Sunday, 13.06.2010: Registration and Welcome

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Monday, 14.06.2010: Day 1

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30Plenary 1.1: Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz et al.: Mega-gardeners of the forest -- the role of elephants in seed dispersal
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0900Plenary 1.2: Nicole Gross-Camp et al.: Differential seed handling by two African primates affects seed fate and establishment of large-seeded trees
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30Plenary 1.3: Shumpei Kitamura: Frugivory and seed dispersal by hornbills (Bucerotidae) in tropical forests
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1000Plenary 1.4: Michael Horn et al.: Seed dispersal by fishes in tropical and temperate fresh waters: the growing evidence
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1100Plenary 2.1: Nico Eisenhauer et al.: Importance of earthworm – seed interactions for the composition of plant communities: a review
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30Plenary 2.3: Tomás A. Carlo: Are generalist consumers the ecological rock stars of plant-frugivore mutualistic networks?
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1200Plenary 2.4: Jin Chen et al.: Geographic mosaic of selection on cone and seed traits of Pinus armandii by nutcrackers and scatter-hoarding rodents
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1400Plenary 3.1: Mike Steele et al.: The importance of multidisciplinary approaches for understanding the seed dispersal process: An example from the North American oaks
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30Oral 3.2: Emily Moran et al.: Contrasting patterns of seed dispersal in two red oak populations revealed by hierarchical Bayesian model integrating genetic and ecological data
45Oral 3.3: Douglas Scofield et al.: Using animal foraging models to understand patterns of seed movement in oaks
1500Oral 3.4: Fernando Pulido et al.: Recruitment of Quercus robur at its southern range limit: lessons for the conservation of marginal populations
15Oral 3.5: Carolina Puerta-Piñero et al.: Exploring the mechanisms that determine oak regeneration at regional scale: the interplay between interacting organisms and landscape structure
30Oral 3.6: Akiko Takahashi et al.: Effects of seed characteristics on the individual seed fates of a deciduous oak species Quercus serrata
45Oral 3.7: Zhishu Xiao et al.: Evolutionary interactions between rodents and nuts：A review in China
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30Plenary 4.1: Renee M. Borges et al.: When should fig fruit produce volatiles? Pattern in a ripening process
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1700Oral 4.2: Larissa Albrecht et al.: Nutritional importance of Ficus for the common fruit-eating bat Artibeus jamaicensis
15Oral 4.3: Catherine Soler et al.: Scent as a Component of Dispersal Syndromes: a Comparative Analysis in the Genus Ficus
30Oral 4.4: Robert Hodgkison et al.: Bat fruits and fruit bats: chemical adaptations for seed dispersal by bats within the genus Ficus (Moraceae)
45Oral 4.5: Joanna Lambert et al.: Frugivory and digestive physiology in arboreal, tropical Carnivora (Arctictis binturong, Potos flavus)
1800Oral 4.6: Kerstin Reifenrath et al.: A temperate diplochorous seed dispersal system? Interactions between herbs, slugs and ants
15Oral 4.7: Pia Parolin et al.: Fruit and seed chemistry and dispersal modes in Amazonian floodplain forests
30Poster 1 Organismal and Natural History Oriented Research
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Tuesday, 15.06.2010: Day 2

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30Plenary 5.1: Cristina Garcia et al.: Propagule and frugivore movements inferred with molecular markers: analytical approaches and evolutionary consequences
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0900Plenary 5.2: James Hamrick: Using population genetic analyses to understand patterns of seed dispersal
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30Plenary 5.3: Daniel García: The landscape ecology of frugivory and seed dispersal: concepts and applications
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1000Plenary 5.4: Andy Jones et al.: Confronting ecological observations of seed dispersal with population genetic data: examples from wind and water dispersed Neotropical trees
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1100Plenary 6.1: Helene Muller-Landau et al.: The tolerance-fecundity tradeoff and the maintenance of seed size diversity: theory and tests in a tropical forest
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30Plenary 6.2: Ran Nathan: A movement ecology approach for studying seed dispersal by frugivorous animals
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1200Plenary 6.3: James Bullock: Complex and simple models of plant spatial dynamics using real dispersal data
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1400Plenary 7.1: Roger Cousens: What on earth is a dispersal kernel? Why loose terminology confuses everyone and proliferates mistakes.
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30Oral 7.2: Erin Kuprewicz: Estimating seed dispersal kernels by tracking seeds: The effects of large terrestrial mammals on the fates of seeds with various defense strategies in a Costa Rican rain forest
45Oral 7.3: Juan J. Robledo-Arnuncio: Genetic Estimation of the Seed Dispersal Kernel
1500Oral 7.4: Marco D. Visser et al.: Measuring dispersal kernels through inverse modeling: density dependence of seed dispersal in a Neotropical palm
15Oral 7.5: Roland Kays et al.: Estimating seed dispersal kernels from fine-resolution animal movement data: better to be breakfast or dinner?
30Oral 7.6: Merel Soons: Estimating dispersal kernels through mechanistic modelling
45Oral 7.7: John Terborgh et al.: Saplings arise from dispersed seeds 
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30Plenary 8.1: Dennis Hansen et al.: Seed dispersal on islands: a global overview of insular frugivores
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1700Oral 8.2: Angel Vale et al.: The time is ripe for the study of seed dispersal by bats in the greatest of the Antilles: identification of the species involved and a preliminary characterization of the interaction
15Oral 8.3: Daniel Bennett: Giant frugivorous lizards and Pandanus: seed dispersal and seed fate in lowland dipterocarp forests of the Philippine Islands
30Oral 8.4: María Calviño-Cancela: Estimating the effectiveness of seed dispersers: The seed dispersal system of Corema album in the Cíes Island
45Oral 8.5: Manuel Nogales et al.: Pigeons as frugivores on insular environments: the case of two sympatric species in the Canary Islands
1800Oral 8.6: Erica Spotswood et al.: Novel dispersal relationships on remote oceanic islands affect native communities and species invasions in French Polynesia
15Oral 8.7: Christine Griffiths: Restoring seed dispersal functions using taxon substitutes
30Poster 2 Movement Ecology, Dispersal Kernels, and Genetic Effects
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Wednesday, 16.06.2010: Day 3

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30Plenary 9.1: José Manuel V. Fragoso et al.: The abundance and diversity of vertebrate frugivores at lanscape levels in Amazonia
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0900Plenary 9.2: Patrick A. Jansen et al.: Hunting impacts on recruitment of large-seeded palm species: Are Neotropical forests getting palm-dominated?
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30Plenary 9.3: Kimberly M Holbrook et al.: Human impacts on tropical forest dispersal systems: implications for large frugivorous birds and long-distance dispersal
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1000Plenary 9.4: Katrin Böhning-Gaese et al.: Movement patterns and seed dispersal by frugivorous birds in fragmented landscapes
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1100Plenary 10.1: Elisabeth Kalko: Frugivory and seed dispersal by bats: effects of habitat degradation and fragmentation on plant diversity and distribution
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30Plenary 10.2: Arndt Hampe: Plants on the move: dispersal and colonization in a rapidly changing climate
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1200Plenary 10.3: David Westcott et al.: Modelling dispersal in the context of plant invasions: interactions between dispersal, landscape structure and management determine the most effective management strategy
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1400Plenary 11.1: Carlos Peres et al.: Pervasive consequences of overhunting in Amazonian forests: a basin-wide meta-analysis of kill profiles and implications to ecosystem structure
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30Oral 11.2: José M. Herrera et al.: Bird-mediated seed dispersal across fragmented landscapes: interactions between habitat cover and quality 
45Oral 11.3: Nina Farwig et al.: Pollination and seed dispersal in human-shaped landscapes
1500Oral 11.4: Catherine Moran et al.: Changes in the frugivore assemblage reduce seed dispersal potential in fragmented Australian rainforest
15Oral 11.5: Valérie Lehouck et al.: Altered frugivore communities in changing landscapes- consequences for plant recruitment
30Oral 11.6: Georgina O'Farrill et al.: Megafaunal losses: when does a forest become empty?
45Oral 11.7: Mauro Galetti et al.: Defaunation drives rapid evolutionary shrinkage of seeds
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30Plenary 12.1: Isabelle Olivieri: An overview of evolutionary models for the evolution of dispersal
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1700Oral 12.2: Frank Schurr: Can long-distance seed dispersal respond to natural selection?
15Oral 12.3: Bodil Kirstine Ehlers: Geographic varation in seed dispersal; islands vs mainland and central vs marginal populations
30Oral 12.4: Miquel Riba et al.: Evolution of dispersal and fragmentation: testing some model predictions using natural experiments
45Oral 12.5: Pierre-Olivier Cheptou: Rapid evolution of seed dispersal in urban environment in the weed Crepis sancta 
1800Oral 12.6: Danny Rojas et al.: When did fruits become important to leaf-nosed bats?: the evolution of frugivory in phyllostomids
15Oral 12.7: Orr Spiegel et al.: Incorporating density-dependence into the directed dispersal hypothesis
30Poster 3 Impact of Anthropogenic Disturbance and Climate Change on Seed Dispersal Systems
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Thursday, 17.06.2010: Day 4

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30Plenary 13.1: H. Martin Schaefer: Visual communication between fruits and frugivores
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0900Plenary 13.2: Britta Denise Hardesty et al.: In a new landscape: dispersal ecology and genetics of Miconia invasion in Australia
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30Plenary 13.3: Colleen Downs: Effect of sugar type and concentration on diet choice and digestion in a range of South African avian frugivores
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1000Plenary 13.4: Doug Levey et al.: Rethinking the benefits of vertebrate seed dispersal – Escape, camouflage or pathogen removal?
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1100Plenary 14.1: Pedro Jordano: The functional value of plant-frugivore mutualistic networks
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30Plenary 14.2: Theodore Fleming: A brief history of fruits and frugivores in time and space
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1200Plenary 14.3: Richard Corlett: Frugivory in tropical forests: what don’t we know and why do we need to know it?
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"Anthropogenic Impacts on Frugivory and Seed Dispersal (part II)"

Chair: Andresen, Ellen ; Wright, S. Joseph ;

Oral 15.1: Tarek Milleron et al.: Human frugivory and seed dispersal in Neotropical forests

"Organismal and Natural History Oriented Research (Part II)"

Chair: Robertson, Alastair ; Chapman, Hazel

Oral 17.1: Anuttara Nathalang et al.: Interannual variability in fruiting affects the diet of frugivores

"Ecology and Evolution of Frugivory and Seed Dispersal (Part II)"

Chair: Vander Wall, Stephen ; Kunz, Britta

Oral 19.1: Stephen Vander Wall et al.: Black bears (Ursus americanus) are effective seed dispersers, with a little help from their friends
15Oral 15.2: Jean-Yves Meyer et al.: Vanishing endemic frugivorous birds and endangered plants in the islands of Eastern Polynesia (South Pacific): an extinction cascade?Oral 17.2: Chanpen Wongsriphuek et al.: Liana seed dispersal by white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) in the seasonal evergreen forest, Thailand: Dispersal distance, germination rates, and dispersal qualityOral 19.2: Mari Terakawa et al.: Microsatellite analysis of seed dispersal of Myrica rubra by the Yakushima macaque (Macaca fuscata yakui) on Yakushima Island, Japan.
30Oral 15.3: Beatriz Rumeu et al.: Different ecological patterns in the seed dispersal systems of two endemic junipers (Juniperus cedrus and J. brevifolia) in the Macaronesian archipelagosOral 17.3: Hazel Chapman et al.: Post-dispersal seed removal and seed germination of Cercopithecus nictitans dispersed seed in a West African montane forest.     Oral 19.3: José María Fedriani et al.: "Liaisons dangereuses" in the Mediterranean dwarf palm: the defensive role of fresh pulp against seed predators
45Oral 15.4: Josep Rost et al.: The importance of piling wood debris on bird-dependent seed dispersal in Mediterranean burned forestsOral 17.4: Laurence Culot et al.: Linking tamarins’ behaviour with spatiotemporal pattern of seed dispersal and seedling recruitmentOral 19.4: Clare Aslan: Establishment of novel dispersal mutualisms between introduced plants and resident birds in California, USA
1500Oral 15.5: Ellen Andresen et al.: Seed dispersal by animals in a shaded coffee agroecosystem in Mexico: How prevalent is it, and how is it perceived by people?Oral 17.5: Norbert Cordeiro et al.: Giant African rats and an endemic tree: dispersal and harvesting pressures

Oral 19.5: Britta Kunz: Fruit choice and seed size selection in an eclectic primate omnivore and implications for plant community dynamics in West Africa
15Oral 15.6: Jerry Jacka et al.: Impact of gold mining on seed dispersal and extractive resources in a Papua New Guinea rainforestOral 17.6: Laura D'Arcy et al.: High levels of seed predation for three important primate food species, within the tropical peat swamp forests of Central Kalimantan. A gap in the loop?Oral 19.6: Kim Valenta et al.: A spatial test of the ultimate null hypothesis: White-faced capuchin dispersal of Genipa americana
30Oral 15.7: S. Joseph Wright: The consequences of hunting for frugivores, seed dispersal and plant species composition in tropical forestsOral 17.7: Alastair Robertson et al.: Germination consequences of non-dispersal in fleshy fruited plantsOral 19.7: C. E. Timothy Paine et al.: Testing the Janzen-Connell hypothesis at the community level with functional traits
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"Consequence of the Loss of Large Frugivores"

Chair: McConkey, Kim ; Kelly, Dave ;

Oral 16.1: Dave Kelly et al.: Large fruits without large frugivores: can variance save dispersal?

"Movement Ecology, Dispersal Kernels, and Genetic Effects (Part II)"

Chair: Heymann, Eckhard W. ; Choo, Juanita

Oral 18.1: Eckhard W. Heymann et al.: Spatial patterns of seed dispersal by Neotropical tamarin monkeys, Saguinus mystax and Saguinus fuscicollis  

"Animal-Plant Interactive Networks and Seed Dispersal Services"

Chair: Mello, Marco ; Kalko, Elisabeth ;

Oral 20.1: Marco Mello et al.: The backbone of seed dispersal: within- and among-network variation in the importance of different dispersers
30Oral 16.2: Debra Wotton et al.: Seed dispersal with the wreckage of an avifauna: consequences for large-seeded trees in New ZealandOral 18.2: Torbjørn Haugaasen et al.: Seed dispersal of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) by scatter-hoarding rodents in a central Amazonian forestOral 20.2: Jessica Lavabre et al.: Disentangling seed dispersal of an endangered conifer
45Oral 16.3: Kim McConkey: Big fruit for small mouths: the ability (or inability) of gibbons and flying foxes to disperse megafaunal fruitsOral 18.3: Kazuhiko Hoshizaki et al.: Ecological significance of seed secondary metabolites in a rodent-dispersed tree: adaptation to seed-eating dispersers?Oral 20.3: Matthias Schleuning et al.: Specialization of seed-dispersal networks decreases at edges and disturbed sites of an African rain forest
1700Oral 16.4: Felipe Melo et al.: Successional trajectories of defaunted tropical forests: effects of vanishing large frugivores and the role of remaining seed dispersersOral 18.4: Juanita Choo: Dispersal and recruitment patterns of palms inferred through parentage analysisOral 20.4: Suann Yang et al.: Network theory and the seed dispersal loop
15Oral 16.5: Edu Effiom et al.: Large Primate hunting disrupts forest regeneration in African rainforestOral 18.4: Youbing Zhou: Effectiveness of seed dispersal by five frugivorous carnivores: implication for their differential role in forest recruitment and regenerationOral 20.5: Rebecca Snell et al.: Can we scale up seed dispersal? Incorporating dispersal into vegetation-climate models
30Oral 16.6: Varun Swamy et al.: A basin-wide study of seed rain patterns in lowland western AmazoniaOral 18.6: Manfred Türke et al.: Gastropodochory in myrmecochores: when slugs do the job of antsOral 20.6: Juan Morales et al.: Linking frugivore behaviour to plant population dynamics: thrushes and fleshy-fruited trees in the Cantabrian range
45Oral 16.7: Haldre Rogers et al.: What is the fate of a silent forest?  The impact of the complete loss of frugivorous forest birds from the island of GuamOral 18.7: Marina Côrtes et al.: How does pollen and seed movement influence local spatial genetic structure of a tropical understory plant?Oral 20.7: Oliver Tackenberg: The role of animals for Dandelion seed dispersal
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2000Banquet - David W. Snow Award Ceremony - Welfare Party
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