Pucón, Chile
October 2023
16TH International Conference on Ecology
and Management of Alien Plant Invasions
Promoting diversity in the science and management of biological invasions
You can now add the EMAPI 2023 Conference to your agenda. It will take place from 23 to 25 of October in Pucón, Chile. But we are planning more activities for the 26th (field trips) and 27th (workshops), so you better book the whole week!
- Optional workshops registration: Deadline August 15, 2023
- Registration: March 1, 2023 – September 15, 2023
- Registration Payment:
- Early bird: March 1 2023 to June 30, 2023
- Late registration: July 1, 2023 to September 15, 2023.
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Field trips and optional workshops.
Please check here to know more about field trip options and available workshops.
Hotel reservations
Please check the venue section to know the special offer the Hotel Enjoy Pucón has for EMAPi 2023 participants.
Call for scholarship applications. Graduate and undergraduate students might apply here for partial funding of the registration fee. Given this is a self-funded conference, the total amount of resources will depend entirely on participants registration fee payments.
Please complete the form before June 30, 2023.
Pre-register here to receive more information
Students Scholarships
Call for scholarship applications. Graduate and undergraduate students might apply here for partial funding of the registration fee. Given this is a self-funded conference, the total amount of resources will depend entirely on participants registration fee payments.
Please complete the form before June 30, 2023.
Registration
To register to the conference please use this link to the 4ID platform. There you will create an account and be able to registrate, submit your abstract, pay, and download your attendance certificate once the conference is over.
Registration fees ($USD)
| Early Bird | Registration | |
|---|---|---|
|
Students (October 23 to 25, 2023) |
400 |
600 |
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Academic/researchers/Professionals (October 23 to 25, 2023) |
600 |
750 |
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Conference Dinner (October 24, 2023) |
Included |
Included |
|
Optional Field Trip (October 26, 2023) |
50 |
50 |
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Optional Workshop (October 27, 2023) |
30 |
30 |
Lunch is included in the registration fee, for the first three days of the conference (23, 24 and 25 October 2023). It will be served in the same hotel where the conference will be held.
Oral presentations will be 15 minutes long, consisting of a 12-minute presentation followed by a 3-minute question and answer session. You are welcome to adopt any style for your presentation.
For posters, please adhere to the following specifications: they should be 84 cm wide and 118 cm high (or A0 size). It is important to include the title of your research, the names of the authors, and their respective affiliations on the poster. You have the freedom to choose the style that best suits your content.
Flash talks comprise two components. Firstly, there is a 5-minute oral presentation, during which authors can emphasize the most crucial aspects of their research. Secondly, authors are expected to present a poster during the general poster session, following the instructions provided above.
Instructions for authors
Instructions for posters, oral and flash talks presentations.
Workshop and field trips
We have limited availability with only 35 slots per destination.
FIELD TRIPS
Two field trip options have been organized for EMAPI Participants to visit National Parks near Pucón. Field trips will be held on Thursday 25th October 2023.
Option 1: Parque Nacional Villarrica.
Option 2: Parque Nacional Huerquehue
Registration and fee payment links will be made available soon.
WORKSHOPS
We are pleased to inform you that we have three workshops available. These will be held on Friday 27th October, 2023 in the Universidad de la Frontera in Pucón.
Registration and fee payment links will be made available soon.
Workshop title: Why isn’t classical biological control of invasive weeds applied more often in Latin America?
Leading organizer: Fernando McKay.
Fundación para el Estudio de Especies Invasivas. Argentina
Duration: half day AM
Classical biological control is considered the most sustainable, safe, and economically viable approach to control plant invasion globally. However, currently, Latin America has not made significant progress in adopting this technique to address the issue of plant invasion. Considering that initially CBC was applied to control invasive species in forest ecosystems, horticultural crops, pastures, and aquatic environments, currently, CBC of invasive plants constitutes an important component of conservation and restoration programs in natural areas. This workshop aims to analyse the potential causes that have contributed to the low adoption of biological control in Latin America and discuss strategies to enhance the use of CBC in the region.
Work methodology: An online survey will be sent to workshop participants and a broader community of academics and decision-makers to analyse the potential causes of the lack of adoption of CBC in Latin America. During the workshop, the survey results will be presented and shared, and the remaining time will be dedicated to exchanging opinions, discussing the results, and drawing final conclusion.
Workshop title: The legacy of plant invasions: identifying the drivers of changes in plant trajectories during restoration and how to manage them.
Leading organizer: Florencia Yannelli.
Freie Universität Berlin
Duration: half day AM
Plant invasions can have long-lasting effects on ecosystems. Even after removing invasive plants, persistent effects, known as “legacy effects,” can hinder the recovery of native communities and ecosystem services. Currently, studies focus on impacts on plant diversity, competition, and interactions with belowground communities. However, there is a knowledge gap regarding the social impacts (economic, cultural, human well-being, etc.). Therefore, the workshop aims to determine what legacy effects plant invasions leave after their removal, identify key factors of these legacies, and create a framework for their management during restoration.
Work methodology: The workshop will be divided into three main parts: an introduction, a series of presentations, and a concluding segment that will encourage idea exchange and group discussions.
Workshop title: Co-design of invasive plant management projects: lessons learned and the way forward.
Leading organizer: Michele de Sá Dechoum.
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Duration: half day PM
Co-designed projects are planned and executed cooperatively between conservation professionals and academic researchers to achieve effective positive impacts, expanding access to resources, and fostering knowledge and experience exchange among the involved parties. This allows for maximizing the effectiveness of management and conservation efforts. Co-designed projects have significant potential to bridge the gap between knowledge and action in invasive plant management, where scientific research does not inform management actions. This workshop aims to discuss ways to foster partnerships for the implementation of successful projects on plant invasion management.
Work methodology: The work will be based on the discussion of shared lessons learned from previous co-designed project experiences in different countries in South America. The debate will focus on the challenges and strengths of co-design projects, particularly in the context of developing countries in the Global South.
Plenary Speakers
Agustina Barros
Agustina Barros is a researcher at the National Institute of Nivology, Glaciology and Environmental Science (IANIGLA) in CONICET, Argentina. She works in the field of plant ecology and biological invasions, with a particular interest on the effects of human disturbance, including tourism and recreation, on mountain vegetation. Most of her work has been conducted in the Andes of Argentina and most recently on alpine ecosystems in Tasmania. She has published several research articles on these fields and co-edited the recently published book entitled Tourism, Recreation and Biological Invasions. She is currently the co-chair of the Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN).
Ana Novoa
Ana Novoa uses an interdisciplinary approach to understand the socioecological factors influencing biological invasions and their management. She first studied biological invasions as a PhD student at the University of Vigo in Spain, and then joined the Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology in South Africa as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Since 2017, she has been based at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Ana Novoa serves as the Thematic Deputy Editor-in-Chief for Management of Biological Invasions and as Associate Editor for Biological Invasions and Koedoe. She also participates in several international groups, including her role as Secretary of the European Group on Biological Invasions (NeoBiota).
Brian Van Wilgen
Brian van Wilgen is an Emeritus professor at the Centre for Invasion Biology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He has over four decades of experience as an applied ecologist in southern and eastern Africa and beyond. He has published widely on the ecology and management of alien plant invasions, as well as on the ecology and management of fire-prone ecosystems. In 2020, he was the lead editor of a 1000-page, encyclopaedic book on biological invasions in South Africa, published by Springer. Brian has retired to the coastal village of Betty’s Bay, South Africa, from where he continues his research work.
Jeff Dukes
Jeff Dukes is a senior staff scientist in the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science, and a Professor (by courtesy) in the Departments of Biology and Earth System Science at Stanford University. Dr. Dukes’s research examines how plants and ecosystems respond to a changing environment, focusing on topics from invasive species to climate change. Much of his experimental work seeks to inform and improve climate models. He has been elected a Fellow and named a Public Engagement Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. As the director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, Dr. Dukes led the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment.
Martín Nuñez
Martin Nuñez is an ecologist from Argentina, currently in Houston, Texas, broadly interested in the study of biological invasions. Invasions provide the possibilities of testing many ecological and evolutionary theories, and they give the possibility of applying ecological knowledge to the management of these serious threats. Invasive species can also provide crucial information to understand and face other global challenges such as climate change. These theoretical and applied challenges are what fascinate him about the study of invasions. He has worked on many topics in invasion biology including Belowground Ecology, Forestry, and Impacts of Invasive Species.
Michele de Sá Dechoum
Michele is a professor of Ecology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and the coordinator of the Lab on Ecology of Biological Invasions, Management and Conservation. She is also a collaborator of the Horus Institute for Development and Environmental Conservation, in which she coordinates a volunteer program for the restoration of coastal ecosystems. Their research is focused on three main goals: to assess key factors related to biological invasions in (sub)tropical ecosystems; to identify impacts generated by invasive species; and to assess the effect of management in invaded communities and on the restoration of key ecosystem functions.
Scientific Committee EMAPI 2023
- Elizabete Marchante. University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Florencia Yanelli. Freie Universität of Berlin, Germany
- Ileana Herrera. Universidad Espíritu Santo, Ecuador
- Irfan Rashid, University of Kashmir, India
- Jaco Le Roux. Macquarie University, Australia.
- Luís González. Universidade de Vigo, Spain
- Rafael García. Universidad de Concepción, Chile
- Rafael D. Zenni. Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil
- Sabrina Kumschick. Stellenbosch University, South Africa
EMAPI Board
The Board consists of past organizers of the EMAPI conferences who accepted an invitation, and it has no formal structure. For more information, read this paper by Pyšek et al. (2018) about the history of the EMAPI Conferences.
- Barbara Tokarska
- Cristina Máguas
- Curtis Daehler
- Dave Richardson
- Giuseppe Brundu
- Ingo Kowarik
- Jan Pergl
- John Brock
- John Hay
- Lois Child
- Max Wade
- Petr Pyšek
- Sandy Lloyd
- Tony Koop
- Uwe Starfighter
- Zoltán Botte-Dukát
Organizing Committe
- Aníbal Pauchard C. Co-chair
- Bárbara Langdon F. Co-chair
- Paulina Sánchez G.
- Xuksa Kramcsak M.
- Andrés Fuentes R.
- Eduardo Fuentes L.
Venue
Pucón (entrance to the mountains in Mapudungún) is located in the Araucanía Region, 780 km south from the Capital, Santiago. It’s called the capital of adventure tourisms, because of the presence of volcanoes, lakes, parks, and hot springs, among other attractions.
To get there, you can fly to Temuco, the nearest city and airport, at approximately 100 km. There are buses from Temuco leaving to Pucón frequently.
If you are visiting form Africa, there are flights coming through Brazil via LATAM Airlines, so you don’t have to travel through Europe.
For more information, please visit the city webpage
https://puconchile.travel/
City Social Media
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Accommodations
The Conference will take place at the Enjoy Casino and Hotel, in the city of Pucón, La Araucanía Region. The hotel locates in the city centre and near the Villarrica Lake.
More information on rooms and discounts will be published soon. For other information, please visit the venue website.
https://www.enjoy.cl/#/pucon/hotel
Given its truistic background, Pucón also offers several other accommodation options such as hotels, hostels, cabins, and apartments. October is considered low season, but please book your rooms in advance.
Special EMAPI2023 Hotel Enjoy Pucón fees
Single or Doble rooms: $107.100 Chilean Pesos. Includes Buffet Breakfast
Additional bed: $35.700 Chilean pesos. Includes Buffet Breakfast
Discounts, based on the taxes applicable to your country of origin, may be applied. Please inquire about these discounts when contacting the hotel to book your accommodation.
Fees valid until 23 September 2023.
Make your reservation through the Hotel Enjoy Reservation Central, [email protected] mentioning the “EMAPI Conference” ID 4021132
