Aliens - ISSG

this year, in wider area of the South Eastern Europe.
The workshop will focus on discussion about further
steps in creation of the regional list of invasive
species (availability and sharing of information,
project activities), current practices in management
of invasive species (elimination, control measures,
characterization of invasiveness) and monitoring of
invasive species.
The workshop is organised by the Institute for Plant
Protection and Environment from Belgrade in cooperation
with:
-Faculty of Agriculture of the Novi Sad University,
Department for Environmental and Plant Protection
-Faculty of Science of the Novi Sad University, Department
of Biology and Ecology, and
-European Environmental Agency
as co-organizers, and upon public invitation of the
Ministry of Education and Science for 2012.
The Symposium and featured workshop will take
place in the Hotel Prestige, in the vicinity of the Belgrade
Racetrack. The program of the Symposium includes
topics related to current issues and trends in
plant protection, with emphasis on novel research
methods.
Learn more about the symposium and featured
workshop at the website:
http://www.izbis.com/aktuelno-e.html
IUCN World Conservation Congress 2012
6–15 September 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea
The IUCN World Conservation Congress is the
world’s largest and most important conservation
event. Held every four years, the Congress aims to
improve how we manage our natural environment
for human, social and economic development.
The 2012 World Conservation Congress will be held
from 6 to 15 September 2012 in Jeju, Republic of
Korea. Leaders from government, the public sector,
non-governmental organizations, business, UN
agencies and social organizations will discuss, debate
and decide solutions for the world’s most pressing
environment and development issues.
The Congress starts with a Forum where IUCN
members and partners discuss cutting edge ideas,
thinking and practice. The Forum leads into the
IUCN Members’ Assembly, a unique global environmental
parliament of governments and NGOs.
Effective conservation action cannot be achieved by
conservationists alone. The 2012 IUCN World Conservation
Congress is the place to put aside differences
and work together to provide the means and
mechanisms for good environmental governance,
engaging all parts of society to share both responsibilities
and the benefits of conservation.
Learn more about the congress at the website:
http://www.iucnworldconservationcongress.org/
Symposium: Rapid evolution during biological
invasions
6-7 September 2012 - Fribourg, Switzerland
The 2012 Fribourg Days of Ecology & Evolution
will explore the facilitating role of evolution in invasions,
particularly of rapid adaptive evolution,
which has recently become a major subject of research.
We want to bring together researchers
studying various aspects of rapid evolution in the
context of biological invasions and across taxa, involving:
(i) rapid evolutionary change in the invader,
(ii) in the environment of the invader in the introduced
range, and, as a special case,
(iii) in the context of biological control introductions.
The underlying process is the genetics of adaptation.
Special emphasis will be given to the role of hybridization
and polyploidization. Ecological and
evolutionary functional genomics provide exciting
insights into the dynamics of invasion of genomes
when previously diverged species are brought into
contact, and these new developments will be highlighted.
Learn more about the symposium at the website:
http://www.unifr.ch/biol/ecology/CUSO/EEday2012/index.html
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