Biodiversity Research - Safeguarding the Future:A pre-COP9 scientific event (ETI, UNITS, BBA)
Bonn, 2008-05-13 - 2008-05-16
The governing body of the Convention on Biological Diversity will have its ninth meeting ("COP 9") in Bonn/Germany in May 19-30, 2008. To channel results and needs of biodiversity research into the political discussion, the associated scientific meeting "Biodiversity Research – Safeguarding the Future" will take place May 12 – 16 in Bonn (see www.precop9.org). The meeting is being organized by IUBS, DIVERSITAS, the host institutions in Bonn (Museum Koenig, NEES Institute, University Bonn), the German Science Foundation (DFG), the German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU), and Solar World.
This event will feature prominent biodiversity scientists on three key themes for CBD-COP delegates. Dr. Regine Jahn (President of GfBS -Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem Freie Universität Berlin) invited the Coordinator of the KeyToNature project to give a presentation of about 20 minutes talk within the Symposium I: Acceleration of Biodiversity Assessment and Inventorying. Main themes to be discussed are:
- The taxonomic impediment: Why is an acceleration of assessment and inventorying necessary?
- Examples for National Inventories
- The development of expert systems (automatized species identification): New tools for the future?
- Quantification of species diversity: Fast approaches?
- Availability of species-specific information: What has to be done?
At the Convention on Biological Diversity - the 9th meeting "COP 9" in Bonn/Germany (19-30 May 2008).
For further info see: http://zfmk.de/preCOP9/index.html
