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Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden (XTBG) has applied for hosting the annual meeting 2006 of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC). After report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the application has been recently approved by the Chinese State Council. The ATBC 2006 will be held from July 18-21, 2006 in Kunming. The theme of the meeting will be “Tropical Biology: meeting the needs of changing tropical systems”.
The topics of ATBC 2006 include biodiversity conservation of the tropics, invasive species, tropical forest and global changes, long-term studies on ecology in the tropics, applications of ethnobotany in tropical biodiversity conservation, ecological evolution, and restoration of degraded tropical ecosystems, etc.
The ATBC is international in scope, membership, and objectives, functioning as an international body to promote research, education, conservation, and communication for tropical biology.
ATBC 2006 is the annual meeting of the association for the first time ever held in China. The hosting of ATBC 2006 may increase the influence of XTBG on the studies of tropical biology and ecological conservation.
( For detailed information about ATBC 2006, please visit http://atbc.xtbg.ac.cn/)
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