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The fifth Conference, within the framework of the preparation of
Objective 2010, will deal with "Global change, biodiversity
and ecosystems: towards which ecological services?".
After the IFB Conference of La Rochelle (December 2005) which gave
the opportunity to the public agents and communities to participate;
later on the conference in Paris (October 2006) which posed a prospective
exercise; this fifth conference of Tours will focus on the latest
advances of the fundamental research. The conference will gather scholars,
entertainers, decision makers of institutions, and policy makers,
around important current issues.
Three topics will be dealt with:
- TOPIC I – Biodiversity and global change,
will approach the incidences of climate and the different uses
that increasingly disturb the ecosystems and their operation.
The other two topics are:
- TOPIC II - Agriculture and biodiversity and
- TOPIC III – Ecological Engineering, which
will clarify, from complementary points of view, the question
of the ecological services that are of greater importance today
but that could be deeply affected by the global change. Thus,
three parallel sessions will be organized, with scientific communications
and workshops, followed by syntheses in plenary session.
Current as usual, this conference will also serve as platform (plenary
session) for the projects financed by the first call of the national
research agency (ANR) "Biodiversity 2005" which has currently
reached a half of its way. The presentation of the projects financed
by the ANR in 2005, as well as the communications presented within
the framework of the three topics chosen, will be carried out by
means of 20 minute-presentartion (including time for questions).
It will also be possible to present scientific papers as posters.
Half of the conference on 6 December will be dedicated to a dialogue
between scientific decision makers and policymakers around the conclusions
drawn from this conference and the directions given by the Grenelle
agreement on Environment that took place in October.
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