MARBENA Creating a long-term infrastructure for MARine Biodiversity research in the European economic area and the Newly Associated states

Newly Associated States and Marine Biodiversity Research

Are marine biodiversity problems different for NAS as compared to other EU countries?

This e-conference will be organised prior to the BIOPLATFORM meeting in Belovesha, Poland 5-9 of July to discuss: Biodiversity research strategy and structure in the Acceding and Candidate Countries: preparing for FP 6". The results of our e-conference will be presented there. Every day one new topic will be introduced by two moderators. The discussion will be going on the new and previous themes each day, so we are starting from one theme for discussion in the first day and in the last day we will have all five themes open. We ask you for active participation in the discussion, the format of messages should consist of: a) title of your contribution, b) name of the author c) text (messages of more than one page must be send to marbena@vliz.be, and our administrator will put them on the forum).

We wish you a vivid and interesting discussion,
dr Henn Ojaveer, Estonian Marine Research Institute, Estonia
prof. Jan Marcin Weslawski, Institute of Oceanology, Poland

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Topics

	Introduction ( unmoderated: )
	I. What is the Baltic contribution to the European marine biodiversity? ( new: 19,unmoderated: )
	II. Change of Baltic biodiversity over various time and spatial scales ( new: 8,unmoderated: )
	III. Where is the "cutting edge science" in the Baltic marine biodiversity? ( new: 12,unmoderated: )
	IV. Socioeconomic/cultural dimension and conservation status of marine biodiversity in the Baltic Sea ( new: 12,unmoderated: )
	V. Is there a need for further human intervention on the Baltic ecosystems? ( new: 6,unmoderated: )
	General discussion - Synthesis ( new: 10,unmoderated: )

General coordination: Carlo Heip ,Herman Hummel and Pim van Avesaath Web site and conference hosted by VLIZ