Invasive plants
working group
The mission of the new working group will include :
- Assisting communication and information exchange between
agricultural and environmental researchers, between scientists and
professionals, between individuals and organizations, between national and
international organizations. - Identifying key research and control technology needs and
encouraging their execution, including collaborative programmes.
Organising meetings, symposia and conferences, and to including the
topic on existing meetings. - Encouraging and assisting education and training on invasive plants
(control, horticultural and environmental aspects) for institutions,
students, professionals (road services) and general public.
The 3rd Symposium on Environmental Weeds & Invasive Plants (Intractable Weeds and Plant Invaders) will be held October 2-7, 2011 in Ticino, Switzerland
Click here to see the announcement (pdf, 149 Kb)
For more details, click here to go to the Invasive Plants web site: http://www.ewrs.org/IW/default.asp
Chair: Christian Bohren
Swiss Federal Agricultural Research Station
RAC Changins
P.O. Box 1012
CH - 1260 Nyon 1
Switzerland
Telephone: +41 22 363 44 25
Fax: +41 22 363 43 94
E-mail: invasive-plants@ewrs.org