Summer Meeting

Friday 4th June 2010, 12pm-4.30pm

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

The entrance to John Hope Gateway source: Edward Cullinan Architects
http://www.edwardcullinanarchitects.com/projects/rbge.html
This meeting will take place at the John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. It includes a light soup lunch, a tour of Gateway, gardens and herbarium, followed by a series of talks.

12.00–1.00 Light lunch
1.00-2.15 tour of Gateway, gardens and herbarium collections by Max Coleman (RBGE)
2.15-4.30 talks:
2.15 Steve Buckland (St Andrews) Line transect methods for plant surveys
2.45 Antje Ahrends (RBGE) Predictable waves of degradation and biodiversity loss spreading from an African city
3.15 coffee/tea
3.30 Frank Dondelinger (BioSS) Network inference in ecology and molecular biology
4.00 Christopher Ellis (RBGE) Biodiversity loss across the threshold of industrialisation: how can we know when something has disappeared?
4.30 end

To reserve your place, please email Chris Glasbey chris@bioss.ac.uk. Cut off date for registrations: Monday 31st May.

The cost, including a light lunch, is £10 (members) and £30 (non-members), payable on the day.

Directions to the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh