Information about papers for the upcoming VI Southern Connection Congress have been released. The conference will be held in Bariloche, Argentina form 15-19 February 2010. Confirmed speakers include:

• William Bond, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  “Reinterpreting plant traits and the geography of vegetation with fire”
• Richard Hobbs, School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Australia “Invasive species and global change: novel ecosystems and their implications for conservation and restoration”
• Peter Lockhart, Allan Wilson Center for Molecular Ecology and Evolution,
  Massey University, New Zealand
  "Using new sequencing technologies to investigate species radiations in the New Zealand alpine flora" 
• Jérôme Munzinger, Laboratoire de Botanique et d’Ecologie Appliquées, Herbarium Nou, New Caledonia
• “New Caledonia flora, and talk about questions about the gondwanian origin”
• Imanuel Noy-Meir, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
  "Southern semi-arid lands: management and conservation"
• Victor Ramos, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina 
  "Late Cenozoic uplift of the Patagonian Andes and the beginning of the glaciation"
• Ricardo Villalba, IANIGLA-CONICET, Argentina
  “The Antarctic Oscillation: A common forcing of climate variations in temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere”
• Rory Wilson, Swansea University, Wales UK
  “Surfing southern ocean currents; a perspective on seabird tracks through 3-d space”