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an invitation

• The Australian botanical community invites you to
  
• Melbourne, Australia
• July 2011
• XVIII International Botanical Congress

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The Australian flora ..

• many endemics, and
• strong Gondwanan element
• provides a unique opportunity full of
  inspiring experiences for everyone interested in
  botany

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Its ancient landscape .

• Vast deserts arid shrublands
• Tropical and temperate rainforests
• Floristically rich heathlands
• Unique eucalypt forests

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scientific program topics

• The scientific program will accommodate all
  aspects of the botanical sciences,
• particularly the core disciplinary areas of
• Ecology and the environment
• Conservation and restoration biology
• Population biology
• Systematics and evolutionary biology
• Physiology and phytochemistry
• Botanical diversity and taxonomy
• Cell Biology
• Molecular Genetics
• Physiology and Functional Genomics
• Structure and Development
• Botanical History
• Ethnobotany
• Bioinformatics, biological databases, knowledge
  management

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Whats the current agenda in 2011

• Systematics and botanical diversity in the
  genomics age
• Genes and genome evolution
• Restoration ecology
• Urban plant ecology and conservation
• Sustainable agriculture
• Climate change
• The rhizosphere
• Function and development
• Biosecurity invasives and invasiveness
• Evolution of gondwanic floras
• Biogeography of Oceania
• Tropical forests

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Field trips .

• Wide range of trips will be provided to cover
• Floristic diversity
• Broad spectrum of vegetation communities
• Endemic groups
• Varying levels of accommodation and length of
  trip
• Including New Zealand and New Caledonia

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