ALIEN PLANTS
ECOLOGY IN
THE SITE
OF THE ‘SPANISH WORKING GROUP ON URBAN AND
ALIEN PLANTS’ |
OUR NEW SITE IS www.med-alienplants.org
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(REMEMBER: ‘med’ is abbreviated from Mediterranean!)
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Index:
1-AIMS OF THE RESEARCHING GROUP
2- COORDINATORS AND MEMBERSHIPS
AIMS OF THE RESEARCHING GROUP
The Working Group on Urban and Alien plants and Quarantines was created in 1998 in response to
the increasing demand of specialised knowledge around those topics related to
weed science, alien plant invasions and urban ecology. The group was created in
the bosom of the Spanish Weed Science Society (Sociedad
Española de Malherbología), a non-lucrative Scientific Society
devoted to the study of weed species and their communities from different
viewpoints. The main aims of the group can be resumed into five points:
ALIEN PLANTS
1-The development of studies
concerning alien plants in Spain. The first stage of the project is devoted to
the elaboration of a national ALIEN PLANTS DATABASE in which
several botanical and autecological information is recorded.
2-The creation of a national
scientific network in which a series of specialists in alien plants ecology
and detection are implicated.
PLANT QUARANTINES
3-The development of strategies
focussed onto the prevention of further plant invasions in Spain and the
control of some widespread hazardous species.
URBAN PLANTS ECOLOGY
4-The elaboration of floristic
lists in which plant species growing in Spanish urban areas will be
recorded.
5-The analysis of urban plants
communities and the interpretation of their distribution through each city
in Spain.
These two latter aspects would allow the planning of a more rational
cities growth and the development of guidelines to achieve the preservation of
a greater biodiversity. As a long-term consequence of these studies, citizens
would enjoy a greater quality of life.
COORDINATORS
AND MEMBERSHIPS
The group is co-ordinated from its
beginnings by three scientists of different universities: Dr.
Elías D. Dana (University of Almería), Dr. Eduardo Sobrino, Dr. Mario
Sanz-Elorza (both from the Technical Engineering School, Madrid).
Anyone interested on these subjects and who feel his investigation field falls
within the aims of the Working Group is friendly invited to participate and to
contact the co-ordinators in order to arrange further research projects!!!.
Last actualisation:
Web site maintained by Elías D. Dana
Department
of Plant Biology and Ecology.
University of
Almería. E-04120, Almería. Spain.