Biennial Report Book 2007.indb - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Biennial Report Book 2007.indb - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Biennial Report Book 2007.indb - Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
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<strong>Cary</strong> Conference XII: Ecological designThe <strong>Institute</strong>’s twelfth biennial <strong>Cary</strong> Conference, held in 2007, focused on howurban designers can incorporate ecological principles into the way that urbanareas are developed. Attendees included some <strong>of</strong> the nation’s foremost ecologists,urban planners, architects, and landscape architects. The conference’s main goalwas to share expertise in a way that supports environmentally sustainable urbandesign. (Pickett)<strong>Cary</strong> Conference X: Proceedings availableWhile <strong>Cary</strong> Conferences are invitation-only,proceedings are published in book form. Themost recent installment, <strong>Ecosystem</strong> Function inHeterogeneous Landscapes, is now available fromSpringer Publishers. The book, which covers thetenth conference, addresses how interactionsamong ecosystems affect the functioning <strong>of</strong>individual ecosystems and the larger landscape.(Lovett)PUBLICATIONSOver the past two years, <strong>Institute</strong> scientistshave published more than 170 papers in peerreviewedjournals, including a wide selection inthe discipline’s leading venues, including Biogeochemistry, Ecology, EcologicalApplications, Global Change Biology, Limnology and Oceanography, Nature, andScience.12
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