2.9. Leemans

Keynote Presentations from the 2nd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 1 - 13 September 2007

Speaker: Rik Leemans
Rik.Leemans -at- wur.nl
Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Title of the talk: The 2010 biodiversity target: Measuring and monitoring progress (pdf: 8MB)

Summary of the talk by Franz Essl and summary by Jan Knorn (pdf)

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