Conference Venue
The conference will be held from September 5th to 8th, 2019, Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology (Zemědělská 3, Brno), Czech Republic.
Call for Papers
Participants are kindly invited to submit abstracts of papers and posters related to the themes of the conference. Each submitted abstract will be subject to peer review and the conference organizers reserve the right to allocate the appropriate means of presentation to submitted contributions.
Selected papers with unpublished research will be considered for publication in the Special Issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907)
Programme
Thursday 5th September 2019
15:00-17:00 Welcome excursion: University Botanical Garden and Arboretum; meeting point: Entrance hall of Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology (Zemedelska 3, Building B of the campus)
17:00-18:00 Registration, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, room B45 (5th floor, B building)
Friday 6th September 2019 – Saturday 7th September 2019
8:00-9:00 Registration Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, room B45 (5th floor, B building)
9:00-9:20: Conference opening (welcome and opening speeches – Petr Maděra)
Session 1: Taxonomy & Evolution, Chairman Kay Van Damme, key-note speaker: Alan Forrest
9:20-10:00 Alan Forrest: The taxonomy of Dragon Trees: what do we know and why is it important?
10:00-10:20 Petr Vahalík: Habitual metrics and species specification of Dracaena spp. derived from 3D tree models
10:20-10:40 Lucie Vaníčková Pompeiano: Terpenic profiles of resin are species-specific in Dracaena spp.
10:40-11:00 Coffee break (room B43)
Session 5: Ethnobotany, history of resin harvesting, Chairman and key-note speaker: Julian Jansen Van Rensburg
11:00-11:40 Julian Jansen Van Rensburg: How to train your dragon: An archaeological approach to understanding the management and harvesting of the Dragon’s Blood tree in Antiquity
11:40-12:00 Abdulraqeb Al-Okaishi: Local management system of Dragon’s blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari Balf. f.) resin in Firmihin National Park, Socotra Island -Yemen
12:00-13:00 lunch
Session 2: Anatomy & Morphology, Chairwoman and key-note speaker: Joanna Jura-Morawiec
13:00-13:40 Joanna Jura-Morawiec: Advances in functional anatomy of the monocot tree Dracaena draco
13:40-14:00 Shiferaw Alem Munie: Effect of different pre-sowing treatments to break seed dormancy on the germination of Dracaena steudneri Schweinf. Ex Engl.
14:00-14:20 coffee break
Session 3: Eco-physiology, Chairwoman and key-note speaker: Nadezhda Nadezhdina
14:20-15:00 Nadezhda Nadezhdina: Physiology of dragon trees revealed through sap flow research
15:00-15:20 Roman Gebauer: Regeneration of water pathway after stem injury in Dracaena draco and Dracaena cinnabari
Session 7: Species-specific relationships, Chairwoman and key-note speaker: Raquel Vasconcelos
15:20-16:00 Raquel Vasconcelos: Reptile community living on the dragon`s blood tree
16:00-16:20 Aarón González Castro: Assessing the lack of seed dispersers as the reason for the current restricted distribution of the Canary Islands dragon tree (Dracaena draco) in the wild
16:20-16:40 Vladimír Hula: Dracaena cinnabari as a habitat for unique invertebrate fauna
16:40-17:00 coffee break
Session 6: Chemical composition of resin, medical use, Chairwoman and key-note speaker: Wenli Mei
17:00-17:40 Wenli Mei: Secondary metabolites in dragon’s blood
17:40-18:00 Xupo Ding: Dragon’s blood formation mechanism in Dracaena cambodiana
19:00 Gala conference evening – Era Cafe (address: Zemedelska 30)
Saturday 7th September 2019
Session 4+8: Distribution, Ecology, Threat, & Nature conservation, Chairman Alan Forrest, key-note speaker: Petr Maděra
9:00-9:40 Petr Maděra: Degradation, disturbance and restoration of dragon´s blood forests on Socotra Island
9:40-10:00 Ghudaina Al Issaey: Conservation Assessment of the Arabian Dragon’s Blood Tree (Dracaena serrulata) in Oman
10:00-10:20 coffee break
10:20-10:40 Kay Van Damme: Can the Socotra Zoning Plan help to conserve Dragon Blood Trees?
10:40-11:00 Martin Rejžek: The change of plant community composition and diversity following loss of Dracaena cinnabari acting as a nurse tree
11:00-11:20 Petr Maděra: Age estimation of juvenile stages of Dracaena cinnabari
11:20-11:40 Klára Lengálová: Age structure of Dracaena draco subsp. caboverdeana population on Santo Antão, Cape Verde Islands
11:40-12:00 Hana Kalivodová: Age estimation of Dracaena ombet in northern Ethiopia
12:00-13:00 lunch
13:00-13:20 Hana Habrová: Structure of above-ground biomass of DC forest
13:20-13:40 Martin Culek: Atmospheric circulation conditions and distribution of fog (and fog drip) on the Socotra Island, Yemen
13:40-14:00 Martin Čermák: Trial measurement of horizontal precipitation under the tree canopies of various tree species in mountain peak areas of Socotra
14:00-14:20 Kay Van Damme: The role of Dracena cinnabari forest on the hydrogeological system of Socotra Island
14:20-14:40 coffee break
14:40-15:00 Poster session
Justyna Wiland-Szymańska & Konrad Celiński: Complete chloroplast genome sequence and phylogenetic analysis of the Canary Islands dragon tree (Dracaena draco L.)
Lucie Bauerová: Germination of Dracaena cinnabari seeds under artificial conditions
15:00 Dragon Tree Consortium
Sunday 8th September 2019
Conference excursion to Lower Morava Biosphere Reserve, Wine Cellar, Wine tasting
Timeframe
December 2018
– 1st Announcement
30th April 2019
– 2nd Announcement (with preliminary conference programme)
31st May 2019
– Extended deadline for the early registrations