Speaker: Libing Zhang  张丽兵 (客座研究员) 

　　Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO 63166, U.S.A. 

　　时间：2013年11月13日上午10:30 am 

　　地点：生物所二楼会议室 

　　In response to the 2020 target of the United Nations (U.N.) Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) to achieve “An online flora of all known plants,” in early 2012 four of the world’s leading plant science institutions agreed to collaborate to support the development of the World Flora Online. The Missouri Botanical Garden, the New York Botanical Garden, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, signed a Memorandum of Understanding detailing their intent to work together to spearhead the development of a World Flora Online. They are joined in this work by a large number of other botanical institutions worldwide collaborating to deliver this vital new initiative to support conservation and sustainable management of the world’s plant resources. 

　　What is the background for this WFO project? Who are the contributors? What kind of methods will be used to create a World Flora Online? What is the significance of this largest floristic project ever? What can this project bring to worldwide conservation of biodiversity? What progress has been achieved?