FSD 2010

5th International Symposium-Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (1985-2010)

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08/29/2010 - Registration to attend the virtual FSD2010 conference

FSD2010 is a virtual conference. To listen and see the ppt presentation and posters, fill the registration form and pay a registration fee with paypal.

08/10/2010 - Soumya Prasad received the Al Gentry Award for Best Poster Paper

After FSD2010, ATBC2010 now ! It is a good year for Soumya Prasad, PhD Candidate at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. After receiving the David Snow Award for the Best Poster at FSD2010 ("Community-wide characterization of seed dispersal in a faunally-intact dry tropical forest: examining the relative contribution of extant mega-fauna"), she now received the Al Gentry Award for Best Poster Paper at ATBC2010 with a presentation entitled "Seed dispersal and spatial patterns of trees in a tropical dry forest" by Soumya Prasad, H.S. Dattaraja, H.S. Suresh, R. Sukumar. Congratulation for these two Important Awards.

(Photo : Camera trap records of frugivory at Mudumalai: (a) Asian elephant feeding on Careya arborea; (b) Chital deer feeding on Phyllanthus emblica; (c) Sloth bear feeding on Ziziphus mauritiana. © Soumya Prasad).

07/14/2010 - Registration for FSD2010-Virtual

Register and pay now with Paypal. We have now finalized the registration for the Virtual Symposium thank to Advancecom and Bayceer, our partners. You can register to attend FSD2010-Virtual, and you will automatically receive your login and password once the payment has been validated and confirmed. This has been implemented to ensure protection of data of presenters. Watch the teaser at FSD2010-Virtual.

07/10/2010 - Hunting of frugivores and seed dispersal at FSD2010 Virtual

FSD2010 become virtual to allow more students and academics to attend the symposium. After organizing the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Suriname in June 2008, the ATBC2008 Association organized the 5th International Symposium-Workshop on Frugivores and Seed Dispersal (1985-2010) in 13-18 June at Montpellier, France. Each year, frugivory and seed dispersal is often an important topic during ATBC meetings and gtö conferences. At FSD2010, however, the entire scientific program was focused on the thema with many ATBC and gtö members among participants. In order to share this scientific knowledge, organizers decided to create the FSD2010 virtual symposium. Watch the first slides of the ATBC Past-President Joe Wright's talk entitled " The consequences of hunting for frugivores, seed dispersal and plant species composition in Central Panama".

07/09/2010 - FSD2010 virtual was born on 9th July at 14:48 at Montpellier

FSD201 Virtual is e-live. It is a great pleasure for the organizers and our partner Advancecom.fr to announce that the FSD2010 virtual symposium was born after a 5-day meeting between participants at Le Corum, Montpellier. The gestation only took three weeks, and though the last week was a difficult one, the delivery arrived on time. Go to FSD2010 Virtual. A registration is needed to attend the virtual meeting. It is still experimental, and we apologize for any delay between registration and access.

07/04/2010 - FSD2010 Symposium : from Reality to Virtuality

This is 21st Century. At FSD2010, the slide presentations were handled by Advancecom.eu and their AdvanceSlide software. This now allows us to launch the virtual symposium for all registered participants. We also asked Advancecom to add the poster presentations, an equally important part of the symposium. Thus, coming this week, FSD2010 will become virtual, allowing world-wide students and academics to watch and hear oral presentations (with photo of presenter only) and read poster papers. To virtually attend, register and pay a modest fee (chose what you can pay) which fund will allow ATBC2008 Association to support this service, and to pay for those who cannot afford it in countries with low income, as well as to support the organization of the next FSD2015 symposia (starting with the website) in South Africa, and other ATBC annual meetings.

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