Updated: Jul 26
The next ECCB conference will take place in May 2026 in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) organised by Annalena Cogoni and the Bryology group of Italian Botanical Society. More details on the venue, date and relative details will follow in the next months.
Updated: Apr 8
From 23rd-29th August 2024, a meeting was held in Apatity of Murmansk Region at Kola Science Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. - the International Bryological Conference and field school for young scientists "Bryophytes: systematics, distribution, ecology, protection", dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Fifty  bryologists , including  students, graduate and post graduate  students from 13 cities of Russia and 2 countries abroad participated in the conference. In total, nine plenary presentations were submitted and discussed, as well as 23 presentation within the framework of three 3 sections: «Phylogeny and systematics of mosses and liverworts», «Ecology and phytocenology», «Flora and biogeography» and six posters.
Details of the meeting, in English and Russian can be downloaded below.
Updated: Jan 2
The 10th Conference of the European Committee for Conservation of Bryophytes was held in Zagreb, Croatia from 24th to 27th May 2022. It was organised by the Department Biology and the Botanical Garden of the University of Zagreb.
52 bryologists (four of them on-line) participated on the conference from almost all over Europe (Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and the Netherland). There were 23 oral presentations and 18 posters in a wide range of topics like; From genetic to habitat diversity and how to asses and restore bryophyte diversity, Bryophyte diversity and conservation beyond the national approach, Insights into national bryophyte conservation, Monitoring bryophyte diversity, Species diversity and floristics.
The final two days were spent with excursions in famous biodiversity hotspots and iconic landscapes of Croatia, in Gorski Kotar Mts under Risnjak peak and in Plitvice lakes National Park. The latter is inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage list for its outstanding and picturesque series of tufa lakes, caves, and connected waterfalls.
During the conference ECCB meeting was held, where important issues were discussed as significant achievements of the ECCB in recent years and the future of ECCB (see more in Minutes).
