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Custodian:
​Dr. Glenda Mendieta-Leiva 

Marburg, DE
​[email protected]


Deputy custodian:
Dr. Borja Jímenez-Alfaro 
Oviedo, ES
[email protected]
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​La Red de epífitas de Colombia y la Red de Dosel organizaron el 3er Simposio Colombiano de Epífitas: Biodiversidad e Interacciones desde el dosel en el marco del XII Congreso Colombiano de Botánica
: https://congresobotanica.org/
. EpIG members, Ana María Benavides and Maria Judith Carmona participated in the  "III Simposio Colombiano de Epífitas" with the talk: "Rol de las epífitas vasculares en la provisión de servicios ecosistémicos en el área urbana de Medellín".

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From left to right: Derio Antonio Jiménez López, Demetria Mondragón, Anne Damon, Casandra Reyes, Thorsten Krömer, Nayely Martínez Meléndez, María Berenice Jarquin Pacheco and Rodolfo Solano.

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During the IX Ecological Mexican Congress, on the 10th of October, Thorsten Krormer and Derio Antonio Jiménez López, members of the EpIG consortium, organised the symposium: "Challenges to be faced in the ecology and conservation of epiphytic plants in Mexico" ("Retos por afrontar en la ecología y conservación de plantas epífitas en México"). Here, also the CONTINENT project and progress of the EpIG-DB V. 2.0 were presented. For more, see here.

Past events


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  • 22/05/2024: III Seminario Diversidad, Ecología y Conservación de Plantas Epífitas at Centro de Investigaciones Tropicales (CITRO) organized by Thorsten Kroemer.
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  • 26/07/2024: Satellite Meeting during the XX International Botanical Congress (ICB 2024): Come and meet the Epiphyte Network Group! ​Organized by Glenda Mendieta.
  • ​31/05/2023: Simposio de epífitas de América: Integrando el conocimiento. Jardín Botánico de Medellín, Colombia organized by Ana María Benavides.
  • ​18/05/2021: II Foro Diverisdad, Ecología y Conservación de plantas epífitas (Organized by CITRO).
  • 28/07/2020: II CIOBE 2020, Congreso Internacional en Orquídeas, Biodiversidad & Educación.
  • 29/01/2020: Journal of Vegetation Science accepted our paper "EpIG-DB: A database of vascular epiphyte assemblages in the Neotropics" for publication.
  • 11-14/03/2019: The first version of the EpIG was launched at the Macroecology conference in Würzburg, Germany.
  • 13/12/2018: The new version of TurboVeg, adapted to Epiphytes, is ready! Collaborators can now upload their data to come up with EpIG 1.0.

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