Other Forthcoming Events
Forthcoming Events in U.K. and Europe
YORKSHIRE NATURALIST UNION
CONCHOLOGICAL SECTION
Indoor meetings in Winter held at Leeds City Museum Resource Centre, Yeadon. Field meetings held April to October. Contact Secretary: D. Lindley, 46 Sutherland Avenue, Leeds, LS8 1BZ Tel: 0113 2697047
5th CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETIES
São Miguel, Azores 2–6 September 2008
The Instituto Português de Malacologia (IPM) and the Marine Palaeobiogeography Working Group (MPB) are happy to announce the joint organization of the 5th Congress of the European Malacological Societies (CEMS) and the 2nd Atlantic Islands Neogene International Congress (AINIC), to be held at Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island (Azores, Portugal) on 2-6 September 2008.
Themes for the 5th Congress of the European Malacological Societies:- Present and future challenges of fisheries and molluscan aquaculture;
- From theory to practice: What we can do for freshwater molluscs conservation;
- Origin, diversity and phylogeny of molluscs. Where are we?;
- Biogeographical processes and patterns;
- Molluscs as ecological models: from local patterns to global evolution;
- Terrestrial molluscs: the perfect models for island biogeography?
- Molluscs and Conservation Biology;