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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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