10.00 -10.30 - Opening ceremony
10:30 - 13:30 - I session - Chairman: Ignazio Camarda

Sandro Pignatti University of Rome - Rome - Italy
Mediterranean Invasive Plants

Ingo Kowarik Technical University of Berlin - Berlin - Germany
Invasion potential and invasion success: On the relevance of man-made interactions.

Mark Williamson University of York - York - United Kingdom
Can the impacts of invasive species be predicted?

Harald Auge UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle - Halle - Germany
Native plant species richness and invasibility of ecosystems.

Petr Pysek Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - Pruhonice - Czech Republich
Persistence of stout clonal herbs as invaders in the landscape.

12:10 - 12:30 - Coffee break

Françoise Boillot Conservatoire Botanique national Méditérranéen de Porquerolles - Hyères - France
Wide range survey of invasive plants, a hierarchical approach.

Tina Heger Technical University Munich - Freising-Weihenstephan - Germany
Interpreting the process of invasion: crucial situations favouring special attributes of invasive species".

Lucia Viegi University of Pisa - Pisa - Italy
Statistical analysis of some reproductive features of Italian Alien Flora.

13.30- 15.00 - Lunch

15.10-18.30 - II session - Chairman: Uwe Starfinger

Carey Suehs Universite d'Aix-Marseille III - Marseille - France
Ecological and genetic features of the invasion by the alien Carpobrotus (Aizoaceae) plants in Mediterranean island habitats.

Ignazio Camarda University of Sassari - Sassari - Italy
Exotic species landscape and biodiversity in Sardinia.

Francisca Aguiar Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Lisboa - Portugal
Alien perennial plants in an Iberian regulated river.

GabrielaWozniak University of Silesia - Katowice - Poland
Invasive plants in course of primary succession on coal-mine sedimentation pools Upper Silesia (Poland).

17:30 - 18:00 - Coffee break

Piotr Medrzycki Uniwersytet Warszawski - Bialowieza - Poland
The invading plant and man - an interspecific relation? Functional and evolutionary approach.

Barbara Tokarska-Guzik University of Silesia - Katowice - Poland
History of studies of invasive alien plants in Poland.

Ewald Weber Swiss Federal Research Station for Fruitgrowing, Viticulture and Horticulture - Wädenswil - Switzerland
Risk assessment of future weed invasion into Switzerland.
 

Thursday, 14th October 1999

9.00-13.30 - III session - Chairman: Sandro Pignatti

Carol Horvitz University of Miami - Coral Gables - U.S.A.
Effects of exotic vines on forest regeneration: A post-hurricane restoration experiment in Florida's subtropical hardwood forests.

Fugo Takasu Nara Women's University - Nara - Japan
Modeling the range expansion of pine wilt desease in Japan.

Eric Tabacchi Centre d'Ecologie des Systèmes Aquatiques Continentaux - Toulouse - France
Invasions of riparian ecosystems by exotic plants species: patterns and causes.

David Tickner University of Birmingham - Birmingham - United Kingdom
Hydrology as an influence on Invasion: Experimental investigations into
competition between the Alien Impatiens glandulifera and the Native Urtica
dioica in the UK.

James P. Bennett University of Wisconsin - Madison - U.S.A.
Type Characters of Non-Native Plant Species in Great Lakes National Parks, USA.

Susan Donaldson University of Nevada - Reno - U.S.A.
Community-based efforts to control early invasion of tall whitetop (Lepidium latifolium) in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

11.30 - 12:00 - Coffee break

Betsy Hickey University College Dublin - Dublin - Ireland
Natural seedbanks, seedling growth and survival in areas invaded by Gunnera tinctoria.

David Bass Flinders University - Adelaide - Australia
The ecological interactions between weeds and animals in Australia.

Maria Zajac Jagiellonian University - Cracow - Poland
Success factors of mountain massifs penetration by kenophytes: an example from the northern part of the Polish Carpathians and the Sudetes.

13.30- 15.00 - Lunch

15.10-19.30 - IV session - Chairman: Petr Pysek

Montserrat Vila Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplicacions Forestals - Bellaterra - Spain
Post-dispersal seed predation controlling Opuntia spp. invasion in Mediterranean communities.

Laura Celesti Grapow Università La Sapienza - Roma - Italy
The importance of Alien and Native Species in the Urban Flora of Italy

Carl E. Bell University of California Cooperative Extension - Holtville - U.S.A.
California Exotic Pest Plant Council; the role of the NGO in the problem of invasive plants.

Katerina Bimova Czech University of Agriculture - Kostelec - Czech Republic
Comparative study of Renoutria taxa control.

Lois Child Loughborough University - Loughborough - United Kingdom
Strategic invasive plant management, linking policy and practice: a case study of Fallopia japonica in Swansea, South Wales, UK.

Giulia Ceccherelli Università degli Studi di Sassari - Sassari - Italy
The Effect of the two Invasive Tropical Algae Caulerpa taxifolia and Caulerpa racemosa on the Native Seagrass Cymodocea nodosa in the Mediterranenan.

17:30 - 18:00 - Coffee break

Maria A. Colasante Università La Sapienza - Roma - Italy
Annual papavers: taxonomically complex weeds.

Anne C. Cully Kansas State University - Manhattan - U.S.A.
The effects of size and fragmentation on invasion of tall-grass prairie fragments by non-native plant species
 

Friday, 15th October 1999

9:00 - 13:30 - V session - Chairman: Fugo Takasu

Erika Zavaleta Stanford University - Stanford - U.S.A.
Valuing ecosystem services lost to Tamarix invasion in the United States.

Heinke Jaeger Oldenburg University - Oldenburg - Germany
Impact of the introduced tree Cinchona pubescens on the native flora of Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos.

Don Mattheus Heathdon Agricultural Services - Wodonga - Australia
Australia's 13 most unwanted.

Alicia Prowse Bolton Institute - Bolton - United Kingdom.
Ecological impact of the invasive alien Impatiens glandulifera (Himalayan Balsam) on native vegetation in north west England.

11:00 - 11:30 - Discussion
11.30 - 12:00 - Coffee break

Baki Bin Bakar University of Malaya - Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
Spatio-temporal dynamics of Mimosa quadrivalvis L. var. leptocarpa (DC.) syn. Shrankia leptocarpa populations in Peninsular Malaysia.

Gérard Balent
INRA-SAD - Toulouse - France
Landscape level to assess Acacia mearnsii invasion in the Réunion Island (Indian Ocean).

John H. Brock
Arizona State University - Tempe - U.S.A.
Seed banks of Elaeagnus angustifolia (Russian olive) in northeastern Arizona.

László Udvardy
University of Horticulture and Food Industry - Budapest - Hungary
Some remarkable instances of invasion of Ailanthus altissima in Hungary.

13.30- 15.00 - Lunch

15:30 - 19:30 - VI session: Posters

Ore 21.00 - Social Dinner

Saturday, 16th October 1999
Excursion in the Archipelago of "La Maddalena" National Park (Caprera island and La Maddalena island).