Science Bridge e.V.

We would like to invite you to the 2010 Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Australia. The theme of this Conference is ‘Sustaining biodiversity – the next 50 years’.

The 50th anniversary of the founding of the Ecological Society of Australia provides a timely platform for retrospective and prospective considerations of ecology in Australia. A series of themes will focus on the challenges that will be faced by Australian ecosystems over the next 50 years, and the way that our science will need to adapt to meet these challenges. We will take a long term perspective of ecology in Australia and engender a sense of urgency to consider how ecologists can provide solutions to those problems with which we are now familiar, and those on the horizon.

The aims of this Conference - to be held in the International Year of Biodiversity, and on the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Ecological Society of Australia - are to challenge ecologists, and to inspire them. We will challenge them with speakers who will set the achievements of the past 50 years of ecology in Australia against the biodiversity challenges that still face us. We will inspire them with speakers who are developing new knowledge and innovative
ways of bringing biodiversity science closer to where solutions can be applied on the ground and in shaping biodiversity policy.

Mark Lonsdale
Conference Committee Chair

http://www.esa2010.org.au/