Logotype of the MAICh, displayed in its central building in Chania. ©E. Laguna, 2005The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh), Crete (Greece), is organizing the next workshop of SEMCLIMED partners, to be held in Chania between 25th and 28th September 2007. It will deal with a 4-days workshop, mostly focused on the current knowledge on the climatic change and its consequences. The workshop title is ‘Climate Change Impacts on Mediterranean Plant Diversity’. Main conferences will ve given by Drs. Helena Flocas (National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece), Maria J. Sanz (Center of Mediterranean Environmental Research, Valencia, Spain), Michael Gottfried (University of Vienna, Austria), Miguel Bastos (National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain), Dimitris Sarris (University of Patras, Greece), Costas Thanos (National and Kapodistrian University, Athens) and Christina Fournaraki (MAICh); in addition, partner contributions will be presented. As foreseen in the SEMCLIMED project, the MAICh will pay the stay and travel expenses for the North-African partners, as well as the stay of 1 representative for each European partner. The attendants will visit the germplasm bank, herbarium and botanical gardens of the MAICh. In the field excursion, they will visit the proposed plant micro-reserve Aspri Limni (Chryssokalitissa, SW Crete), holding the Westernmost population known of the Cretan Palm Tree (Phoenix theophrasti) –additional information on this site is available at the LIFE-CRETAPLANT webpage miantained by Dr. Costas Thanos, http://cretaplant.biol.uoa.gr-.
Coastal, karstic outcroops of Aspri Limni (Chryssokalitissa, Crete), housing isolated specimens of Phoenix theophrasti. ©E. Laguna, 2005
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