BES Annual Meeting Thematic Topics
Risk Assessment for Biodiversity: Pan-European Ecological Research
Endocrine Responses to Environmental Change
The Evolutionary Ecology of Senescence
Antioxidants as a Signal of Individual and Ecosystem Health
Life in Extreme Aquatic Environments
Self-organised pattern formation at ecosystem and landscape scales
Ecological networks: food webs and beyond
Risk Assessment for Biodiversity: Pan-European Ecological Research - Till Eggers
Keynote Speaker:
Josef Settele: Environmental Risk Assessment for Biodiversity and Ecosystems: Results and Perspectives of the Large Scale Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research of the ALARM Project
Invited Speakers:
Martin Sykes: Risk assessment based on climate and land use
Montserrat Vila: Assessing the risks of biological invasions
Simon Potts: Risks derived from pollinator loss/change
Ulrich Karlson: Environmental chemicals and the risk they impose on biodiversity
Glenn Marion: Developing a European RAT = Risk Assessment Toolkit for Biodiversity
Endocrine Responses to Environmental Change - Karen Spencer
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Ton Groothuis, University of Groningen, the Netherlands: Hormones as parental tools to adjust offspring to a changing environment
Invited Speakers:
Dr Wolfgang Goymann, Max Planck Institute, Andechts: Measurement of excreted steroid hormone metabolites - validation, application and pitfalls
Dr Øyvind Øverli, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway: Facultative hawk and dove behaviour in a teleost fish, the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): When the going gets though, the doves get going
Dr Karen Spencer, University of Glasgow, UK: Adaptive responses to post-natal stress in birds
Dr Camilla Hinde, University of Cambridge, UK: Testosterone and maternal effects in canaries
Mr Tony Robertson, University of Glasgow, UK: Stress hormones and environmental conditions: a study on breeding gulls in Scotland
The Evolutionary Ecology of Senescence - Pat Monaghan
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Robert Ricklefs, Curators Professor, University of Missouri St Louis, USA: The Evolution of Senescence
Invited Speakers:
Professor Marc Mangel, Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of California Santa Cruz
Dr Dan Nussey, Large Animal Research Group, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Margaret Hall, University of Glasgow, UK
Professor Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Antioxidants as a Signal of Individual and Ecosystem Health - Kathryn Arnold
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Geoff Hill, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, USA: Carotenoids as feather colorants and antioxidants: is there a connection?
Invited Speakers:
Professor Pauli Snoeijs, Department of Plant Ecology, Uppsala University, Sweden: Antioxidants and vitamins in the Baltic Sea food web
Mr Stephen Larcombe, University of Glasgow, UK: Maternally derived antioxidants and offspring quality
Francesco Regoli, Istituto Biologia e Genetica, Università Politecnica delle Marche Via Ranieri, Italy: Pro-oxidant effects and oxidative responses in organisms from polluted environments
Life in Extreme Aquatic Environments - Elanor Bell
Keynote Speaker:
Professor John Priscu, Department of Land Resources & Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, USA: Earth’s Icy Biosphere
Invited Speakers:
Professor David Barrie Johnson, University of Wales, UK: Primary production, microbial webs and geochemical dynamics in extremely acidic environments
Professor David Thomas, Bangor University, UK: Understanding eco-biogeochemical drivers in sea ice - what are we missing?
Dr Nicola King, Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen, UK: ECOMAR - Ecosystems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the Sub-Polar Front and Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone
Dr Andrew Clarke, British Antarctic Survey, UK: How extreme is the polar marine environment?
Dr Terry McGenity, University of Essex, UK: Hypersalinity can invigorate or inhibit life - it depends largely on the ions
Self-organised pattern formation at ecosystem and landscape scales - Lisa Belyea
Keynote Speaker:
Johan van de Koppel, NIOO, The Netherlands: Testing principles of pattern formation in intertidal ecosystems
Invited Speakers:
Max Rietkerk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Spatial self-organization in ecosystems: what does it tell and why is it important?
Pierre Couteron, IFP, India: Detection and characterisation of periodic vegetation patterns from remotely-sensed data: towards a worldwide perspective
Andy Folkard, University of Lancaster, UK: Investigating the hydrodynamic impacts of spatial structure in seagrass meadows and their ecological implications
John Wainwright, Sheffield University, UK: Holistic approaches to a patchy problem: ecohydrological interactions in desertification
Lisa Belyea, Queen Mary, University of London, UK: Pattern formation in peatlands: from theoretical mechanisms to real-world patterns
Ecological networks: food webs and beyond - Guy Woodward
Keynote Speaker:
Dr Jose M. Montoya, Queen Mary University of London, UK: Ecological Networks - Untangling the Complexity of Ecosystems
Invited Speakers:
J. I. Jones, CEH Dorset, UK: Palaeo food webs – the potential for hindcasting long-term change in lakes
P.H. Warren, University of Sheffield, UK: Foraging behaviour and individual-based food webs
N. Bluethgen, University of Wuerzburg, Germany: Quantitative patterns in plant-pollinator networks and other mutualisms
K. Abjornsson, University of Lund, Sweden: Indirect and trait-mediated effects in food webs
F.J.F van Veen, Silwood Park CPB, UK: Quantitative insect food webs over time and across guilds
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