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Sunday, 08.06.2008: Welcome Day

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15Russell Mittermeier: Global biodiversity conservation: priorities and new opportunities, with special reference to the Guianas ...more
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Monday, 09.06.2008: Tropical Organisms/Species Diversity and Distribution

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0800Vicki A Funk: Using biodiversity and systematics to understand evolution on the Guiana Shield ...more
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45Christopher Dick: Molecular perspectives on Amazon tree diversity - from Wallace to the age of genomics ...more
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Session: "Applications of rapid biodiversity survey data to biodiversity conservation: Case studies from the four continents"

Chaired by Alonso, Leeanne ;
Leeanne Alonso: Communicating the results of rapid biodiversity surveys to maximize conservation impacts ...more

Session: "Diversity and distributions of tropical forest trees: Insights from networks of permanent plots"

Chaired by Sandra Patino ; Baraloto, Christopher ; Baker, Tim ; Chave, Jerome ;
Christopher Baraloto: Advances in the study of community assembly: functional traits, phylogenies and species distributions ...more

Session: "Autotrophic microorganisms: From cyanobacteria to bryophytes"

Chaired by Michael Lakatos ;
Michael Lakatos, Britta Hartard, Dojani Stephanie, Máguas Cristina: Another perspective into autotrophic microorganisms: insides via stable isotopes
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Session: "Environmental history of tropical rainforests"

Chaired by Anhuf, Dieter ; Ledru, Marie-Pierre ;
Monica Poelchau, James Hamrick: Comparative phylogeography of Central American trees: discerning Pliocene and Pleistocene impacts ...more

Session: "Mobile links: Pollination and seed dispersal in peril"

Chaired by Farwig, Nina ;
David Roubik, Rogel Villanueva, Enrique Moreno: Melittopalynology and the tropical biome: examples of habitat and bee ecology ...more
15Dedy Darnaedi: Rapid biodiversity assessment as a tool for increasing awareness of biodiversity in Indonesia ...moreMarisol Toledo, Lourens Poorter, Marielos Peña-Claros, Frans Bongers: How do environmental factors determine tropical forest structure? ...moreBurkhard Buedel: Diversity and Ecology of cyanobacteria and cyanobacterial lichens on tropical inselbergs ...moreKeith Bennett: Refugia revisited: the behaviour of tropical organisms during glacial-interglacial transitions ...moreMelanie Hagen, Manfred Kraemer: Spatio-temporal variation in pollination networks in the aseasonal tropics ...more
30Olaf Bánki: Tree diversity and nature conservation on bauxite mountains in Northeast Suriname ...moreMaria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Rene Boot: Structure of two white sand forests from Northwestern Amazonia ...moreDaryl W. Lam, Fabio Rindi, Haj A. Allali, Juan Lopez-Bautista: Biodiversity of Tropical Subaerial Microchlorophytes ...moreW. Daniel Kissling, Walter Jetz, Carsten Rahbek, Richard Field, Katrin Boehning-Gaese: Environmental and historical constraints on avian frugivore distribution ...moreAlexandra-Maria Klein: Biodiversity, functional traits and crop pollination in tropical landscapes ...more
45Piotr Naskrecki: Multiple outcomes of a rapid assessment survey in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve, Ghana ...morePriya Davidar: Correlates of rain forest tree diversity and distribution in the Western Ghats: implications for conservation ...moreAlexandra Pardow, Michael Lakatos: Edge effects on crustose lichens: the importance of thallus morphology ...moreAnnika Hillers, Michael Veith, Mark-Oliver Rödel: Reconstructing West Africa’s forest history via leaf-litter frogs ...moreNorbert Cordeiro: Consequences of forest fragmentation on an African tree ...more
1100Carlos Peres: Bottom-up regulation of wildlife abundance in neotropical forests: implications for reserve design ...moreSusan Laurance, Ana Andrade, William Laurance, Henrique Nascimento: Tree diversity in a central Amazon forest, Brazil ...moreMaaike Bader, Gerhard Zotz: Carbon exchange of tropical lowland bryophytes and lichens: acclimatization and climate change effects ...moreAndreas Hemp: Forest vegetation of Kilimanjaro: hidden endemics and missing bamboo ...moreJasper M Kirika, Bärbel Bleher, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Robert Chira, Nina Farwig: Fragmentation and local disturbance of forests reduce frugivore diversity and fruit removal in Ficus thonningii trees ...more
15Stephen Richards, Kristen Williams, Randal Storey: Identifying gaps in biodiversity survey data for amphibians; can rapid biodiversity assessments inform delineation of key biodiversity areas in the New Guinea wilderness? ...moreNadja Rüger, Andreas Huth, Stephen P. Hubbell, Richard Condit: Response of vital rates to light availability and niche overlap in tree species at Barro Colorado Island, Panama ...moreRobbert Gradstein: Influence of forest modification and climate change on epiphytic bryophyte diversity in the tropics ...moreBehling Hermann: Vegetation, fire and climate dynamics in neotropical mountain ecosystems during the late Quaternary ...moreValérie Lehouck, Toon Spanhove, Luc Lens: Does landscape structure affect resource tracking by avian frugivores in a fragmented Afrotropical forest?  ...more
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30Jan Mol: Direct impact of rapid assessment surveys on conservation in the Guiana Shield area ...moreSandra Patiño, Jon Lloyd, Romilda Paiva, Carlos A. Quesada, Tim Baker, Lina Mercado, Yadvinder Malhi, Oliver Phillips, RAINFOR Consortium: New challenges in the functional ecology of tropical forests: insights from the RAINFOR project ...more

Session: "Fungi in tropical forests and their role in maintaining species diversity"

Chaired by Aime, Mary Catherine ; Brearley, Francis ;
Deborah Jean Lodge: History of pathogen regulation of plant population density and dispersion patterns. ...more		Ingrid Parmentier, Yadvinder Malhi, Bruno Senterre, Robert J. Whittaker, et al.: The odd man out? Might climate explain the lower tree α-diversity of African rain forests relative to Amazonian rain forests? ...moreDavid Westcott, Adam McKeown, Cameron Fletcher: Patterns of movement in the frugivore guild of Australia's tropical rainforests ...more
45Carlos Lasso, Celsi Senaris, Ana Liz FLores, Leanne Alonso, Anabel Rial: Impacts of the RAP program: knowledge and conservation of the biodiversity in Venezuela ...moreNikolaos Fyllas, Jon Lloyd, Sandra Patino, Carlos Quesada, Tim Baker, Oliver Phillips: Deriving plant functional types for Amazonian forests using numerical techniques ...moreOwen Lewis, Robert Bagchi, Rachel Gallery: Plant pathogens and density-dependent seedling mortality in a neotropical tree ...moreMarie-Pierre Ledru: Long-term responses of the Atlantic rainforest to climatic changes: implication for conservation of a biodiversity hotspot ...moreKevin Flesher: Wildlife distributions and seed dispersal routes in an agroforestry landscape in Bahia, Brasil ...more
1400Corine Vriesendorp, William Alverson, Robin Foster, Debra Moskovits, Mario Pariona, Thomas Schulenberg, Douglas Stotz, Alaka Wali: Peru: rapid inventories lead to new conservation landscapes ...moreCarlos Quesada, Sandra Patino, Jon Lloyd, Tim Baker, Oliver Phillips, RAINFOR Consortium: Soil-plant interrelationships in Amazon forests ...moreRachel Gallery, James Dalling, A. E. Arnold: Diversity and heterogeneity of fungal communities: Implications for seedling emergence from tropical forest seed banks ...moreBehling Hermann: The Amazon rainforest in space and time - Late Quaternary vegetation and plant diversity dynamics in neotropical lowlands ...moreSteven Alex Sloan: The effects of introduced monkeys on plant populations in the Southwest of Puerto Rico: seed dispersal and germination ...more
15Alfonso Alonso: Biodiversity assessments in Gabon, Central Africa: protocols, training, and conservation results ...moreSybil G. Gotsch, Jennifer S. Powers, Manuel T. Lerdau: Effects of light availability, herbivory and water stress on leaf phenology of 12 tree species in a seasonal wet and dry forest in NW Costa Rica ...morePatricia Alvarez-Loayza, James White, Nathalie Gil, Jens- Christian Svenning, Henrik Balslev, Thea Kristiansen: Light converts endosymbiotic fungus to pathogen, influencing seedling survival and recruitment of tropical palm ...moreMitch Power, Francis Mayle: Testing the ‘Amazon 1492 cultural parkland’ hypothesis using Holocene charcoal records ...moreWelma Silva, Marina Anciães, Maria Uriarte , Emílio Bruna: Effects of forest fragmentation on fruit availability for manakins (Aves:Pipridae)  in Central Amazonia ...more
30Jonathan Majer, Shae Callan: Documenting Barrow Island's invertebrates: an essential prerequisite for quarantine surveillance and environmental monitoring. ...moreTim Baker, Victor Chama, Gilberto Navarro, Dilys Vela, Katia Cangani, Ruy Filho, Abel Monteagudo, Paulo Apostolo, Nestor Jaramillo: Beyond the intermediate disturbance hypothesis: the importance of community-level traits for disturbance-diversity relationships in Amazonian forests ...moreTerry Henkel, M. Catherine Aime: Fungal impacts on tropical tree diversity - the roles of mutualists, pathogens, and saprotrophs in monodominant forests of the Guiana Shield. ...moreThijs Pons, Gerhard Helle: Identification of visually non-distinct annual rings in tropical trees using stable isotopes ...moreGeorgina O'Farrill, Andrew Gonzalez, Sophie Calme , Raja Sengupta: Tapirs as unique seed dispersers: a large-scale seed germination and survival experiment ...more
45Leeanne Alonso: Rapid biodiversity survey : discussion and conclusion ...morePaul Fine, Steven Kembel: Phylobetadiversity: investigating the evolutionary component of beta-diversity with an example from Amazonian white-sand and neighboring clay forest tree communities ...moreSabrina Setaro, Kathleen A. Kron, Ingrid Kottke : Mycorrhizal associations of Neotropical Ericaceae in southern Ecuador ...moreDieter Anhuf, Marie-Pierre Ledru: Environmental history of tropical rainforests : discussion ...moreLaurence Culot, Marie-Claude Huynen, Eckhard W. Heymann: Short-term post-dispersal fate of seeds primary dispersed by tamarins ...more
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Session: "Free session : Diversity 1"

Chaired by Paine, C. E. Timothy ;
Brenda D. Smith-Patten, Michael A. Patten: Endemism, beta diversity, and complementarity of the montane avifauna of East Africa ...more		Ivan Scotti, Caroline Scotti-Saintagne: Importance of species concept to studying community assembly: genetic delimitations of Amazonian tree species complexes ...more

Session: "Free session : Diversity 2"

Chaired by Aime, Mary Catherine
Tomoaki Ichie, Narumi Takahashi, Tanaka Kenzo: Morphological diversity and ecological distribution of stomata in various tree species of Malaysian lowland tropical rainforest ...more

Session: "Free session : Climate and seasonality"

Chaired by Anhuf, Dieter ;
Sven Guenter, Bernd Stimm, Michael Richter, Michael Weber: Tree phenology in montane forests of southern Ecuador can be explained by precipitation, radiation and photoperiodic control ...more

Session: "Advances in dispersal ecology: Applying molecular approaches to understanding movement pathways at local and landscape scales"

Chaired by Hardesty, Britta Denise ;
Shalene Jha, Christopher Dick: Colonization of shade coffee agroecosystems: genetic insights into historical seed dispersal processes ...more
45Claudia Hemp: Understanding patterns of biodiversity: transect studies on Saltatoria (Insecta: Orthoptera) on Mt. Kilimanjaro ...moreMailyn Adriana Gonzalez, Christopher Baraloto, Julien Engel, Scott Mori, Pascal Petronelli, Bernard Riéra, Aurelien Roger, Christophe Thébaud, Jérôme Chave: Towards large-scale inventories of tropical trees using DNA-barcoding techniques ...moreYu-Long Feng, Chang-Long Zhang, Yang-Ping Li, Yu-Long Zheng, Yan-Bao Lei: Phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation facilitate Eupatorium adenophorum invasions in different altitude habitats ...moreJoerg Bendix, Rütge Rollenbeck, Katja Trachte, Thomas Nauß: Cloud and rain dynamics in the tropical Andean rain forest of southern Ecuador ...moreBritta Denise Hardesty, Johannes LeRoux, Ania Wieczorek, David Westcott: Genetic bottleneck fails to reduce invasibility in a highly invasive rainforest species ...more
1600Susan Letcher: Phylogenetic diversity of woody plants during forest succession in northeastern Costa Rica ...moreOlivier Hardy, Ingrid Parmentier, Bruno Senterre, B.R. Ramesh, Julien Eyraud: The phylogenetic structure of tree communities: insights from small inventory plots of tropical forests on different continents ...moreFrancis Brearley, Edmund Tanner: Nitrogen isotope analysis of the plant-soil system in montane rain forests of Jamaica ...moreAndré Lindner, Dietmar Sattler: Impacts of climate seasonality on small scale structural assessments of a tropical montane forest in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ...moreKimberly Holbrook: A large-scale genetic comparison of seed dispersal and recruitment in a neotropical nutmeg tree ...more
15John Kress, David Erickson: Plant DNA barcoding: progress and applications to tropical biology ...moreFrançois Munoz, Pierre Couteron, B.R. Ramesh, Champak B. Reddy: Using a neutral approach to estimate the influx of immigrants in ecological communities ...moreJean Boubli, Fabiana Couto-Santos, Karen Strier: Change in floristic composition of trees over time at Estação Biológica de Caratinga, MG, Brazil ...moreLouise Emmons: Long-term variation in small mammal faunas of Bolivian Cerrado forests and savannas ...moreAndy Jones, Helene Muller-Landau: Measuring long distance seed dispersal in complex tropical forests: integrating and evaluating genetic and classical techniques ...more
30Julien Renoult, Finn Kjellberg, Sylvain Santoni, Bouchaib Khadari: Are chloroplatic markers efficient for tropical tree DNA Barcoding? ...moreFranck Jabot, Jérôme Chave: Using phylogenies to test neutral theory ...moreFelix Normann, Patrick Weigelt, Christine Gehrig, S. Robbert Gradstein: Vertical distribution and diversity of epiphytic macrolichens in two different forest types in Central French Guiana ...moreTakao Itioka, Keiko Kishimoto-Yamada, Manabu Yamauti: Effects of severe ENSO-related drought on insect diversity and abundance in the Southeast Asian tropics ...moreIvan Scotti, Leclerc Thomas, Vimal Ruppert, Montaigne William, Valérie Troispoux, Saint-Omer Cazal: The effects of forest disturbances on spatial genetic structure in Jacaranda copaia. ...more
45P. Haripersaud, H. ter Steege, J.J. de Granville, H. Chevillotte, M. Hoff: Using herbarium data to assess the role of dispersal and the environment in shaping the floristic composition of the Guianas ...moreJerome Chave: Testing ecological theories of species coexistence at different scales with tropical forest trees ...moreGita Raghoebir, Suneel Soekhnandan, Rachelle Bong A Jan, Sahieda Joemratie, Sabitrie Doerga, Angela Grant: Macro fungi diversity in Peleletepu in South Suriname ...moreCaroline Scotti-Saintagne, Maxime Casalis, Valérie Troispoux, Cazal Saint-omer, Seedsource Partnership, Ivan Scotti: Inferring the history of the common Amazonian species Jacaranda copaia by using a phylogeographic approach ...moreDelphine Audigeos, Ivan Scotti: What can DNA sequence analyses tell us about population history? ...more
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Tuesday, 10.06.2008: Habitats and Human Influence

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Session: "Measuring biodiversity responses to changing human influences: A conceptual framework and case studies from the humid tropics"

Chaired by Ahumada, Jorge ; DeFries, Ruth ;
Ruth DeFries, J Ahumada, S Andelman, K Brandon, J Dempewolf, A Hansen, J Hewson, J Liu, F Rovero, P Wright: Linking plot-level biodiversity measurements with human influences over multiple spatial scales in the tropics: a conceptual framework ...more

Session: "Distorted species interactions at the forest edge"

Chaired by Wirth, Rainer ; Leal, Inara ;
William Laurance : Edge effects drive hyperdynamism and altered species interactions in Amazonian forest fragments ...more

Session: "Bat-plant interactions: Ecological processes and evolutionary implications"

Chaired by Henry, Mickaël ; Stoner, Kathryn ;
Detlev Kelm, Martina Spada, Christian Voigt: Seasonal energetics in the nectar feeding bat Glossophaga commissarisi in an Atlantic lowland forest in Costa Rica ...more

Session: "Diversity in the canopy: Causes and consequences"

Chaired by Cardelus, Catherine ; Zotz, Gerhard ;
Claire Ozanne: Canopy arthropod diversity: current and future directions ...more

Session: "Tropical wetlands: Diversity, ecophysiological processes and conservation"

Chaired by Parolin, Pia ; Wittmann, Florian ; Kroon, Frederieke ;
Frederieke Kroon, Isla Grundy, Faye Christidis : Riparian condition, aquatic biodiversity and foodwebs in tropical coastal streams ...more
15Francesco Rovero, Jenny Hewson: The importance of monitoring human activities in the Zone Of Interaction to interpret biodiversity measurements: case study from the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania ...moreInara Leal, Rainer Wirth, Sebastian Meyer, Marcelo Tabarelli: Edge creation promotes proliferation of herbivores ...moreKathryn E. Stoner, Mickaël Henry, Nelly Rodriguez-Peña , Cristian Ivan Garcia-Leal: Concentration effect on sugar selection by nectarivorous bats ...moreFarnon Ellwood, William Foster, Andrea Manica: Detecting neutrality in rainforest arthropod communities ...moreTamara Heartsill Scalley: Riparian vegetation and litter fall in headwater streams along an environmental gradient ...more
30Patricia Wright, Steig Johnson, Chris Holmes, Tim Keitt, Frank Princee, Felix Ratelolahy: Monitoring human activites in the ZOI and biodiversity at the forest edge: Ranomafana, Madagascar ...moreSebastian T. Meyer, Inara R. Leal, Marcelo Tabarelli, Rainer Wirth: Hyper-abundant ecosystem engineer (Atta cephalotes) impacts microclimate and plant communities at the forest edge ...moreMickaël Henry, Kathryn Stoner: Foraging performance of two sympatric nectar bats at flower patches ...morePetr Klimes, Milan Janda, Vojtech Novotny, Sentiko Ibalim, Joseph Kua: Selective eradication of ants from rainforest vegetation in New Guinea: testing new approach in canopy ...moreVolker Hammen, Glenn Marion,, Josef Settele: Adapting the European environmental Risk Assessment Toolkit (RAT) for assessing risk of large-scale extinction in Indonesian Peat Forests due to deforestation ...more
45Xiaodong Chen, Andres Vina, Jianguo Liu: Spatial variations and temporal changes of the giant panda habitat in the Zone Of Interactions of Wolong Nature Reserve, China ...moreLauren McGeoch: Where habitat edges overlap: interacting edge effects in a semi-arid Kenyan savanna ...moreMarco Tschapka, Ellen Sperr: Sexual disease on eight legs: flower mites from Calyptrogyne ghiesbregthiana (Arecaceae) dispersed by pollinating bats ...moreShawn F. McCracken, Michael R. J. Forstner: Does the canopy hold a missing piece of the Amazon rainforest amphibian diversity? New species from a new frontier in Yasuní National Park, Amazonian Ecuador ...moreLouis-Joan Lemmer: The past and recent biodiversity of the Iraqi wetlands ...more
1100Kenneth Tjon, James Watling, Krisna Gajapersad: Defining an appropriate spatial scale for monitoring threats to biodiversity in the Central Suriname Nature Reserve.  ...moreToon Spanhove, Valérie Lehouck, Luc Lens: Inverse edge effects on nest predation in the Afrotropics, with evidence from natural and experimental nests. ...moreCullen Geiselman: Did hummingbirds pave the way for Neotropical nectar-feeding bats? ...moreGerhard Zotz: The importance of the regeneration niche for vascular epiphytes ...moreFlorian Wittmann: Tree species distribution, endemism, and oligarchy in Amazonian floodplain forests: A species colonization concept for Amazonian white-water floodplains ...more
15Johanna Hurtado, Carlomagno Soto, Cynthia Rossi, Deedra McClearn, David Clark: Delineation of a Zone Of Interaction to assess external influences on a core protected area in tropical rain forest in Costa Rica ...moreAlan Andersen: Where is the edge? An ant perspective on rainforest-savanna boundaries in northern Australia ...moreMarco Mello, Flavia Marquitti, Paulo Guimaraes, Elisabeth Kalko, Pedro Jordano: Small differences may lead to big consequences: bat and bird seed dispersal networks ...moreCatherine Cardelus, Mack Michelle: Resource partitioning by vascular epiphytes: a mechanism for species richness maintenance in the rainforest canopy ...moreAuristela Conserva, Maria Teresa Piedade: Germinative behavior of tree species in the flooded  forest in Central Amazonian. ...more
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Session: "Free session : Forest fragmentation"

Chaired by Stoner, Kathryn ; Farwig, Nina ;
Claudia Guimarães, Érica Hasui, Jean Paul Metzger, Christoph Knogge: The influence of vegetation cover and connectivity on the productivity of fruits in fragments of the Brazilian atlantic Forests ...more

Session: "Free session: Biology in the canopy"

Chaired by Zotz, Gerhard ; Cardelus, Catherine ;
Kyle Harms, James Dalling, Maria Sanchez de Stapf, Robert Pearcy: Trading off light-capture efficiency for increased nutrient uptake in a Panamanian litter-trapping tree Quadrella antonensis ...more		Christine Lucas: The effect of physical damage on seedling growth and survival in várzea forests of the lower Amazon river ...more
45Flavio Luizao, Jose Camargo, Rita Mesquita, Regina Luizao: TEAM-Manaus Zone Of Interaction and linkages to the Central Amazon ecological corridor ...moreMarcelo Tabarelli, Ariadna Lopes, Luciana Girão: Erosion of tree reproductive trait diversity and collapse of key plant-animal interactions in edge-dominated Atlantic forest fragments ...moreKarina Dias Espartosa, Renata Pardini: Large mammal distribution in an Atlantic forest fragmented landscape: disentangling the influence of forest amount and quality, roads, human population density and presence of domestic dogs ...moreBart De Dijn: Beyond lists of species and diversity indices:a framework to analyze orchid bee faunas and communities, and its application to assess the impact of disturbance ...morePia Parolin: Flooding adaptations and survival strategies in trees of Amazonian floodplain forests ...more
1400Andrew Hansen, Steve Running, Cory Davis, Jessica Haas: Vulnerability of US National Parks to land use and climate change and variability ...moreDaniel Piechowski, Gerhard Gottsberger: Edge effects on the phenology of Parkia pendula and its implications for the mammalian fauna of an Atlantic Forest fragment, NE Brazil ...moreFelipe Melo, Julieta Benitez-Malvido, Esteban Martinez, Gerardo Ceballos: Size matters: forest fragmentation reduces recruitment of large-seeded tree species in a Mexican tropical forest ...moreSandrine Isnard, Sandra Patiño: Diversity of hydraulic and mechanical architectures in lianas from a low land tropical forest in French Guiana ...moreAstrid Oliveira Wittmann, Maria T. F. Piedade, Florian Wittmann, Jon Falk: Response of the Amazonian white-water floodplain tree species Laetia corymbulosa Spruce ex. Benth. to experimentally induced stress by inundation, darkness, and drought ...more
15Jan Dempewolf, Ruth DeFries, Jenny Hewson, Sandy Andelman: Monitoring the Zone of Human Interaction with tropical biodiversity at different spatial scales ...moreYann Clough, Teja Tscharntke: Forest edges viewed from the outside: conservation value of agroforests at the margin of a major National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia ...moreW. Douglas Robinson, R. P. Moore, T. R. Robinson, I. J. Lovette: Experimental evidence for extreme dispersal limitation in tropical forest birds ...moreMarty Condon, Matthew Lewis, Sonja Scheffer, Susan Swensen: Diversity hidden in sex-changing vines ...moreLisa Davenport, Darwin Osorio, Roberto Quispe: Effect of Lake State on Faunal Communities and on the Diet of Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) in Shallow Oxbow Lakes of the Río Manú, Perú ...more
30Jorge Ahumada: The Zone Of Interaction (ZOI) concept: some theoretical and conservation implications ...moreCristina Banks-Leite, Robert Ewers, Jean-Paul Metzger: Confounded effects of edge and area on the bird community in the Atlantic forest ...moreMariana Tolentino, Marina Anciaes, Jefferson Valsko, Leonardo Pierrot, Paulo Rubim, Emilio Bruna, Maria Uriarte: Linking bird movement and foraging behavior to estimate seed dispersal in fragmented landscapes  ...moreBruce Webber, Angela Douglas, Doyle McKey: Food webs involving tropical arboreal ants: the importance of endosymbiotic microbes and nutritional offerings. ...moreGeorge Powell, Samia Carrillo-Percastegui, Rodrigo Donadi, Mathias Tobler: Pumas, jaguars, and rivers in the Amazon:  new technology reveals unknown associations and new conservation challenges ...more
45Ruth DeFries, Jorge Ahumada: The Zone Of Interaction Concept: Roundtable discussion ...moreRainer Wirth, Inara Leal: Distorted species interactions at the forest edge : discussion and conclusion ...moreRenata Pardini, Adriana Bueno, Paulo Inácio Prado: Habitat amount at the landscape scale versus patch size – a test of the fragmentation threshold using Atlantic forest small mammals ...morePia Parolin, Frederieke Kroon, Florian Whitmann: Tropical wetlands: discussion and conclusion ...more
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Wednesday, 11.06.2008: Workshop Day

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0900How to be more Prolific : Strategies for Writing and Publishing Scientific Papers and Grant Applications Conveners : Bill Laurance (STRI, Panama) and Bette Loiselle (University of Missouri, St Louis)

Session: "Flora of the Guianas"

Chaired by Chin, Caroline ; Lucas, Eve ;
Scott Mori: Electronic floras and monographs: the future is now! ...more
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1300Quantitative measurement of edge effects in fragmented landscapes Conveners : Robert Ewers (Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, UK) and Raphael Didham (School of Biological Sciences University of Canterbury, New Zealand)Jean-Jacques de Granville, B. G. Bordenave, Sophie Gonzalez: Bakhuis Mountains (Suriname) flora & vegetation study in the frame of the Environment Social and Impact Assessment Study for a BMS bauxite mining project (BHP Billiton & Suralco). ...more
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Thursday, 12.06.2008: From Soil to Seed Dispersal and Seedlings

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0800Jose Manuel V (Joe) Fragoso: Are vertebrate abundance patterns in the Amazon a reflection of the cultural practices of Indigenous peoples? ...more
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Session: "Is Primate conservation essential to ecosystem conservation?"

Chaired by Boinski, Sue ; Norconk, Marilyn ;
Marilyn Norconk, Sue Boinski: Does primate conservation promote ecosystem conservation? ...more

Session: "Regeneration ecology across the tropics: Cross-site comparisons of seed and seedling dynamics"

Chaired by Comita, Liza ; Metz, Margaret ;
Liza Comita, Maria Uriarte, Helene Muller-Landau, Jill Thompson, Jess Zimmerman, Stephen Hubbell: Seeing the forest for the species: Cross-site comparisons of tropical forest dynamics using hierarchical Bayesian models ...more

Session: "Ecology and dynamics of mangroves"

Chaired by Berrenstein, Haydi ;
Ligia Estela Urrego, Jaime Polania, Gretel Uran: Modern pollen rain in San Andres Island Mangroves (Colombian Caribbean) ...more

Session: "Free session : Plant biology and dynamics"

Chaired by Paine, C. E. Timothy ; Baraloto, Christopher ;
Chien Pham Duc: Conservation prospects for threatened Vietnamese tree species ...more

Session: "Linking aboveground and belowground components of tropical ecosystems"

Chaired by Luitgard Schwendenmann ; Emma Sayer ;
Tana Wood, Deborah Lawrence, Deborah Clark, Robin Chazdon: The importance of litter to the productivity and nutrient cycling of a neotropical rain forest ...more
15Thomas Gillespie: Emerging disease and ecosystem health: the importance of primates at the nexus of biodiversity conservation and global health ...more Margaret Metz, Nancy Garwood, S. Joseph Wright, Renato Valencia: Mortality across the seed-to-seedling transition: density dependence in forests of differing diversity ...moreVirginia Wang'Ondu, Nico Koedam, James Kairo, Jenesio Kinyamario, Dahdoug-Guebas Farid, Fancis Mwaura: Phenology of two mangrove species in a tropical coastline and its role in forest management. ...moreFabiana R. Couto-Santos, Jean P. Boubli: Comparing restoration ecology methods for future establishment of habitat corridors ...moreEmma Sayer: Interactions between litter and roots in a lowland tropical forest. ...more
30Erin Riley, Agustin Fuentes: The socio-ecological context of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia: human-nonhuman primate interconnections in Bali and Sulawesi ...moreVarun Swamy: Tropical tree recruitment: dispersal is critical, density is a red herring, distance is the key ...moreThomas Fickert: Spatial variation in destruction and regeneration dynamics of mangrove forests on the Bay Island of Guanaja (Honduras) after Hurricane Mitch (October 1998) ...moreSybil G. Gotsch, Erika L. Geiger, Augusto C. Franco, William A. Hoffmann: The Importance of water relations in the maintenance of savanna-forest boundaries in Central Brazil ...moreMarkus Adamek, Marife Corre, Dirk Hölscher: Effects of elevated N input on above-ground net primary production and fine root allocation in a lower montane rain forest, Panama ...more
45Laurie R. Godfrey, Brooke E. Crowley, Mitchell T. Irwin: A glance to the past: Subfossils, succulents, and species loss in southern Madagascar ...moreNancy Garwood, S. Joseph Wright, Jess Zimmerman, Viveca Persson, David Burslem, Renato Valencia: Phenology of flowering, fruiting and seedling emergence in three Neotropical forests ...moreAna Marta Francisco, Ernesto Medina: Nutrient relations and calcium fractionation in the mangrove Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn.f. at the leaf level ...moreMahesh Sankaran, Jayashree Ratnam, Niall Hanan: Woody cover in African savannas: the role of resources, fire and herbivory ...moreEliana Maria Jimenez Rojas, Jhon Lloyd, Maria Cristina Peñuela Mora, Flavio Humberto Moreno Hurtado, Sandra Patiño Gallego, Esteban Álvarez Dávila: Fine root dynamics in forests on contrasting soils in the Colombian Amazon ...more
1100Sue Boinski: Central Suriname Nature Reserve: Primates and Harpy Eagles are the beneficiaries of ten millennia of anthropogenic activity ...moreCorine Vriesendorp, Ademar Hurtado, Martin Cascante, Orlando Vargas: Community-level seedling emergence in 1km over six years at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica ...moreCatherine Hein, Sarah Redd, Todd Crowl, Armando Gonzalez-Caban: Conservation of a predatory, freshwater shrimp (Macrobrachium carcinus) in Puerto Rico ...moreStephanie Bohlman, Drew Purves, Jeremy Lichstein, Steve Pacala: A simple model of canopy structure for tropical forests: tests from field and remote sensing data and implications for forest dynamics ...moreFlavio Moreno Hurtado, Steven F. Oberbauer: Soil carbon balance in primary and secondary tropical forests in the Colombian Andes ...more
15John Fleagle, Kaye Reed: What do differences in primate communities tell us about the rest of the ecosystem? ...moreJoe Wright, Andres Hernandez: The dynamics and composition of the woody seedling layer on Barro Colorado Island, Panama ...moreHaydi Berrenstein: Various biotopes in the mangrove wetland of the District of Coronie and possible stress indicators - A message to desicion makers. ...moreStéphane Traissac, Jean-Pierre Pascal: Space occupation strategy of an aggregative climax neotropical tree species, Vouacapoua americana (Aublet). ...moreFranz Makeschin, Frank Haubrich, Juan Ignacio Burneo: Carbon storage and natural variations of 13C and 15N in soils along a land-use gradient in a tropical mountain forest region in Southern Ecuador ...more
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Session: "Free session : Diversity 3"

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Rudolf von May, Jennifer Jacobs, Maureen Donnelly: Patterns of amphibian diversity across forest types in four Amazonian sites in southeastern Peru ...more		Ervan Rutishauser, Lilian Blanc, Eric Nicolini, Stephane Guitet: Mortality of large trees: a critical process in biomass cycle of tropical forest ...moreBenjamin Turner: The ecological significance of soil organic phosphorus in tropical rain forests ...more
45Beth Kaplin, Nicole Gross-Camp: Pouches and wadges: the unique role primates play in African tropical forest ecosystems. ...moreSimon Queenborough, Nancy Garwood, Susan Mazer, Steven Vamosi: Seed mass, abundance, and breeding system among tropical forest species: do dioecious species exhibit compensatory reproduction or abundances? ...moreJessica L. Deichmann, Albertina P. Lima, G. Bruce Williamson: Biomass and species richness of Amazonian leaf litter herpetofauna ...moreGeertje van der Heijden, Oliver Phillips: Liana infestation impacts tree growth in a moist tropical forest ...moreJayashree Ratnam: Nitrogen and Phosphorus resorption patterns in a tropical savanna : environmental and biological predictors ...more
1400Suzanne Palminteri, George Powell, Carlos Peres, Whaldener Endo, Chris Kirkby, Douglas Yu: Are naturally rare primates valuable for conservation planning: a case study of bald-faced saki monkeys in southeastern Peru ...moreC. E. Timothy Paine, Kyle E. Harms: Water availability, species ranges, and the local tree diversity of a tropical forest ...moreAdriana Bravo, Kyle Harms, Richard Stevens, Louise Emmons: Collpas: Activity hotspots for frugivorous bats (Phyllostomidae) in the Peruvian Amazon ...moreLaëtitia Brechet, Valérie Le Dantec, Stéphane Ponton, Damien Bonal, Daniel Epron: Spatial variability and seasonal dynamics of soil respiration in a tropical rainforest in French Guiana. ...moreLuitgard Schwendenmann, Michael Köhler , Dirk Hölscher : Using stable isotope of water to trace plant water uptake in an agroforestry system, Sulawesi, Indonesia ...more
15Thais De Almeida, Ricardo Almeida, Adrian Barnett: Parrots of Jau National Park: diet composition and competition with seed-predating primates. ...moreTania Brenes-Arguedas, Phyllis D. Coley, Thomas A. Kursar: An experimental evaluation of the mechanisms that limit plant colonization along a tropical rainfall gradient ...morePierre-Yves Henry, Frédéric Jiguet: Ecological niches of allopatric sister species in tropical montane forests: the case of the globally threatened Doliornis cotingas in the Andes ...moreClément Stahl, Damien Bonal : Does dry season affect trunk respiration in the Neotropical rainforest of French Guiana? ...moreMirkka Jones, Brigitta Szyska, Michael Kessler: Microhabitat partitioning promotes mid-elevation diversity in tropical montane forest ferns ...more
30Jean Boubli, Italo Mourthe, Fabiana Couto-Santos, Marcos Tokuda, Leonardo Dias, Karen Strier: Foraging ecology of the Northern Muriqui, Brachyteles hypoxanthus: implications for the conservation of a critically endangered species ...moreNatalia Norden, Robin Chazdon, Braulio Vilchez Alvarado: Recovery of floristic composition in Neotropical secondary forests through the successful establishment of mature forest tree species ...moreGislene Carvalho de Castro, Eduardo van den Berg: Comparative diversity and structure of highly diverse systems of tropical hedgerows in Southeastern Brazil ...moreMin Cao: Establishment of a 20-ha forest dynamics plot in Xishuangbanna, SW China ...moreKrista McGuire, Steven Allison, Kathleen Treseder: Spatial segregation of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic fungi in boreal and tropical forest soils ...more
45Marilyn Norconk, Sue Bonski: Does Primate conservation essential to ecosystem conservation : discussion ...moreJess Zimmerman, Liza Comita, Nick Brokaw, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte: The scaling of community change in large forest dynamics plots: are all disturbance regimes the same? ...moreGuilherme Ferreira, Marcelo Oliveira, Edsel Moraes-Jr, Joaquim Silva, Flávio Rodrigues: Large mammal community composition in different habitat types of a dry forest-savanna mosaic ...moreKatharina Stein, André Lindner, Dietmar Sattler, Martin Freiberg: The influence of environmental gradients in a tropical montane riverine forest on population structure and vitality of Nematanthus crassifolius (Schott.) Wiehler, Besleria melancholica (Vell.) C.V. Morton and Stenostephanus lobeliaeformis Nees ...moreChelse M. Prather, Gary E. Belovsky, Sharon A. Cantrell, Grizelle Gonzalez: Herbivore and detritivore impacts on microbial communities and decomposition in a tropical forest and light gaps ...more
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Session: "Are we developing a distorted view of tropical biology?"

Chaired by Laurance , William ;
Rhett Harrison: Ecosystem collapse in a Bornean rain forest ...more

Session: "Non-timber forest products in tropical rainforests: Main challenges for future research in forest ecology and forest livelihoods"

Chaired by Bulkan, Janette ;
Rasnovi Saida , Vincent Grégoire, de Foresta Hubert , Martini Endri, van Noordwijk Meine: Landscape assessment of tree diversity confirms high conservation value of rubber agroforest in Sumatra ...more

Session: "Is Primate conservation essential to ecosystem conservation? (suite)"

Chaired by Norconk, Marilyn ; Boinski, Sue ;
Joanna Lambert: A case study of African primate, bird, and plant interactions: implications for the utility of primates in conservation strategy ...more

Session: "Free session : Biology below/above soils"

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Thijs Pons, Nico Houter: Trade-off between photosynthesis and leaf strength in saplings and in mature trees ...more

Session: "Free session : Disturbances and recovery"

Chaired by Zagt, Roderick ;
Vincent Vroomans: Liana diversity and density in response to forest exploitation in a dry semi-deciduous forest of Bolivia ...more
15Deedra McClearn: Long-term ecological changes at La Selva, Costa Rica, and their implications ...moreJanette Bulkan: Two hundred cabbages is a full day’s work”: participatory development of a management plan for Euterpe oleracea Mart. in Guyana ...moreAnne Axel: Lemur-habitat relationships along an ecological gradient in a tropical dry forest in southern Madagascar ...moreLucas Cernusak, Klaus Winter, Jorge Aranda, Ben Turner: Conifers, angiosperms and lianas: growth, water-use efficiency and stable isotope composition of seedlings grown in a tropical environment ...moreMarijke van Kuijk, Roelof Oomen, Feike Schieving: Tree liberation to accelerate secondary forest succession: a model approach ...more
30Miguel Martinez-Ramos, José Sarukhán: Demographic outburst of a long-lived understory tropical palm at Los Tuxtlas Field Station: consequence of human disturbances? ...moreMathieu Gueye, David Kenfack, Pierre-Michel Forget: Carapa oil in Africa and South America: production, market and use ...moreWelma Silva, Thais de Almeida, Adrian Barnett: Resource availability and seasonal use of contiguous forest types by the golden-backed uacarí (Cacajao ouakary, Primates) ...moreSusan Willson, Aaron Savit, Arunima Sen, Leah Shepard: Behavioral ecology of Eciton burchellii army ant colonies in Amazonian floodplain forest ...moreSven Guenter, Michael Weber, Bernd Stimm, Reinhard Mosandl: Silvicultural contributions to conservation and rehabilitation of forest resources in the Andes of Ecuador ...more
45Cagan H. Sekercioglu, Chase Mendenhall, Federico Oviedo Brenes: Long-term population trends of Costa Rican forest birds in human-dominated countryside ...moreFleury Marie: The non-woody forest products in French Guiana: the example of traditional activities as means of social insertion ...moreAna Maria Gonzalez-Di Pierro, Julieta Benitez-Malvido: Synergistic effects of forest fragmentation, the physical environment and gut passage on the germination of an old-growth forest tree species ...moreInara Leal, Ursula Costa: Primary seed dispersal of Passiflora rubra (Passifloraceae) by ants in a remnant of Brazilian Atlantic forest ...moreBruno Hérault, Julia Ouallet, Christopher Baraloto, Lilian Blanc, Fabien Wagner: Differential species growth response to canopy openings: a spatially-explicit approach ...more
1100William Laurance : Long-term changes in key tropical reserves and research sites: is the baseline shifting? ...moreTinde van Andel, Reinout Havinga: Sustainability aspects of commercial medicinal plant harvesting in Suriname ...moreFrancisco Pontual: The fortress under siege: how a Primate conservation reserve became a socio-environmental island in Caratinga, Brazil ...moreFrançois Feer, Jean-François Ponge, Sylvie Jouard, Thomas Tully: A case of processing chain commensalism affecting the soil seed bank in French Guiana ...morePatrick Jansen, Peter Van der Meer, Frans Bongers: Is canopy disturbance in tropical rainforest spatially contagious? ...more
15Elizabeth Losos: Changing Ecosystem Network:  A call to scientists and educators in the tropics ...moreMaureen Playfair, Mayra Esseboom: Marchallkreek (Suriname); A community in transition: Using the potential on non timber forest products for livelihood improvement. ...moreBrigitte Nyirambanguste, Beth Kaplin: Phenology and distribution of plant species consumed by Golden Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis kandti) in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda ...moreAndré Lindner, Maria Faske: A rapid assessment approach on soil seed banks of three tropical forest types with different disturbance history in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ...moreLauren Persha: Disparate selective logging patterns, forest structure and species composition in 4 afro-tropical montane forests of Tanzania ...more
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Session: "Minding and mending mining in the Tropics"

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Paul Ouboter: Mercury pollution in aquatic ecosystems in Suriname due to small-scale gold mining ...more

Session: "Evaluating the changing role(s) of indigenous/traditional communities in forest resources management"

Chaired by Felix, Marie-Louise ;
Sandra Valenzuela: Living landscapes for livelihoods: a collective action to reduce forest conversion and marginalization in Colombia ...more

Session: "Site level conservation targets in high-biodiversity wilderness areas: Progress with key biodiversity identification"

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Amy Upgren: Introduction: key biodiversity areas in high-biodiversity wildernesses ...more

Session: "Free Session : Diversity 4"

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Ellen Andresen, Paulina López del Toro: The beauty and the beast: People's perception of vertebrates in a shade-coffee agroecosystem ...more		Ernest Foli, Michelle Pinard: Tree species composition and diversity following silvicultural interventions in moist tropical forest in Ghana ...more
45Jakob Fahr, Günter Barnikel, Annika Hillers, Johannes Penner, Martin Wegmann, Elisabeth K. V. Kalko, Mark-Oliver Rödel: Mountains, mining, and threatened species; a deadly cocktail for the long-term conservation of a global biodiversity hotspot ...moreMarie-Louise Felix: Changing traditions and habits in response to global threats: models for sustainable management of marine turtles in the Guianas ...moreCurtis Bernard, Gajarpersad Krisna : Progress with the identification of Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in the Guianas. ...moreCatherine Lema: Knownledge of palm uses among three communities (Saramaka, Creole, and Palikur) in the zone of bas Oyapock, French Guiana ...moreXanic J. Rondon, David L. Gorchov: Assessment of economic sustainability of the strip clear-cutting system in the Peruvian Amazon ...more
1400Burton Lim: Environmental assessment of small mammals at Bakhuis, Suriname ...moreLaura Meza: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas ...moreAna Liz Flores, Celsi Senaris, Grisel Velásquez, Carlos Lasso, Anabel Rial: Priority conservation sites in the Guiana Shield – Venezuela ...moreAndreas Hemp: Global change impacts on Kilimanjaro´s (agro-)forests ...morePaul Klawinski: Changes in forest spider community structure after hurricane disturbance in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. ...more
15Leonardo Rodrigo Viana, G. Wilson Fernandes: Monitoring mammals in bauxite mining areas in Porto Trombetas, Brazil. ...moreAiesha Williams, Norbert Salty: Community-Based Management of the Arapaima in Guyana: Our successes and challenges thus far. ...moreRobert Clay: Identifying IBAs in the nine countries of the Amazon basin ...moreJill Jankowski, Doug Levey, Scott Robinson, Kerry Rabenold: Interspecific territoriality as a mechanism for avian species replacements along tropical altitudinal gradients ...moreDárius Tubelis: Patch-matrix movements by birds in landscape mosaics: a review ...more
30Rickford Vieira: Low impact small scale goldmining techniques- a practical approach. ...moreHendrie Karijoikromo, Minu Parahoe: Community of Longmay takes action in sustainable resource use: case study Bigi Pan MUMA ...moreThais Kasecker, Luis Barbosa, Jose Maria Silva: The world’s biggest protected areas: KBAs in the Brazilian Amazon ...moreJennifer Jacobs, Connor Edward : Beetles in bamboo forests: community patterns and patch specificity in a heterogeneous landscape ...moreAdam Konecny, Josef Bryja, Petr Koubek, Laurent Granjon, Khalilou Ba, Jean-Marc Duplantier: Human impact on biodiversity and abundance of small mammals communities in Sudan savannas of Southeastern Senegal (West Africa) ...more
45Chaintreuil Clemence, Rigault Frédéric , Moulin Lionel, Bailly Xavier, Dreyfus Bernard , Jaffré Tanguy: Characterization of nickel-resistant Bradyrhizobium strainsfrom the New-Caledonian endemic legume Serianthes calycina: potential applications to mine restoration ...moreZakiya Aloyce: Improving natural resources use on the eastern side of Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania ...moreRoxburgh Lizanne, Leonard Pete: Woodland and wetland important bird areas in the Miombo: Zambia and beyond ...moreMariana Tolentino, Marina Anciaes , Leonardo Pierrot, Emilio Bruna, Maria Uriarte: Patterns of activity and habitat use by frugivorous birds in Central Amazonian forest fragments ...moreOlga Nuneza: Diversity and endemism of vertebrate fauna in Mt. Malindang, Mindanao, Philippines ...more
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Session: "Free session : Wildlife conservation in tropical forest"

Chaired by Jansen, Patrick ;
Torbjørn Haugaasen, Joanne Tuck: Brazil nut seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents in central Amazonia, Brazil ...more
45Benoit de Thoisy, Philippe Cerdan, Régis Vigouroux , Sébastien Brosse, Cécile Richard-Hansen, Bertrand Goguillon: Gold-mining and animal communities in French Guiana: how the human footprint approach can be usefull to assess the strenght of threats at the country scale ? ...moreLuke Parry, Brett Day, Carlos Peres: A basin-wide study of riverine settlement in the Brazilian Amazon: causal factors and impacts on hunted wildlife ...moreRoger James, Randal J.L. Storey, Ros Blanche, Kristen Williams, Naamal DeSilva, Amy Upgren: Identification and delineation of KBAs in situations of data scarcity and management complexity:... ...moreJean Paul Metzger, Renata Pardini, Marianna Dixo, Alexandre Martensen, Luis Carlos Bernacci, Ana Maria Godoy, Milton Cesar Ribeiro: Time-lag responses in highly dynamics landscape from the Atlantic forest region (SE Brazil) ...moreMario Di Bitetti, Agustín Paviolo, Carlos De Angelo, Yamil Di Blanco: Effects of hunting on the structure of the mammal community of the Atlantic Forest ...more
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Chaired by Gond, Valery ; Helmer, Eileen ;
Gregory Asner: Tropical forest disturbance and diversity from remote sensing ...more		Gwendolyn Emanuels-Smith: Indigenous guards as a model for protection of forests in South-Suriname ...moreKristen J. Williams, Roger James, Randal J.L. Storey, Ralf-Dieter Schroers, Stephen J. Richards, David K. Mitchell, Naamal De Silva, Kathleen R. Blanche, Neville Kemp, James Butler, Daniel P. Faith, Chris Margules: Identifying priority sites for biodiversity conservation in the New Guinea wilderness; applying the concepts of vulnerability, irreplaceability, and complementarity ...moreDetlev Kelm, Kerstin Wiesner, Otto von Helversen: Effects of artificial bat roosts on seed dispersal in a Neotropical forest-pasture mosaic ...moreJuanita Choo: Impacts of hunter-gatherer settlements on the interactions on seedling recruitment, predation, and dispersal of a culturally important palm ...more
15Niels Wielaard, Dirk Hoekman, Marcela Quinones: Radar remote sensing in support of systematic forest monitoring in the Guiana Shield region ...moreHaidy Malone: Marshall kreek a pilot project to shift from forest depletion to responsible use ...moreAmy Upgren, Matt Foster, David Knox, Naamal DeSilva : Conclusions and synthesis: overcoming the challenges of key biodiversity area identification in tropical wilderness areas ...moreAndrea Sendoda, Darius Tubelis: Effects of fire management on birds in the Brazilian Cerrado ...moreCecile Richard-Hansen, Laure Debeir, Lucile Dudoignon, Philippe Gaucher: Camera trapping mammal survey in the Nouragues Reserve (French Guiana); assessment of limits and potentialities through a pilot study ...more
30Valery Gond, Daniel Sabatier, Florent Ingrassia, Vincent Freycon: Multi-scale analysis to characterize Guiana Shield landscapes and human impacts ...moreRaquel Thomas: More than stakeholders: the Iwokrama experience of community participation in forest management ...moreGwendolyn Landburg, Aniel Gangadien, Rawien Jairam, Auke Hielkema, Klaas-Douwe Dijkstra, Paul Ouboter: Amphibians and dung Beetles as indicator species used for large-scale gold mining ...moreJames Sanderson, Andy Witcomb, Steve Chin A Foeng: Monitoring large mammals along a disturbance gradient ...more
45Eileen Helmer: Mapping tropical forest type, age and other attributes in the era of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission ...moreOdessa Duncan: Linking indigenous communities development with sustainable resource management: a case study of Batavia and Kwebana, Guyana ...moreIwan Molgo, Bart De Dijn: How different are isolated bauxite bearing hills in Suriname: what the ecological characteristics of orchids are telling us ...moreBila-Isia Inogwabini: Effects of human ecological footprint on ecosystem processes and abundances of mega-fauna in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...more
1700Roberta Martin, Gregory Asner, Andrew Ford, Daniel Metcalfe, Michael Liddell: Leaf Chemical and Spectral Diversity in Australian Tropical Forests ...moreJohn Terborgh: Thirty-five years of environmental ups and downs at the Cocha Cashu biological station ...more
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