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Forests and Global Change
University of Cambridge, UK
28 - 30 March 2011
Organisers: David Burslem (University of Aberdeen) and David Coomes (University of Cambridge)
Programme
For more details on the contributed talks and poster sessions, click here
Please note: Tuesday and Wednesday morning plenary sessions now start at 08:50.
This is to increase the length of morning tea breaks to manage the high delegate numbers.
Monday 28 March
10.00 Registration opens
11.00 Welcome and Introduction: Mike Rands (Cambridge University)
11.15 Plenary: John Grace (Edinburgh, UK)
Forests and the climate system
11.50 Plenary: Drew Purves (Microsoft Research, UK)
Environmental hetereogeneity and the coexistence of multiple tree species in forested landscapes
12.25 Plenary: Fernando Valladares (Madrid, Spain)
Global change and Mediterranean forests: current impacts and potential responses
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Plenary: Riccardo Valentini (Tuscia, Italy)
Full greenhouse gases accounting and carbon vulnerabilities of forest ecosystems
14.35 Plenary: Liza Comita (NCEAS, USA)
Effects of water availability on tropical tree species dynamics and Distributions
15.10 Plenary: Harald Bugmann (ETH Zurich, Switzerland):
Forests in a greenhouse atmosphere - predicting the unpredictable?
15.45 Coffee / tea
Contributed parallel sessions
16:00 - 18:15 Population & Community Ecology I
16:00 - 18:00 Impacts of drought, fire and climate change
16:00 - 18:00 Responses to CO2 enrichment and tree diversity
16:00 - 18:15 REDD and ecosystem services I
16:00 - 18:00 Long term changes in tropical and temperate forests
18.00 Poster Session 1 and wine reception
19.30 Conference Dinner
Tuesday 29 March
08.50 Plenary: Yadvinder Malhi (Oxford, UK)
The response of tropical forest function and carbon cycling to warming: insights from an elevation transect study in the Andes and Amazon
09.25 Plenary: Jerome Chave (CNRS, France)
Functional traits and tropical forest modeling
10.00 Plenary: Charles Canham (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, USA)
Global change is more than climate change: Interactions in the effects of climate, pests, pollution, and harvesting on eastern US forests
10.35 Coffee / tea
11.00 Plenary: Greg Asner (Carnegie Institution, USA)
Mapping forest carbon and canopy diversity in humid tropical forests
11.35 Plenary: Chris Dick (Michigan, USA)
Resilience of lowland tropical trees species through climate change: insights from comparative phylogeography
12.10 Plenary: Michael Scherer-Lorenzen (Freiburg, Germany)
Global changes and the functional role of biodiversity in forests
12.45 Lunch
Contributed parallel sessions
13.45 - 15:45 Population & Community ecology II
13.45 - 15:45 Carbon storage and fluxes in forests I
13.45 - 15:45 Impacts of degradation on biodiversity
13.45 - 15:45 REDD and Ecosystem services II
13.45 - 15:45 Ecophysiology & Process based modelling I
15.45 Poster session 2 and coffee / tea
18.00 Evening mixer and talk, sponsored by the BES' Tropical Ecology and Forest Ecology Special Interest Groups
Wednesday 30 March
08.50 Plenary: Helene Muller-Landau (STRI, Panama)
Inter-annual variation in carbon stocks and fluxes in Panamanian tropical forests and their implications for understanding global change
09.25 Plenary: Toby Pennington (Edinburgh, UK)
Contrasting plant diversification patterns amongst different neotropical forest biomes
10.00 Plenary: Adrian Newton (Bournemouth, UK)
Towards an empirical theory of anthropogenic impacts on forest biodiversity
10.35 Coffee / tea
11.00 Plenary: Oliver Phillips (Leeds, UK)
Recent changes in tropical forest ecosystems
11.35 Plenary: Richard Kobe (Michigan, USA)
Tree performance across gradients of soil resource availability
12.10 Plenary: Valerie Kapos (Cambridge, UK)
Forests, conservation and carbon management: bridging the gap between ecology and policy
13.00 Lunch
Contributed parallel sessions
14:00 - 16:15 Conservation and human livelihoods
14:00 - 16:15 Carbon storage and fluxes in forests II
14:00 - 15:00 Patterns in invertebrate biodiversity
14:00 - 16:00 Phylogenetics and Biogeography
14:00 - 16:15 Ecophysiology & Process based modelling II
15:00 - 16:15 New approaches to quantifying global change
16.15 Close
Scientific advisory committee:
- Stuart Davies - Center for Tropical Forest Science, USA
- Oliver Phillips - University of Leeds, UK
- Toby Pennington - Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, UK
- Michael Scherer-Lorenzen - University of Freiburg, Germany
- Adrian Newton - Bournemouth University, UK
- Drew Purves - Microsoft Research, UK
