2007/05/15

SEMCLIMED's meeting is going on

Professor Ahmed El Hassani -director of the ISR- opens the 2nd Semclimed general meeting, 15th May 2007. At the same picture, the CIEF's representatives Ms. Esther Tortosa, main officer of the Semclimed project , and Mr Antoni Marzo, project general coordinator
Today 15st May started the 2nd general meeting of the project SEMCLIMED, hosted by the Institute Scientifique de Rabat. Most of the partner teams have presented the result of the activities made from the former meeting (Murcia, Spain, September 2006), as in the case of the development of phase 6 (exposition on the nature and its conservation, throug setting up of rock gardens) thanks to the workshop held in the Botanical Garden of Soller by 27-30 March 2007. Amongst these results, a draft of the 1st issue of the SEMCLIMED's newsletter 'Odyssea Semina' has been presented and discussed.

2007/05/04

Next meeting SEMCLIMED, Rabat (Morocco) 15-18 mai 2007

The Scientifical Institute of Rabat (Institute Scientifique de Rabat -ISR-, Morocco) is going to host the 2nd meeting of the SEMCLIMED project, by 15-18 may 2007. The meeting attendants, coming from all the Semclimed's project teams(16 institutions from 8 countries of Southern Europe and the North of Africa) will analize the current status of the project development. The hosting team, leaded by Dr. Jalal El Oualidi, have also organized a field excursion to know some of the most sensible vegetation wich can suffer the effects o global warming in Morocco: the cellebrated Mamora's forests, and one of the national sites of the Ramsar's wetlands list.

2007/05/03

Effects of climatic change on the Danish habitats

Science Direct (www.sciencedirect.com) allows the free access to the recently published article: NORMAND, S., J.C. SVENNING & F.SKOV. 2007. National and European perspectives on climatic change sensitivity of the habitats directive characteristic plant species. Journal of Nature Conservation 15: 41-43.
This article evaluates the sensitivity of 84 plant species which characterize the habitats of the EU's Habitats Directive in Denmark, under 2 different climatic-change scenarios.
You can need to be registered (free as guest) in Science Direct to access the article. You also can request it to the corresponding author signe.normand@biology.au.dk

Elsevier launches a new journal reporting climatic change

Elsevier has launched a new journal on the control of greenhouse gases. The first issue of the 'International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control' is free available on-line through Science Direct, at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/709061/description#description

If you have problems to open the webpage, you also can access through the Elsevier's journals portal http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journal_browse.cws_home