Oct. 13-19, Yueyang, Hunan Province/Wuhan, Hubei Province
Wuhan Botanical Garden of CAS and Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology of CAS are scheduled to hold the 4th Int'l Seminar on River Landscape in October.
Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Science and Technology Department of the Hubei Provincial Government, the seminar aims to explore sustainable management of the ecological system of river-flooded areas, enhance academic exchanges between researchers of China and other countries in some fields, watershed ecology and river ecology in particular, and promote the development of China's ecological studies.
The seminar will be held in Yueyang of Hunan Province on Oct. 13 to Oct. 17, before moving to Wuhan of Hubei Province where an open (youth) forum will be held for two days.
Chairpersons:
Professor Quanfa Zhang, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Science, China.
Professor Stuart Bunn, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Australia.
Members:
Professor Robert Naiman, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Professor Hongzhu Wang, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan, China.
Professor David Dudgeon, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, China.
Professor Klement Tockner, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany.
Dr Nick Bond, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
Professor Jianqing Ding, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan Botanical Gardens, China.
Professor Guihua Liu, Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science, Wuhan Botanical Gardens, China.
