Elisabeth Robert from the Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, will be presenting a seminar about “Mangroves make a virtue of necessity. The vascular factor in the ecological success of Avicennia trees for survival in the precarious conditions of the mangrove forest” on the 13th of March at the Forestry Auditorium from the Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisbon, Portugal