Day 1 Monday 5 September 2022

07h30-08h15

Arrival and coffee - Registration

08H15-08H45

Welcome (Hall 1)

Martina Treurnicht (Chairperson), Adriaan Grobler (Vice-Chair)

08H45-09H15

KEYNOTE 1 - KAREN ESLER: Spotlight on Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems: Model systems for global change comparisons, regional and local responses

09H15-09H45

KEYNOTE 2 - ANTON PAUW: Ecology of the West Coast of Southern Africa

09h45-10h15

Tea break

Parallel session (Hall 1) - SYMPOSIUM

Parallel session (Hall 2) - SYMPOSIUM

10h15-12h15

SYMPOSIUM 1: Sara Palacio & Robert Boyd - Plant life on atypical substrates in MTEs

SYMPOSIUM 2 (ONLINE): Brent Mishler & Pablo Vargas Gomez - Spatial Phylogenetics of Mediterranean-type Regions of the World 

12h15-13h30

LUNCH BREAK

13H30-14H00

KEYNOTE 3 - TONY VERBOOM: Vegetation of the Greater Cape Floristic Region: a floristic perspective

Symposium session (Hall 1)

Conference Interview Session- Ongoing throughout the conference | Foyer

14H00-15H30

SYMPOSIUM 3  Muthama Muasya, Jasper Slingsby, Tony Verboom - Pan-African MTEs – Integrating multiple dimensions of diversity towards understanding the diversity, ecology, evolution  and conservation of MTEs in Africa

Sierra Standish: Oral history project - The Mediterranean-type Ecology Network Oral History Project (IN PERSON)

15H30-16H15

Tea break

Parallel session (Hall 1) - Session chair: Jasper Slingsby, Martina Treurnicht

Paralell session (Hall 2) - Session chair: Karen Esler, Stuart Hall

16H15-17H21

THEMATIC SESSION: Big data & Biodiversity  challenges for a shifting future

THEMATIC SESSION: Fire-driven evolution of MTE floras