Monday 21 July 2014 0700–1800 Registration and speakers support centre open Opening plenary session Venue: Hall A 0800–0840 Official opening – Welcome to country: Henrietta Marrie (Chair: Steve Turton) 0840–0925 Plenary Speaker: Dr Craig Moritz (Chair: Susan Laurance) Concurrent sessions Climate Change Biology Forest Ecology Conservation Biology
Bush Meat & Wildlife Trade
Species Interactions
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Hall A SYMPOSIUM: Latitudealtitude gradients inferring the effects of climate change on biodiversity Chair: Alice Hughes
Meeting Room 2 SYMPOSIUM: Seed fate: Understanding seed dispersal, seed survival, and plant recruitment in a changing world Chair: Pierre-Michel Forget
Meeting Room 1 ORAL SESSION: Conservation biology Chair: Steve Turton
Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: A recipe to combat the wildlife trade in Asia: Addressing all levels from trappers to law Chair: Berton Harris
Meeting Room 4 ORAL SESSION: Species diversity Chair: Sandra Abell
0930–0945
David Bickford Frogs squeezed by climate change on Mt. Kinabalu
Richard Corlett Targeting Zero Plant Extinctions in Xishuangbanna, China
Berton Harris Changes in price and trade volume predict which species will be threatened by the pet trade
0945–1000
Carlos Garcia-Robledo DNA barcodes reveal that maximum critical thermal
Alexander Christianini Ants remove seeds farther in the Brazilian Cerrado than elsewhere: implications for conservation Sara Pinzon Navarro Comparing plant-insect interactions across continents
Katia Marie Ferraz National Action Plans for Endangered Species: The Use of Species
Kevin Darras Bird Trade In Jambi, Indonesia: Economy, Ecology, And Network
Igor Luis Kaefer Historical and environmental factors structuring diurnal anuran assemblages from the Upper Madeira River, Amazonia Juliana Menger Do environmental surrogates predict bird species
limits of insect herbivores along elevational gradients decrease with elevation: implications for projected global warming
Distribution Models for Conservation Purposes
distributions in the Brazilian Amazon?
1000-1015 Catherine Yule From genes to ecosystems: applications of new genomics to tropical freshwater biology
1000-1030
Coffee break and posters Climate Change Biology
Forest Ecology
Conservation Biology
Bush Meat & Wildlife Trade Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: A recipe to combat the wildlife trade in Asia: Addressing all levels from trappers to law Chair: Berton Harris
Species Interactions
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Hall A SYMPOSIUM: Latitudealtitude gradients inferring the effects of climate change on biodiversity Chair: Alice Hughes
Meeting Room 2 SYMPOSIUM: Seed fate: Understanding seed dispersal, seed survival, and plant recruitment in a changing world Chair: Pierre-Michel Forget
Meeting Room 1 ORAL SESSION: Conservation biology Chair: Steve Turton
1030–1045
Claudia Hemp Species turnover and α-diversity of grasshoppers and bush crickets (orthoptera: acridoidea and ensifera) along climatic and landuse gradients on Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, East Africa Alice Hughes Latitudealtitude gradients-inferring the effects of climate change on biodiversity
Erin Kuprewicz Deciphering seed disperser decisionmaking: how seed size and chemical defenses influence seed fate
Jonathon Green The Economics of Threats to Shorebirds Surviving and Thriving in a Human Dominated Landscape
Tien Ming Lee Understanding the social factors driving wild bird keeping in Indonesia
Sandra Abell-Davis How important is grass in the diet of the tropical specialist fungivore Bettongia tropica?
Harald Beck Simulating defaunation to quantify the effects of mammals on an Amazonian understory plant community Onja Razafindratsima Contribution of seed dispersers to plant recruitment success in a Malagasy forest
Leonel Lopez-Toledo Contemporary and future distributions of Laelia speciosa: a highly hostdependent orchid Luis Miguel Renjifo Evolution of Extinction Risk for Forest Birds in Colombia: A Decade of Change
Freddy Pattiselanno Wildlife hunting by indigenous Papuan: a case study from Bird’s Head Peninsula, West Papua, Indonesia Grace Ge-Gabriel Reducing Wildlife Trade in China
Ellen Andresen Seed exhumation: another ecological role of dung beetles
1045–1100
1100–1115
Yadvinder Malhi Response of tropical ecosystem structure and function to temperature: insights from a 3500 m elevation gradient in the Andes
Meeting Room 4 ORAL SESSION: Species interactions Chair: Sandra Abell
Megan Higgie Frog-biting flies of Australian tropical rainforests: species diversity, frog hosts, and their acoustic interactions
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Somayeh Nowrouzi Spatial Patterns of Diversity in Mountain Chains: Ants in the Australian Wet Tropics
James Smith Winging It: Using Tower Experiments And Seed Morphology To Predict Dispersal In Tropical Trees Aliyu Babale Post dispersal seed fate in a fragmented West African montane forest landscape
Carla Eisemberg Threats to long-necked turtle Chelodina mccordi timolestensis in the Lake Iralalaro region Timor
Lishu Li What innovations are we trying to combat illegal wildlife trade in China?
Lori Lach Carbohydrate availability correlates with yellow crazy ant abundance and trophic position
1130–1145
Nantida Sutummawong Bird diversity along an elevational gradient at Doi Inthanon National Park, Thailand
Dagmar Meyer Steiger The effects of landscape disturbance on adult mosquito community composition in tropical Australia
Amanda Sigouin The Global Impact of the Turtle Trade in Guangzhou, China
Yuan-Tai Tsai 20th Century Climate Warming and elevation changes of small mammals in high mountains in Taiwan Stephen Williams Using environmental gradients to understand biodiversity and species resilience in the Australian wet tropics
Guohualing Huang Shifts in seed dispersal characteristics in fragmented tropical forests of Xishuangbanna, China
Elizabeth Pryde Conserving tropical forest birds in a native timber plantation
Rachakonda Sreekar A simple, replicable method for assessing wildlife exploitation intensity based on flight initiation distance
Jenny Yuen Yung Lau Evolution of pollinator traps in Goniothalamus and Dasymaschalon flowers (Annonaceae), associated with short floral receptive periods Rebecca Morris Antagonistic interaction networks are structured independently of latitude and host guild
1145–1200
Carla Catterall Experimental Restoration: Can Birds, Structures and Weeds Help Reduce Dispersal Barriers in Retired Pasture?
Orou Gaoue Non-timber forest product harvesting reduces fruit production but increases clonal production of a tropical tree
Caroline Regina Schoener Supply Determines Demand: Influence of Partner Quality and Quantity on Bat-Pitcher Plant Interactions
1215–1230
Alan Andersen TERN infrastructure: what it is and how you can use it
Lachlan Charles The impact of rainforest structural attributes on seed rain patterns within abandoned pastures in Australia’s Wet Tropics
Mirza Dikari Kusrini Anthropogenic disturbances and diversity of herpetofauna in Nantu Forest, Sulawesi
Michael Gerhard Schoener Attractive and unmistakable: How pitcher attributes of carnivorous plants appeal to bats
1230–1345 Plenary session Venue: Hall A 1345–1425
Lunch break and posters
1200–1215
Plenary Speaker: Dr Jatna Supriatna (Chair: Jeff Sayer)
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Concurrent sessions Climate Change Biology
Forest Ecology
Conservation Biology
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Hall A SYMPOSIUM: Latitudealtitude gradients inferring the effects of climate change on biodiversity Chair: Alice Hughes
Meeting Room 2 ORAL SESSION: Forest ecology Chair: Liz Pryde
Meeting Room 1 ORAL SESSION: Conservation biology Chair: Steve Turton
1430–1445
Lalita Simpson Vanishing with the clouds: rapid declines of mountain-top endemic plants of tropical Northeast Queensland
John Terborgh How many seeds does it take to make a sapling?
Theodore Evans Change of social insect assemblages along a gradient of anthropisation in Singapore
Bush Meat & Wildlife Trade Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: Innovative ways for conserving the ecosystem services provided by bushmeat Chair: Nathalie Van Vliet
Species Interactions and Tropical Savannas Meeting Room 4 ORAL SESSION: Species interactions Chair: Sandra Abell
Nathalie Van Vliet Bushmeat research in the past 3 decades: What has it changed for sustainable hunting?
Alyssa Stewart Resource partitioning among Old World pollinating bats
SYMPOSIUM: The use of camera trapping for monitoring biodiversity in tropical ecosystems Chairs: Antony Lynam & Timothy O’Brien 1445–1500
1500–1515
1515–1530
Antony Lynam What do camera-trap records tell us about ecological requirements of wild cats in tropical Asia? Yi Fei Chung Connecting Nature Reserves: The First Overhead Wildlife Bridge in Tropical Asia Sebastien Le Bel Addressing information gaps on hunting sustainability in Central Africa: opportunities and limits of innovative technologies
1530–1545
Noel Thomas Tropical island terrestrial vertebrate assemblage in Pulau Ubin, Singapore
ORAL SESSION: Tropical savannas Chair: Eda Addicot
Yuuya Tachiki Spatiotemporal pattern formation in plant communities by JanzenConnell process Abdrilalao Rakotonavalo Effect of dispersal and ecological factors on spatial distribution of seedling in Ranamafana Matt Bradford Rapid recovery of rainforest fruit production following severe disturbance
Michael Oatham Seedling dynamics and implications for tree diversity in stands of a mono-dominant tropical tree
Markus Eichhorn Shifting cultivation enhances fruit availability and vertebrate diversity in a South-East Asian rain forest Rhett Butler Lessons from Mongabay: experiences in communicating scientific research to the public Sigrid Heise-Pavlov Using community and project based records of Lumholtz's Treekangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) sightings for conservation planning
Ellen Field ALERT Scientists Engaging in Environmental Advocacy using Social Media
Daniel Cornelis Should African governments pull bushmeat trade out the shadows in the Congo Basin? Lauren Coad Can alternative livelihoods projects reduce hunting pressure? Lessons from Central Africa for practitioners and donors Christopher Golden Health and economic valuation of the subsistence harvest of wildlife in Madagascar Hirokazu Yasuoka Change in Game Harvest Composition, southeastern Cameroon: A Potential Indicator of Overhunting for Local People
Eda Addicott We can see them, but are they real? Evaluating mapped regional ecosystems of north-eastern Australia Ana Bello The demography of the lizard Micrablepharus atticolus Rodrigues, 1996 (Gymnophthalmidae) and fires in Cerrado, Brazil Heather Campbell Antmyrmecophyte interactions and coexistence in Namibia
Sabina Cerruto Ribeiro What are the key points for carbon storage by species in a Brazilian Cerrado remnant?
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1545-1600 Barbara Haurez. Seed dispersal by western lowland gorillas: what about gut passage effect?
1545–1615
Coffee break and posters Methods
Forest Ecology & Extractive Industries Meeting Room 2 ORAL SESSION: Forest ecology Chair: Liz Pryde
Conservation Biology
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Hall A SYMPOSIUM: The use of camera trapping for monitoring biodiversity in tropical ecosystems Chairs: Antony Lynam & Timothy O’Brien
1615–1630
Timothy O’Brien Camera Traps for Conservation: Monitoring Protected Area Investments to Safeguard Biodiversity Jamie Wadey Doubling the density of camera traps improves effectiveness of vertebrate monitoring in a tropical rainforest
Ryan Chisholm Immigration and the maintenance of tree diversity in a tropical forest
Catherine Moran SciencePlanning partnership to improve landscape management
Robert Bagchi Contrasting intra- and inter cohort spatial pattern of Amazonian trees along a hunting gradient
Michael Esbach CommunityLevel Partnerships as Key Conservation Outcomes: Lessons from the Solomon Islands
SYMPOSIUM: Nutritionsensitive forest policy and landscape management Chair: Amy Ickowitz
SYMPOSIUM: Extractive industries: The next big driver of change for tropical nature Chair: Sean Sloan
1645–1700
Bruce Cogill Biodiversity and nutrition
Sean Sloan Environmental impacts of future mining in the Congo Basin
1700–1715
Louise Buck Engaging stakeholders in assessing nutritional outcomes in integrated management systems: a tool to elaborate
Stephen Turton Paradise lost? The status and future of East Rennell world heritage area, Solomon Islands
1630–1645
Meeting Room 1 ORAL SESSION: Conservation biology Chair: Richard Corlett
Andrew Marshall A Holistic Indicator Selection Protocol for Identifying Measures of Conservation Success Using Conceptual Models Mercy Rampengan Biodiversity agroforest provide resilience to natural hazards-A case study from Siau island, Indonesia
Bush Meat & Wildlife Trade Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: Innovative ways for conserving the ecosystem services provided by bushmeat Chair: Nathalie Van Vliet
Oral Session
Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez Towards Sustainable Bushmeat Procurement To Improve Food And Income Security In Amazonia Enrique de la Montaña Predicting hunting behavior among indigenous communities in Ecuador: insights from a bioeconomic model
Guarino Colli The structure of lizard assemblages in abandoned eucalyptus plantations in the Brazilian Cerrado Guilherme Ferreira Estimating occupancy of large mammals in a protected area within the Brazilian Savanna
Daniel Cruz Participatory monitoring of the bushmeat trade in the Amazonian triborder frontier (Colombia, Peru & Brazil) Sara Hernandez Economic value of bushmeat and poverty alleviation in the Amazonas
Denis Gautier The limits and failures of existing forest governance standards in semi-arid contexts
Meeting Room 4 ORAL SESSION: Tropical savannas Chair: Eda Addicot
Flavia Nogueira De Sa Defensive strategies and phenology of leaves of two guapira species in the Brazilian Savannah
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1715–1730
1730–1745
1745–1800
1800-1815
1815-1830
the landscape measures approach Samson Foli The contribution of forests to food production in humid and dry forest landscapes. A systematic review Kiersten Johnson Forest cover associated with child health and nutrition: evidence from Malawi DHS and satellite data Patricia Torres Perceptions of forest value change with deforestation and declining bushmeat consumption
Lingfei Weng Tradeoffs between mining and conservation in Congo Basin
Umesh Srinivasan The value of logged forest: demography of six understorey bird species in response to logging
Lian Pin Koh The four horsemen of deforestation in Indonesia: logging, fiber, oil palm and mining
Anuj Jain Improving range and connectivity for two threatened tropical butterfly species
Luiz Mestre Effects of selective logging on Amazonian Birds: A case of study in Jamari, Rondonia, Brazil Natalia Huang Answering the question: a strategic approach to biodiversity investigations for environmental impact assessment
Mohammed Alamgir Where are the hot spots of ecosystem services?
Blanca Yagüe Cultural Connections of Periurban Indigenous Communities to Tropical Forest through Bushmeat Networks in Leticia (Colombia) Flavia Mori Sarti Beyond protein intake: bushmeat as a source of micronutrients in the tri-frontier region (BrazilColombian-Peru) Maria Paula Quiceno Certifying bushmeat market chains: an option for sustainable hunting in Colombian Amazon?
Davi Lima Pantoja Fire and lizards in a Neotropical savanna hotspot
Kate Parr Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood and threatened
Emerson Vieira Partitioning of small-mammal diversity at a landscape scale in a neotropical savanna
Nina Wauters The tropical fire ant in Galapagos: distribution, impact, population genetic structure and routes of invasion Nega Tassie Abate Climate Change and Species Distribution Modelling: Implications for Bird Conservation in Ethiopia
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Tuesday 22 July 2014 0700–1800 Registration and speakers support centre open Opening plenary session Venue: Hall A 0830–0915 James Cook University Vice Chancellor and President Address (Chair: Susan Laurance, President ATBC) 0915–1000 Plenary Speaker: Senator Christine Milne (Chair: Susan Laurance) 1000-1030 Coffee break and posters Concurrent sessions Restoration and Species Diversity Forests, Soils & Wildlife Ecology & Plant Regeneration Ecosystems Ecophysiology Room Hall A Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 1 Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: SYMPOSIUM: From the ORAL SESSION: Forests SYMPOSIUM: Movement Conservation, mountains to seas: & ecosystems for change: emerging evaluation, and valuation Altitudinal trends in New Chair: Chris Margules research and technology of secondary forests Guinea biodiversity for understanding Chair: Calen May-Tobin Chair: Maurice Leponce movement and biodiversity responses to global change Chair: Soumya Prasad 1030–1045
Robin Chazdon What is a secondary forest? Implications of legal and ecological definitions
Robert K Colwell Modelling Elevational Range Attractors Under Geometric Constraints
1045–1100
David Edwards Do secondary forests provide cheap carbon and biodiversity co-benefits? Douglas Boucher Policy barriers to protecting 'disturbed forests'
Vojtech Novotny Vegetation change along a complete rainforest altitudinal gradient at Mt. Wilhelm Daniel Bickel The Diversity of Diptera and Hymenoptera on Mt Wilhelm: faunal changes with elevation
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa
Kalsum Mohd Yusah Ant-
Characterizing the extent and status of secondary forests using advanced and emerging remote sensing techniques
mediated nutrient redistribution rates along gradients of altitude and disturbance in Borneo and New Guinea
1100–1115
1115–1130
Peter Okello Alele Influence of Tropical Wetland Ecosystem Alteration and Disturbance on Microbial Communities Imam Basuki Soil dynamics in tropical forest transition: a case study from Borneo, Indonesia Benjamin Morgan Precipitation drives arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition in dry seasonal forests of the Yucatan Peninsula Kei-ichi Okada Productivity and nutrient concentration of fine roots under contrasting nutrient availabilities on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo
Hamish Campbell Integrating telemetry data with stable isotopes: rehashing old tools
Lisa Davenport Migratory Connectivity in Orinoco Geese from Peru, Brazil, Bolivia and Colombia Soumya Prasad Not so far? Seed dispersal by a largebodied avian frugivore, the Oriental Pied Hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) Philipp Sommer Towards Continental-scale Tracking of Flying Foxes with Delaytolerant Wireless Networking
Methods Meeting Room 4 SYMPOSIUM: Multi-taxa biodiversity surveys in the tropics: Integrating taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology, and conservation Chair: Christopher Baraloto William Magnusson RAPELD methodology for surveying and monitoring in the Program for Biodiversity Research (PPBio) Michael Liddell SuperSites three new ecosystem observatories in the Tropics of Northern Australia Louise Ashton Altitudinal multi-taxon surveys in Australian and Chinese rainforest
Jean-Marc Hero Monitoring biodiversity using standardized methodology and scale, on an international systematic LTER plot network
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1130–1145
Michael Pescott The High Carbon Stock Approach - no deforestation in practice
Yves Roisin Shifts in wood decomposer insect community along an elevation gradient in New Guinea
Peter Van Der Meer Sustainable management of peat swamp forest in SouthEast Asia
David Westcott Movement, disease and seeds: flying-fox as vectors in complex landscapes
Christopher Baraloto Coordinated Turnover Of Amazonian Tree, Arthropod And Fungal Communities Across Geographic And Environmental Gradients
ORAL SESSION: Biogeorgraphy Chair: David Westcott 1145–1200
Jeffrey Sayer Secondary forests provide conservation opportunities in Indonesia
Maurice Leponce Arboreal ant mosaics meltdown with elevation
Michael Murray-Hudson Hydro-climate pulsing at different time scales drives α, β, and γ diversity in the Okavango Delta
Ryan Burke Top-down effects of an herbivorous primate: Ecosystem processes mediated by Geladas in the Ethiopian Highlands
Pui Sze Li Historical biogeography of AsiminaDisepalum (Annonaceae): origins of tropical intercontinental disjunctions and diversifications in Southeast Asia Markus Gastauer Diversification of extant Atlantic rainforest species richness: radiation in isolated dominions
Flavia Costa Near-infrared spectroscopy facilitates rapid identification of both young and mature plants of diverse Amazon forests
ORAL SESSION: Secondary forests Chair: Miriam Goosem 1200–1215
Miriam Goosem Tree and sapling diversity in chronosequences of successional rainforest
Pagi Toko Altitudinal, alpha and beta diversity trends in moths and butterflies in Papua New Guinea and their biological drivers
Silvio Ferraz A tropical forest restoration-planning framework for water and aquatic ecosystem conservation in agricultural landscapes
1215–1230
Aida Rodrigues Site fidelity by army ant-following birds in primary and secondary forests of the Central Amazon
Bonny Koane Herbivore damage increases avian and ant predation of caterpillars on trees along an altitudinal gradient
Scott Saleska Towermounted cameras confirm remotely sensed dry-season “green-up” of Amazon forests, revealing mechanisms underlying tropical seasonality 1230-1245 Tobin Northfield Coevolution and the effects of climate change on interacting species
1230-1245 Daniel Magnabosco Marra The effects of large-scale wind disturbances on forest structure and species composition in Central Amazon
1230–1345
Lunch break and posters
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Plenary session Venue: Hall A 1345–1425 Plenary Speaker: Dr William Laurance (Chair: Nigel Stork) Concurrent sessions Restoration and Species Diversity Forests, Soils & Regeneration Ecosystems Room Hall A Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 1 ORAL SESSION: SYMPOSIUM: From the ORAL SESSION: Forests Secondary forests mountains to seas: & ecosystems Chair: Miriam Goosem Altitudinal trends in New Chair: Steve Turton Guinea biodiversity Chair: Vojtech Novotny
1430–1445
Shogoro Fujiki Algorithm to estimate the ages of tropical secondary forests after shifting cultivation
Katerina Sam Explaining the species richness of birds along a complete rainforest elevational gradient in the tropics
Gita Kasthala Phenotypic plasticity in response to habitat heterogeneity in a New Guinea crayfish (Cherax pallidus)
1445–1500
Catarina Jakovac Land use as a filter for species composition
Chris Dahl Where is the peak of altitudinal diversity in New Guinea frogs?
Tianjiao Li Fish Diversity In Nee Soon Swamp Forest, Singapore
1500–1515
Victor Hugo Gutierrez-Velez Land cover change interacts with drought severity to change fire regimes in Western Amazonia
J Pablo Arroyo-Mora Detection of mangrove species from airborne hyperspectral imagery in Sierpe, Costa Rica
1515–1530
FB Vincent Florens Impact of invasive alien species on the orchid community of a tropical island's wet forest
Mark Ziembicki Rapid response of game wildlife to community-established 'notake' zones in the YUS Conservation Area, Papua New Guinea Dirk Nikolaus Karger Comparing elevational and latitudinal gradients of fern diversity: from New Guinea to Hokkaido Andrew Krockenberger Elevational patterns of bat diversity on the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea
dynamics of floristics in logged forests of Kolombangara, Solomon Islands
1530–1545
Hathai Sangsupan Microenvironmental Limitations on Seedling Germination and Establishment in a Restored
Tomoya Inada Neighboring tree effects on shorea johorensis under post-logging management with line planting in Central Kalimantan
Eric Katovai Recovery
Plant Ecophysiology Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: Impacts of climate change on tropical trees: Current knowledge and pressing uncertainties Chair: Nathan McDowell
Climate Change & Land Use Meeting Room 4 SYMPOSIUM: Ant responses to anthropogenic disturbance and climate change: Community structure and interactions with plants Chair: Inara Leal
Owen Atkin Leaf photosynthetic and respiratory CO2 exchange in two thermally-contrasting Australian tropical rainforest ecosystems Lucas Cernusak Strong Response of Tropical Conifers but not Angiosperms to Altered CO2 Concentration Raymond Dempsey PhotoProtective Responses in the Leaves of Tropical Trees During the Dry Season Transition
Alan Andersen Ant community responses to disturbance: an overview
Ruginia Duffy Non-linear responses to seasonal precipitation in a conifer, Agathis atropurpurea, from tropical Queensland Alfredo Huete Evidence of
Benjamin Hoffmann Invasive ants: impact patterns, control prospects and climate change predictions
seasonal productivity and light limitations along a longitudinal rainfall equatorial forest transect
Fernando Augusto Schmidt Response of ant communities to recovery time after human disturbances Ricardo Campos Effect of land use on sodium limitation by ants
Jonas Maravalhas Variable fire regimes as drivers of ant diversity in the cerrado, a Neotropical savanna hotspot
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Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest 1545-1600 Rahayu Sukmaria Sukri Acacia: Another Nail In The Coffin For Kerangas?
1545–1615
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Coffee break and posters Restoration and Regeneration Hall A ORAL SESSION: Secondary forests Chair: Miriam Goosem
1545-1600 Miriam Supuma Growth and survivorship of trees at different elevations in Papua New Guinea
Species Diversity Meeting Room 2 SYMPOSIUM: From the mountains to seas: Altitudinal trends in New Guinea biodiversity Chair: Vojtech Novotny
1615–1630
Eduardo Van Den Berg Composition divergence between highly diverse pastures' tree community and associated forest remnants
Tom Fayle Ant-plant mutualistic interaction networks, altitudinal gradients, and ant partner sharing
1630–1645
Marcus Bulstrode Managing Riparian Vegetation Towards Systems Recovery in the Wet Tropics: why throw out the baby?
Legi Sam The structure of plant-herbivore food web along an altitudinal gradient in Papua New Guinea
1645–1700
Lih Chyun Loo The regeneration of native tree species in human disturbed forests at Meinong, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Roger Kitching Australasian Altitudinal Transects: the Challenge of the Comparative Dimension
1545-1600 Israel Del Toro Biodiversity along a rainfall gradient: insights into climate change impacts on Australia's ant biodiversity
Forests, Soils & Ecosystems Meeting Room 1 ORAL SESSION: Forests & ecosystems Chair: Jaboury Ghazoul
Plant Ecophysiology
Oliver Wearn Local-scale alpha- and beta-diversity of Bornean mammals: Implications for conservation in logged and fragmented habitats Silke Buschmann Stand dynamics, regeneration requirements, and genetic variability in populations of Terminalia carolinensis on Kosrae, Micronesia Tomas Ariel Carlo Negative frequency-dependent frugivory and seed dispersal increase plant diversity in early successional forests
Jonathan Lloyd Five myths of tropical tree response to climate change
Gabriela Burle Arcoverde Grazing impacts on savanna ant communities in the Australian seasonal tropics
Louise Neo Last Swamp Standing: Freshwater Swamp Vegetation Ecology In The Face Of Climate Change And Urbanisation
Alex Salas-Lopez Effects of habitat transformation by humans on the trophic ecology of ants in French Guiana
Suat Hui Yeoh When Do Rainforest Trees Bloom?
Rebecca Sandidge Tiny savannas and deep seas: ant diversity and distribution on several small Indonesian islands
Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: Impacts of climate change on tropical trees: Current knowledge and pressing uncertainties Chair: Nathan McDowell
Climate Change & Land Use Meeting Room 4 SYMPOSIUM: Ant responses to anthropogenic disturbance and climate change: Community structure and interactions with plants Chair: Alan Andersen
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ORAL SESSION: Conservation biology Chair: Vojtech Novotny 1700–1715
Ana Palma Diversity and Functional Characteristics of Seedling Communities Along a Secondary Forest Chronosequence
Louise Barnett Going feral: the colonisation of tropical environments by an invasive gecko
1715–1730
Claudia Paz Tree species and their association with soil properties in secondary forests
Bruno Cid Home-range size and avoidance behavior of reintroduced agoutis in Brazil
1730–1745
Aaron Shiels Shifts in invasive rodent communities following restoration of an endangered dryland forest, Maui Island, Hawaii Erica Pohnan Post-fire sapling survival at a tropical forest restoration site in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Corie Yanger Impacts of an invasive thrips on Hawaiian Myoporum reproduction and establishment
1745–1800
1800-1815
Chris Harwood Opportunities and constraints for development of Allanblackia spp. as a new cash crop for Africa
Robyn Wilson Factors affecting the distribution and abundance of the invasive crow in rural and urban landscapes
ORAL SESSION: Climate change & tropical trees Chair: Susan Laurance Martyna M Kotowska Aboveand belowground biomass, productivity and carbon sequestration in lowland rainforest transformation systems on Sumatra Akira Nakanishi Vertical stratification and host-size dependence of vascular epiphytes in a tropical montane forest Akiko Satake Nitrogen as a key regulator of mast flowering
Darren Bito Herbivore assemblages along an altitudinal gradient: indicators of climate change?
Petr Klimes Trophic ecology of canopy ant communities in a primary and secondary rainforest
Felicien Tosso African species distribution modeling and assessment of the impact of climate change
Inara Leal Effects of anthropogenic disturbance on ant-plant interactions in Brazilian Caatinga
Deborah Apgaua Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: the forgotten biome- Structure, diversity and future directions
Emilio Bruna Anthropogenic impacts on leaf-cutter ants (Atta) in Brazil's Cerrado and the consequences for plantanimal interactions Marcelo Tabarelli The Multiple Impacts of LeafCutting Ants and Their Novel Ecological Role in HumanModified Neotropical Forests
Yoko Ishida Factors influencing plant water-use in a tropical rainforest
Jim Wallace Clouding the issue: rain, forests and climate change
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Wednesday 23 July 2014 0730–2000 Registration and speakers support centre open Opening plenary session Venue: Hall A 0830–0910 Plenary Speaker: Dr Nigel Stork (Chair: Robin Chazdon) Concurrent sessions Conservation Biology Conservation & Development Room Hall A Meeting Room 2 SYMPOSIUM: Intelligent SYMPOSIUM: Postdesign: Managing conversion landscapes to improve conservation: the future of biodiversity Biodiversity and conservation ecosystem function in Chairs: David Edwards & emerging tropical Roman Carrasco landscapes Chair: William Foster Matthew Potts Re-reading William Foster Post0915–0930
0930–0945
0945–1000
tropical landscapes: policies, plantations and unintended consequences
conversion agricultural landscapes: failed forests or novel ecosystems?
Corey Bradshaw Countrylevel conservation investment reduces risk of biodiversity decline in tropical protected areas Zuzana Burivalova Logged forests are not all the same: thresholds of logging intensity for maintaining tropical biodiversity
Timm Döbert The impacts of fragmentation and alien invasions on native biological diversity in tropical lowland rainforest Lisa Denmead Does biodiversity loss from oil palm plantations impact production?
Roger Kitching Festschrift Meeting Room 1 SYMPOSIUM: Insect ecology & diversity Chair: Nigel Stork
Plant Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Meeting Room 3 ORAL SESSION: Functional traits Chair: Chris Baraloto
Meeting Room 4 SYMPOSIUM: The origin and future of tropical biodiversity: An evolutionary perspective Chair: Daniel Faith
Nigel Stork Insect ecology & diversity
Lucia Lohmann Using Lianas to Untangle the History of Tropical Ecosystems
Myron Zalucki From movement and egg laying in monarch butterflies to infinity and beyond
David Schellenberger Costa Evidence for trait filtering along environmental gradients and trait-neutral assembly at environmentally similar but spatially separated ecosystems Marion Pfeifer Leaf Area Index Dependencies On Climate and Disturbance in the Tropics
Naomi Pierce Hidden Diversity In The Arthropod Communities Of Nepenthes Pitcher Plants
David Tng Letting giants be an ecological framework for managing Australia's tropical giant trees
Elizabeth Stacy Elevation gradients as drivers of speciation in the Hawaiian landscape-dominant tree, metrosideros Joel Cracraft Diversification dynamics and assembly of the Amazonian avifauna
1000-1015 Pedro Higuchi Relationships between functional traits and demographic rates for tree species in an araucaria forest, Brazil
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1000-1030 Coffee break and posters Concurrent sessions Conservation Biology
Conservation & Development Meeting Room 2 SYMPOSIUM: Postconversion conservation: Biodiversity and ecosystem function in emerging tropical landscapes Chair: William Foster
Roger Kitching Festschrift Meeting Room 1 SYMPOSIUM: Insect ecology & diversity Chair: Nigel Stork
Plant Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: Traitbased trade-offs in tropical forests Chairs: Kaoru Kitajima & Sabrina Russo
Meeting Room 4 SYMPOSIUM: The origin and future of tropical biodiversity: An evolutionary perspective Chair: Lucia Lohmann
Kaoru Kitajima Ontogenetic shifts and concordance of functional traits and their association with tree demography in Panama Pimonrat Tiansawat Seed defensive traits in relation to adult light requirements, seed mass and seed persistence of 10 Macaranga species in Borneo Kyle Tomlinson Responses of savanna tree species seedlings to grass competition: geographical patterns, trade-offs, and functional traits
John Wiens Phylogenies, niche evolution, and the origin and future of tropical biodiversity
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Hall A SYMPOSIUM: Intelligent design: Managing landscapes to improve the future of biodiversity conservation Chairs: David Edwards & Roman Carrasco
1030–1045
David Edwards Intelligent design: Landscape configuration mediates tradeoffs between land-sharing and land-sparing agriculture Xingli Giam Can forested riparian buffers mitigate the impact of oil palm monoculture on freshwater biodiversity?
Felicity Edwards Functional diversity and the value of forests for agriculture
Melinda Laidlaw Mapping beta-diversity in Australian subtropical rainforest
Franziska Peter Forest fragmentation interferes with the natural control of herbivores by insectivorous birds
Jessie Wells Can multiobjective spatial planning enable conservation of biodiversity and flows of ecosystem services in Borneo?
Julie Hinsch Insect/plant interactions in oil palm plantations
Yves Basset Arthropod distribution in tropical rainforests: Contribution of horizontal, vertical and seasonal gradients to species diversity Louise Ashton What's up is up: Vertical stratification of moths is universal
1045–1100
1100–1115
Alison Shapcott Using DNA barcodes to assess phylodiversity and conservation of SE Queensland's rain forests Daniel Faith An expanded PD phylogenetic diversity toolbox integrates DNA barcoding into biodiversity assessments in the tropics
SYMPOSIUM: Tropical plant biodiversity science in the "big molecular" age advances, opportunities and challenges Chair: Darren Crayn 1115–1130
Alexander Anderson Landuse, Climate Change and Avian Ecosystem Services in
Eleanor Slade Preserving biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in oil
Akihiro Nakamura Betadiversity patterns along elevational gradients: a cross-
Christopher Baraloto Coordination of traits related to hydraulics with
Darren Crayn Linking large phylogenies and large biological datasets to
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the Montane Neotropics: Managing for Resilience
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Brett Scheffers Identifying hotspots of climate microrefugia under land-use change
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John Garcia-Ulloa A contextspecific and data-efficient approach for quantifying avoided biodiversity loss under REDD+
1200–1215
L Roman Carrasco Meeting future oil palm demands with minimal biodiversity loss
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David Wilcove Imperfect Policies for a Wildly Imperfect World
palm dominated landscapes: insights from a key ecological indicator group Chun Chia Huang Roosting and Trophic Ensembles of Bats Respond Differently to Coffee Agricultural Intensification in Southeast Asia Bea Maas Birds and bats affect multitrophic interactions and crop yield in cacao agroforestry landscapes
Matthew Struebig Bat diversity across landscape gradients in South East Asia: implications for designing managed areas Miriam Teuscher Enrichment plantings in oil palm plantations - an effective measure to restore biodiversity?
taxon and cross-continental approach
fundamental functional tradeoffs in tropical trees
advance botanical research and teaching
Chris Burwell The influence of altitude and latitude on tropical rainforest ant communities in eastern Queensland, Australia
Nathan Swenson The spatial distribution and demographic consequences of leaf venation diversity in tropical tree assemblages
Erica Odell Latitudinal responses of rainforest macro-moth assemblages along natural climatic gradients in Queensland, Australia Claire Ozanne What Dipteran communities tell us about Ethiopian forest fragments
Masahiro Aiba A comparative analysis of trait associations among forest types in Southeast Asia
W John Kress Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach Campbell Webb Using DNA barcode markers to reconstruct forest tree community assembly across the Indonesian archipelago
Terrence McGlynn Behavioral and ecological mechanisms of conspecific food robbing in the Neotropical ant Ectatomma ruidum
Catherine Yule Leaf litter nutrient dynamics of Shorea uliginosa and Koompassia malaccensis in a tropical peatswamp forest Sabrina E Russo A mechanistic dynamic energy budget model to predict tropical tree species distributions
Katharina Schulte Nextgeneration tropical biodiversity science and conservation - opportunities and challenges Maurizio Rossetto Functional phylogeography of Australian rainforests - exploring new questions in the genomics era
1230-1245 Joeri Sergej Strijk Colonization and diversification in the Western Indian Ocean: creating a phylogeographic synthesis
1230–1345
Lunch break and posters Biotropica Editorial Board Meeting (Meeting Room 2)
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Concurrent sessions Conservation Biology
Conservation & Development
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Hall A SYMPOSIUM: Intelligent design: Managing landscapes to improve the future of biodiversity conservation Chairs: David Edwards & Roman Carrasco
Meeting Room 2 SYMPOSIUM: Postconversion conservation: Biodiversity and ecosystem function in emerging tropical landscapes Chair: William Foster
1345–1400
Stuart Pimm Connecting habitat fragments in lowland coastal forests of Brazil - a biodiversity hotspot
Sarah Luke The impacts of forest logging and oil palm agriculture on stream invertebrates in Malaysian Borneo
Roger Kitching Festschrift & Landscape Ecology Meeting Room 1 SYMPOSIUM: Insect ecology & diversity Chair: Nigel Stork
Plant Ecology
Evolutionary Biology
Meeting Room 3 ORAL SESSION: Plant ecophysiology Chair: Joseph Holtum
Meeting Room 4 SYMPOSIUM: Tropical plant biodiversity science in the "big molecular" age advances, opportunities and challenges Chair: Darren Crayn
Yves Basset Density of insect galls in the forest understorey and canopy: Neotropical, Gondwanan or global patterns?
Joseph Holtum Acacia peuce: Australia's tallest desert tree
Andrew Thornhill Phylogenetically comparing tropical and savanna floras
SYMPOSIUM: Tracing functional and phylogenetic diversity to predict rainforest distribution through time Chair: Robert Kooyman 1400–1415
1415–1430
Sarah Papworth Gold mining and agricultural concessions drive forest degradation in the largest protected area in Myanmar Fiffy Hanisdah Saikim Tourists' Wildlife Viewing Preferences: Shaping What to Conserve and What Not?
Xingli Giam The conservation value of forested riparian buffers across multiple spatial scales: a global meta-analysis Norbert Kunert Road associated edge effects increase tree transpiration in a tropical moist lowland forest
Cecilia Dahlsjo Evolution And Body Size: Drivers Of Global Termite Patterns
Juan Manuel Posada Higher growth rates under constant than under variable light conditions in Abatia parviflora
Will Cornwell The relative importance of recent and ancient evolution for contemporary ecology
David Guez Sugar, colour and odour preferences in two tropical species of bees - Apis cerana and Trigona carbonaria
Bruce Webber A stinking problem: building towards a biocontrol solution for the invasive tropical vine, passiflora foetida
Robert Kooyman Landscape patterns in continental rainforest phylogenetic and functional signal: some conservation implications
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SYMPOSIUM: Tree rings in the tropics: An ideal sensor for climate change and plant responses Chair: Dieter Anhuf 1430–1445
Amrita Neelakantan The changing nature human pressures around Kanha National Park
Jessica Thorn Potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystem function in small-holder agroecosystems in Northern Ghana
Justine Jacquemin Spatiotemporal variation of ant distribution among ground layers in an Andean tropical forest
Edward Tsen Addressing the information gap at the core of tropical tree ring research
Shawn Laffan Spatially quantifying regional to continental to global patterns of diversity
ORAL SESSION: Evolutionary biology Chair: Lucia Lohmann 1445–1500
Federico Prado Conservation-development tradeoffs at different spatial scales in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Norman Lim Vertebrate scavengers control agents of human diarrhoeal diseases in oil palm plantations
Benjamin Kaluza Diversity Matters: How Landscape Related Resource Diversity Boosts Bee Fitness
Daniel Balanzetegui 13 18 Simultaneous d C and d O measurements to identify false rings in an Australian tropical conifer
Naoki Tani Partial selfincompatibility and/or inbreeding depression support Allee effect on dipterocarp mating system
Gerhard Helle Laser Microdissection-FlashPyrolysis-Gc-Irms: A New Method For Rapid High Precision Analysis Of 13C And 18O In Tropical Woody C3 And C4 Plants Pieter Zuidema Detecting effects of long-term Co2 increase on tropical trees: on tree rings, isotopes and isotopomers
Natalie Breidenbach Plant genetic diversity in tropical lowland rainforest transformation systems
ORAL SESSION: Fragmentation & landscape ecology Chair: Bill Laurance 1500–1515
Lahiru Wijedasa Peat Swamp Forest Conservation: Is there a future?
Matthew Luskin Cascading impacts from oil palm into remaining forests
Cristina Banks-Leite Testing the power of response traits for predicting species responses to habitat loss and degradation
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Andrea Larissa Boesing Matrix composition affects bird extinction thresholds in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
1530–1545
Candelaria Estavillo Forest loss and the biodiversity threshold: an evaluation considering species habitat requirements and matrix habitats
Yohan Pillon Phylogenomics of Metrosideros in Hawaii and the Pacific
Sean Reilly Evolutionary History and Conservation of Flying Lizards (Genus: Draco) from the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia
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Coffee break and posters Conservation Biology & Dry Forests Hall A SYMPOSIUM: Global dry forests: current and future research Chair: Terry Sunderland
Conservation & Development Meeting Room 2 ORAL SESSION: Conservation & development Chair: Steve Turton
Landscape Ecology
Wallacea
Evolutionary Biology
Meeting Room 1 ORAL SESSION: Fragmentation & landscape ecology Chair: Bill Laurance
Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: Wallacea a neglected biodiversity hotspot Chair: Jatna Supriatna Discussant: Jeffrey Sayer
Meeting Room 4 ORAL SESSION: Evolutionary biology Chair: Lucia Lohmann
Noelia Zafra-Calvo Enhancing Livelihoods and Effectiveness of Conservation Through Strategies of Sustainable Use: the Ruvuma Landscape Hemchandranauth Sambhu Butterfly farming in Iwokrama Forest and North Rupununi Savanna, Guyana, South America
Veronique Lefebvre Continuous Spatial Model of Edge Influence in Fragmented Forest Landscapes
Jatna Supriatna Primate Diversity in Wallacea and Its Conservation
Smarajit Ojah The Corridor of Conservation: Assessing the Role of the LaokhowaBurhachapori Wildlife Sanctuaries and the Brahmaputra River Islands of Assam, India as Wildlife Corridor Mason Campbell The Ecological Response of Lianas to Long-Term Tropical Forest Fragmentation
Pete Wood Identifying priorities and gaps for conservation in Wallacea: the CEPF Ecosystem Profile process
Sampath Seneviratne A peculiar biogeographic history for a flameback woodpecker (dinopium benghalense) revealed through high throughput sequencing Laura Simmons Patterns of genetic diversity for iconic swamp orchid Phaius australis in Australia
Felix Lim Fragmented habitat loss affects species-area relationships
Yves Laumonier Designing large-scale land allocation and conservation programs in Wallacea region: revisiting Moluccas Seram Island priorities Hilda Lionata Rethinking conservation strategies in Wallacea: on the ground experiences of Burung Indonesia
1615–1630
Karina Banda Vegetation in seasonally dry regions of the tropics: floristics and biogeography
1630–1645
H Shivaramaiah Dattaraja The structure and dynamics of a seasonally dry tropical forest in Southern India
1645–1700
Houria Djoudi Dry Forests And Livelihoods: A Review?
1700–1715
Dominica Harrison Distinct hyperspectral mapping of tropical dry forest vegetation species in the thermal infrared (8µm-14µm)
Roberto Cazzolla Gatti The impact of selective logging and clearcutting on forest structure, tree diversity and above-ground biomass of African tropical forests Mareike Roeder Phylogenetic clustering increases with succession for lianas in a Chinese tropical montane rain forest
1715–1730
Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa Phenological and water use efficiency responses of tropical dry forests in the Americas
Iris Motzke Effects of common management and landscape context on pollination services and yield in tropical homegardens
Gary Palmer Impacts of rainforest fragmentation on vertebrate seed predators and rates of seed predation
James Langston Extractive industries, infrastructure and conservation in Wallacea
Suzan Benedick Genetic structure and biodiversity of Mycalesis orseis (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae) isolated populations in managed landscapes Pierre Taberlet Power and limitations of DNA metabarcoding for biodiversity monitoring in the tropics Conrad Hoskin The roles of pre- and postzygotic isolation in generating speciation in a frog hybrid zone
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ORAL SESSION: Extractive industries Chair: James Langston 1730–1745
1745–1800
Lucienne Wilmé Dry forests in Madagascar, neglected and under pressure
Fernanda Resende Couto Sub-aerial communities emerging on artificial module contaminated by iron mining tailings: bioassays in the laboratory Nimal Gunatilleke Ecological Traits Underpinning Sustainable Management of the Sri Lankan Agarwood Species, Gyrinops walla Gaertn. (Thymeliaceae)
Katja Rembold Consequences of rainforest transformation for plant diversity in Sumatra, Indonesia
Chris Margules Development and Conservation in Wallacea
Bendula Wismen An Evaluation the Herbarium Potential of the Penang Botanic Gardens, Malaysia
Wiske Rotinsulu Distribution and Conservation of the Tropical Palms of Sulawesi
1800-1815 Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono What can we learn from Western Indonesia in designing conservation programmes for Wallacea Region
Plenary Session Venue: Hall A 1800-1900 1900-2000
Conservation Committee Meeting (Chair: Pia Parolin) Plenary Speaker: Dr Tim Flannery (Chair: Bill Laurance)
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Thursday 24 July 2014 0800–1600 Registration and speakers support centre open Opening plenary session Venue: Hall A 0830–0910 Plenary Speaker: Dr Yadvinder Malhi (Chair: Lucia Lohmann) Concurrent sessions Conservation Planning Conservation & Climate Change Biology Development Room Hall A Meeting Room 2 Meeting Room 1 SYMPOSIUM: SYMPOSIUM: SYMPOSIUM: Impacts of Innovations in Ecosystem services climate change on conservation planning in approach to landscape tropical birds: Current the Asia-Pacific region restoration and knowledge and pressing Chair: Bob Pressey sustainable livelihoods uncertainties Chair: Hazel Consunji Chair: Jeffrey Brawn Rene Abesamis Realized Hazel Consunji The Stuart Pimm Elevational 0915–0930 Larval Dispersal Patterns And The Design Of Marine Reserve Networks In The Philippines
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0945–1000
Vanessa Adams Prioritizing management in protected areas: a weed management decision support tool for Kakadu National Park Anderson Sevilha Conservation in a biodiversity hotspot: an approach to conservation prioritization based on multiple taxonomic groups
Philippine National Greening Program: Challenges To Restoring Forests For Ecosystem Services Through Large-Scale Government Programs Jia Li How well does species-led ecosystem restoration deliver ecosystem services? Benjamin Brown Scaling-up community based ecological mangrove rehabilitation (CBEMR) to landscape levels in Indonesia
Ranges of Birds on a Tropical Montane Gradient Lag Behind Warming Temperatures
Jeffrey Brawn What does 35 years of population monitoring tell us about neotropical birds and climate change? Alexander Anderson Rapid Population Shifts in Australia's Tropical Montane Avifauna: Monitoring Responses to Climate Change 1000-1015 Teng Li Will climate change have greater ecological effects in tropical or arctic regions?
Research Methods
Forest Ecology
Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: Trends at tropical biological field stations: Is there a future and what is it? Chair: Ronald Swaisgood
Meeting Room 4 ORAL SESSION: Forest ecology Chair: Will Edwards
Ronald Swaisgood The future of field stations in the tropics
Will Edwards Long term records provide reliable benchmarks to assess future changes: a leaf litter case study
Elizabeth Losos Trends in tropical field station use and implications for long-term sustainability
Rhett Harrison Quantifying the effects of abiotic and biotic factors on leaf decomposition across tropical disturbance gradient Gbadamassi G O Dossa Role of wood traits and phylogeny in wood decomposition
Andrew Krockenberger The Daintree Rainforest Observatory: A Soil-ToAtmosphere Window On The Australian Wet Tropics
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1000-1030 Coffee break and posters Concurrent sessions Conservation Planning
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Hall A SYMPOSIUM: Innovations in conservation planning in the Asia-Pacific region Chair: Bob Pressey
1030–1045
Travis Sydes Integrated spatial planning in the Australian wet tropics: end users and visualization for spatial decision making Bob Pressey Conservation In Paradise: Prioritisation Of Management Actions On Tropical Islands
1045–1100
Conservation & Development & Landscape Restoration Meeting Room 2 SYMPOSIUM: Ecosystem services approach to landscape restoration and sustainable livelihoods Chair: Hazel Consunji
Climate Change Biology
Beria Leimona Dynamics of customary resource governance: agroforestation with voluntary carbon support in West Sumatra, Indonesia Stephen Elliott Suitability of the framework species method of forest restoration for carbon stock enhancement under REDD+
Michelle Reynolds Sea-level rise and storm-wave inundation of Pacific Island ecosystems
1100–1115
Alana Grech Planning for cumulative impacts in the Torres Strait
Noel Preece Can carbon sequestration support reforestation as a livelihood?
1115–1130
Matthew Struebig Spatial planning for the effects of climate and land-cover change on Borneo's terrestrial mammals April Reside Planning For Climate-Change Adaptation In The Australian Wet Tropics
Morena Mills Landscape Partnerships: Opportunities and constraints for forest conservation and restoration within the Atlantic Forest David Lamb Using ecosystem services to facilitate forest landscape restoration
1130–1145
Meeting Room 1 SYMPOSIUM: Impacts of climate change on tropical birds: Current knowledge and pressing uncertainties Chair: Jeffrey Brawn
Cagan Sekercioglu Effects of Climate Change on Tropical Birds
Research Methods & Crocodile Conservation & Wildlife Ecology Meeting Room 3 SYMPOSIUM: Trends at tropical biological field stations: Is there a future and what is it? Chair: Ronald Swaisgood
Forest Ecology
Vojtech Novotny Rainforest ecology in a tribal world: why should forest dwellers get excited about research stations? Glen Reynolds Embedding Science In Rainforest Conservation, Restoration And Landscape Planning: Lessons From Danum Valley
Pieter Olivier Multi-scale sampling boosts inferences from beta diversity patterns in coastal forests of South Africa
Meeting Room 4 ORAL SESSION: Forest ecology Chair: Will Edwards
Gonmadje Christelle Patterns of diversity and endemism of Atlantic rainforests of the Ngovayang massif (Cameroon)
ORAL SESSION: Global change biology Chair: Jeremy VanderVal
SYMPOSIUM: Bridging science and practice in crocodilian conservation Chair: Ruchira Somaweera
Luisa Otero Effects of recent climate warming on the reproductive phenology of Puerto Rican Anolis lizards Jeremy VanDerWal Climate Change Research: balancing 'publish or perish' with uptake and engagement
Hamish Campbell Predicting human attack-risk from crocodiles Majintha Madawala The Muggers of Sri Lanka Conflicts and Conservation
Laura Warman Functional diversity across a 'native to novel' gradient in Hawaiian rainforest communities Patrick Martin Climate and forest dynamics in tropical montane forests
Andreas Hemp Kilimanjaro under global change
Ruchira Somaweera Management implications of the impacts of invasive cane toads on populations of freshwater crocodiles in
Ulmar Grafe Bornean amphibians are mostly insensitive to logging, but severely threatened by conventional oil palm
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northern Australia
plantations
Geoff McClure The Relationship between Crocodile Farming and Crocodile Conservation in Australia
Robert Ewers Logging cuts invertebrate dominance of tropical rainforest ecosystem functions
SYMPOSIUM: Emerging approaches and issues in tropical reforestation Chair: Luke Shoo 1145–1200
Ilisapeci Lyons Planning For Climate Adaptation With Indigenous Peoples In The Mackay Whitsunday Region
Sharif Mukul Neglecting conservation value of degraded tropical landscapes? Tree diversity following shifting cultivation in the upland Philippines
Gemma Rutten Vertical and horizontal vegetation structure across a broad range of natural and disturbed habitat types on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
ORAL SESSION: The state of the tropics Chair: Steve Turton 1200–1215
Stuart Cowell Using Healthy Country Planning on indigenous lands in Australia
1215–1230
Erica McCreedy Spatial Tools to Support CommunityBased Planning and Adaptive Management on Indigenous Land and Sea Country
1230–1345 Lunch break and posters Concurrent sessions Conservation Planning
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Hall A SYMPOSIUM: Innovations in conservation planning in the Asia-Pacific region Chair: Bob Pressey
1345–1400
Peta Standley Planning by Doing: Co-generative Natural Resource Management Planning for Cape York
Ann Penny State of the Tropics: Is life in the world's tropical regions improving?
Prasit Wangpakapattanawong Applying indigenous and scientific knowledge of swidden cultivation to tropical forest restoration Mia Derhe Investigating the efficiency of reforestation approaches for restoring rainforest biodiversity and function
Terhi Riutta The impact of logging on tropical forest net primary productivity and carbon dynamics
Kwek Yan Chong Potential Impacts of Neotropical Cecropia Introduced to the Old World and Challenges in Eradication
Conservation & Development & Landscape Restoration Meeting Room 2 SYMPOSIUM: Emerging approaches and issues in tropical reforestation Chair: Carla Catterall
Climate Change Biology
Wildlife Ecology
Forest Ecology
Meeting Room 1 ORAL SESSION: Global change biology Chair: Dan Metcalfe
Meeting Room 3 ORAL SESSION: Wildlife behaviour & ecology Chair: Robyn Wilson
Meeting Room 4 ORAL SESSION: Forest ecology Chair: Will Edwards
Amanda Freeman Birdmediated seed dispersal in assisted regeneration of retired pasture
Beth Crase Incorporating spatial autocorrelation into species distribution models alters forecasts of climate
Patrick Hart Effects of cicadas on bird communication in a noisy tropical rainforest
Nazahatul Anis Amaludin Sensitivity of Ecological Niche Models for Tropical Trees to the Spatial Resolution of Soils
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1400–1415
Alison Green Linking Regional, Ecoregional and Local Scale Marine Spatial Planning in the Coral Triangle
1415–1430
Jorge Alvarez-Romero Planning for multiple objectives in coastal catchments in northern Australia: an operational framework for decisionmakers Rebecca Weeks Ten things to get right for conservation planning - in the Coral Triangle, and elsewhere
1430–1445
Sutthathorn Chairuangsri Application of the framework species method to initiate forest restoration on an opencast limestone mine Panitnard Tunjai Selecting framework tree species for restoring tropical forest ecosystems: combining characteristics and comprises
mediated range shifts Nathalie Butt Eucalypts in northern and tropical Australia face increasing climate stress Izabela Barata Designing a monitoring protocol for occupancy estimates and modeling on mountaintop amphibian species
Miyabi Nakabayashi Feeding Strategy of Frugivorous Carnivores in Borneo: Comparison with Frugivorous Primates Achara Simcharoen Female tiger home range size and prey abundance
Information Jaboury Ghazoul Devil in the Detail: Differential seedling responses to microtopography might explain species coexistence Meghna Krishnadas Habitat niches of trees along landscape-scale environmental gradients in the Western Ghats
Susan Cordell Restoring ecosystem function using hybrid ecosystems
Evan J Pickett The importance of changing climatic variability for tropical wildlife population growth rates
Gaius Wilson Foraging Relationships Between Elephants and Lantana camara Invasion in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, India
Tak Fung Environmental Stochasticity as an Essential Process Underlying Dynamic Patterns in Tropical Forest Biodiversity
Cristina Martinez-Garza Experimental restoration in three dry forests of Mexico: exclusions, direct seeding and plantings Margaret Mayfield Factors influencing early tree growth and mortality in a tropical rainforest reforestation experiment Khwankhao Sinhaseni Determining optimum spacing for forest restoration plantings
Carmen Montes Carbon stocks of tropical dry forests in the Colombian Caribbean region
Pietro Mello Conserving biogeography: habitat loss and vicariant patterns in endemic Squamates of the Cerrado hotspot Alastair Freeman Riparian habitat quality and the Gulf snapping turtle (Elseya lavarackorum) in northwest Queensland Gabriel J Colorado Ecological dynamic of a bird community in a lowland tropical forest in the Colombian Darien
Casey Cox Distribution and abundance of lianas in lowland rainforest: a first time study in Australian rainforest
ORAL SESSION: Conservation & development Chair: James Langston 1445–1500
Sadia E Ahmed Multi-scale tradeoff analysis of future Amazon deforestation
1500–1515
Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz Why did the elephant cross the road?
1515–1530
Christina Crespo Great Barrier Reef strategic assessment: a case study in sustainability?
1530–1545
Jose Manuel V Fragoso Modeling responses of socioecological systems
Galia Selaya Brazil Nut (Bertholletia excelsa) Dominates Terra Firme Forest Carbon Stocks In Southwestern Amazonia Daniel Metcalfe No evidence for long-term increases in biomass and stem density in the tropical rainforests of Australia
Jason Vleminckx Soil charcoal to assess the impacts of past human disturbances on tropical forests Danilo Boscolo Effects of landscape structure on native pollinators and its consequences for integrated agricultural landscapes management
Jarrah Wills Plant regeneration within secondary re-growth,
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within protected areas to population growth and external forest removal
1545–1615
Coffee break and posters Conservation & Development
mixtures and monocultures in the Philippines
Conservation & Development & Landscape Restoration Meeting Room 2 SYMPOSIUM: Emerging approaches and issues in tropical reforestation Chair: Amanda Freeman
Climate Change Biology
Wildlife Ecology
Forest Ecology
Meeting Room 1 ORAL SESSION: Global change biology Chair: April Reside
Meeting Room 3 ORAL SESSION: Wildlife behaviour & ecology Chair: Robyn Wilson
Meeting Room 4 ORAL SESSION: Forest ecology Chair: Will Edwards
Christos Mammides Methods of measuring interspecific associations in mixed-species bird flocks and their stability to habitat changes Khairul Nizam Kamaruddin Checklist of bats in Ibd Zoological Museum, Lanchang, Pahang, Malaysia
Tobias Smith Shifts in functional redundancy of predatory and flower-visiting flies across Australian tropical countryside landscapes Claire Wordley Habitat suitability modelling and functional diversity in a previously unstudied bat assemblage Seth Ganzhorn The effects of fragmentation on density and population genetics of a threatened tree species in a biodiversity hotspot
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Hall A ORAL SESSION: Conservation & development Chair: James Langston
1615–1630
Victoria Graham A more favourable side of REDD+
Luke Shoo Slow recovery of tropical forests on Australian old fields and the decision to actively restore
Isabel Rosa The carbon legacy of modern tropical deforestation
1630–1645
Stewart Macdonald Peripheral isolates as a storehouse of adaptive diversity under climate change Bruce Wannan Cape York Peninsula - a flora that illustrates the development of the Australian sclerophyll biota
Rhett Harrison Harapan Forest of Hope: Making restoration concessions a viable landuse option
Ferry Slik Large trees drive forest aboveground biomass variation in moist lowland forests across the tropics
Ratthaphon Amphon Science Based Education and Training for Furthering Forest Restoration
Rempei Suwa Allometric equations for estimating biomass for a native palm species Euterpe precatoria in the Amazon
1645–1700
Sophie Calmé Foraging strategy of a Neotropical primate: how intrinsic and extrinsic factors influence destination and residence time
Closing Plenary Speaker 8 and conference awards session: Dr Susan Laurance, President ATBC (Chair: Steve Turton) Venue: Hall A
Banquet 1830 onwards Cairns Esplanade
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