The Section strives to promote all scientific disciplines around biodiversity and evolutionary biology which comprize anatomy, funtional morphologhy, phylogenetic history, plant geography, as well as modern molecular systematics and phylogeny.

Conferences

The Section organizes a workshop every other year in alternation with the conferences of the Botanikertagung of the DBG. The upcoming "Systematics" will take place from 16.-19. September 2010 in Vienna, Austria. Details are summarized in the first Circular [1], the registration is managed from the Uninersity of Vienna [2].

Membership

Members will be informed about the activities of the sections, conferences, and jobs via the email newsletter of the society. At present there is no membership fee.

How to become a member?

Prerequisite for a membership in the Section is a membership in the German Botanical Society (DBG). To become a member, please write an informal letter to the speaker of the Section.

History

At first the Section was founded nonofficially at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1971, named morphology, anatomy, and systematics. In September 1993 it got its first ststutes. Most of the members voted for the current name of "Biodiversity and Eevolutionary Biology" in 1998. The present statutes were decided at the the conference at Jena on 21st of September in 2000.

Satzung

Die Sektion hat eine eigene Satzung [3] neben der DBG-Satzung.

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Dirk Albach

AG Biodiversität und Evolution der Pflanzen
Institut für Biologie und Umweltwissenschaften
Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg
Carl von Ossietzky-Strasse 9-11
D-26111 Oldenburg
Germany
Tel.: ++49 (0)441 7983339
E-mail
Internet

Zum Thema auf den DBG-Seiten	|	Zum Thema im Internet
[1] First Circular (pdf file, 0.1 MB) for the upcoming symposium "Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology" [3] Statutes (pdf-file, 10 KB) of the Section (in German)	|	[2] All updates and the registration procedure are summarized from the University of Vienna
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