S.It.E. National Congresses

The first four congresses (between 1980 and 1990) were structured as concurrent symposia of the Society working groups; the symposia were focused on major ecological themes and applications: ecosystems, biogeochemical cycling, primary production, secondary production, decomposition and microbial ecology, ecotoxicology, population genetics and ecology, behavioural ecology, bioindicators, radioecology, soil ecology, environmental impact evaluation.Successively, congresses have been organised to address emerging environmental issues.

1. Salsomaggiore Terme (Parma), October 1980 (S.It.E. Atti 1, pp. 603)
2. Padova, June 1984 (S.It.E. Atti 5, pp. 1243)
3. Siena, October 1987 (S.It.E. Atti 7, pp. 1134)
4. Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza), OctoberNovember 1990 (S.It.E. Atti 12, pp. 1036)
5. Milano, September 1992 (S.It.E. Atti 15, pp. 961): Cycling of xenobiotics, ecological successions, the Po River basin ecology.
6. Venezia, September 1994 (S.It.E. Atti 16, pp. 729): Lagoon ecosystems, Transition environments, Sustainability and scale problems.
7. Napoli, September 1996 (S.It.E. Atti 17, pp. 973): Global change, Ecological studies in the Mediterranean area, conservation and recovery of ecosystems, environmental education.
8. Parma, September 1997 (S.It.E. Atti 18, pp. 667): Conservation ecology, the ecological management of the environment, landscape ecology and environmental design.
9. Lecce, September 1999 (S.It.E. Atti 20, pp. 80): Structure and functions in the ecosystems.
10. Pisa, September 2000: The role of ecologysts in the environmental reality of 2000.
11. Sabaudia, September 2001: Confronting Ecology with other Sciences and the Society
12. Urbino, September 2002: Complexity in Ecology