About
ISCAR's ForumAlpinum 2024, titled "The Alps – a Refuge of Bio- and Geodiversity?" will center on the severe threats facing biodiversity and geodiversity worldwide, particularly in sensitive ecosystems like the Alps. This ForumAlpinum will identify bio- and geodiversity hotspots, their monitoring and management in the Alps, analyze land use conflicts and their impact on bio- and geodiversity, and evaluate the significance of protecting bio- and geodiversity within regional, national, or international contexts to discuss potential solutions.
ForumAlpinum is a scientific conference designed to facilitate international research cooperation on topics of relevance throughout the entire Alpine Arc. It also serves as a bridge between the scientific community and policy, offering opportunities for science-policy dialogue.
Call For Contributions:
ISCAR is pleased to extend an invitation for you to submit your abstract for a scientific paper presentation at ForumAlpinum. Your abstract should address one or more of the topics listed below or any other topic related to biodiversity/geodiversity. Abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words and include a title, a concise description of the theme and content, up to five keywords, and the name(s) of the author(s) along with their affiliations.
Submit an abstract to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by November 2023.
Topics:
- Major bio- and geodiversity threats
- Landscape biodiversity
- EU-politics restoration plan
- Monitoring of bio- and geodiversity (methodology)
- Long-term changes in bio- and geodiversity
- Role of protected areas
- Ecological connectivity
- International cooperation between park managers
- The big wild animals – the carnivores
- Alpine bio- and geodiversity under climatic change
- Vulnerability of mountain peoples to food insecurity due to biodiversity loss
- Overtourism in mountain areas and its effect on biodiversity
- Historic changes in biodiversity in mountain areas due to human influence
- Major biodiversity threats, e.g. overexploitation, invasive alien species
- New habitat, e.g. glacial lakes and new glacier foreland
Call for Posters
This year, ForumAlpinum invites students, young and early-career researchers from various scientific disciplines to present posters with their research findings relating and relevant to the Alps. Poster topics may relate to the conference theme 2024 of bio- and geodiversity, but contributions on other alpine topics are very welcome as well. The call is open until 10 May 2024.
Further information can be found here.
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Cover image by Neven Krcmarek.
