Vegetation Function Network supported by Australian Research Council and Landcare Research NZ

Upcoming courses and events:
- One-day Research Courses - various topics, Oct-Dec '09
- VFN at Intecol 2009 - early bird registration 16 May

Current and upcoming working groups:
- Marine flora climate impacts 27-31 July '09
- Plant population syndromes 10-14 August '09
- Sprouting behaviour 21 August '09
- Savanna structure and variation 24-28 August '09
- Human-influenced countrysides 18-22 September '09
- Marine and coastal floras 21-25 September '09
- Xylem Function Traits 6-9 October '09
- PROMETHEUS 27-30 October '09
- Organic phosphorus 30 Nov - 4 Dec '09
- Estuarine drift algae 30 Nov - 5 Dec '09
- Evolution of seagrasses 8-11 December '09

Recent working groups:
- Function and cell size 9-12 June '09
- Future species distributions 25-29 May '09
- Marine flora climate impacts 21-23 May '09
- DNA evolution rates 18-22 May '09
- Phenotypic plasticity 21-27 April '09
- Mesograzer impacts 30 March - 3 April '09
- Plant-soil-microbe feedbacks 25-28 February '09
- Biocontrol and climate change 17-20 February '09
- Tropical podocarps 3-6 February '09
- Urbanisation and plant functional traits 15-19 December '08
- Evolutionary genomics of Australian plant ecology 9-12 December '08
- Invasive plants in tropics 9-12 December '08
- Human-influenced countrysides 25-30 November '08
- Fire and carbon budgets 26-28 November '08
- Wetland plant traits 17-21 November '08
- Great western woodlands 18-20 November '08

2008 Annual Report available [ more ]

Complete list of working groups [ more]