The IMAR-Institute of Marine Research, MARE-Marine and Environmental Research Centre and the University of Coimbra announce the Intensive Course ‘Methods on Litter Decomposition’.

Litter decomposition is an important functional process in freshwaters, estuaries and soil. The aim of this course is to introduce some techniques currently used in litter decomposition studies to those interested in initiating research in this field.

The target public are M.Sc. / Ph.D. students as well as Post-Docs initiating research in detritus processing research area.

The course will be held at the University of Coimbra between April 13 and 17, 2015.

Lectures:
Cláudia Pascoal, Fernanda Cássio & Sofia Duarte
University of Minho & CBMA – Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, Braga, Portugal.
Eric Chauvet
Université Paul Sabatier; EcoLab – Laboratoire d’Écologie Fonctionnelle, Toulouse, France
Manuel Graça & Verónica Ferreira
University of Coimbra & IMAR / MARE, Coimbra, Portugal
Mark Gessner
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and Department of Ecology, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany

For additional information please see: www1.ci.uc.pt/imar/stream_14/.