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MACMAN Meeting in LAUFEN 17th-20th JAN 2005

The next MacMan workshop will take place in Laufen from 17th-20th Januaury 2005 with some 70 participants attending, comprising of EU project partners, an advisory board made up of entomology experts and associated partners from other European countries forming a consortium to discuss and exploit Maculinea research. Presentations will be held on numerous scientific issues underpinning Maculinea research.

 
 Mid-term MACMAN Meeting JAN 2004

A mid-term MacMan conference was organised with close co-operation from the UFZ, HNHM, and DUFS. This conference held in Budapest (19th - 23rd January) enabled project partners to review progress and check the quality of results. Various users of the project's results (including other scientists, conservation managers, and EIA specialists), were invited to the conference.

 

 

 Modelling Workshop APRIL 2003
  A workshop, which focused on modelling projects within MacMan, took place from 31.03- 04.04.03 in Fabrikschleichach (UWUERZ) and acted as a platform to exchange information and ideas on which hypotheses could be tested in a modelling context. These discussions markedly contributed to deciding which genetic aspects, evolutionary aspects (e.g. local adaptation, dispersal strategy) and landscape variables to incorporate into future models.
      
  Maculinea Butterfly Site Management/ Ant Identification Workshop, May 2003
  A workshop on Maculinea-site management and ant identification took place at the Bavarian Academy for Nature Conservation (ANL) from 21.05. - 24.05.03 in Laufen, Germany. Preliminary results were discussed and management tools and recommendations explored. Part of the workshop was designed as a host ant identification workshop led by the top Myrmica ant taxonomists Olexandr Radchenko (PAS, Poland) and Graham Elmes (NERC, UK). A central theme of the workshop was how to manage grasslands for maximum biodiversity within Maculinea systems in different parts of Europe. Possibilities were explored on how to make the scientific results useful as tools for the user community (planners, land managers etc.) using the results of all WPs to test the applicability of tools and model results in practical conservation and management.