Budapest, 2012 - eighth ECCB Conference

Attendees of the 8th ECCB Conference, Budapest

The 8th Conference of the European Committee for Conservation of Bryophytes was held in the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Budapest from 18th to 21st April 2012.

69 bryologists participated on the meeting from 22 European countries (Albania, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia. Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey) and even Canada and India were represented in the conference. During the meeting 23 oral presentations and 29 posters were presented.

Two days were dedicated for excursions. On 20th April Vértes and Gerecse Mts were visited. In Vértes Mts Pannonian oak-hornbeam forests, thermophylous oak forests, open dolomite rocky grasslands and rocky steppes and were visited with threatened species like Asterella saccata, Anomodon rostratus. In Gerecse Mts a limestone rocky grassland were explored searching for the threatened Pyramidula tetrgona. On 21st April the first the Great Hungarian Plain was visited; saline grasslands in the Danube-Tisza Interfluve with characteristic species, like Entosthodon hungaricus and sandy grasslands. Then loess cliffs along the Danube completed the program with characteristic rare species e.g. Hilpertia velenovskyi, Tortula brevissima, Crossidium crassinerve.

8th_ECCB_abstract_book 2012.pdf

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