Events

Mount Kilimanjaro Research Group Meeting

From: 22.02.2017 to: 26.02.2017

The interdisciplinary AfroMont-Mount Kilimanjaro Research Group meeting will bring together researchers working on African mountains. The conference theme will be "African mountain ecosystems under global change: Linking biodiversity, biotic interactions and biogeochemical ecosystem processes". The Mount Kilimanjaro research programme will host the meeting.

Sessions for the research meeting will be:
• Kilimanjaro ecosystems under global change: Linking biodiversity, biotic interactions and biogeochemical ecosystem processes;
• Tracking change in African mountain ecosystems;
• Linking biodiversity, biotic interactions and biogeochemical ecosystem processes;
• Foreign land acquisitions and new land uses in African mountains;
• Making the case for Sustainable Mountain Development; and
• Mountain governance - protected areas, Biospheres and World Heritages Sites – are they effective or what else is needed.

The venue of the AfroMont-Mount Kilimanjaro Research Group Meeting will be the Uhuru Hotel and Conference Centre in Moshi, Kilimanjaro region, Tanzania. Registration opens 1 August 2016.

AfroMont is the African chapter of the international Mountain Research Initiative.

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