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Jacky Girel (Grenoble) presented a paper on ‘Landuse history and changes in biodiversity in Alpine floodplains:the example of the Isere River’ at a conference on ‘Multifunctional Landscapes’ at Roskilde, Denmark in Novermber 2000.
The first meetings of the FLOBAR2 Stakeholder Group in the UK took place in Cambridge on January 11th and February 2nd, 2001. Francine Hughes and Keith Richards presented the aims and work of FLOBAR2 and had excellent and fruitful discussions with the stakeholders on the focus and form for the proposed ‘best-practice manual for restoring floodplain woodland’. This manual will be a significant output of the FLOBAR2 project.
The second meeting of FLOBAR2 took place in Clermont-Ferrand, France on February 23rd and 24th, 2001. The meeting was timed to allow all partners to discuss their first year’s work prior to writing the first annual report. Individual workpackage meetings took place, small groups working together with much enthusiasm and interest. Representatives of each workpackage then presented a resume of the previous year’s work and projected work at a plenary session. The partner from IRS, Berlin took the opportunity to carry out some interactive work with partners grouped by country in order to discuss the institutional structures involved in each country’s water resource management. A field trip to magnificent alluvial woodland areas on the Allier River, led by Jean-Luc Peiry rounded off an enjoyable and productive meeting. Minutes of the meeting are available on this website.
Keith Richards (Cambridge) and Mats Johansson (Umea) presented papers at the ‘Riverine Landscapes’ conference at Ascona, Switzerland in March 2001
Francine Hughes (Cambridge), Etienne Muller (Toulouse), Mark Winfield (Cambridge) and Nadia Barsoum (Cambridge)presented oral or poster papers on the work of FLOBAR2 at a conference on ‘Genetic Diversity in river populations of Black Poplar’ at Szekszard, Hungary in May 2001. This conference was organised by the EUROPOP Project
Jean-Luc Peiry(Clermont), Franck Vautier (Grenoble) and Jacky Girel (Grenoble) presented a poster paper in Lyon at a conference called “Scientifiques et Decideurs ; agir pour une gestion durable des systemes fluviaux” (6-7-8 June 2001).