Draft programme Dates Time Speaker Title 14th August Day 1: Tropical Ecosystems: palaeoecology and process 10:00 Arrival and coffee/tea/posters 10:30 – 10:40 Welcome speech Welcome / Housekeeping Dr. Rob Marchant Session 1 Dr. Rob Marchant 10:40 – 11:20 Keynote speech Prof. Dr. Henry Hooghiemstra, University of Amsterdam, Holland Stable oceanic islands versus dynamic islands in the sky. - A new perspective from pollen records. 11:20 – 11:40 Talk Colin University of York, UK Drivers of landscape-scale environmental changes in east Africa 11:40 – 12:00 Talk Paramita Punwong. University of York, UK Holocene mangrove dynamics and sea level changes along Tanzanian coast, East Africa. 12:00 – 12:20 Talk Katie Loakes, Loughborough UK Quaternary palaeolimnology and environmental change in the South Wollo Highlands, Ethiopia. 12:20 _ 12:40 Talk Stephen Rucina, National Museums Nairobi 25,000 of savanna ecosystem dynamics from Lake Challa, 12:40 – 13:10 Panel discussion The role of long term perspectives for understanding ecosystem changes 13:10 – 14:00 Lunch Lunch/ Posters Session 2 Chair Dr. Phililp Platts 14:00 – 14:40 Keynote speech Prof. Jon Lovett, University of Leeds, UK. Diversity and elevation relationships in the tropics 14:40 – 15:00 Talk Alicia Ledo, University of Aberdeen, UK Analysis of woody plant species distribution in North-Peruvian Andean cloud forest 15:00 – 15:20 Talk Joey Talbot, University of UK Relationships between tree diversity and aboveground biomass in African and American tropical forests 15:20 – 15:40 Talk Adriane Esquivel Muelbert, University of UK Floristic precipitation affiliation in Western Neo-tropical forest
15:40 – 16:00 Talk Paul Woodcock, University of Leeds, UK The Effect of selective logging on the trophic organization of a species-rich rainforest assemblage 16:00 – 16:40 Panel discussion Diversity-environment relationships in the tropics 16:40 – 16:50 Closing remarks Closing remarks Closing remarks 20:00 Meal-out Pub / DELRIOS (Optional) 15th August Day 2: Tropical Ecosystems: process and applied research 10:00 Arrival and coffee/tea/ Posters Session 1 Dr. Claudia Capitani 10:30 – 11:10 Keynote speech Prof. Jane Hill, University of York, Conserving species in tropical agriculture landscapes – oil palm, climate change and forest fragmentation 11:10 – 11:30 Talk Aida Cuní Sanchez CMEC University of Copenhagen, DK Changes over time in biodiversity, vegetation structure and carbon stocks along a savannah-forest gradient in central Gabon 11:30 – 11:50 Talk Cecilia Gontijo Leal Lancaster University - UK Beyond riparian vegetation: habitat changes highlight the need for catchment-based management strategies to protect Amazonian streams 11:50 – 12:10 Talk Mariana Piva da Silva Lancaster University, UK Is fishing boom in Amazonia benefiting biodiversity 12:10 – 12:30 Talk Martin Jung Copenhagen University, Denmark African species response to change - Assessing the match between an Africa-wide model and fine-scale field data 12:30 – 13:00 Panel discussion Panel discussion Tropical Ecosystems in an increasing modified landscape 13:00 – 13:50 Lunch Lunch / Posters Session 2 Chair Dr. Stephen Rucina 13:50 – 14:40 Keynote speech Dr. Marion Pfeifer, University of York/Imperial College Analysing biological responses to land use changes in the tropics 14:40 – 15:00 Talk Agne Gvozdevaite University of Oxford Leaf gas exchange dynamics along forest-savannah transition zone in Brazil 15:00 – 15:20 Talk Frederick Draper, University of Leeds and below ground carbon storage in peatland ecosystems of the Pastaza Maranon foreland basin, Peru