NEOSELVAS WORKSHOP 2009 Neotropical secondary forest regeneration: Integrating ecological process across multiple scales Morelia Michoacán, México 28 - 30 October, 2009
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Menu Program List of participants Working Groups Documents and Presentations Workshop Rooms Hotel Map Hotel Reservations Sponsors Versión Español		Introduction The rapid loss of old-growth tropical forests around the world signals an urgent need to understand and forecast the importance of secondary (regrowth) forests to conserve biodiversity and critical ecosystem services. Present and future societies and economies will depend on the natural capital in secondary forests, which are rapidly becoming the dominant forests across the tropics. Understanding the complex effects of landscape and regional changes on secondary forest regeneration requires a comprehensive, comparative, multi-investigator approach across different regions, geographic settings, and landscape types. Trema micrantha growing into the canopy of a eight years old secondary forest (Chajul, Mexico) An international workshop will be held at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus Morelia, Mexico, on 28-30 October, 2009 to: i) form an international research network, ii) develop an integrated, internationally-based research and training program, and iii) synthesize the state of the art and future research directions on secondary neotropical forests. Participants include researchers and post-graduate students coming from seven countries. The workshop is co-organized by Miguel Martinez-Ramos and Horacio Paz from the Center for Research in Ecosystems (CIEco-UNAM) in Morelia and Robin Chazdon and Michael Willig from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. The Coordination of Science Research of UNAM, CIEco-UNAM, the Administrative Coordination of the UNAM Morelia Campus, and the USA National Science Foundation will sponsor and support the workshop. Oleo picture of a four years old secondary forest (Chajul, Mexico) Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas, UNAM Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro No. 8701 Col. Ex-Hacienda de San José de La Huerta C.P. 58190 Morelia Michoacán. MÉXICO Tel: (443) 322-27-04, desde el DF: 5623-27-04 Fax: (443) 322-27-19 desde el DF 5623-27-19 Conmutador: (443) 322-27-77 desde el DF 5623-27-77 Design, CIEco Computing Unit Atzimba López atzimbal@oikos.unam.mx Alberto Valencia av@oikos.unam.mx Heberto Ferreira hfm@oikos.unam.mx			News Welcome to workshop 2009 in Morelia, please check the Logistics and Program for details. Reservations; please check Hotels and Map link. Program; is the last version please check changes. Contacts: mmartinez@oikos.unam.mx robin.chazdon@uconn.edu