Biodiversity and Sustainable Management
of a Megadiverse Mountain Ecosystem in South Ecuador

The Status Symposium of the research group will be held on 7.-8.10.2010 in Loja. The (preliminary) timetable is available here.

Der EDIT ATBI+M NEWSLETTER 03 (Juli 2010) enthält zwei kurze Beiträge zum Thema

RESEARCH IN THE PODOCARPUS NATIONAL PARK, ECUADOR

• Structure, diversity and distribution of ant communities
  M. Leponce, T. Delsinne, T. Arias Penna, J. Jacquemin
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.
• Beetles on tree barks
  Jürgen Schmidl
  Research associate RBINS Brussels, Department for Biology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Five groups of the Research Unit (RU) report about their latest results: the transformation of nitrogen, mycorrhizas and reforestation, land use and erosion, modelling and remote sensing and mycorrhizas in seedling development. The ninth TMF Newsletter also summarizes news around the research station, new DFG-cooperation projects, and describes why the RU can be viewed as a model to update the Access and Benefit-Sharing (ABS) protocols of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (CBD). New cooperation partners from the ABA ECUADOR initiative are about to start field work. And a project plan is introduced to overcome ecological and institutional barriers for restoration of biodiversity and forest utilization potentials.

Download newsletter as pdf

You find the protocol of the Upload Workshop (11.-12.06.2010) in Marburg in the rubric "documents -> protocols"

Der Central Data Service Z1 bietet vom 11.-12. Juni einen Daten-Upload Workshop in Marburg an. Hierbei wird vorgestellt, wie Datensammlungen der Teilprojekte im zentralen Data-Warehouse zum Austausch mit anderen Forschern zur Verfügung gestellt werden können. Der Workshop wird sich besonders auf die technische Unterstützung beim Upload-Vorgang konzentrieren. Es wird aber auch Raum für Fragen und Wünsche bezüglich der Nutzung und Entwicklung der Datenbank geben.

Der Workshop kann von jedem besucht werden, der in naher Zukunft seine Daten über das Datawarehouse der Forschergruppe zur Verfügung stellen möchte, aber mit der angebotenen Anleitung unter "Data > FOR816 data > Neuen Datensatz hochladen" nicht zurecht kommt. Die Teilnaheme am Workshop ist für alle Teilprojekte der Phase 1 verpflichtend, die bis zum 31. Mai 2010 ihre im Forschungsantrag (Phase1) angekündigten Daten nicht hochgeladen haben. Der Workshop hat primär das Ziel, den Upload dieser fehlenden Daten zu unterstützen.

Es freut sich auf einen informativen und erfolgreichen Workshop, das Team Z1 Central Data Services:
Thomas Lotz, Kerstin Bach, Maik Dobbermann

PhD position (3 year term) in Climatology & Ecological/Environmental Modelling at the Philipps-University of Marburg, Department of Geography.

Download the full job specification as pdf.

The 8th TMF Newsletter informs about: Visiting DFG officials, the new structure
during the second phase of the Research Unit, NCI proposes a bioknowledge
program, new mycobiotns of orchids discovered, cooperation with scientists from
EDIT who explore ants, beetles and flies in the RBSF area and amongst others
data warehouse news as well as new people and staff members.

Please download here.

To be able to reserve time for the next FOR816 member meeting in your
calender, please find below the date & venue of the next member meeting
in 2010.

Venue: Marburg
Date: Thuesday, 23.02.2010
Time: 13:00-16:00 h

More detailed information will be published later.

Update II:

Please find attached the official invitation and the agenda as pdf.

Watch it online on the website of german TV canal, ZDF:

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/beitrag/video/913276/inside-science---Teil-1#/beitrag/video/913276/inside-science---Teil-1

The public part of our status symposium will take place on the 4th of November 2009 afternoon at the UTPL in Loja.

A detailed schedule will be announced soon.

In this issue 14 working groups from several scientific disciplines provide an insight into their latest research results uncovered in the diverse ecosystem of the tropical mountain rainforest. The Tumbesian dry forest is introduced and hints at success and moving of people from the Research Unit are given.

To download the newsletter as pdf, please click here.

Meeting of members on the 29.07.2009 during the GTÖ/ATBC conference in Marburg. (Start: 14:00h)

Please download the sixth newsletter here.

The article can be downloaded as pdf here.

You can download the pdf here.

Location: "Bildungszentrum Kardinal Döpfner Haus" in Freising

Time frame: 02/16/2009 10:00h until 02/17/2009 16:00h

Google maps

Review of Ecol. Studies Series published in Mountain Research and Development Vol 28 No 3/4 Aug–Nov 2008:

Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador
Edited by Erwin Beck, Jörg Bendix, Ingrid Kottke, Franz Makeschin, Reinhard Mosandl. Berlin, Germany:
Springer, 2008. xxii + 522
pp. Ecological Studies Series,
Vol 198.

see "pdf"

Announcment of the Latin America Symposium " Biodiversity in Change" held in Bonn from the 12.-13. Dezember 2008.

It is still possible to submit poster and talks.

For further details please see (http://www.ilz.uni-bonn.de/la-symposium/)

Un corto artículo sobre las XXXII jornadas nacionales de biología realizadas en la cíudad de Loja, del 20 al 22 de noviembre de 2008.

ver "pdf"

The fourth newsletter is available now.

You can download the pdf here.

Ein Schlaglicht aus dem Arbeitsleben von Florian Werner,  erschienen im GEO-Magazin unter dem Titel:  E-mail vom Ende der Welt

siehe pdf

First Announcement of an International Scientific Conference on:

"Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change"

on Sunday, October 5 – Thursday, October 9, 2008
Located in a conference center on the island of Bali, Indonesia


For further information see attached pdf or visit
http://www.globalchange-2008.org/

Hier können Sie die Zusammenfassung des "Parlamentarischen Abend zur Biodiversitätsforschung" als PDF herunterladen:
Biodiversität - Faszination der Facetten

oder direkt auf den Webseiten der DFG ansehen:
http://www.dfg.de/aktuelles_presse/ausstellungen_veranstaltungen/berichte/2008/biodiversitaet.html

This years bi-national symposium on the subject "Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of a Megadiverse Mountain Ecosystem in South Ecuador" will be held in Loja on the 11.-12. September 2008.

The third newsletter is available now.

You can download it here.

Please see all the details on the offical website:

http://www.atbc2008.org/

Our research unit presented itself at the UN conference: COP 9 on the 19th of May 2008.

More information on the DFG homepage or download as pdf.

You can download two documents which show some of the results of the COP 9 now. (pdf1, pdf2)

Press release from the idw and from the University of Mainz.

You can also find this article named "Tropical Andean forest derives calcium and magnesium from Saharan dust." in our publication database.

The second newsletter is available now.

You can download it here.

Sunday, October 5 - Thursday, October 9, 2008

Located the Jayakarta Bali Resort & Spa on the island of Bali, Indonesia

We are very pleased to inform you that registration is available as of 1
March, 2008.

Starting immediately, there is a call for submissions of oral presentations
and posters.

Ensure that your submission arrives by 30 May, 2008 at the very latest. For
more detailed information and to submit your abstract please visit the
conference webpage and register on-line.

www.GlobalChange-2008.org

Take advantage and register early to avoid the additional late registration
charge and at the same time book your hotel accommodation to secure the
specially arranged conference rates and room availability.

Attention:
Accommodation at the conference hotel must be booked by 30 March to secure a
room, as we will have to return the rooms after that date.  It will not be
possible to book a room in the conference hotel after that date. October is
high season in Bali and hotel accommodation is at a premium.

The Organizing Committee

Bali2008_CallForPapers

This is a call for papers for Gloss2008 as reminder to hand in your abstracts for the "First Global Summit on Sustainable Development and Biodiversity" (Gloss2008), Symposium + exhibition, taking place from 10.12. to 13.12. 2008 in Raipur, India, (state Chhattisgarh)and followed by a four-days excursion through the forests of Chhattisgarh. This might allow your institute to have a look at the site for future field research in connection with a possible partnership with the conference host, IK Foundation of India.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is May 15 2008.

For further information, please visit us at at the Official Gloss-page:

                                  www.gloss2008.com

where you will find further information about the full range of issues, submission procedure, and registration by clicking on "Technical sessions" (Symposium), "Submission of abstracts", "Early Registration" and "Registration form".

Eco Tourism in Chhattisgarh

Call for papers Robert Stüssi

Call for paper Prof. Dr. R.N. Pati, Prof.Dr. Trinh, Dr. Schwarz--1

Call for paper Dr. Schwarz-Herion

Advances in research on sustainable management and the role of academic education.

2-4 April 2008.

University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences.

Vienna, Austria

For further information please see the pdf.

The second circular of the International Conference of the Society for Tropical Ecology which is taking place in Hohenheim(Germany) between 18-22 February 2008 can be found here.

A workshop on Mycorrhizas in Tropical Forests will be organized at UTPL, Loja, 22 to 25 September 2008. Further information see www.mycorrhiza-research.de.

Ingrid Kottke and Juan Pablo Suarez

The first newsletter of the research unit has been published today.

You can download it here.

Invitación para el 5° Coloquio Mensual

Tenemos el placer de invitarles al quinto Coloquio Mensual de la Unidad de Investigación en lo cual Juan Pablo Suarez nos explica en su exposición “Una visión general de las micorrizas y sus roles en los ecosistemas” porque las micorrizas son quizá uno de los mejores ejemplos como una red de interacciones entre organismos ayuda a mantener nuestros ecosistemas.

Lugar: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Núcleo de Loja

Día: Martes 12 de febrero de 2008

Hora: 8 de la noche

A small article about the ESCF was published by the EFE on the 12/17/2007.

(pdf)

A small article about our research group appeared in the issue of the 04/04/2007 of the german newspaper "Frankfurter Rundschau" .

(pdf)

1. Article from 09/26/2007 (pdf)

2. Article from 10/08/2007 (pdf)

3. Article from 10/03/2007 in a supplement of the german embassy published with the El Comercio (pdf)

On the 10/20/2007 an article about the ECSF appeared in a supplement about technics and science in the newspaper "La Hora" (Loja).

(pdf)

In honor of its 25th anniversary in December 2007 the national park "Podocarpus" released the following program of the celebrations.

(pdf)

The 2. Andine Orchid Conference will take place in Loja from November 14th to 17th 2007. For more information please visit http://www.andeanorchids2007.org.

On Saturday, 22. September, an extensive fire started at a hillside close to the research station. Thanks to the 24 people that have currently stayed at the station, 4 firemen from Loja and local residents from Sabanilla, the fire had been under control after six hours without damaging the test sides from the research unit nor the ones from the Technical University of Loja. Nobody was injured and a house from a local resident (lower central part of the image) could be safed from the flames.

September 20th and 21st, 2007.
The symposium takes place in Loja/Ecuador.
Venue is the Honorable Consejo Provincial de Loja, Salón de la Provincia.
Please find talks and poster in the following PDF file
Beginning:    20.09.2007
End:    21.09.2007
After the symposium we will hold a general meeting (21.09.2007; 14.00 – 18.00 h; same venue).

program and posters (pdf)

flight plans (pdf)

symposium location (jpg)

A database workshop will take place in Marburg from 13.7.2007 13h until 14.7.2007 12:30h.

Location:

Faculty of Geography

Deutschhausstr. 10

If you arrive by car via the freeway from Giessen, look at this googlemaps route. (You can look for a place to park your car on the "Firmaneiplatz".)

If you arrive by train use this route.

There is an article about the FOR816 and Prof. Bendix in GIS-Business issue 6/2007.

see PDF (in german)

GTÖ Meeting in Bonn, Location: Geographisches Institut Universität Bonn, Großer Hörsaal

An article about the FOR816 was published. See the following URL:http://www.hoy.com.ec/NoticiaNue.asp?row_id=247044