International Symposium: Revision of Flora brasiliensis: challenges and opportunities

AGENDA

19th July, Wednesday:

• 09h00-09h30: Opening (MCT, Fapesp, SBPC, SBB and CGEE)
• 09h30-10h30: Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: role and importance of checklists. databases, and floras
  Chair: Marcio de Miranda Santos, CGEE
  Speaker: Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden
• 10h30: Coffee Break
• 11h00-12h30: International checklists and data on Neotropical Flora
  Chair: William Wayt Thomas, New York Botanical Garden
  Presentations:
  • Flora Neotropica and Floristic Efforts in Tropical America - William Wayt Thomas, New York Botanical Garden
    
  • Global Strategy for Plant Conservation Target 1: Progress and Prospects - Eimear Lughadha, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • TROPICOS: Supporting Latin American checklists and floras - Charles K. "Chuck" Miller, Missouri Botanical Garden
  • The Annonnaceae Index: a family level resource for checklist data - Heimo Rainer, Institute for Botany, University of Vienna
• 12h30-14h00: Lunch
• 14h00-16h00: Checklists of Brazilian plants: ongoing efforts in the country
  Chair: Paulo Windisch, SBB
  Presentations:
  • The Role of SBB in Promoting Floristic Studies in Brazil - Paulo Windisch, SBB
  • O Brasil Meridional na Checklist do Cone Sul - Hilda Longhi Wagner, UFRGS
  • Poaceae do Brasil - Tarciso Filgueiras, IBGE
    
  • Plantas do Nordeste - Maria Regina Barbosa, UFPB
  • Flora do Acre - Marcos Silveira, UFAc and Douglas Daly, New York Botanical Garden
  • Flora Fanerogâmica de São Paulo - Maria das Graças L. Wanderley, Instituto de Botânica
• 16h00-16h30: Flora brasiliensis online and Flora brasiliensis revisited
  Chair: Vanderlei Perez Canhos, CRIA
  Presentation: George Shepherd (Unicamp) and Sidnei de Souza (CRIA)
• 16h30: Departure for event at SBPC ("Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência")
• 17h00: Launching of the "Flora brasiliensis revisited" at FAPESP's stand at the 58th. Annual Meeting of the SBPC
• 17h30: Cocktail offered by Natura at FAPESP's stand

20th July, Thursday:

• 09h00-10h30: Towards a shared and interoperable infrastructure for taxonomic data
  Chair: George Shepherd
  Presentations:
  • The European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy and experience from the European checklist - Walter Berendsohn, Berlin Botanic Garden
  • Tools to support the development of the Flora Fluminensis checklist: the JBRJ experience - Marcos Gonzalez, Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro
  • Tools to support the development of Flora brasiliensis revisited - Sidnei de Souza, CRIA
• 10h30-11h00: Coffee Break
• 11h00-12h30: Present and future of the Virtual Herbarium
  Chair: Kim E. Tripp,New York Botanical Garden
  Presentations:
  • Importance and role of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium in the Virtual Herbarium of Brazilian Plants - Barbara Thiers, New York Botanical Garden
  • Virtual Herbarium of Austria - Heimo Rainer, Institute for Botany, University of Vienna
  • Collaborative Digitisation Projects: making plant diversity data available where it is most needed - Eimear Lughadha, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Importance and role of the Paris Herbarium in the Virtual Herbarium of Brazilian Plants - Odile Poncy, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
• 12h30-14h00: Lunch
• 14h00-15h30: Shared data infra-structure: use and applications
  Chair: to be confirmed
  Presentations:
  • Use of herbarium data for the development of strategies and policy making - Dora Ann Lange Canhos, CRIA
  • Use of herbarium data for Conservation - Olga Martha Montiel, Missouri Botanical Garden
  • The Use of Checklists in Identifying Rare and Endemic Species - André Amorim, Ceplac
• 15h30-16h00:Coffee Break
• 16h00-17h00: Future of plant taxonomy: trends and developments
  Chair: Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden
  Presentations:
  • Dynamic Taxonomy: Examples from Bignoniaceae - Lúcia G. Lohmann, Universidade de São Paulo
    
  • Checklists, Floras and the future of plant taxonomy in Brazil - George Shepherd (Unicamp) and Ariane Luna Peixoto (Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiros)
• 17h00: Closing

Comitê Científico: Lúcia G. Lohmann Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Vanderlei Perez Canhos Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA) Ariane Luna Peixoto Jardim Botanico do Rio deJaneiro George Shepherd Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Apoio: Organização:

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