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Oral sessions

Session O1: Economics of biodiversity 1
Rodelio Subade, Evelyn Jugado: Effect of payment vehicles in contingent valuation survey for conserving endangered species and habitats of Northwest Panay Peninsula, Philippines
K K Kaushal: Nurturing joint forest management
Renata Saizaki, Tobias Wünscher: Designing conservation auctions in developing countries: insights from field experiments in Kakamega, Kenya
Adriana Ressurreicao, Jonathan Atkins, Melanie Austen, Daryl Burdon, Gareth Edwards-Jones, Tomasz Zarzycki: An economic valuation of marine biodiversity: a multi-case contingent study
Kristin Schröder, Jan Barkmann, Rainer Marggraf, Sandra Rajmis: Economic valuation of functional biodiversity services in Central German forest ecosystems
Katja Heubach, Karen Hahn-Hadjali, Julia Krohmer, Rüdiger Wittig: The economic importance of non-timber forest products for livelihood maintenance of rural communities in West African savannahs: a case study from Benin
Sandra Rajmis: Economic valuation of ecosystem services in middle-east German grassland ecosystems

Session O2: Biodiversity science and policy
Mandy Driver, Harry Biggs, Dirk Roux: Bridging the divide between science, policy and practice: lessons from the South African experience
Cécile Bidaud Rakotoarivony: Science’s role in the application of ecosystem services in Madagascar
Paul Hirsch: Making space for environmental problem solving
Wilbert Van Rooij: Biodiversity modelling as policy tool: national applications of GLOBIO3
Manuel Boissiere, Imam Basuki: Realistic or naïve participatory approaches? Local monitoring of biodiversity in fragmented landscapes: a case study from Laos
Xavier Le Roux: A new tool to better link biodiversity research and society in France: the Foundation for biodiversity research - FRB
Dirk Lohmann, Thomas Falk, Florian Jeltsch, Michael Kirk, Eva Rossmanith, Britta Tietjen: How do land reform beneficiaries decide on resource use? Empirical experiments based on an ecological-economic modelling approach

Session O3: Agrobiodiversity
Enoch Gbenato Achigan Dako, Sognigbe Ndanikou: Estimating the diversity of traditional vegetables in socio linguistic groups in Benin
Emmanuel orquebiau, Willem Ferguson: The biodiversity value of contrasted farming practices in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Basil Mugonola, Moses Isabirye, Brian Isabirye, Charles Nkwiine Mary-Silver Rwakaikara: Farm level economic evaluation of biodiversity enhancing technologies in agricultural production in Mukono District Uganda
Doreen Gabriel, Tim Benton, William E. Kunin, Steven M Sait, Sigrid Stagl: The spatial aggregation of organic farming in England and its underlying environmental correlates
Didier Bazile, J-L. Pham, J. Egg, A. Sidibe, E. Martinez, J. Negrete, J-P Muller, F bousquet, P bommel: Preparing a framework for participatory modelling of seed system: development of cross-disciplinary ontology
Carlos Teixeira, Tiago Domingos: Trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and agricultural production targets: the case of Castro Verde’s avifauna
Stewart Lockie, Carmen Benares, David Carpenter, Rebeka Freckleton: Biodiversity, markets and livelihood outcomes in the uplands of Negros Occidental, the Philippines

Session O4: Managing biodiversity with a social-ecological system focus
Miguel Fortes: New approach to biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia: integration of social-ecological systems in coral reefs, seagrass beds and mangroves
Luis García-Barrios, Claudia Brunel Manse, Juana Cruz Morales, Raul García Barrios, Andrew Waterman: A generic board-game addressing conflict and cooperation between stakeholders involved in managing land, forest and water in the buffer zone of a mega-diverse Biosphere Reserve.
Jerome Gaugris, Caroline Vasicek: Measuring the effects of rural human population dynamics on forest dynamics – 20 years of abuse and a way forward: a case study in Maputaland, South Africa
Phil René Oyono, Jesse Ribot, Bertin Tchikangwa, Andy White: Forest tenure, community rights and conservation strategies in francophone Africa: key issues and new challenges
Angelika Wilhelm-Rechmann, Richard Cowling: Furthering implementation of systematic conservation plans in the Eastern Cape, South Africa: social marketing, behaviour change and land use planning
Chloé Guerbois, Luc Doyen, Hervé Fritz: Elephants in the fields: a bio-economic model for meeting conservation and development objectives through source-sink management from protected area
Carla Gonzalez, Kurt Aargaard Nielsen, Cristina Branquinho, Rui Ferreira Santos: Transdisciplinary analysis of nature-society relationships for Mediterranean streams management

Session O5: Drivers of biodiversity 1
Sonja Matthee, Melodie McGeoch: The effect of habitat fragmentation on rodent macroparasite communities in the Cape Floristic Region
Eric Isaí Ameca y juárez, Lynsey Mcinnes, Andy Purvis: Landscape impermeability in amphibians: understanding current drivers shaping distributional limits
Fiona Ballantyne, Edmund February, Lindsey Gillson: Palaeoecology, fire management and vegetation dynamics in the Cederberg Wilderness Area
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Isabelle Côté, Nicholas Dulvy, Jennifer Gill, Andrew Watkinson: Regionwide declines in the architectural complexity of Caribbean Coral Reefs
Mordecai Ogada: Competition between Nile perch, otters and fishermen in littoral zone of Lake Victoria: an impending disaster?
Jonathan Belmaker, Walter Jetz: Environment and the local-regional richness relationships in terrestrial vertebrates

Session O6: Biological diversification
Mark Westneat: The power of tree visualization for biodiversity data integration
Franck Jabot, Jérôme Chave: Integrating phylogenies in models of community dynamics with special reference to tropical forests
Tania Hernández-Hernández, Susana Magallon, Enrique Martínez-Meyer: Origin and evolution of succulent plant diversity in Caryophyllales
Joel Cracraft: Toward a mechanistic description of biological diversification
Ramiro Aguilar: Reproductive and genetic consequences of habitat fragmentation in plant populations: what do we know after two decades of research?
Elena Conti, Barbara Keller: Does sexual organ placement contribute to reproductive isolation between heterostylous species?
Lucia Lohmann: A phylogenetic approach to understanding contemporary diversity patterns in Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae)

Session O7: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning 1
Eric Allan, Bernhard Schmid, Markus Fischer, Wolfgang Weisser: Generalising the biodiversity - ecosystem functioning relationship based on 520 measures from a single experiment
Albert Norström, Magnus Nyström, David Obura: Trait diversity in western Indian Ocean coral reef assemblages: assessing functional redundancy and response diversity
Raphael Y Kongor, Karen J Esler, Anne Horn, Cornelia B Krug: Combined floristic and functional approaches for the sustainable conservation of the highly transformed, species rich renosterveld shrubland of the fynbos biome
Francisco I Pugnaire, Cristina Armas, Robert B Jackson, Francsico M Padilla: Physiological mechanisms of competitive exclusion in a coastal sand dune system
Jon Norberg: A trait-based framework for linking global change to ecosystem services: implications for management
Björn Reu, Jonathan Adams, Kristin Bohn, Axel Kleidon, Ryan Pavlick: Understanding plant functional diversity from ecophysiological trade-offs using the Jena Diversity Model (JeDi)
Sheunesu Ruwanza, Karen Esler, Charles Musil: Soil nitrogen and phosphorus depletion as a mean of restoring degraded lowland fynbos ecosystems invaded by alien grasses

Session O8: Conservation planning 1
Harry Biggs, Sam Ferreira: Can thresholds help the beleaguered precautionary principle?
Melanie Mewes, Tadeusz Jan Chmielewski, Rob Van Apeldoorn, Riku Varjopuro, Frank Wätzold: Cost-effectiveness of managing Natura 2000 sites: an exploratory study for Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland
Olaf Weyl, Anthony Booth, Graham Traas: Cutting losses and aligning priorities in developing a management plan for freshwater fishes in a South African national park
Luc Doyen, Christophe Béné, Michel Bertignac, Fabian Blanchard, Olivier Thébaud: A co-viability model to ecosystem-based fisheries management
Adison Altamirano: Prioritizing conservation areas in temperate ecosystems of Chile: do target areas change in the face of climate change?
Karin Johst, Martin Drechsler, Astrid J A Van Teeffelen: Tradeoffs in conservation planning for dynamic landscapes
Rado Hanitriniaina Andriamasimanana, Hedley Grantham, Voninavoko Raminoarisoa: Prioritizing conservation management in Mahavavy-Kinkony Wetland Complex using decision support software and stakeholder participation

Session O9: Global environmental change and health
Götz Froeschke, Rainer Harf, Sonja Matthee, Simone Sommer: Effects of precipitation on parasite burden along a natural climatic gradient in southern Africa – implications for possible shifts in infestation patterns due to global changes
Jean-François Guégan, Benjamin Roche, Eric Benbow, Richard Merritt, Ryan Kimbirauskas, Mollie McIntosh, Heather Williamson, Pamela L. C. Small: Ecological interactions in local communities, disease transmission and health: Mycobacterium ulcerans transmission in Africa as a case-study
Margarita Lampo, Marina Calcagno, Mariella Márquez, Francisco Nava-González, Dinora A Sánchez: Frogs are able to clear infection from Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis under temperature optimum conditions for pathogen growth
Charles Lange, Thomas Kristensen, Henry Madsen: The impact of anthropogenic disturbances on freshwater gastropods of Lake Victoria, Kenya. Implications for biodiversity conservation and management of potential snail-borne diseases
Simone Bauch, Subhrendu Pattanayak, Erin Sills: Development, deforestation, and disease: how are deforestation and subsequent land uses related to malaria?
James Mills: Decreasing small mammal diversity and increasing human disease risk: a case study from the hantaviruses
Thomas Gillespie, Innocent Rwego: Environmental change and pathogen transmission between humans and wild apes

Session O10: Projecting 21^st century biodiversity change
Rob Alkemade, Michel Bakkenes, Mark Van Oorschot, Lera Miles, Ben ten Brink: Consequences of land use scenarios for global biodiversity
Wolfgang Cramer, Marlies Gumpenberger, Ursula Heyder, Ben Poulter, Anja Rammig, Kirsten Thonicke, Katrin Vohland: Changing climate, land use and fire in Amazonia during the 21^st century
Mariana Soppa, Douglas Gherardi, Ronald Souza: Brazilian coral biodiversity and its relation with climate variability
Mohammed Messouli, Abdelaziz Babqiqi, Asma El Alami El Filali: The sensitivity and vulnerability of aquatic habitats and species to climate change in Morocco
Henrique Miguel Pereira, Vânia Proença: Scenarios for biodiversity change in the 21^st century

Session O11: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning 2
Matilda Thyresson, Beatrice Crona, Maricela De La Torre Castro, Narriman Jiddawi, Magnus Nyström: Exploring socio-economic drivers in coral reef fisheries: a functional group approach
Jesús Ernesto Arias-González, José Luis Cabrera, Carlos González Gándara: Ecosystem functioning and biodiversity across reefscapes in Alacranes Reef, Campeche Bank, Mexico
Eoin O'Gorman, Mark Emmerson: Perturbations to trophic interactions and the stability of complex food webs
Peter De Ruiter, John Moore, Anje-Margriet Neutel: Dynamic soil food webs: the interplay between productivity, complexity and stability
Jasmin Godbold, Mark Bulling, Martin Solan: Effects of biodiversity and habitat structure on bioturbation intensity and nutrient generation
Claire Jouseau, Frédéric Jiguet, Sandrine Pavoine, Emmanuelle Porcher: The impacts of land-use and land management practices on French avian functional diversity
Ian Hatton, Michel Loreau: What is regulating the diverse populations of large African mammals?

Session O12: Drivers of biodiversity 2
Adam West, Todd Dawson, Edmund February: Drought responses in fynbos species: improving predictions for a highly diverse flora
Rivolala Andriamparany, Örjan Bodin, Thomas Elqmvist: Temporal dynamics of plant pollinator network in semi- arid agricultural landscape of Southern Madagascar: patterns of drought effect and responses seen on plant pollinator community
Bishnu Upreti: Impacts of armed conflict on biodiversity in Nepal
Rebecka Henriksson, Line Gordon, Regina Lindborg: Scenarios of future ecosystem services and land use in an agricultural dominated area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Yemi Akegbejo-Samsons: Sustainable aquaculture and fisheries production under extreme events: will Africa be able to cope?
Karen Kotschy, Kevin Rogers: Functional diversity and resilience of riparian vegetation under different land management
Peter Okoth, Jeroen Huising, Joseph Mung’atu, and Stephen Lchami: Distribution of soil organisms in diverse tropical ecosystems: the impact of land use on abundance, richness and diversity

Session O13: Conservation, conflicts resolution and development
Pamela McElwee: Is authoritarianism good (and democracy bad) for biodiversity?
Rakesh Kumar Maikhuri, Lakhpat Singh Rawat: Conservation policy and social conflicts in protected areas of the Himalaya and options for conflicts resolution: a case study from Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve (World Heritage Site), India
Sri Nurani Kartikasari, Stefanie Rixecker: Your biodiversity in my backyard: conservation-development disconnections in Sulawesi, Indonesia
Allwin Jesudasan, Devy Soubadra, R Ganesan, T Ganesh: Revisiting the "successful" Integrated Conservation and Development Project (ICDP) in Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, India
Bruce Campbell: When poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation agendas meet: the Miombo Woodlands of Southern Africa
Dawit Tesfamichael, Daniel Pauly, Tony Pitcher: Integrating Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) and ecosystem modelling to assess the past and predict the future of biodiversity in the Red Sea
Fred Makonese: Interactions between biodiversity conservation and smallholder communities in Zimbabwe

Session O14: Biodiversity and climate change
David Nogues-Bravo: Hindcasting species climatic niches
Nicole Inauen, Erika Hiltbrunner, Christian Körner: Biodiversity responses to elevated CO₂ in glacier forefield plant communities
Xavier Morin: Developing process-based models to predict woody species range shifts under global change: state of the art and perspectives
Douglas Meffert: Climate change, disasters, and the resilience of New Orleans: adaptation of ecosystem services in a dynamic urban and coastal landscape
Wendy Foden, Jean-Christophe Vié, Ariadne Angulo, Stuart Butchart, Lyndon DeVantier, Holly Dublin, Alexander Gutsche, Vineet Katariya, Susannah O'Hanlon, Tony Rebelo, Simon Stuart, Emre Turak and Georgina Mace: Assessing species vulnerability to climate change
Hisashi Sato: Simulation of the vegetation structure and function in a Malaysian tropical rain forest using the individual-based dynamic vegetation model SEIB-DGVM

Session O15: Analysing patterns and trends
Bettine Van Vuuren, Richard Estes, Conrad Matthee, Terence Robinson, Pedro Vazpinto: Phylogeography of sable antelope: model to understand Southern African biogeography
Mark Costello, Ward Appeltans, Philippe Bouchet, Geoff Boxshall, Christian Fauchald, Dennis Gordon, Bert Hoeksema, Gary C.B. Poore, Rob van Soest, Sabine Stöhr, Chad Walter: How authoritative inventories of species may accelerate their rate of discovery?
Bruno Danis, Claude De Broyer, Hendrik Segers: Quantifying Antarctic marine biodiversity and richness using SCAR-MarBIN
Carlo Heip, Karline Soetaert, Phil Weaver: Marine biodiversity and ecosystems at the european margins: results from the HERMES project
Pascale Chesselet: The Global Plants Initiative – a Paris Herbarium perspective
Charles Griffiths: Marine biodiversity in South Africa – evaluating the state of knowledge
Jörg Freyhof, William Darwall, Maurice Kottelat, Kevin Smith: First ever complete assessment of European freshwater fishes reveals unexpected high threat levels

Session O16: Biodiversity governance
Philippe Le Prestre: Global biodiversity governance after 2010
Thomas Binet, Pierre Failler: The valuation of West African marine biodiversity: a case for reconnecting science and policy
Fiona Paumgarten: What do poverty reduction strategy papers mean for biodiversity and rural livelihoods in Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania?
Martha Cecilia Chaves, Jessica De Koning, Ricardo Reguera, Freerk Wiersum: Certification of indigenous community forest enterprises in the Amazon
Dirk Roux, Harry Biggs, Liesl Hill, Kevin Murray: From scorecard to reflective assessment: a new approach to promoting multi-agency cooperation for effective freshwater conservation
Nadine Fritz-Vietta, Susanne Stoll-Kleemann: Community-based natural resource management: the relevance of leadership and positive incentives for members of local associations
Lauren Urgenson, Karen J Esler, Heidi Prozesky: Multi-stakeholder assessment of alien invasive plant clearing on private land in the Western Cape, South Africa

Session O17: Conservation planning 2
Salit Kark, Hedley Grantham, Noam Levin, Hugh Possingham: The importance of regional collaboration for biodiversity conservation: what can we learn from the Mediterranean Basin?
Lize Joubert, Michael Samways: Conservation value of large-scale ecological networks in afforested areas in South Africa
Sara Borgström: Reconsidering nature conservation in the era of urbanisation
Monica Andrade-Morraye: Land cover changes and emerging infectious diseases in Southeastern Brazil: Brazilian Purpuric Fever, Brazilian Spotted fever and Hantaviruses
Yann Tremblay: Biologging and conservation biology
Rainer M Krug, David M Richardson, Núria Roura-Pascual: Towards more efficient management of invasive alien plants: spatial prioritisations
Pierluigi Bozzi, Silvia Granata, Francesca Radin: Traditional knowledge and "equitable efficiency" in African countries: a methodological approach within the context of the Convention of Biological Diversity

Session O18: Ecological restoration
Irene M Cardoso, M Ivanilda De Aguiar, Helton N De Souza, Edivania Mg Duarte, Rafael Ba Fernandes, Eduardo S Mendonça: Agroforestry systems can help restoring the Atlantic Coastal Rainforest biodiversity
Peter Haase: Biological response on river rehabilitation: do rehabilitation measures increase biodiversity?
Yosihiro Natuhara: Restoration of wetland biodiversity in traditional agricultural landscape, Satoyama in Japan
Rui Mota, Tiago Domingos: Niche construction, resilience and restoration ecology: managing regime shifts in semi-arid regions
Víctor Avila-Akerberg: Forest quality in Mexico City: assessment towards ecological restoration of ecosystem services
Ankila Hiremath, Bharath Sundaram: Lantana removal and barriers to native species restoration in South Indian tropical deciduous forests
David E Williams: On-farm conservation of indigenous crops contributes to rural development goals in the Ecuadorian Andes

Session O19: Biodiversity indicators
Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb, Veronika Gaube, Fridolin Krausmann, Christoph Plutzar: Socio-economic drivers of biodiversity: the utility of resource use indicators
Simon Ferrier, Daniel Faith, Glenn Manion, Dan Rosauer, Janet Stein, Kristen Williams: Adding value to remotely-derived indicators of biodiversity change through modelling of spatial patterns in biological composition
Hiroyuki Matsuda, Taku Fujita, Tetsukazu Yahara: Quantitative projection of plant species loss for 1697 taxa of Japanese vascular plants and its implication for achieving the 2010 biodiversity target
Kristen J Williams, Susan E Cameron, Daniel P Faith, Chris R Margules, David K Mitchell: Systematic conservation planning and the 2010 Biodiversity Target: integrating biodiversity and socio-economic factors in Papua New Guinea
David Vackar, Bedrich Moldan: Biodiversity in sustainability indicators and environmental accounting
Rina Grant-Biggs, Judith Kruger, Karen Vickers: Developing an index of heterogeneity as an indicator of biodiversity for the Kruger National Park
Dian Spear, Elrike Marais, Melodie McGeoch: Challenges to the development of a global indicator for invasive alien species

Session O20: Economics of biodiversity 2
Rodrigo Arriagada: Payments for environmental services and their impact on forest transition in Costa Rica
Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Marina García-Llorente, Berta Martín-López: Hidden values in ecosystems services: a comparative analysis of preference outcomes obtained through monetary and non-monetary valuation methods
Goetz Schroth: Sustaining livelihoods in conservation landscapes through ecosystem service rewards – examples from Mexico and Brazil
Roland Olschewski, Alexandra Maria Klein, Teja Tscharntke: Assessing trade-offs between ecosystem services
John Tschirhart: Deriving growth functions for harvesting with multiple species
Tomasz Zarzycki, Melanie Austen, Tomaz Dentinho, Maarten Punt, Adriana Ressurreição, Anna Szaniawska: Combining biological and economic valuation approaches to valuing marine biodiversity in the Polish part of the Gulf of Gdansk, Baltic Sea

Session O21: Monitoring biodiversity
Jeroen Huising, Cares Juvenille, James Kimenju, K.G. Saxena, Gnonhouri Philippe, Franco Navvaro, Gede Swibawa, Peter Okoth, Joseph Mung’atu: Using nematode functional group abundance as soil quality indicators in tropical agroecosystems
Christian Huettich, Stefan Dech, Tobias Fox, Ursula Gessner, Manfred Keil, Michael Schmidt: Remote sensing for mapping vegetation types and dynamics in savannah ecosystems of Namibia: concepts for integrated vegetation diversity assessments
Joyce Mnyazi Jefwa, Sydney Stumer, Balakishna, Susan Serani, Lucia Varela, Jeroen Huisisng, Peter Okoth, Joseph Munga’tu, Stephen Lchami: Can arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) be indicators of soil quality?
Maria Ana Dionísio, Ana Cristina Costa: Costal area management of small islands in Azores - biological indicators
Katharina Sabellek, Wilhelm Barthlott, Sylvestre Da, Tobias Landmann, Jan Henning Sommer: Integrating potential plant distribution and land cover change: qualifying and monitoring actual habitats of forest species in West Africa
Vera Ryzhkova, Irina Danilova, Michael Korets: GIS-based monitoring of forest ecosystem dynamics and biodiversity
Debora P Drucker, Rolf A De By, Carlos A Joly: Human understanding of biodiversity: representation of inventories with database systems to support conservation strategies

Session O22: Managing for ecosystem services
Marcel Kok, Laszlo Pinter, Anne Gerdien Prins, Stephen Tyler, Rob Alkemade: Mainstreaming ecosystem goods and services in international policies: making the connections and showing the options
Pablo Imbach, Bruno Locatelli: Synergies and trade-offs between local and global ecosystem services in Costa Rica
Michael McClain, Margaret Abira, Robert Naiman, Jay O'Keeffe, Doris Ombara, Amanda Subalusky: A river environmental flow regime to support people and ecosystems in the Mara-Serengeti ecoregion, Kenya/Tanzania
Kerrie Wilson: Conserving biodiversity in production landscapes
Muhammad Mushahid Anwar: Recreational opportunities and amenities from ecosystem services generated by public parks in megacity Karachi-Pakistan
Graeme Cumming, Matthew Child: Linking biodiversity and ecosystem services: a functional perspective
Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Raquel Casas-Nogales, José A González, Berta Martín-López: Characterizing ecosystem functions and services generated by transhumance in a Mediterranean landscape