Proposed Symposium Title: FLORAS AND DIVERSITY OF EASTERN ASIA
Abstract: This symposium of IBC 2024 will be focused on the all of floras, keys, checklist, monograph as well as plant diversity both in the state level and sub-state level, including the endemic, endangered species as well as alien and invasive plants in the vast area of east Asia, from Japan in the east to Western and Central China in the west, and from Hainan in the south to the Siberia and Far East in Russia in the north. And the histories, persons and institutions of botanical study in the region are certainly most welcome!
Speaker 1: Jinshuang Ma, China National Botanical Garden (North Garden, former Beijing Botanical Garden), email: jinshuangma@gmail.com
Title: Flora of China: Review and Progress
Speaker 2: Qiang Hao, China National Botanical Garden (North Garden, former Beijing Botanical Garden), email: haoqiang@chnbg.cn
Title: Invasice Flora of China: update
Speaker 3: Dr. Magsar URGAMAL
Head of Plant Systematics and Phylogeny Laboratory (PSPL), Herbarium (UBA), Botanic Garden and Research Institute (BGRI), Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Email: urgaa2007@gmail.com
Title: Flora of Mongolia: update
Topics (Up to three): Systematics
Topic 2: Biogeography / Phylogeography
Topic 3: Conservation Biology
Justification: Both of the organiziers have been attended the previous IBC since 1993, and they are all active in the region, not only for the general information about local floras but also international involved in the past 30 years! We hope that the symposium will give the audience good and great pictures about future works in this vast area.
