ATBC 2008

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07/29/2008 - An interview with a shaman in the Amazon rainforest

ATBC2008 continues on the web. The goal of having the annual ATBC meeting in Suriname was to create interaction between people who otherwise may never met. Rhett Butler from Monbagay.com met with Amazonian Conservation Team and the Trio, an Amerindian group that lives in the remote Suriname-Brazil border area of South America. Kwamalasamutu was one of the tours organized by Access Suriname Travel. Read the interview at Mongabay.com.

 

07/28/2008 - Highlight on Research in the Guianas : Fungi Diversity in Guyana

Catherine Aime has co-organized a symposium on fungi at ATBC2008. Read more about her recent findings and studies in Guyana at Mongabay.com

 

07/28/2008 - An interview with Cagan Sekercioglu at Mongabay.com

ATBC Scientists continue to interact with our partner after the ATBC2008 meeting. "I love the vitality, cultural diversity, and the color of Africa" said Dr. Cagan H. Sekercioglu, a senior research scientist at Stanford who has been studying in the pre-montane forests of Australia, Africa and Latin America. More at Mongabay.com


 

07/05/2008 - NEXT ATBC MEETING Webpage

The next Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation will be co-jointly organized by gtö (www.gtoe.de) and ATBC (www.atbio.org), and held between 27 and 30 July 2009 in Marburg, Germany. First announcement (pdf). Website is http://www.gtoe-atbc2009.de/

 

07/02/2008 - ATBC2008 Association will organize FSD2010 in Montpellier, France

The non-profit ATBC2008 Association has been created in January 2008 to organize scientific events and conferences aiming at promoting exchanges of knowledge among scholars and students in biological and social sciences. We organized the Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Suriname. We are now organizing the 5th International Symposium-Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal between, 13-18 July 2010 in Montpellier, France. Diversity will be meeting in Europe !

 

06/27/2008 - Scientific program is on line

A light version (2.5 Mo) of the scientific program is now available.  The booklet was prepared, edited and printed  in Suriname by Suriprint N.V.


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