The Agroecological Station of the Botanical Garden of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kosewo Górne will host an international seminar on November 8-10, titled "The Agroecological Station of the Botanical Garden of the Polish Academy of Sciences".

From tradition to modernity: Grasslands as the foundation of sustainable development in the Green Lungs of Poland

This will be a two-day event, during which leading experts in ecology, agriculture, nature conservation and sustainable development - speakers from Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic will present various aspects of the role of livestock in maintaining high natural values, grassland management, farm management, pastoral management, vegetation diversity and bioculture. This will be an opportunity to discuss how to manage and use the PAS Botanical Garden Agroecological Station - Center for the Preservation of Biodiversity in the future, and how to prepare it for the new challenges of its development.

Schedule

  • Grazing in traditional landscapes (Monika Janišová, SAS, SK),
  • The grassland world of Middle & Central Asia (Arek Nowak, PAS, PL),
  • Ruminants on the grasslands: what do they do to the vegetation? (Romulad Zabielski, WULS, Warsaw, PL),
  • Scale dependency of taxonomic and functional diversity in pristine and recovered loess steppic grasslands (Péter Török et al: HU),
  • Grassland fungi and their role in maintaining the biological diversity (Marta Wrzosek, BG, UW, PL),
  • Bryophytes and grasses in meadow ecosystems: competition, coexistence and ecological balance (Vítězslav Plášek, UO, CZ),
  • Mongolian herders' knowledge of folk habitats, ecological changes and livestock herding: a case study in the Mountain Forest-Steppe Region (Gantuya Batdelger, MAS, MN),
  • Change in European forage and fodder plant indicator sets over 250 years (Marcin Kotowski, PAS, PL),
  • Introduction of the Pannonian Database of Plant Traits (PADAPT) (Andrea McIntosh-Buday et al., HU),
  • Climate change increases the invasion threat of alien C4 grasses for European grasslands (Patrícia Díaz Cando et al, HU),
  • Climate change has a diverse impact on the functional diversity of different plant groups (Sebastian Swierszcz, WUELS, PL),
  • Where sheep outnumber people: Grazing traditions and landscapes of the Faroe Islands (Anna Znój, PAS),
  • Varying patterns of taxonomic and functional plant composition and diversity across different types of urban and rural grasslands (Grzegorz Swacha, UWr, PL),
  • The effect of mowing height on sward properties in semi-natural grasslands (Małgorzata Raduła, WUELS, PL),
  • Veterinary medicine in species conservation (Michal Krzysiak, UPL, PL),
  • Vision, mission and strategy of the Agroecological Station in Kosewo (Pawel Kojs, PAS, PL).

 

The event was held under the honorary patronage of the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Prof. Marek Konarzewski.