Nicola Arndt und Matthias Pohl - Neobiota

Organisational aspects
The presentations and discussion are going to be held in either German or English. For those who do
not have a command of the German language, we have organised simultaneous translation. Uwe
Fischer (from Berlin) will assume this difficult task.
Finally, and before we begin with the presentations, I wish to thank the following people and
organisations:
– The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) for
financial support of the workshop (travel costs, technical aspects, preparation and publication of
the contributions); and
– The staff of the International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm, and especially, my
colleague Christoph Hettwer, for the laborious preparations and organisation of the workshop.
I wish success to our workshop and the fruitful continuation of our mapping project in matters of
application, analysis and dissemination of information; and for the future, the improvement and
refinement of the baseline data based on the most recent investigations and sampling.
The possibilities of multifaceted application, analysis and presentation of the digitally available data
are now in place. Our workshop is meant to provide an impetus to further work.
Finally, I would like to express my thanks for the (largely) spontaneous agreement on the part of the
participants to attend this workshop, and for the numerous contributions.
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