Oral presentations by theme
List of themes:
A: Implementing plant conservation policies through botanic
gardens
B: The practice of plant conservation through botanic gardens
C: Botanic gardens and ecosystem conservation
D: Environmental education, the sustainable use of plant resources
and the awareness of plant diversity
E: Sustainability: the contribution of biodiversity to sustainable
living
F: Botanic garden horticulture and development
G: Botanic garden research
H: Heritage
A: Implementing plant conservation policies through botanic gardens
The
Colombian Plant Conservation Strategy - Conservation of native plants in Colombia…
a real drama
Alberto Gómez Mejía (Bogotá, Colombia)
Implementing the GSPC in the U.K
Judith Cheney (PlantNet, U.K.)
The contribution of the national network of botanic
gardens to the implementation of the Global and European Strategy for Plant
Conservation in Romania
Anca Sarbu (Bucharest, Romania)
Development and implementation of the Russian
Botanic Gardens Conservation Strategy
Alexander Demidov (Moscow, Russia)
B: The practice of plant conservation through botanic gardens
Perspectivas de la Conservación
Integrada de orquídeas nativas en la Argentina (Perspectives of Native
Orchids Integrated Conservation in Argentina)
Marcela Sánchez (BGCI, Argentina)
El
jardín botánico queretano, un modelo que contribuye a la conservación
de la diversidad biológica (The Querétaro Botanic Garden: a model
which contributes to the conservation of diversity)
Emiliano Sánchez Martínez and María Magdalena Hernández
Martínez (Querétaro, México)
El Jardin Botanico “Cassiano Conzatti”:
Un ejemplo de patrimonio cultural y cientifico en Oaxaca (The Botanic Garden
“Cassiano Conzatti”: an example of cultural and scientific heritage)
Gladys Manzanero Medina, Alejandro Flores Martínez, Inocencio Rodríguez
Acevedo (Oaxaca, Mexico)
International Agenda: a progress report
on its implementation since Asheville
Suzanne Sharrock (BGCI, UK)
The Macaronesian
Seed Bank (basemac). A programme for rational conservation of plant diversity
Alicia Roca Salinas and Blas Vilches Navarrete (Las Palmas, Spain), Roberto
Jardim, Francisco Fernández and José Augusto Carvalho (Funchal,
Portugal) and Joao de Melo (Faial, Portugal)
ESCONET: The European Native Seed
Conservation Network
Steve Alton (Wakehurst, U.K.)
An inter-regional network of Mediterranean
seedbanks: GENMEDOC
Antonio Marzo(Valencia, Spain)
Implementing Target 5 of the GSPC (protection
of 50% of the world most important areas for plants ensured by 2010): progress,
problems & perspectives
Seona Anderson (Plantlife International, U.K.)
C: Botanic gardens and ecosystem conservation
The Galápagos Islands
– vegetation dynamics and plant conservation
Ole Hamann (Copenhagen, Denmark)
National parks and botanic gardens:
a Caribbean case study
Colin Clubbe (Kew, U.K.) and Joseph Smith-Abbott (BVI)
The University Botanic Gardens
on Modena: practices in plant conservation and environmental management
Carlo del Prete, Daniele Dallai, Luigi Maffettone and Elisabetta Sgarbi (Modena,
Italy)
Restoring the tropical
dry evergreen forest through community participation
Paul Blanchflower (Auroville, India)
Looking beyond the garden’s
borders: The environmental and socioeconomic concerns of a garden in a developing
nation
Jorge Orejuela Gartner (Cali, Colombia)
Ex
situ conservation of bryophytes
Margaret Ramsay, Jane Burch and Jennifer Rowntree (Kew, U.K.)
U.K. and European Zoo Horticulture
groups and their contribution to the GSPC
Eddie Mole (Bristol, U.K.)
Botanic garden and zoological
garden of the Fundação Zoo-Botânica de Belo Horizonte: a
partner in conservation
Inés R. de Andrade, Carlyle M. Coelho, Liliane H. Evangelista, Fernando
M. Fernandes, Ivan A. Pimenta and Cristiane Speziali (Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Everyday is Earth Day
Virginia Wall (Asheboro, U.S.A.)
Introduction
to the GSPC target on the control of 100 aliens
Brian Huntley (Cape Town, South Africa)
Invasive alien
species and the role of botanic gardens
Frank Klingenstein (Bonn, Germany)
Weeds of
the monsoon tropics of Australia
Greg Leach (Darwin, Australia)
Invasive plants of the Cantabrian
coast
Ignacio A. Felpete (Asturias, Spain)
From international guidelines
to local action plan: a comprehensive strategy to define the future of the Conservatoire
et jardins botaniques de Nancy
Romaric Pierrel (Nancy, France)
D: Environmental education, the sustainable use of plant resources and the awareness of plant diversity
Evaluation of environmental education: outcomes
for children
Sarah Kneebone (BGCI, U.K.)
Botanic gardens: walled stranded arks or environments
for learning?
Dawn Sanders (National Foundation for Educational Research, U.K.)
No end to the banana
Charlotte Lusty, Richard Markham, Claudine Picq and Anne Vézina (INIBAP,
France), Christian Bourdel, Denis Delebecque and Jacques Lefort (Montpellier,
France), Anne Hébert and Thierry Lescot (CIRAD, France), Andrew Ormerod
(St Austell, U.K.)
Developing an exhibition for botanic gardens
in China - the BGCI experience
Anle Tieu (BGCI, China)
Posters and exhibitions of the Oxford
Botanic Garden: raising awareness worldwide.
Louise Allen (Oxford, U.K.)
Integrating scientific research into Education
at all levels
Timothy Walker (Oxford, U.K.)
E: Sustainability: the contribution of biodiversity to sustainable living
Development of an ecologically sustainable
botanic garden in Barcelona
Núria Membrives (Barcelona, Spain)
New environmental technologies
are opportunities for Botanical Gardens
Michel Labrecque (Montréal, Canada) and David Galbraith (Hamilton, Canada)
Botanic gardens and sustainable tourism
Antoni Aguilella (Valencia/Spain)
Quality management system at the
La Concepción Botanic Garden
Pedro Alfonso Ranea (Málaga, Spain)
The MSBP developing partnerships in Africa
Clare Tenner (Kew, U.K.)
How do gardens survive when funding
is lost?
Chris Fominyam (Limbe, Cameroon)
Supporting and multiplying concern for
sustainable development amongst teachers and children: experiences of the Kodaikanal
Botanic Garden project.
V.S. Manickam (Kodaikanal, India)
Integrated threatened
plants programme: the case study of Hoodia
Silke Rügheimer (Windhoek, Namibia)
The experience of the Belize Botanic
Garden
Judy du Plooy (Belize)
F: Botanic garden horticulture and development
Challenges of collection
policy revision at the Montreal Botanical Garden
Michel Labrecque (Montreal, Canada)
Diversity
of living plant collections in German-speaking countries – assessment,
problems and concepts of ‘national collections’ as a possible solution
Frank Klingenstein (Bonn, Germany)
El Jardín
atlántico de Gijón (Atlantic garden of Gijón)
Dulce Gallego Canteli (Gijón, Spain)
El Jardín
Botánico de CICEANA: un jardín sobre la azotea en México
(Jardín Botánico CICEANA: a garden on the roof in Mexico)
Raúl Gomez Porras (Mexico City, Mexico)
Nezahat Gökyigit
Botanic Garden
Adil Güner (Istanbul, Turkey)
Developing
a new premier Mediterranean garden in California
Chris Woods and Edward Schneider (Santa Barbara, U.S.A)
Ecosystem conservation
through planning development of Kuwait Botanical Garden and Eco-Park
Samira Omar, Robert H. Grina, Tareq Madouh and Emad Al Ali (Safat, Kuwait)
Using
students as volunteers: a great under-exploited resource for botanic garden
development
Juan de Dios Muñoz (Paraná, Argentina)
Atlantis program for
botanic gardens
Hans Persoon (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Using molecular information for ex situ conservation
of biological diversity
Juli Caujapé-Castells (Las Palmas, Spain)
Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian
citrus: The Citreae tribe in a world context
Randall Bayer and Sarah Rich (Canberra, Australia)
Rehabilitation of a plant community at an archaeological
site at Harappa, Pakistan
Amin U. Khan (Lahore, Pakistan)
Developing capacity for restoration
in urban areas at the garden and beyond
Steve Clemants, Janet Marinelli and Judith Zuk (Brooklyn, U.S.A.)
Recent advances in scientific horticulture
for botanic gardens
Simon Thornton-Wood (Wisley, U.K.)
Caracterización
ecofisiológica de especies Mediterráneas (Eco-physiological studies
of Mediterranean species)
Lydia Serrano, X. Aranda, X. Fábregas, F.X. Martínez and A. Terricabras
(Barcelona, Spain)
Reinvesting intellectual capital in environmental
reconciliation – the role of botanic gardens
Steve Forbes (Adelaide, Australia)
A philosophical view of botanical gardens
Klaus Ammann (Bern, Switzerland)
The changing cultural and scientific heritage
of botanic gardens
Vernon Heywood (Reading, U.K.)
La Concepción: historical heritage, botanical
heritage
Leandro Olalla Mercadé (Málaga, Spain)
The
World’s first National Botanic Garden Day – Argentina 2005
Marcela Sánchez (BGCI, Argentina) and Douglas Gibbs (BGCI, U.K.)
Conserving
ethnobotany and indigenous knowledge in Paraná, Argentina
Juan de Dios Muñoz (Paraná, Argentina)
Ethnobotanical education and sustainable development:
the example of Geneva’s Botanical Garden working with the south.
Didier J. Roguet and Rodolphe Spichiger (Geneva, Switzerland)
The Botanical Garden of Papatia (North Benin):
perspectives for sustainable use, biodiversity conservation and preservation
of traditional knowledge
Julia Krohmer and Karen Hahn-Hadjali (Frankfurt, Germany)
National collections of horticultural plants:
the NCCPG experience and model
Rosamund Johnson (NCCPG, U.K.)
AFCEV: a meeting place for the future
of biodiversity
Romaric Pierrel (Nancy, France)