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14WEDNESDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2011 | AFTERNOONSCIENTIFIC POSTER SESSION | WEDNESDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2011 | AFTERNOON15SCIENTIFIC POSTER SESSION WEDNESDAY 16:00 FOYERAbstracts in alphabetical order p 1171-240Topic 1: African Savannas Biodiversity - Past, Present, Future:1.1 Modelling spatial patterns of savannas in Central African Republic;Julie Aleman1.2 Demographic performance of woody plants in semi-arid savannas under human impact in Northern Benin; Katrin Jurisch1.3 How strong is the West African savanna vegetation affected by humanland-use? A comparison between a protected and a communal area;Katharina Schumann1.4 The evolution of Savanna grasses: A case study on the evolutionary history ofAndropogoneae; Gaelle Bocksberger1.5 Phylogenetic and phylogeographic analyses of African and Arabian Dorcasgazelles (Gazella dorcas); Hannes Lerp1.6 The West African Vegetation Database; Marco SchmidtTopic 2: The Andean Biodiversity Hotspot and its Future:2.1 A Holocene pollen-record reflecting vegetation, climate, and fire variability ina high-altitudinal ecosystem of the south Ecuadorian Andes; Nele Jantz2.2 Rainfall distribution in the Andes of southern Ecuador derived from blendingweather radar data and meteorological field observations; Rütger Rollenbeck2.3 Climate change in the central Andes of southern Ecuador – a modelling perspective; Jörg Bendix2.4 Tree growth dynamics of Poylepis forests during the dry season along a humidity gradient in the Peuvian Andes; Sabine Remmele2.5 The variation of wood specific gravity and aboveground biomass along gradientsof topography and elevation in the Andes of southern Ecuador; JürgenHomeier2.6 Influence of climatic conditions on the nutrient status of trees in a humidforest in southern Ecuador; Darwin Pucha Cofrep2.7 Data handling and analysis of new emission databases for matter depositionin the tropical mountain forest; Sandro Makowski2.8 Characterisation of some native arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi formingsymbioses with trees native to South Ecuador; Claudia Krüger2.9 Competition-growth-relationship of Cedrela montana (Meliaceae) insouthern Ecuador in a natural forest management experiment; SusanneSpannl2.10 Arbuscular mycorrhizal communities of Cedrela seedlings and trees inreforestation plots and pristine forest; Ingeborg Haug2.11 The Importance of nitrogen for tree seedling Nutrition along an elevationaltransect of Andean forests in South Ecuador; Bärbel Wittich2.12 Cultural Key Species for biocultural conservation in the Bolivian Andes;Regine Brandt1732012301812112272002251802242262212132092341972391822.13 Collection and use of field spectral data for land cover change detection in atropical mountain forest; Giulia Curatola2.14 Balloon aerial photography applied to the investigation of the southernbracken; Brenner Silva2.15 Deriving spatial Leaf Area Index-data for a tropical research area in theEcuadorian Andes as input for a SVAT-Model, Results and future prospects;Boris ThiesTopic 3: Biodiversity & Economy:3.1 For free, still available - but threatened: The economic contribution ofsavanna woodlands to rural livelihoods in northern Benin; Katja HeubachTopic 4: East African Mountain Forests: Functional Ecology and SustainableManagement4.1 Diversity of stem epiphytes in montane rainforests of Rwanda – The influenceof altitude and anthropogenic disturbance; Carolin Thiel4.2 Do tropical evergreen conifer trees grow continuously? - Intercontinentalcomparison of Podocarpaceae family; Julia Krepkowski4.3 Response of a key agroforestry species Sclerocarya birrea to climate variabilityin East and West Africa: detected from stable carbon and oxygen isotopesin tree rings; Aster Gebrekirstos4.4 Rehabilitation of degraded natural forests by enrichment planting of fournative species in Ethiopian highlands; Reinhard Mosandl4.5 Conservation and management of mountain forests through education-Mountain Forestry Master Program at BOKU, Vienna; Cordula LennkhTopic 5: Ecological Networks and Ecosystem Functioning5.1 Interactions between Carollia castanea and Piper sp.; Saskia Rehse5.2 Characterization of the oral microbiota of frugivorous bats in the Neotropics;Benjamin Stegmann5.3 Requirements for successful food acquisition: Calcium cycling in thesoil-fig-bat compartment of a neotropical rain forest on spatiallyheterogeneous substrate in Panama; Tobias Messmer5.4 Soil nutrients and water availability shaping species distributions in tropicalforests; Delicia Rayda Pino Garay5.5 Geological substrate determines tree species and trait distributions in Africantropical moist forests; Delicia Rayda Pino Garay5.6 Biodiversity vs. species identity: Ant community effects on leaf herbivoresand spider guilds in Indonesian cacao plantations; Hannes Seidel5.7 Biomass estimations in forests of different disturbance history in the AtlanticRainforest of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; André Lindner183232237198236208193172210222235217220221231212gtöSociety for Tropical Ecology | Gesellschaft für Tropenökologie e.V. Status and future of tropical biodiversity | Frankfurt, 21 - 24 February 2011