Montpellier, France
The 5th International EcoSummit Congress, "EcoSummit 2016 - Ecological Sustainability: Engineering Change", will take place at The Corum Convention Centre, Montpellier from 29 August – 1 September 2016.
This conference series was founded in 1996 in Copenhagen, as a forum to meet the demands of scientists working in several new ecological disciplines, and who required a better understanding of the concepts and methods for a holistic use of ecology in environmental management.
Since 1996, EcoSummit has been taken around the world (Canada and China), with EcoSummit 2012 hosting 1600 participants from 75 countries in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Conference focus
EcoSummit 2016 will centre on the ecology of terrestrial ecosystems and all habitats that are integrated within those ecosystems, including river networks, wetlands and coastlines.
Focus will be placed on fragile ecosystems that are more likely to suffer the consequences of climate change and anthropogenic pressure. However, in the current context of an increasing world population, changes in social habit (increasing world consumerism) and climate change, it is evident that agriculture is being intensified but with a growing awareness of the need to preserve and use sustainably world resources.
Therefore, we will also address how terrestrial restoration can be carried out when the massive demand for food results in fragile ecosystems, forests and marginal lands being turned over to agriculture.
Topics
The central and fundamental topics of EcoSummit 2016 are as follows:
Agro-ecology
Anthropogenic pressure
Arid lands and desertification
Biodiversity and biological conservation
Biological invasions
Climate change
Disturbance ecology
Ecohydrology
Ecological complexity
Ecological economics
Ecological engineering
Ecological indicators
Ecological intensification
Ecological modelling
Ecosystem creation and restoration
Ecosystem health
Ecosystem services
Ecotoxicology
Environmental policy
Fragile ecosystems and hotspot management
Integrating socio-economics and ecology
Sustainability and resilience
Watershed/River catchment management
Abstracts
Oral sessions and poster abstracts are invited by 29 January 2016 on the above topics and should be submitted using the online abstract submission system. When you register with the online submission system, you will receive a confirmation email which includes an abstract template and instructions on how to submit.
http://www.ecosummit2016.org/submit-abstract.asp
Further information
For more information, go to: http://www.ecosummit2016.org/