International Scientific Conference dedicated to 95th anniversary of the Department of Botany, Tver State University biodiversity: problems of study and conservation tver

Tver State University

Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences

Tsitsin Main Botanic Garden of Russian Academy of Sciences

Lomonosov Moscow State University

Vyatka State University of Humanities

corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences (Komarov Botanical Institute)

1. 
   Current approaches and methods in biodiversity research; phylogeography.
   
2. 
   Geographical analysis of different components of flora, including lichens.
   
3. 
   Structural diversity of plants and lichens and methods of morphological research.
   
4. 
   Conservation of biodiversity.
   
5. 
   Invasive species as a threat to regional biodiversity.
   

The conference will include plenary and section sessions as well as a poster session and a workshop “Approaches to the management of common inventory of biodiversity”.

The abstracts will be published in the Abstract Book. In addition, full-length papers based on the presentations will be published after conference as a special issue of Bulletin of Tver State University. The post-conference volume will include review of papers on the most important problems and materials.

The registration is prolonged till 15^th April 2012 г. Publication of abstracts is possible without visiting of conference.

The abstracts should be sent by e-mail in attached files to the conference address biodiversity.conf@mail.ru. The file should be named by the surname of the presenting author.

The parts of abstracts should be arranged in the following order:

1. 
   Title (capital letters, embolden, centered);
   
2. 
   Author’s initials and surname(s) (lower-case letters, bold, centered);
   
3. 
   Organization(s), town, country (lower-case letters, centered);
   
4. 
   E-mail(s) (italics, centered);
   
5. 
   Gap;
   
6. 
   Body of the abstract (font 14 pt, full justification);
   
7. 
   List of references (full justification).
   

Drawings and tables are possible. Drawings: black-and-white, in *jpg format, resolution at least 300 dpi. Size of drawings should be not less than 60×60 mm and no more than 110×170 dpi. Drawings and tables should be placed into the text. Captions for drawings and tables are to be printed in 12 pt font.

In reference format please follow examples (fig. 1, table 2). List of references should be presented in alphabetical order.

Latin names of genera and species are to be printed in italics. Radix point is dot. The references in the text should be given in parentheses, like: (Hammer et al., 1999; Folch, 2006).

University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

The abstracts should be sent till 25 April 2012.