Congreso en Kew sobre el estado global de la flora

El Jodrell Laboratory (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), desde donde se diseñan la mayoría de trabajos de conservación realizados por aquella institución, nos anuncian la celebración del State of the Worlds Plants Symposium 2017, que se celebrará en dichas instalaciones del 26 al 28 de mayo de este año. Se ha abierto recientemente la inscripción. Podéis encontrar información detallada en la dirección web:
http://www.kew.org/state-worlds-plants-symposium-2017

Tenéis acceso directo al programa en:
http://www.kew.org/state-worlds-plants-symposium-programme

Transmitimos a continuación el contenido del correo recibido, donde se señalan temas-clave que serán objeto de presentaciones y discusión.


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Dear colleagues,

Please see the attached poster for the second annual Kew Science symposium to coincide with the launch of the 2017 State of the World’s Plants. I would greatly appreciate it if you could display this in your department and forward the contents of this e-mail to any colleagues and networks that might be interested.

The State of the World’s Plants 2017 symposium will take place at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew between 25–26 May. Similar to last year there will be six themed sessions and a panel Q & A at the end of each session. In each session invited speakers have been asked to address a series of globally significant questions based on their own plant science research and policy work. These questions are as follows:

1) Madagascar: megadiverse and misunderstood – how can we hope to reverse threats to biodiversity?

2) The immediate risk of extinction: climate change won’t matter if everything has already died out…

3) Wildfires: a necessary evil?

4) Invasive plants: born to invade?

5) From field to healed: how do we detect the medicinal plants of the future?

6) Valuing nature: which plant species are most valuable?

There will also be a poster session for which we are inviting abstract submissions.