. Whittaker.
The DIVERSITAS Core Project bioGENESIS Science Plan "Providing an evolutionary framework for biodiversity science" is out now. Click here for the pdf.
The DIVERSITAS Core Project bioDISCOVERY Science Plan "Assessing, monitoring and predicting biodiversity change" is out now. Click here for the pdf.
S. Naeem, D.E. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau and C. Perrings (eds.): Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing - An Ecological and Economic Perspective, 2009, Oxford University Press.
SCOPE/DIVERSITAS, O. Sala, L. Meyerson, C. Parmesan: Biodiversity Change and Human Health - From Ecosystem Services to Spread of Disease, 2009,
R. J. Scholes, G. M. Mace, W. Turner, G. N. Geller, N. Jurgens, A. Larigauderie, D. Muchoney, B. A. Walther, and H. A. Mooney: Ecology: Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System, Science 22 August 2008, pp 1044-1045.
Peter Daszak (SC DIVERSITAS) et al: Global trends in emerging infectious diseases. Nature, 451, 2008, pp 990-994. |
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New ESSP journal
The Earth System Science Partnership (DIVERSITAS, IGBP, IHDP, WCRP) has a new journal, called Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. Please read inaugural editorial by editors Rik Leemans and Anand Patwardhan, and all articles in first issue.
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