6th annual meeting of the specialist group on macroecology of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ)

Dear colleages,

You are cordially invited to attend the 6th annual meeting of the specialist group on  macroecology of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ), which will be held in Frankfurt in 2012.
The meeting will include keynote lectures (1 h) as well as contributed talks (20 min) and poster sessions. Slots for contributed talks include time for discussion, and graduate students are particularly encouraged to present their work. Meeting language will be English.

Time: Wednesday 29/02/2012 1pm until Friday 02/03/2012 noon
Place: Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberg
Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
(www.bik-f.de)

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Miguel Araújo, Museuo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain &
University of Évora, Portugal
Catherine Graham, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
Thomas Hickler, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F) &
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
David Orme, Imperial College London, UK
Ally Phillimore, Imperial College London, UK
Carsten Rahbek, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Please distribute this information to potential participants.
Registration will be opened in autumn.