28 August - 1 September 2012, at SECC, Glasgow

Pre-Congress and Evening Training Courses

Monday 27th August & Tuesday 28th August (two day course)
Adaptive Conservation Management - £120.00
Tutors: Ilke Tilders, Pierre Ibisch, Peter Hobson, Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management

Monday 27th August (one day course)
Introduction to Systematic Review - £30.00
Tutors: Jacqui Eales and Barbara Livoreil, Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation (CEBC), Bangor University

Tuesday 28th August (one day courses)
Taking the pain out of writing scientific papers and how to write science proposals - £30.00
Tutors: Rob Marrs, Applied Vegetation Dynamics Laboratory, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool and Gabor Lovei, Dept of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Introduction to meta-analysis and research synthesis in ecology - £42.00 
Tutors: Elena Kulinskaya, School of Computing Science, University of East Anglia and
Julia Koricheva, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London
 
Bayesian statistical methods using R and Winbugs - £102.00 
Tutors: Andrea Harnos and Peter Fehervari, Szent Istvan University

The Zonation v3 conservation prioritization framework and software - hands on - £42.00
Tutors: Atte Moilanen, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Metapopulation Biology, University of Helsinki
Joona Lehtomaki

Legal basis and implementation of EU Conservation directives - £42.00
Tutors: Jonathan Verschuuren, Tilburg Sustainability Centre and Tilburg Law School and
Martin Dieterich, Institute for Landscape and Vegetation Ecology, University of Hohenheim

Tuesday 28th August (half day courses)
The international Long Term Ecological Research network for students - £42.00 
Tutors: Saleit Ron, Head of Education
Ramat Hanadiv

Communicating science to different audiences - £42.00 
Maria Trivino, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales.
Pam Berry. Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment.

Evening Training Courses to be held during the Congress
Introductory multivariate analysis in R - £10.00
Tutor: Rob Marrs, Applied Vegetation Dynamics Laboratory, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool

Allocation of conservation actions for habitat management, maintenance,restoration and offsetting: the RobOff decision support system - £10.00
Federico Montesino Pouzols, Aija Kukkala and Prof Atte Moilanen
Finnish Centre of Excellence in Metapopulation Biology, University of Helsinki

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