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The International Association of Bryologists (IAB), established in 1969, is a professional association promoting bryology (the study of mosses, liverworts and hornworts) globally for both amateurs and professionals. IAB was established at the XI International Botanical Congress in Seattle, Washington, with the goal of increasing cooperation between professional and amateur biologists throughout the world. The organization sponsors conferences and meetings relating to bryology, and sponsors the publication of ''The Bryological Times'' and ''Advances of Bryology''. Together with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), they compiled the first red list of endangered bryophytes in 1997. ==Founding== The idea of founding an international organization with the purpose of promoting worldwide cooperation and communication among bryologists had been long in the mind of bryologists in Europe and North America during the last century. It became a topic of informal discussion at the Pacific Science Congress in Tokyo in 1966, where a small group of bryologists met spontaneously to see what could be done to pursue the idea. This informal meeting resulted in the establishment of an organizing committee consisting of William (Bill) C. Steere (U.S.A.) as chairman, and Stanley W. Greene (U.K.) and Zennoske (Zen) Iwatsuki (Japan) as vice-chairmen. After three years of preparatory work, the proposal to formally establish the IAB was put forward by Bill Steere at a special meeting of the American Bryological Society in Seattle, U.S.A., in late August 1969, at the occasion of the 11th International Botanical Congress. The motion to establish the new association was carried unanimously. At the meeting in Seattle, the secretary-general of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT), Frans Stafleu (Utrecht, The Netherlands), proposed to place the IAB under the wings of the IAPT. The new organization would have the privilege of using the administrative offices of the IAPT for membership administration and the pages of the journal ''TAXON'' for the publication of its newsletter, the ''Bulletin of Bryology''. The proposals of Frans Stafleu were accepted and the first executive committee of the IAB was born, with Bill Steere as president, Stanley Greene as vice-president, Zen Iwatsuki as second vice-president and Rob Gradstein as secretary. As ruled in the draft constitution, the executive committee served for six years, until the 12th International Botanical Congress in St. Petersburg, 1975. Here, Lewis E. Anderson (U.S.A.) took over as president while Peter Florschütz (The Netherlands) and Ivan Ivanovich Abramov (Russia) became vice-presidents. Rob Gradstein was reelected and continued serving as secretary and manager of the IAB office for another twelve years, until 1987 at the 14th IBC in Berlin where Dale H. Vitt (then Edmonton, Canada) took over his position. The IAB grew steadily during its early years, from an initial 100 to about 300 members by 1973 and roughly 600 in 1985. By 1993 the number had declined to 422 but grew again to over 600 in 1999. The IAB made considerable effort to make itself IAB attractive to researchers from all disciplines, including ecology, physiology, chemistry, ultrastructure, genetics, and so on. Indeed, some early criticism expressed the society seemed too biased towards taxonomy.〔 〕 When the IAB office moved to Edmonton in 1987, the ''de facto'' independent society vigorously pursed establishing a separate budget. The group established an endownment to support awards and by 1992 the association’s net worth surpassed 10.000 CAN$. The combined IAPT/IAB membership continued to exist for a few years (but no longer free of charge) until the combined format was abandoned at the IAB meeting in Beijing in 1997. The independent status of the IAB was soon after written into its constitution.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Association of Bryologists」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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