Gingko biloba

Pavel Krestov

Pseudolarix amabilis

Teuvo Ahti

Cunninghamia lanceolata

Yukito Nakamura

Keteleeria evelyniana

Vyacheslav Barkalov

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Jean-Pierre Saucier

Vadim Bakalin

Photo credits:
Group photo - Yoshiharu FUJII
People - Leonid MAKOGIN
Plants - Pavel KRESTOV
Vladivostok - Sergey LYAMYTSKIKH
Thanks to Taiwan for the Symposium logo

Hello, everyone!

First of all, I want to express my thanks to you all for taking part in this symposium, for sharing the ideas and for planning the future cooperation. Instead of saying 'good by' I would like to say hello again here, on the post-symposium site. This is a place, where we post all resolutions and agreements, all abstracts of presented papers and power-point presentations. Here I want to thank participants, who already gave the formal personal permission to publish power point presentations in this web-site and would like to ask all of you to send such permission to me in the nearest future.

We invite to submit your extended presentations to journal 'Botanica Pacifica' that we going to publish by the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013 after the accomplishing the peer-reviewing process. I would suggest the following time table for the paper presenting:

The manuscript submission deadlines: 1) by the end of November; 2) by the end of January

Peer-reviewing process: December 2012 - February 2013.

Journal issues: December 2012 - January 2013 and March-April 2013

Please follow the instruction for authors in preparing your manuscripts.

Finally, we also will publish the links to your photo albums from symposium and post-symposium excursions on this website.

I hope very much that our meeting will have a great continuations in different joint projects.

Hello to everyone!

Sincerely yours,
Pavel

Victor Kuzevanov

Yoshuharu Fujii

Christopher Zoladeski

Nicolai Ermakov

Jin Murata

UPDATES:

2012-10-09: SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM, ABSTRACTS AND PP PRESENTATIONS IN HTML

2012-09-19: SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACTS IN PDF

2012-09-17: FINAL PROGRAM OF SYMPOSIUM IN PDF

PHOTO ALBUMS:

2012-10-09: SEND THE LINK TO YOUR PHOTO ALBUM TO PAVEL AND IT WILL BE PLACED HERE

2012-10-08: PHOTOS BY LEONID MAKOGIN

2012-10-17: PHOTOS BY MASON HEBERLING

2012-10-17: PHOTOS BY CHENG-TAO LIN

2012-10-17: PHOTOS BY PAVEL KRESTOV

2012-10-26: PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER ZOLADESKI

What is Symposium about
The 21st century has seen the beginning of a second hundred-year study of flora and vegetation in East Asia. The East Asian, or Sino-Japanese floristic region contains one of the world's richest and most ancient floras, the value of which for humankind is not yet fully understood. The previous hundred-year study of East-Asian flora and vegetation in China, Japan, Korea and Russia, has resulted in an accumulation of great knowledge. Nevertheless, political, cultural and methodological differences have created many disagreements in terms and theories of plant-related disciplines. In contrast to Eurasian phytogeography, in which vegetation zonation served as a useful model for elaboration of concepts and theories, the eastern edge of Eurasia still has many unsolved problems. These reflect the lack of existing schemes that adequately explain the underlying complexity of a vegetation that has formed under the combined influences of the Asian monsoon system, its interactions with continental air masses, complex topography, climate and geologically recent landscape change. We anticipate that this symposium will provide a useful step forward in understanding the formative processes of one of the world's most significant floras as well as an improved historical perspective of its influence on vegetation formation on different continents.

Symposium venue

© Sergey Lyamytskikh

Why Vladivostok in September, 2012? In this city, this year, this month we have the APEC summit with state leaders. In preparation for this event Vladivostok city has undergone a profound transformation. Russian, provincial and Vladivostok city governments have built a new large university, new road systems, two marine bridges, a new oceanarium and many new 3-5 star hotels. We also have a modern conference venue, and we hope to be the first scientific group who organize an international symposium on the site of the APEC summit. WIKI says this.

From a botanical point of view late September in Vladivostok is still late summer. This is the end of flowering peak for Asteraceae. The weather should be very comfortable for the sessions and excursions. We are firmly committed to achieving our best in symposium organization and extend a very warm invitation to you.

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