ESA 2004 Conference Summary

498 delegates attended ESA 2004 at the University of Adelaide, 7-10 December 2004.

The opening Plenary Symposium was highly rated, with speakers Pickett, Hobbs, Austin, Underwood and Krebs providing stimulating views on their “Lessons from Experience”.  Eight other Symposia throughout the Conference provided focal points for detailed debate on key topics: 

The ecology of roads, traffic and infrastructure corridors
The conservation challenge of dispersive fauna
New applications of ecological theory
Revegetation and ecological functionality
Pollination Biology and Conservation of the Australian Flora
Fire ecology
Measuring the ‘success' of ecological restoration projects
The ecology of urban environments

The FINAL PROGRAM is available as a spreadsheet HERE

Student prizes at ESA 2004  - click on the title for the extended abstract (PDF)

ESA Marilyn Fox Award for best inaugeral presentation at a conference: Alice Bjursell

Determining reproductive state of female Julia Creek dunnarts (sminthopsis douglasi) by behavioral observations

ESA Best spoken paper at the conference: Karen Marsh

ESA Best Poster:  Alison Miller
"Being Eaten: What's more Influential - You or Your Neighbour?"

ESA Best spoken paper runner-up: Natasha Wiggins
Filming Foraging Folivores - Effects of PSM's & Plant Spacial Arrangement on Brushtail Possums

ESA Best poster runner-up: Robyn Sinclair
Evolutionary Ecology of Leaf Mining: A Survey of Abundance & Distribution

Blackwell/EMR prize for a spoken presentation on management or restoration: Julia Cooke
The Ecology of Ward's Weed: A weed of the Southern Rangelands of Australia

Blackwell/EMR prize for a poster presentation on management or restoration: Janet Newell
Are Soil Seed Banks Affected by the Reintroduction of Bilbies & Bettongs?

Society for Conservation Biology Prize for a spoken paper on conservation - joint award: Liana Joseph
Optimal Monitoring Strategies for Listing Threatened Species

Society for Conservation Biology Prize for a spoken paper on conservation - joint award: Monika Rhodes
Application of Network Theory to the Conservation of Habitat Trees in Suburban Environments

Society for Conservation Biology Prize for a poster paper on conservation: Peter Turner
Impacts of Bridal Creeper - Implications of Restoration

Australian Flora Foundation prize for a spoken paper on the biology or cultivation of an Australian plant: John Hall
Weevil Pollination of Australian Cycad Lepidozamia peroffskyana

Rainforest CRC prize for best presentation on a rainforest topic: Jessie Wells
Spacial Ecology of Regeneration in Secondary Rainforests: Seed Dispersal & Ecological Traits in Plant Species