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Gtoe Atbc Accepted Talks By 22 July 2009

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Firstname
Contribution-
Symposium Type
Title
PA
Lastname PA
ID
Day
Room
Time
Herbivores, restricted hosts, and vanishing
habitats - jeopardizing tropical interactive
Session 01
Talk
networks
Thomas
Lewinsohn
T01-01
Monday
Audimax
cancelled
Interactions between seed dispersers and
fruiting plants in an East-African rainforest:
Session 01
Talk
specialization and dependences
M.
Schleuning
T01-01
Monday
Audimax
14:45 New
Host-parasitoid food webs as tools for
Session 01
Talk
understanding tropical diversity
O.T.
Lewis
T01-02
Monday
Audimax
15:00
Plant-herbivore interactions in a changing
world: changes in plant-herbivore networks,
demographic consequences and evolutionary
potential of diet expansions to exotic gingers
Session 01
Talk
by generalist and specialist rolled-leaf beetles
Carlos
Garcia-Robledo
T01-03
Monday
Audimax
15:15
Ant-fruit interaction networks in fragmented
Session 01
Talk
and continuous forests of Southeast Brazil
A.G.D.
Bieber
T01-04
Monday
Audimax
15:30
Changes over time in mutualistic ant-plant
networks and biological mechanisms
Session 01
Talk
promoting them
C.
Díaz-Castelazo
T01-05
Monday
Audimax
15:45
Invasive species interfere with endemic plant-
pollinator interactions: lessons from
Session 01
Talk
generalised pollination webs on the Seychelles C. N.
Kaiser-Bunbury
T01-06
Monday
Audimax
16:30
The devil is in the details: modularity of
Session 01
Talk
mutualistic networks
M.A.R.
Mello
T01-07
Monday
Audimax
16:45
Different patterns of resource partition between
Session 01
Talk
plants and animals in pollination networks
S.
Sakai
T01-08
Monday
Audimax
17:00
Interacion patterns in a tropical semideciduosu
Session 01
Talk
pollination networks
Julieta
Genini
T01-09
Monday
Audimax
17:15
The Restoration of Plant-Flower Visitor
Networks in a South Eastern Brazilian Atlantic
Session 01
Talk
Forest
S
Bazarian
T01-10
Monday
Audimax
17:30
Session 02
Talk
Oil-Flowers and their Bees: A global Survey
Stefan
Vogel
T02-01
Tuesday
HS115
09:30
1

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Diversity and evolution of the association of oil-
collecting bees with Nierembergia
(Solanaceae) and Calceolaria
Session 02
Talk
(Calceolariaceae)
A. A.
Cocucci
T02-02
Tuesday
HS115
10:15 New times
Ecology, Biogeography, and Systematics of the
Ctenoplectrini, an Old World Oil Bee Tribe,
Specialized on the Gourd Family
Session 02
Talk
(Cucurbitaceae)
H.
Schaefer
T02-03
Tuesday
HS115
10:30 New times
How oilbees find their flowers: do they use their
Session 02
Talk
eyes and/or antennae?
S.
Dötterl
T02-04
Tuesday
HS115
11:15 New times
Pollination networks of oil-flowers: a tiny world
Session 02
Talk
within the smallest of all worlds
M.A.R.
Mello
T02-05
Tuesday
HS115
11:30 New times
Session 02
Talk
Nesting biology of the Neotropical oilbees
Isabel
Alves-dos-Santos
T02-06
Tuesday
HS115
11:45 New times
Effect of nectar concentration on foraging
behavior in the nextar-feeding bat
Session 02
Talk
Glossophaga soricina
Jorge
Ayala-Berdon
T02-07
Tuesday
HS115
12:00 New times
Evolutionary versus Ecological Specialization in
Session 02
Talk
the Oil Flower Pollination Syndrome
Simone
Cappellari
T02-08
Tuesday
HS115
12:15 New times
Climate Change Impact on Forest Area in
Session 03
Talk
Thailand
Nathsuda
Pumijumnong
T03-01
Monday
HS 116
14:45
Reconstructing the flow of the Blue Nile River
Session 03
Talk
from Juniperus procera tree rings in Ethiopia
T.H.G.
Wils
T03-02
Monday
HS 116
15:00
THE ROLE OF WOOD MASS DENSITY AND
MECHANICAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE
Session 03
Talk
ECONOMY OF TREE ARCHITECTURE
N.P.R.
Anten
T03-03
Monday
HS 116
15:15
Session 03
Talk
How old are trees in central Amazonia?
Jochen
Schöngart
T03-04
HS 116
Cancelled
Wood density and its radial variation in six
canopy tree species differing in shade-
Session 03
Talk
tolerance in western Thailand
C.N.
Nock
P03-02
Monday
HS 116
15:30 New
Ecological significance of wood anatomical
Session 03
Talk
variation in Kenyan mangroves
N
Schmitz
T03-05
Monday
HS 116
15:45
Tropical tree rings reveal increased juvenile
growth rates over time and preferential survival
Session 03
Talk
of fast-growing juveniles
D.M.A.
Rozendaal
T03-06
Monday
HS 116
16:30
2

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Dry Forest versus Mountain Rainforest: A
comparison of tree growth and climate
Session 03
Talk
variability in Southern Ecuador
F
Volland-Voigt
T03-07
Monday
HS 116
16:45
Long-term and age-related isotope trends in
Session 03
Talk
pristine tropical forests
Peter
Hietz
T03-08
Monday
HS 116
17:00
Sexual dimorphism in growth and survivorship
patterns of Southeast Asian trees: a 20-year
Session 03
Talk
study
S.C.
Thomas
T03-09
Monday
HS 116
17:15
A reassessment of carbon content in tropical
trees: The volatile C fraction and its variability
Session 03
Talk
among species
A.R.
Martin
T03-10
Monday
HS 116
17:30
Invasive freshwater invertebrates and global
Session 04
Talk
change: comparing Latin America and Europe
Karl M.
Wantzen
T04-01
Monday
HS115
11:15
Quantifying the threats to tropical wetlands: a
Session 04
Talk
Mauritian case study
S.
Laurance
T04-02
Monday
HS115
11:30
Effects of introduced rainbow trout
(Oncorhyncus mykiss) on amphibian
assemblages in high mountain forests from
Session 04
Talk
Colombia
J.
Urbina
T04-03
Monday
HS115
11:45
Influence of a waterfall over richness and
similarity in adjoining pools of an Atlantic Rain
Session 04
Talk
Forest stream
C. R.
Jonck
T04-04
Monday
HS115
12:00
TROPHIC STATE OF STREAMS AND
RESERVOIRS IN THE MIDDLE VIETNAM
Session 04
Talk
(KHANH HOA PROVINCE)
E.S.
Gusev
T04-05
Monday
HS115
12:15
Changing Liana abundance in tropical forests:
Session 05
Talk
introduction and overview
S.A.
Schnitzer
T05-01
Monday
HS115
14:45
Changes in liana and tree biomass as a
consequence of increased hurricane
Session 05
Talk
frequencies in Cozumel, México
D.
Pérez-Salicrup
T05-02
Monday
HS115
15:00
Land-use history and the origins of local liana
Session 05
Talk
species composition
E.I.
Garrido-Pérez
T05-03
Monday
HS115
15:15
Density and growth of liana regeneration in
secondary and primary forests of Central
Session 05
Talk
Amazonia, Brazil
M
Roeder
T05-04
Monday
HS115
15:30
Lianas and free-standing plants during forest
Session 05
Talk
succession in northeastern Costa Rica
S.G.
Letcher
T05-05
Monday
HS115
15:45
3

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Phylogeny, distribution and abundance of a
clade of Neotropical lianas (Bignonieae,
Session 05
Talk
Bignoniaceae)
Lúcia
Lohmann
T05-06
Monday
HS115
16:30
The liana community of an eastern Congo
Session 05
Talk
basin forest
C.E.N.
Ewango
T05-07
Monday
HS115
16:45
Lianas of the Upper Amazon: Comparison of
climber communities from Los Amigos, Peru
Session 05
Talk
and Yasuní, Ecuador
Robyn
Burnham
T05-08
Monday
HS115
17:00
What determines liana success in Neotropical
Session 05
Talk
forests?
Geertje
van der Heijden
T05-09
Monday
HS115
cancelled
Liana seedling growth strategy and its
influences on liana species distribution and
Session 05
Talk
abundance
Eric
Manzane
P05-02
Monday
HS115
17:15 New
Liana infestation and its consequences:
Session 05
Talk
evidence from African forests
F.
Bongers
T05-10
Monday
HS115
17:30
Size-dependence of seed dispersal by a
Session 06
Talk
scatter-hoarding rodent
Patrick
Jansen
T06-01
Wednesday
HS113
09:30
Tapirs are effective long distance seed
dispersers: a reciprocal transplant experiment
Session 06
Talk
in a precipitation gradient in Mexico
G. X.
O'Farrill
T06-02
Wednesday
HS113
09:45
Bird diversity and seed dispersal of the native
tree species Celtis africana along a
disturbance gradient in coastal scarp forest in
Session 06
Talk
South Africa
E.L.
Neuschulz
T06-03
Wednesday
HS113
10:00
Seed size selection by a primate seed
disperser and potential effects on post-
Session 06
Talk
dispersal seed fate
B.K.
Kunz
T06-04
Wednesday
HS113
10:15
From tamarins to seedlings: seed survival and
seedling recruitment in a gradient of forest
Session 06
Talk
disturbance
L.
Culot
T06-05
Wednesday
HS113
10:30
Matrix and edge effects on ecological
Session 06
Talk
processes in tropical forest
B.A.
Kaplin
T06-06
Wednesday
HS113
11:15
Plant – Animal – InteractionParkia and
Saguinus as a model system for seed
Session 06
Talk
dispersal
Kathrin
Luettmann
T06-07
Wednesday
HS113
11:30
4

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
EFFECT OF HUMAN DISTURBANCE ON
SEED AND SEEDLING DISTRIBUTION
PATTERNS OF THE ANDEAN OAK (Quercus
Session 06
Talk
humboldtii Bonpl.)
S.A.
Guerrero
T06-08
Wednesday
HS113
11:45
Simulation of seed dispersal by two neotropical
Session 06
Talk
tamarin species
R.
Bialozyt
T06-09
Wednesday
HS113
12:00
Seed dispersal modes of woody species of
young secondary forest compared to old-
growth fragments in the Atlantic Forest of NE
Session 06
Talk
Brazil – where might succession lead to?
T. M.
Kimmel
T06-10
Wednesday
HS113
12:15
Seasonal microbial community composition in
soil aggregate fractions from three land uses of
the tropical dry ecosystem in Chamela, Jalisco,
Session 07
Talk
Mexico.
M. E.
Gavito
T07-01
Tuesday
HS115
16:15
Species-rich but distinct arbuscular mycorrhizal
communities in reforestation plots on degraded
pastures and in neighboring pristine tropical
Session 07
Talk
mountain rain forest
I.
Haug
T07-02
Tuesday
HS115
16:30
Defining biologically meaningful molecular
Session 07
Talk
operational taxonomic units
M.
Göker
T07-03
Tuesday
HS115
16:45
Inocybaceae ectomycorrhizal fungi associated
with the endemic Pakaraimaea
dipterocarpacea in Guayana, Venezuela:
ecological importance and relationship with
Session 07
Talk
Africa.
B.
Moyersoen
T07-04
Tuesday
HS115
17:00
How leaf cutting ants defend their fungus
garden against the fungal pathogen
Session 07
Talk
Escovopsis
Dieter (D)
Spiteller
T07-05
Tuesday
HS115
17:15
Session 08
Talk
Silviculture in seasonally dry tropical forests
T.S.
Fredericksen
T08-01
Thursday
Audimax
09:30
Effect of silvicultural treatments on the
structure and dynamics of tropical moist forests
- Examples from French Guiana and Central
Session 08
Talk
Africa
S
Gourlet-Fleury
T08-02
Thursday
Audimax
09:45
Influence of climate and soil on the dynamics
New order
Session 08
Talk
of tropical lowland forests
Marisol
Toledo
T08-14
Thursday
Audimax
10:00 and times
5

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Silvicultural treatments in neotropical montane
forests- growth reactions and economical
New order
Session 08
Talk
evaluation
Sven
Guenter
T08-04
Thursday
Audimax
10:15 and times
Functional characteristics determine growth
responses of timber species to logging and
New order
Session 08
Talk
silvicultural treatments
M
Peña Claros
T08-05
Thursday
Audimax
10:30 and times
Can we use of pre-felling inventories for
assessing tree diversity at local and regional
New order
Session 08
Talk
scales?
J.P.
Arroyo-Mora
T08-08
Thursday
Audimax
11:15 and times
A remote sensing approach to assessing forest
recovery 15 years after logging: comparing
New order
Session 08
Talk
conventional and reduced impact logging
F.J.
Tomlinson
T08-10
Thursday
Audimax
11:30 and times
Demography of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia
excelsa) in central Amazonia: implications for
New order
Session 08
Talk
the management of an important NTFP
T.
Haugaasen
T08-13
Thursday
Audimax
11:45 and times
Role of immigration in population dynamics of
harvested understorey tropical palm
New order
Session 08
Talk
populations.
M.
Martinez-Ramos
T08-09
Thursday
Audimax
12:00 and times
New order
Session 08
Talk
Demography of rattan species in Vietnam
B
Bui My
T08-11
Thursday
Audimax
12:15 and times
Not all fragmented neotropical moist forests
melt down at forest-pasture edges: spatial
patterns and temporal dynamics of forest
structure and functional composition in
New order
Session 08
Talk
northern Costa Rica
Bryan
Finegan
T08-12
Thursday
Audimax
16:15 and times
Ecological basics for reforestation with native
New order
Session 08
Talk
species in the Ecuadorian Andes
M.W.
Weber
T08-03
Thursday
Audimax
16:30 and times
Silviculture contributions towards sustainable
management of plantation forests in the
New order
Session 08
Talk
highlands of Ethiopia.
A.
Nenninger
T08-07
Thursday
Audimax
16:45 and times
Do canopy disturbances drive forest
plantations into more natural conditions? – A
case study from the UNESCO biosphere
New order
Session 08
Talk
reserve Can Gio, Vietnam
Juliane
Vogt
T08-15
Thursday
Audimax
17:00 and times
Growth-Oriented Logging (GOL): The use of
cancelled
species-specific growth information for forest
and not yet
Session 08
Talk
management in central Amazonian forests
Jochen
Schöngart
T08-06
Thursday
Audimax
replaced
6

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Chronic N addition to a tropical lowland forest:
leaching losses, soil chemical changes, and
Session 09
Talk
tree nutrient status
M. D.
Corre
T09-01
Wednesday
HS114
09:30
Nutrient dynamics along an elevation transect
Session 09
Talk
in the Peruvian Andes
Joshua
Fisher
T09-02
Wednesday
HS114
09:45
Response of plant communities to nutrient and
water addition at the forest-savanna boundary
Session 09
Talk
in central Brazil
E.L.
Geiger
T09-03
Wednesday
HS114
10:00
Rapid effects of nutrient addition on
aboveground producitvity of Ecuadorian
Session 09
Talk
montane forests
J
Homeier
T09-04
Wednesday
HS114
10:15
Leaf litter decomposition in a tropical mountain
rain forest as affected by nutrient addition and
Session 09
Talk
elevation
D.
Sandmann
T09-05
Wednesday
HS114
10:30
Chronic nitrogen addition causes a quick
reduction in soil carbon dioxide efflux from a
tropical montane forest but no response from a
Session 09
Talk
tropical lowland forest in decadal scale
Birgit
Koehler
T09-06
Wednesday
HS114
11:15
Trace gas fluxes react on elevated nitrogen
input in tropical mountain forests of southern
Session 09
Talk
Ecuador
G.O.
Martinson
T09-07
Wednesday
HS114
11:30
Is potassium in throughfall an indicator for
Session 09
Talk
forest growth?
Hans
Wullaert
T09-08
Wednesday
HS114
11:45
Session 09
Talk
Diversity patterns and aboveground biomass partiti
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12:00
Session 09
Talk
Atlantic Forest: the most ancient Brazilian forest, and
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Foyer
12:15
Session 10
Talk
Who saves the rainforest?
K
Riede
T10-01
Wednesday
HS116
09:30
Progress and Potentials of Community-based
Session 10
Talk
Conservation and Development in South Asia
R.
Seidler
T10-02
Wednesday
HS116
09:45
Rainforest conservation on tribal land: lessons
Session 10
Talk
from Papua New Guinea
George
Weiblen
T10-03
Wednesday
HS116
10:00
Saving the Rainforest- strategies and
Session 10
Talk
approaches of WWF
J.
Kirchgatter
T10-04
Wednesday
HS116
10:15
7

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Those who act upon our territories - Socio-
cultural approach to the diversity of human
Session 10
Talk
intervention in ecological processes
V.
Von Bremen
T10-05
Wednesday
HS116
10:30
Bird dispersal and persistence affects plant
recruitment in a fragmented east-African
Session 11
Talk
biodiversity hotspot
L.
Lens
T11-01
Tuesday
HS114
09:30
The presence of howler monkeys influences
the richness of the seed rain and seedling
BENITEZ-
Session 11
Talk
bank in tropical rain forest fragments
J
MALVIDO
T11-02
Tuesday
HS114
09:45
Effects of experimental tree plantations on
seed rain and recruitment in Mexican humid
Session 11
Talk
and dry tropical forests
C.
Martinez-Garza
T11-03
Tuesday
HS114
10:00
Seed dispersal syndromes and plant
regeneration in highly diversified shaded coffee
Session 11
Talk
plantations
E.
Andresen
T11-04
Tuesday
HS114
10:15
The potential of plantations for bird
Session 11
Talk
conservation and natural forest regeneration
N.
Farwig
T11-05
Tuesday
HS114
10:30
Forest recovery in abandoned tropical
pastures: generalists frugivores as ecological
Session 11
Talk
rock stars in plant-animal mutualistic networks T.A.
Carlo
T11-06
Tuesday
HS114
11:15
What makes Melia azedarach a successful
invader? The role of seed dispersal in the
Session 11
Talk
invasion process
F.A.
Voigt
T11-07
Tuesday
HS114
11:30
How is Southeast Asian biodiversity coping in
Session 11
Talk
human-dominated landscapes?
Reuben
Clements
T11-08
Tuesday
HS114
11:45
Biodiversity conservation and carbon
sequestration in secondary montane forests,
Session 11
Talk
Tanzania
T.H
Mwampamba
T11-09
Tuesday
HS114
12:00
RAINFOREST RESTORATION AND CARBON
SEQUESTRATION IN EASTERN
MADAGASCAR: LINKING BIODIVERSITY
CONSERVATION, ECOLOGICAL
FUNCTIONING AND SUSTAINABLE
Session 11
Talk
LIVELHOODS
R
Dolch
T11-10
Tuesday
HS114
12:15
The Tropical Station La Gamba/Costa Rica
(“Tropenstation La Gamba”) – a place for
New order
Session 12
Talk
scientific studies in the Neotropics
A.
Weber
T12-01
Thursday
HS115
09:30 and times
8

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Impact of climate change on the performance
New order
Session 12
Talk
of tropical lowland forests in SW Costa Rica
Wolfgang
Wanek
T12-02
Thursday
HS115
09:45 and times
The importance of small gallery forest strips for
maintaining biodiversity – case studies from a
human-dominated landscape in southern
Session 12
Talk
Costa Rica
Benjamin
Seaman
T12-03
Thursday
HS115
10:00
Neotropical Rainforests: Nutrient Export by
Session 12
Talk
Rainforest Streams
F.
Schiemer
T12-04
Thursday
HS115
10:15
Mycelial carton galleries of Azteca brevis
(Formicidae) in Southern Costa Rica and the
Session 12
Talk
impact of global change
V.E.
Mayer
T12-05
Thursday
HS115
10:30
How much of the Atlantic Forest is effectively
Session 13
Talk
conserved?
A
Diederichsen
T13-01
Tuesday
HS113
09:30
Uncontrollable hunting, extinctions and the
disappearance of unknown mammal species:
scenario and perspectives of a hotspot’s
Antonio
Session 13
Talk
hotspot (Pernambuco Endemism Centre)
Rossano
Mendes Pontes
T13-02
Tuesday
HS113
09:45
Use of wood products for domestic purposes in
Session 13
Talk
an Atlantic Forest area, Northeastern Brazil
P.M.
Medeiros
T13-03
Tuesday
HS113
10:00
Domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) invasion
in the Atlantic Forest: which factors determine
the presence and frequency of occurrence in
Session 13
Talk
the remnants?
Karina
Dias Espartosa
T13-04
Tuesday
HS113
cancelled
The flowering plants of the Brazilian Mata
Atlântica: Centers of diversity and narrow
Session 13
Talk
endemism and potential threats
C.
Raedig
T13-04
Tuesday
HS113
10:15 new
Species and functional diversity of ants in
Session 13
Talk
tropical secondary forests
J.H.
Bihn
T13-05
Tuesday
HS113
10:30
Variety matters: Immune gene diversity and
parasite burden in two marsupial species from
Session 13
Talk
the Brazilian Atlantic forest
Y.
Meyer-Lucht
T13-06
Tuesday
HS113
11:15
Litterfall, litterstock and litter decomposition in
Session 13
Talk
the Atlantic Rainforest of Parana State, Brazil
R
Marques
T13-07
Tuesday
HS113
11:30
9

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Fragment size effects on Cecropia species in
the seed rain of northeastern Brazilian Atlantic
Session 13
Talk
Forest fragments
U.C.
Knörr
T13-08
Tuesday
HS113
11:45
Comparing the use of species and landscape
structural measures as indicators of ecological
Session 13
Talk
integrity
Jean Paul
Metzger
T13-09
Tuesday
HS113
12:00
The BIOTA/FAPESP Program: a well
succeeded Brazilian experience to use
scientific data to improve biodiversity
conservation and restoration within the Atlantic
Session 13
Talk
Forest domain in SE Brazil
C. A.
JOLY
T13-10
Tuesday
HS113
12:15
The use of Traditional ecological knowledge in
Session 14
Talk
forest management: an example from India
L
Rist
T14-01
Thursday
HS114
09:30
Ecosystem management and sustainable
Session 14
Talk
development in the southwest of Mexico City.
Lucía
Almeida
T14-02
Thursday
HS114
09:45
The value of local biodiversity to communities
Session 14
Talk
in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
D.
Bastyte
T14-03
Thursday
HS114
10:00
Carapa crop and oil production: to be or not to
Session 14
Talk
be sustainable and equitable.
PMF
Forget
T14-04
Thursday
HS114
10:15
Dioscorea divaricata Burk. (Dioscoreaceae) as
a cultural keystone species of the Magbukún
Ayta community of Morong, Bataan,
Philippines: implications for biocultural diversity
Session 14
Talk
conservation
M.D.C.
Tongco
T14-05
Thursday
HS114
10:30
Social Stratification, Village Institutions, and
Session 14
Talk
Deforestation in Central Sulawesi (Indonesia)
S.
Koch
T14-06
Thursday
HS114
11:15
The social-ecological focus in the mexican
Session 14
Talk
conservation: case study
ARELI
SANTOS
T14-07
Thursday
HS114
11:30
Impact of harvesting practices and traditional
protection actions on the population dynamics
of Adansonia digitata L. in West African
Session 14
Talk
savanna areas
K.
Schumann
T14-08
Thursday
HS114
11:45
Fire as a common agricultural tool in the
tropics favours the growth of tropical bracken,
Session 14
Talk
an extremely aggressive weed
K
Roos
T14-09
Thursday
HS114
12:00
10

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How do tropical forest people respond to flood
Session 14
Talk
and how do they use the forests?
Nining
Liswanti
T14-10
Thursday
HS114
12:15
Origin, diversity and biogeography of the flora
of the seasonally dry tropical forest in Mexico:
perspectives from a biogeographic node in the
Session 15
Talk
Isthmus of Tehuantpec (Oaxaca)
J.A.
Meave
T15-01
Tuesday
HS 116
16:15
Upper Forest Line reconstruction based on
modern vegetation structure and composition
Session 15
Talk
in the Andes of northern Ecuador
Antoine
Cleef
T15-02
Tuesday
HS 116
16:30
Altitudinal migration of Ecuadorian montane
forest during the last 3000 years; is
Session 15
Talk
afforestation a correct carbon sink?
H.
Hooghiemstra
T15-03
Tuesday
HS 116
16:45
Vegetation, biodiversity and fire dynamics on
the southern Brazilian highland and their
implication for conservation and management
of modern Araucaria forest and grassland
Session 15
Talk
ecosystems
H
Behling
T15-04
Tuesday
HS 116
17:00
Drivers of peatswamp development in the
Malay Archipelago: implications for ecosystem
Session 15
Talk
stability and carbon sequestration
R
Dommain
T15-05
Tuesday
HS 116
17:15
Hunting impacts on density dependence of
Session 16
Talk
recruitment in a Neotropical palm
Patrick
Jansen
T16-01
Tuesday
Audimax
16:15
Frugivore loss and recruitment limitation in
Session 16
Talk
tropical trees
K.M.
Holbrook
T16-02
Tuesday
Audimax
16:30
Too many animals and not enough animals in
Session 16
Talk
African parks
J.
Terborgh
T16-03
Tuesday
Audimax
16:45
Hunting and seed dispersal in Tropical East
Session 16
Talk
Asia
R.T.
Corlett
T16-04
Tuesday
Audimax
17:00
Session 16
Talk
The hunting footprint of Amazonian forests
C.A.
Peres
T16-05
Tuesday
Audimax
17:15
Do large vertebrates generate unique
ecological patterns that change when species José Manuel
Session 16
Talk
go extinct?
V
Fragoso
T16-06
Tuesday
Audimax
17:30
REDD in the Red: Palm Oil Could Undermine
Session 17
Talk
Carbon Payment Schemes
L.P.
Koh
T17-01
Thursday
HS113
16:15
The livelihood impacts of oil palm in Indonesia;
missed opportunities for local economic
Session 17
Talk
development?
Patrice
Levang
T17-02
Thursday
HS113
16:30
11

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Biofuel expansion, land-use and agrarian
Session 17
Talk
change in the Amazon
Pablo
Pacheco
T17-03
Thursday
HS113
16:45
Strengthening RSPO capability to mitigate
Session 17
Talk
impacts of palm oil production on biodiversity
Tom
Maddox
T17-04
Thursday
HS113
17:00
Family agriculture and the sustainable
Session 17
Talk
standards in palm oil sector
E.
CHEYNS
T17-05
Thursday
HS113
17:15
Alteration of soil labile organic carbon by
invasive earthworms (Pontoscolex corethrurus)
Session 18
Talk
in tropical rubber plantations
X.
Zou
T18-01
Monday
HS113
15:00
Termite impacts on soil properties and
processes: improving soil hydrological function
in grazing lands of semi-arid tropical
Session 18
Talk
Queensland, Australia.
Tracy
Dawes-Gromadzki
T18-02
Monday
HS113
15:15
Effects of domestic sewage on survival and
bioturbation activities of mangrove fiddler crabs
and gastropods; with emphasis on their role for
Session 18
Talk
ecosystem functioning in wastewater wetlands G
Penha-Lopes
T18-03
Monday
HS113
15:30
Decomposition processes in Colombian
streams: influence of invertebrate shredders,
Session 18
Talk
plant compounds, and hydrology
Guillermo
Rueda-Delgado
T18-04
Monday
HS113
15:45
Diversity and functional role of termites in West
Session 18
Talk
Africa : case studies in Côte d’Ivoire
S
Konaté
T18-05
Monday
HS113
16:30
The legacy of termites – How ancient termite
nests influence today’s vegetation in South
Session 18
Talk
Africa
N.S.
Kunz
T18-06
Monday
HS113
16:45
Intensified Ecosystem Engineering in a
Fragmented Forest: Soil Perturbations by
Session 18
Talk
Hyper-Abundant Leaf-Cutting Ants
S.T.
Meyer
T18-07
Monday
HS113
17:00
Nucleated succession by Phoenix pusilla, an
ecosystem engineer facilitates dry forest
Session 18
Talk
species in the arid Coromandel coast of India
V
Kinhal
T18-08
Monday
HS113
17:15
Does forest fragmentation turn leaf-cutting ants
Session 18
Talk
from 'good' to 'bad' ecosystem engineers?
R.
Wirth
T18-09
Monday
HS113
17:30
12

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Biodiversity conservation on a crowded planet:
Session 19
Talk
reconciling agriculture with ecology
S.A.
Bhagwat
T19-01
Thursday
HS116
09:30
Biodiversity conservation, yield and economic
incentives in cocoa agroforestry intensification
Session 19
Talk
in southern Cameroon
H.
Bisseleua
T19-02
Thursday
HS116
09:45
Session 19
Talk
Chocolate and biodiversity: mission possible
Yann
Clough
T19-03
Thursday
HS116
10:00
Session 19
Talk
Tobacco farming and ecosystem impacts
H
Geist
T19-04
Thursday
HS116
10:15
Ecological and social interactions in
sustainable agroforestry management: Cocoa
Session 19
Talk
in Ghana
M.E.
Isaac
T19-05
Thursday
HS116
10:30
Drivers of intensification in smallholder cacao
Session 19
Talk
agroforestry in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Jana
Juhrbandt
T19-06
Thursday
HS116
11:15
Yield gap and intensification of tropical grain
Session 19
Talk
production
Kathleen
Neumann
T19-07
Thursday
HS116
11:30
Managing trade-offs between agriculture and
the environment in West African agro-forestry
Session 19
Talk
ecosystems
K
Norris
T19-08
Thursday
HS116
11:45
Conservation at the landscape level: the role of
Session 19
Talk
the agricultural matrix
I.
Perfecto
T19-09
Thursday
HS116
12:00
Agricultural intensification and the breakdown
Session 19
Talk
of autonomous ecosystem function
John
Vandermeer
T19-10
Thursday
HS116
12:15
An ecosystem service approach to coffee
Session 19
Talk
production in a landscape mosaic
Virginie
Boreux
T19-11
Thursday
HS116
16:15
Biodiversity in primary forest and different
natural forest land use types in Nabanhe
Session 19
Talk
Natural Reserve, China
X.X.
Mo
T19-12
Thursday
HS116
16:30
Profitability of land-use options for smallholders
Session 19
Talk
in Southern-Ecuador
Frank
von Walter
T19-13
Thursday
HS116
16:45
Addressing connectivity for multiple species in
multiple landscapes allows better predictions of
species sensitivity to fragmentation: an
example from birds of the Atlantic Forest,
Session 19
Talk
Brazil
G.
Pe'er
T19-14
Thursday
HS116
17:00
13

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by 22 July 2009
Spider web density in cacao agroforestry in
relation to different management strategies on
Session 19
Talk
tree, plot and landscape scale
K.
Stenchly
T19-15
Thursday
HS116
17:15
What is beta diversity and what have we
Session 20
Talk
learned about it in tropical forests?
H.
Tuomisto
T20-01
Monday
HS114
14:45
Properties of alpha and beta diversity indices in
communities organised by dispersal and/or
Session 20
Talk
niche assembly rules – a simulation study
O.J.
Hardy
T20-02
Monday
HS114
15:00
Session 20
Talk
The paradox of soil generalist tree species
Julia
Born
T20-03
Monday
HS114
15:15
Conservation and management of the
biodiversity in a hotspot characterized by short
range endemism and rarity: the challenge of
Session 20
Talk
New Caledonia
R.
Pellens
T20-04
Monday
HS114
15:30
Exploring the impact of phylogeny and neutral
Session 20
Talk
processes on tropical ant communities
M.
Pfeiffer
T20-05
Monday
HS114
15:45
Can spatial aggregation of tropical forests
Session 20
Talk
trees be predicted by species attributes?
M.
Réjou-Méchain
T20-06
Monday
HS114
16:30
Light-dependence of growth rates across a
Session 20
Talk
tropical lowland rainforest community
N.
Rüger
T20-07
Monday
HS114
16:45
Session 20
Talk
Bryophytes across the Amazon Basin
Sylvia
Mota de Oliveira
T20-08
Monday
HS114
17:00
Linking tree species spatial distribution and
Session 20
Talk
recruitment limitation in a tropical forest
C.X
Garzon Lopez
T20-09
Monday
HS114
17:15
Analyzing phylogenetic relationships among
species: a new tool for ecology and
Session 20
Talk
biogeography studies.
I.
Parmentier
T20-10
Monday
HS114
17:30
The contribution of drought tolerance, pests,
and competition in shaping species
Session 22
Talk
distributions along the Malay-Thai Peninsula
Jennifer
Baltzer
T22-01
Tuesday
HS116
09:30
Processes at the forest-savanna boundary in
Session 22
Talk
central Brazil
A.C.
Franco
T22-02
Tuesday
HS116
09:45
14

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Changes in seedling dynamics and
requirements within forests found along a
rainfall gradient in Jamaica; how will this affect
Session 22
Talk
seedling establishment in a changing climate?
Kurt
McLaren
T22-03
Tuesday
HS116
10:00
Session 22
Talk
Dipterocarps and El Nino
D.P.
Bebber
T22-04
Tuesday
HS116
10:15
Partitioning of understorey light and dry-season
soil moisture gradients among seedlings of
Session 22
Talk
four rain forest tree species in Madagascar
R. C.
de Gouvenain
T22-05
Tuesday
HS116
10:30
Hydraulic properties of 40 dry forest tree
Session 22
Talk
species in relation to drought-tolerance
L
Markesteijn
T22-06
Tuesday
HS116
11:15
Regional variation of dry season intensity
affects seedling survival and tree distribution in
Session 22
Talk
tropical forests
B.M.J.
Engelbrecht
T22-07
Tuesday
HS116
11:30
Seasonal and spatial variation in water
availability drive habitat associations in a
Session 22
Talk
tropical forest
L.S.
Comita
T22-08
Tuesday
HS116
11:45
Tree seedling regeneration in East-Africa
affected by spatial distribution of abiotic
factors: Three different experimental
Session 22
Talk
approaches
M
Oesker
T22-09
Tuesday
HS116
12:00
The ticking rank clock - Species rank analysis
as a tool to measure system resilience to land
Session 22
Talk
use and climate change
A.
Augustin
T22-10
Tuesday
HS116
12:15
Struggle of plants with crassulacean acid
metabolism (CAM) in tropical environments
under the action of dynamic networks of
Session 23
Talk
stressors
U.
Luettge
T23-01
Wednesday
Audimax
09:30
Shade tolerance through resistance and
Session 23
Talk
resilience
K
Kitajima
T23-02
Wednesday
Audimax
09:45
Leaf traits of dry and moist forest tree species
and the importance of the leaf economics- and
Session 23
Talk
leaf size spectrum
L
Poorter
T23-03
Wednesday
Audimax
10:00
15

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Leaf traits of woody species with wide
distribution in the Cerrado and Amazonian
savannas: convergence or divergence of
Session 23
Talk
adaptive traits?
A.C.
Franco
T23-04
Wednesday
Audimax
10:15
Research struggles in the tropics - some ideas
Session 23
Talk
and experiences
O.
Huber
T23-05
Wednesday
Audimax
10:30
Ecological filters in a fragmented forest: Plant
recruitment on and around leaf-cutting ant
Session 23
Talk
nests
S.T.
Meyer
T23-06
Wednesday
Audimax
11:15
Do leaf-cutting ants go undetected? Evidence
for delayed induced defence following
cumulative herbivory by Atta colombica in lima
Session 23
Talk
bean plants.
M.
Tremmel
T23-07
Wednesday
Audimax
11:30
Patterns of Floristic Differentiation among
Atlantic Forests and the Influence of Climate II:
Session 23
Talk
The Southern Scenario
A.T.
Oliveira-Filho
T23-08
Wednesday
Audimax
11:45
Plasticity and survival of tropical corticolous
Session 23
Talk
non-vascular plants at forest fragments
M.
Lakatos
T23-09
Wednesday
Audimax
12:00
Session 23
Talk
Responses to flooding stress in tropical trees
P.
Parolin
T23-10
Wednesday
Audimax
12:30
Agroforestry Management and Climate Change
Adaptation: The Case of Coffee in Latin
Session 25
Talk
America
B
Lin
T25-01
Thursday
HS114
16:15
Bridging the Gap between Potential and Reality
of Agroforestry Projects - Lessons learned
Session 25
Talk
from the Bolivian Andes
Regine
Brandt
T25-02
Thursday
HS114
16:30
Response of a Gliricidia-maize agroforestry
Session 25
Talk
system to induced drought in southern Malawi
A.C.
Kerr
T25-03
Thursday
HS114
16:45
The agroforestry system cacao: an option to
reduce social vulnerability related to droughts? -
Perception and adaptation of agricultural
Norbert
Session 25
Talk
smallholders in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Binternagel
Heiko Faust
T25-04
Thursday
HS114
17:00
Drought response of a cacao agroforestry
Session 25
Talk
system, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Luitgard
Schwendenmann
T25-05
Thursday
HS114
17:15
Trends in seedling growth and survival over
Session 26
Talk
eight years in a Bornean rain forest
M.P.
Eichhorn
T26-01
Monday
HS113
11:15
16

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A short-cut to measuring rhizosphere
Session 26
Talk
respiration in a lowland tropical forest.
E.J.
Sayer
T26-02
Monday
HS113
11:30
Influence of litter diversity on decomposition in
Session 26
Talk
tropical rainforest (French Guiana)
S.
Barantal
T26-03
Monday
HS113
11:45
Tree diversity effects on aboveground nutrient
pools of trees in an experimental plantation in
Session 26
Talk
Panama
Yvonne
Oelmann
T26-04
Monday
HS113
12:00
Species-specific response of tree xylem flux to
Session 26
Talk
experimental drought in Central Sulawesi
Bernhard
Schuldt
T26-05
Monday
HS113
12:15
Session 28
Talk
Introduction to Symposium
John
Kress
T28-00
Wednesday
HS116
11:15
Tropical Tree Community Turnover: How DNA
Barcode Community Phylogenies and
Functional Traits Can Help Elucidate Cryptic
Session 28
Talk
Patterns and Mechanisms.
N.G.
Swenson
T28-01
Wednesday
HS116
11:30
Relevance of DNA barcoding in community-
wide analysis of leaf functional traits with
Session 28
Talk
strong and weak phylogenetic signals
Kaoru
Kitajima
T28-02
Wednesday
HS116
11:45
Application of DNA barcodes to community
phylogenetics and ecological forensics on
Session 28
Talk
Barro Colorado Island, Panama
D
Erickson
T28-03
Wednesday
HS116
12:00
DNA barcodes as a tool for tree species
Session 28
Talk
discovery in diverse tropical forests
C. W.
Dick
T28-04
Wednesday
HS116
12:15
Collaborative biodiversity informatics:
increasing the rate of tropical plant inventory
Session 28
Talk
and description
C.
Webb
T28-05
Wednesday
HS116
12:30
Session 34
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Global warming and the vulnerability of tropical biota
W : W
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HS113
09:30
Session 34
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Range-shift Gaps and Lowland Biotic Attrition in a Warm
R. K.
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Col al
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ell imate
T34-02
Thursday
HS113
09:45
Session 34
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Comprehensive assessment of species vulnerabili
S ty to
tep gl
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Session 34
Talk
Uphill movements of moth assemblages in respons
IC e to global warming
CHEN in Mt Kinabalu,
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Thursday
HS113
10:15
Session 34
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Factors influencing species responses to climate c
K ha
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ne e a
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HS113
10:30
Session 34
Talk
Climate change and conservation on Borneo: prom
JKoting landscap
Hil e c
l
onnectivity.
T34-06
Thursday
HS113
11:15
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The rainfall distribution at forest and pasture areas i
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HS113
12:00
Session 34
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Long-term tree community dynamics in a Mexican tropi
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Thursday
HS113
12:15
Why is male philopatry adaptive in the greater
Session 35
Talk
sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx bilineata)?
M.
Nagy
T35-01
Tuesday
HS113
16:15
Influence of neotropical bats on germination
parameters of free-standing and strangler figs
Session 35
Talk
(Ficus sp., Moraceae)
K.
Heer
T35-02
Tuesday
HS113
16:30
Colonization, dispersal and extinction: the hard
Session 35
Talk
life of bat phoretic flower mites
E.B.
Sperr
T35-03
Tuesday
HS113
16:45
Density Response to Habitat at Different
Scales: A Case Study in The Tent-Roosting
Session 35
Talk
Bat Uroderma bilobatum
Maria
Sagot
T35-04
Tuesday
HS113
17:00
NECTAR RESOURCES OF
CHIROPTHEROPHILIC FLOWERS AND
THEIR INFLUENCE ON Leptonycteris
yerbabuenae ABUNDANCE IN A TROPICAL
RODRÍGUEZ-
Session 35
Talk
DRY FOREST
N.
PEÑA
T35-05
Tuesday
HS113
17:15
Can Pleistocene refuge theory explain within-
species patterns of genetic diversity in African
Session 36
Talk
lowland rainforest trees?
M.
Heuertz
T36-01
Monday
Audimax
11:15
Reconstructing West African rainforest refugia
Session 36
Talk
via forest frogs
Annika
Hillers
T36-02
Monday
Audimax
11:30
Pre-Pleistocene population structure of
Session 36
Talk
widespread tropical forest trees
C. W.
Dick
T36-03
Monday
Audimax
11:45
Recruitment dynamics across multiple life
Session 36
Talk
stages in the tropical tree Prunus africana
D. G.
Berens
T36-04
Monday
Audimax
12:00
Seed rain, gene flow and fine-scale genetic
structure of a bird-dispersed dioecious under-
Session 36
Talk
canopy fig tree:Ficus cyrtophylla
Jin
Chen
T36-05
Monday
Audimax
12:15
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Comparison of different pathways of
succession in the tropical dry evergreen forest
on the Coromandel coast of south India:
Session 37
Talk
Evaluating reforestation.
V
Kinhal
T37-01
Tuesday
Audimax
09:30
Could the gregarious bamboo flowering modify
the regeneration process of an Atlantic Forest MARIA
GROMBONE-
Session 37
Talk
fragment?
TEREZA
GUARATINI
T37-02
Tuesday
Audimax
09:45
Water relations of indigenous trees in a tropical
Session 37
Talk
mountain forest in Ethiopia
Simone
Strobl
T37-03
Tuesday
Audimax
10:00
Herbivores suppress seedling growth of a
dominant canopy-emergent tree in a Central
Session 37
Talk
African forest
J.M
Norghauer
T37-04
Tuesday
Audimax
10:15
Impact of anthropogenic disturbance on
diversity of five selected plant groups in cloud
Session 37
Talk
forest fragments of central Veracruz, Mexico.
T.
Krömer
T37-05
Tuesday
Audimax
10:30
Distribution and abundance of tree species in
secondary forests: linking local, landscape, and
Session 37
Talk
regional scales in a Panamanian forest
M.
van Breugel
T37-06
Tuesday
Audimax
11:15
Phenology of woody species in permanent
plots of the Yungas mountain forest, La Paz -
Session 37
Talk
Bolivia
Amira Elvia
Apaza Quevedo
T37-07
Tuesday
Audimax
11:30
Community Dynamics of a Secondary Tropical
Dry Forest: successional pathways and
Session 37
Talk
variability
Edwin
Lebrija-Trejos
T37-08
Tuesday
Audimax
11:45
Succession dynamics on landslide sites in a
Session 37
Talk
tropical mountain forest in southern Ecuador
C.
Dislich
T37-09
Tuesday
Audimax
12:00
Fog in the tropical lowland cloud forest of
French Guiana – A frequent phenomenon with
Session 37
Talk
impact on microclimate and epiphytes
A
Obregon
T37-10
Tuesday
Audimax
12:15
How do primate communities vary among sites
Session 38
Talk
in an intact Neotropical forested landscape?
S.
Palminteri
T38-01
Monday
HS114
11:15
Food abundance impacts activity patterns in
Session 38
Talk
the Central-American agouti
Lennart
Suselbeek
T38-02
Monday
HS114
11:30
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A community-wide stable isotope analysis
reveals dense trophic species packing in a
Session 38
Talk
Malagasy primate community
M.
Dammhahn
T38-03
Monday
HS114
11:45
Amphibian hotspots in West Africa revisited –
Session 38
Talk
do patterns change with finer resolution?
J
Penner
T38-04
Monday
HS114
12:00
Habitat use and diet of capybara
(Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris: Rodentia,
Hydrochaeridae)in the floodplain savannas of
Session 38
Talk
the Orinoco, Colombia
L.F.
Vega
T38-05
Monday
HS114
12:15
The waste dumps of leaf-cutting ants and their
Session 39
Talk
utilization in ecological research.
H
Herz
T39-01
Monday
HS116
11:15
What stil can be found in tropical soils – the
case of Martialis heureka, the most primitive
Session 39
Talk
living ant!
M.
Verhaagh
T39-02
Monday
HS116
11:30
Tropical parabiotic ants: an unusual
Session 39
Talk
partnership
F.
Menzel
T39-03
Monday
HS116
11:45
Ecology and maintenance of a novel tripartite
Session 39
Talk
mutualistic association
J.
Orivel
T39-04
Monday
HS116
12:00
Competition for shared mutualist ants may
Session 39
Talk
influence plant performance
A.E.
Fleming-Davies
T39-05
Monday
HS116
15:15
Linking interspecific variation in vertebrate
seed predation, insect seed predation, and
pathogen attack to fruit traits in tropical woody
Session 40
Talk
plants
N.G.
Beckman
T40-01
Tuesday
HS114
16:15
Caterpillar communities on selected shrubs in
Session 40
Talk
the Andes of southern Ecuador – first results
F.
Bodner
T40-02
Tuesday
HS114
16:30
A tale of three islands, two plants and their
pollinators: Understanding geographic variation
in plant-pollinator interactions and pollinator-
mediated genetic structure in two Eastern
Session 40
Talk
Caribbean Heliconia (Heliconiaceae)
Vinita
Gowda
T40-03
Tuesday
HS114
16:45
Reproductive isolation by floral scent in three
sympatric euglossine-pollinated Araceae
Session 40
Talk
species
H
Hentrich
T40-04
Tuesday
HS114
17:00
20

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Resin collection in a tropical stingless bee
Session 40
Talk
community
Sara
Leonhardt
T40-05
Tuesday
HS114
17:15
Can non-viable seed enhance fitness? The
Session 41
Talk
Sacrificial sibling hypothesis
J.
Ghazoul
T41-01
Thursday
HS115
canelled
Consequences of Flower Size Variation for
Session 41
Talk
Species Coexistence in Tropical Forest Trees
Chris
Kettle
P20-03
Thursday
HS115
11:15 New
Termite beta-diversity in French Guiana
Session 41
Talk
rainforests: high turnover of soil feeders
T
Bourguignon
T41-02
Thursday
HS115
11:30
Multi-scale pattern analyses of a mound
Session 41
Talk
building termite species in central Namibia
Constanze
Grohmann
T41-03
Thursday
HS115
11:45
Biodiversity islands in the savanna - Botanical
characterisation and zonation of termite
Session 41
Talk
mounds
Ivana
Kirchmair
T41-04
Thursday
HS115
12:00
Stable isotope ratios reveal niche
differentiation among neotropical soil-feeding
Session 41
Talk
termites
Y.
Roisin
T41-05
Thursday
HS115
12:15
Invasive weed Parthenium hysterophorus - a
threat to the protection and conservation of
Session 41
Talk
native plant communities
D.R.
Batish
T41-06
Thursday
HS115
16:15
Recruitment reveals forest expanding into
savanna of central Brazil after 35 years without
Session 41
Talk
fire.
E.L.
Geiger
T41-07
Thursday
HS115
16:30
Natural succession of abandoned pastures in
Session 41
Talk
the Andes of South Ecuador
X.
Palomeque
T41-08
Thursday
HS115
16:45
Influence of soil conditions on plant diversity
and functional traits in savanna woodlands:
grass savanna islands on lateritic crusts
(bowé) in and adjacent to the W National Park,
Session 41
Talk
Burkina Faso
A.
Zwarg
T41-09
Thursday
HS115
17:00
21

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
Diversity and population dynamics of woody
plant species in a semi-arid savanna in
Session 41
Talk
Northern Benin
K.
Jurisch
T41-10
Thursday
HS115
17:15
22

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by 22 July 2009
23

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
24

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
25

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
26

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
by 22 July 2009
27

Gtoe-ATBC accepted talks
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28

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