Scientific program
After a deluge of technical problems with our website (apologies to all for the delays), the final draft scientific program is finally here, and is available in three different formats:
1. a one-page overview table, which outlines the timing plenary sessions, symposia, open sessions, social functions and breaks
2. a four-page summary table which lists all speakers for each day, as well as the information in the one-page overview, but does not include talk titles
3. a fourteen-page listing of all talks, giving time, authors and titles.
A list of poster presenters is also available.
Symposia
There are nine symposia at this year's conference:
- Insect-plant interactions: from pollination to decomposition
Convenors: Heloise Gibb and Nigel Andrew - Plant-pollinator interactions: shaping populations and structuring communities
Convenors: Glenda Wardle, Yvonne Davila, Simone Simpson - Ecological responses to fire
Convenors: Carola Kuramotto de Bednarik, Lyndsey Vivian, Adam Leavesley - Marine and terrestrial invasions, taxonomic impediments, impacts on native ecosystems and control measures
Convenors: Pat Hutchings, Melanie Bishop - Native seeds - germinating science for revegetation success
Convenors: Penny Atkinson, Paul Gibson-Roy, Melinda Pickup - OZPACS: retrospective assessment of the condition of Australian ecosystems
Convenors: Peter Gell - Ecosystem services
Convenors: Nick Reid and Rhiannon Smith - Biological responses to climate change: beyond the niche
Convenor: David Keith - The ecology of cities
Convenor: Ross Coleman
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Plenary speakers
We have five outstanding plenary speakers:
- Prof. Meg Lowman (Director of Environmental Initiatives, New College of Florida)
“Down Under at the Top - 40 Years of Advances in Forest Canopies” - Prof. Joel Brown (Univ. Illinois, Chicago)
“Predator-Prey Foraging Games: Traveling the World in Search of Fear” - Prof. Jane Lubchenco (Oregon State Univ.)
“Ecological Science for Sustainable Well-Being” - Assoc. Prof. John Bruno (Univ. North Carolina)
“Climate change and coral reef resilience: are we expecting too much from marine reserves?” - Prof. Rick Shine (Australian Federation Fellow, Univ. Sydney)
"Cane toads in Australia: biology, impact and control"
All speakers will be around all week for discussions with delegates.
Social program
Our social program includes:
Sunday 30th November, 5 - 7 pm, a pre-conference mixer
Monday 1st December, 5.30 - 7 pm, poster session (with drinks)
Thursday 4th December, 7 pm onwards, conference dinner with guest speaker, ARC Federation Fellow and Eureka prize-winner, Professor Stephen Simpson (University of Sydney) talking about "Swarms, cannibals, obesity and ageing: some pre-dinner nutritional ecology”. In keeping with Steve's talk and field of research, fried grasshoppers will be an optional hors d'ouvre.
Free Exhibit “It’s only natural: ecology in Australia”
To coincide with the conference a special rare books exhibit will be held in the University’s Fisher library.
Entitled “It’s only natural: ecology in Australia”, the exhibition uses the University’s rare books collection to track the emergence of ecology as a scientific discipline from its foundations in natural history, highlighting Australian contributions.
Other events are being scheduled include special viewings at some of the many museums on campus.
Links to other events
'Science Under Siege' Saturday November 29
presented by Royal Zoological Society of NSW (www.rzsnsw.org.au)
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