integrated Climate Change Biology (iCCB) Website of the Programme http://iccbio.org/ Introduction A wealth of data now exists on biotic changes that occurred over the last one to two decades, but scientific understanding of the processes involved, the magnitude of the changes, and their likely outcomes is still in its infancy, […]
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Science Policy Forum for Biodiversity
IUBS possesses core strengths in integrative biology that contribute to better understanding of life and its diversity. In this context, IUBS has been actively partnering with the “Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)” since 1998. A specific example of its active role is in the organization of meetings of “Science for Biodiversity […]
Scientific Programmes
One of IUBS’ main activities is to initiate, facilitate and coordinate research and other scientific activities necessitating international, interdisciplinary cooperation. IUBS conducts international collaborative scientific programmes in close cooperation with its ordinary and scientific members. The IUBS currently runs several programmes, concerning education, climate change, and biodiversity to name a few. In the past the […]
Activities 2018
During 2018 the program organized two workshops. A holistic framework to understand sustainable pastoralism at the global scale was defined. Indicators to assess sustainability of pastoralism across time scales and disciplines were listed. This yielded a draft for a perspective paper to be submitted in 2019 presenting this novel approach. […]
iCCB Activities 2018
We developed a plan for a new IUBS Africa-specific program concentrating on conservation issues and long-term data with a special focus on East African ecosystems. iCCB’s goals for 2018 were to establish a plan of action for a new research program, publish collaborative high impact research papers, organize a research […]
Activities 2018
The BCGC Program organized several academic activities and achieved very fruitful outputs in 2018. Those included organizing the 10th International Symposium of Integrative Zoology in Beijing, the cooperative research visits on rodent monitoring and population control in Southeast Asia and Africa, co-organizing the 6th International Conference on Rodent Biology and […]
Launch of Global Biodiversity and Health Big Data (BHBD) Alliance
On October 14, Global Biodiversity and Health Big Data (BHBD) Alliance was launched at Beijing Institute of Genomics in Beijing. Representatives from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Russia, Singapore, and the United States attended the inauguration ceremony, which was witnessed by officials from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of […]
Activity Report 2016
The report of all activities in the BCGC programme 2016 is online now. Read More
Activities 2016
The Chair of International Committee for Bionomenclature (ICB), Ellinor Michel, presented an invited seminar and extended discussion session on registration of scientific names of animals at GenBank, the global genetic sequence database at the NIH (National Institutes of Health) in Washington DC, Dec 2016. As an annotated collection of all […]
BCGC Activities 2015
Several activities were carried out in the Biological Consequences of Global Change (BCGC) scientific programme of IUBS in 2015.