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IAVS Bulletin 2012 / 2 Annual IAVS meeting in Mokpo, Korea, 2012 The website of the IAVS 2013 symposium is open now under http://iavs2013.ut.ee/ The IAVS Bulletin is an electronic newsletter of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS, www.iavs.org), edited by the members of the Governing Board and the Administrative Officer Nina Smits ([email protected]). To become a member, contact our Administrative Officer Nina Smits (Wageningen, The Netherlands). IAVS Management President: Martin Diekmann (Bremen, Germany) Secretary: Susan Wiser (Lincoln, New Zealand) Vice‐presidents: Alicia Acosta (Rome, Italy), Javier Loidi (Bilbao, Spain), Michael Palmer (Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA), Robert Peet (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA), Valério Pillar (Porto Alegre, Brasil) Martin Diekmann Susan Wiser Alicia Acosta Javier Loidi Michael Palmer Robert Peet Valério Pillar Publications: IAVS publishes two international journals: the Journal of Vegetation Science and Applied Vegetation Science, edited by J. Bastow Wilson (Dunedin, New Zealand), Alessandro Chiarucci (Siena, Italy), Milan Chytrý (Brno, Czech Republic) and Meelis Pärtel (Tartu, Estonia). For more information on subscriptions to the journals, consult our website www.iavs.org. Nina Smits J. Bastow Wilson Ale Chiarucci Milan Chytrý Meelis Pärtel Date of Publication: December 2012 © International Association for Vegetation Science 2 Contents Preface……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….……4 Invitation to the IAVS meeting 2013 in Tartu, Estonia…………………………………………………………………………….. 5 Geographic distribution of past and future IAVS annual meetings………………………………………………………….. 6 Minutes of the Annual IAVS Council Meeting in Mokpo, Korea, 2012......................................................... 7 Change in the IAVS Bylaws......................................................................................................................... 11 Financial statement.................................................................................................................................... 12 Financial support to Working Groups and Regional Sections..................................................................... 14 Report of the IAVS Publications Officer: 2011‐2012……………………………………………………………………………... 16 Annual report of the European Dry Grassland Group………………………………………………………………………...…. 20 Annual report of the European Vegetation Survey Group………………………………………………………………...…. 22 Annual report of the Ecoinformatics Group…………………………………………………….………………………………...…. 23 Annual report of the Circumboreal Vegetation Map (CBVM) Group……………………………………………………… 24 Bylaws of the European Dry Grassland Group…………………………………………………………………………………...…. 27 Bylaws of the European Vegetation Survey Group…………………………………………………………………………...….. 33 Old oak tree; drawing by Reno Lottmann 3 Preface The conference in Mokpo was a great success: Second, the Global Sponsorship Committee will with 378 participants and more than 350 allocate 6000 Euros for financial support for PhD presentations attendance was very good, and and Master students to participate in the next several pre‐ and post‐symposium excursions, as IAVS meeting in Tartu, Estonia. Grants will cover well as one‐day mid‐symposium excursions, the registration fee and accommodation in a gave excellent opportunities to get to know the student dormitory; in addition, travel costs can Korean landscape and vegetation. As the Mokpo be supported. The total amount of funding conference was only the third IAVS meeting in requested should not exceed 1000 Euros per Asia and the first one in Korea (see maps applicant. Applications should be submitted showing the ‘Geographic distribution of past before April 1, 2013, to [email protected] with cc and future IAVS annual meetings’ on page 6), it to [email protected]. Applications should include was also a great opportunity for scientists from a CV, a short (100 words) letter explaining why all over the world to learn more about the the applicant should be supported and a progress and achievements of vegetation recommendation by the student’s supervisor(s). science in this area. The IAVS has several active Working Groups, the Although the meeting in Mokpo is still fresh in annual reports of which can be found in this our memories, the next IAVS meeting in Tartu, Bulletin (pages 20‐26). The positive financial Estonia, is getting closer: The conference position of the IAVS allows us to support these website is already active groups in their various activities, and the Council (http://iavs2013.ut.ee/), and since November 1 in Mokpo has decided on the types and pre‐ has been opened for registration and abstract conditions for support that come into effect in submission! A welcome message by the 2013. Funding will also be made available for Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Martin new initiatives of existing groups or start‐up Zobel, can be found on page 5. We are looking meetings of new groups. A summary of the forward to an exciting meeting. Council decision can be found on page 14. During the last year the Membership Committee Starting with the next issue, the Bulletin will be and the Global Sponsorship Committee together a forum for reviews of books related to with the Governing Board have discussed and vegetation science and general plant ecology. decided upon several actions to improve the We would like to encourage our members to service for our IAVS members. First, we have contribute such reviews (and other opinions and simplified the procedure for vegetation provocative articles to stimulate debate) to the scientists with low personal income to apply for Bulletin to make it more exciting! waiver of the IAVS membership fee (see http://www.iavs.org/AwardsFinancial.aspx). Martin Diekmann, President, IAVS 4 Invitation to the IAVS meeting 2013 in Tartu, Estonia Welcome Message It is our great honour and pleasure to host the for Vegetation Science (IAVS 2013) in Tartu, 56th Symposium of the International Association Estonia, to be held on June 26‐30th, 2013. The main theme of IAVS 2013 is “Vegetation We expect that every participant will enjoy the patterns and their underlying processes”, interesting scientific program, field excursions although topics on all aspects of vegetation and social events. Estonia is located in Northern science are welcome. Sessions are planned to Europe, on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, address innovative theory, methodology and thus lying in the northern part of the temperate application of vegetation ecology over a range zone and in the transition zone between of spatial and temporal scales. Particular focus maritime and continental climate. It harbors a will be on processes and drivers behind great variety of vegetation types, from highly vegetation diversity and dynamics, both in diverse calcareous alvar grassland and wooded natural and cultural landscapes. The symposium meadows to old growth boreal and will address patterns and processes concerning boreonemoral forests and raised bogs. Tartu, natural undisturbed vegetation, as well as under home to about 100 000 people, is the second conditions of changing anthropogenic impact. largest city in Estonia and the most important We await papers using traditional descriptive centre of science and education in the country. and experimental approaches to vegetation It is a city full of young people with a pleasant science, as well those which employ modeling or and scholarly atmosphere. contemporary molecular methods. Martin Zobel Chairman of Organizing Committee of IAVS 2013 Important dates: Online registration opens 1 November, 2012 Notification of abstract acceptance after 15 April, 2013 Online abstract submission opens 1 November, 2012 Deadline early registration with reduced fees 15 April, 2013 Deadline for special session application 15 November, 2012 Deadline for hotel reservation 30 April, 2013 Deadline for abstract submission 15 March, 2013 Deadline for registration with regular fees 30 April, 2013 5 Europe, see below Houston, 1995 Santa Cruz de Nagano, 2000 Tenerife, Mokpo, 2012 Ensenada, 1993 Shanghai, 1992 Kona, 2010 Hawaii, 2004 Corrientes, 1983 Porto Alegre, 2002 Stellenbosch, Perth, 2014 2008 Palmerston North, 2007 Geographic distribution of past () and future () IAVS annual meetings Uppsala, Tartu, 2013 Stolzenau, 1953‐64 1989, 1998 Rinteln, 1965‐81 Lancaster, 1996 Wageningen, Halle, Warsaw, 1990 Swansea, 2007 1984 1986 Freising, Prague, 1982 Bailleul, 1985, 1994 2000 Ceske Budejovice, 1997 Eger, 1991 Lyon, 2011 Frascati, Bilbao, 1988 Lissabon, 1999 2005 Naples, 2003 Crete, 2009 Minutes of the Annual IAVS Council Meeting in Mokpo, Korea, 2012 Tuesday, July 24, 18:00‐21:15 Participants 2) Proposals for changes in IAVS Bylaws Members present: Martin Diekmann (Pres.), Susan Wiser (Secr.), Alicia Acosta (Vice Pres.), (Diekmann) Javier Loidi (Vice Pres.), Michael Palmer (Vice a. Proposed amendments to articles 11.3 and Pres.), Valério Pillar (Vice Pres.), Michael Bar‐ 11.2 bour, Elgene Box, Helge Bruelheide, Alessandro The Governing Board submitted a proposal to Chiarucci, Milan Chytrý, Guillaume Decocq, change the IAVS bylaws to better meet the Jürgen Dengler, Kazue Fujiwara, Pavel Krestov, needs of IAVS Sections and Working Groups. Ladislav Mucina, Joop Schaminée, Nina Smits, Otto Wildi, Bastow Wilson = 20 votes Following a discussion surrounding why steering group members of working groups may or may Proxy votes: Sándor Bartha (Ladislav Mucina), not want to be members of IAVS, Diekmann Erwin Bergmeier (Martin Diekmann), Ulrich