Programme for parallel sessions

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Sessie 1

Exotics in the Netherlands and Flanders
7 februari 2008. 14.00 - 17.00u
   
Autheur Affiliation Titel
Pieter Bol
T.U. Delft Medical - epidemiological aspects of exotic species int he Netherlands
Guillaume Decocq
U. de Picardie Jules Verne About Prunus serotina invasion in N French forests: Towards a holistic approach for biological invasions
Kris Verheyen, M Vanhellmont, B Deckers, M Henry
U. Gent Invasion dynamics and impacts of Prunus serotina in Flanders
Johan van Valkenburg, Roelf Pot
Wageningen U.R. A classification for invasive aquatic macrophytes
Jeroen van Delft
RAVON, Nijmegen Exotic herpetofauna and fish in the Netherlands
Leni Duistermaat
National Herbarium, Leiden
The Consortium Ivasive Plant Species of the Netherlands
   
Sessie 2
Restoration Ecology 7 februari 2008. 14.00 - 17.00u
   
Autheur Affiliation Titel
Jim Harris
Cranfield university
The role of soil microbiology in ecological restoration
Fons Smolders
Radboud U. Nijmegen
Nutrient impoverishment and ecological restoration of agricultural areas
Patrick Meire
Antwerpen University
Restoring river catchments with special emphasis on the role of tidal marshes
Wilco Verberk & Hans Esselink
Stichting Bargerveen
Restoring faunal communities: mechanisms and constraints
Hans Jacquemyn
K.U. Leuven
Effects of coppicing on the demographic response of orchid species
Rudy van Diggelen
R.U. Groningen
The importance of ecohydrology for restoration ecology
   
Sessie 3
Tropical Ecology 8 februari 2008. 13.45 - 16.30
   
Autheur Affiliation Titel
Carina Hoorn
 IBED, Amsterdam
Neogene landscape development in upper Amazonia (Upper Amazonia)
Henry Hooghiemstra
 IBED, Amsterdam
 Neotropical pleistocene climatic change as inferred frompalynological records
Hans ter Steege
 U. Utrecht
 Paleo-ecological explanations of patterns emerging from the Amazonian tree plot database (Amazonia)
Pita Verweij
 U. Utrecht
 Corridors and the resilience of species communities under conditions of a changing climate in Costa Rica (Central America)
Lourens Poorter
Wageningen U.R.
 Effect of climate change on the diversity and dispersal of endemic species
Joost Duivenvoorden
 IBED, Amsterdam
 Holocene pollen core information to test hypotheses on rain forest dynamics in the Choco region, western Colombia
   
Sessie 4
Ecofysiology
8 februari 2008. 13.45 - 16.30
   
Autheur Affiliation Titel
Thomas Rockmann
U. Utrecht
Effect of UV radiation and temperature on the emission of methane from plant biomass and structural components
Maaike de Graaf
Radboud U. Nijmegen
Unravelling the decline of species-rich heathlands: The results from ecofysiological experiments
Jeroen Staelens
 U. Gent
 Estimating ion exchange in plant canopies using the canopy budget model
Roland Valcke
U. Hasselt Chlorophyll fluorescence imaging as a tool in ecofysiological research
Kathleen Hectors
 U. van Amsterdam
Eclucidating ecophysiological responses using gene expression profiling: How does it work?
Martijn van Zanten
 U. Utrecht
 Molecular regulation of differential growth in avoidance responses of Arabidopsis thaliana
   
Sessie 5
Vertebrate Ecology 'Seed dispersal and herbivory' 8 februari 2008. 13.45 - 16.30
   
Autheur Affiliation Titel
Merel Soons
U. Utrecht Seed dispersal by ducks
Valerie LeHouck
 U. Gent
 Seed dispersal in fragmented woodlands in Taita Hills, Kenya
Kris Verheyen
 U. Gent
 Modelling epizoochorous seed dispersal
Marie Peiron
 UCL Louvain-la Neuve
 Ornithochorous seed dispersal of Prunus serotina
Bram d'Hondt
U. Gent
Endozochorus seed dispersal
Loek Kuiter & Rik Huiskes
 Alterra WUR
 Endozoochorous seed dispersal by sheep in Dutch calcareous grasslands