Abstract booklet - gtö – Society for Tropical Ecology

18THURSDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 2011 | MORNINGDETAILED SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME | AFTERNOON | THURSDAY, 24 FEBRUARY 201119Hall H IIIHall H III Hall H III9:10 Plenary: KeynoteDoyle McKey | Agroecology, resilience and tropical biodiversity: what do past and presentAmazonian farmers tell us?Chair: Karl Wantzen p 12010:00 Parallel sessionsHotspot Wallacea p 121Chair: Stefan Merker, Sebastian Klaus10:00 Hotspot Sulawesi: tarsier diversitymirrors Wallacea‘s troubled past;Stefan Merker10:15 The biogeography of Sulawesi - isthere evidence for a vicariant originof taxa on the island? Björn Stelbrink10:30 Diversity & endemism of Sulawesiwater monitors: implication for conservationefforts of a highly exploitedCITES (...); Andre Koch10:45 Past, present & future of Borneancarnivores; Andreas Wilting11:00 Coffee breakTropical Ecologists at Work p 133Chair: Manfred Niekisch11:30 KfW Development Bank - opportunitiesfor tropical ecologists;Peter Hilliges11:45 IUCN- the International Union for Conservationof Nature;Hans Friederich12:00 OroVerde - Tropical Forest Foundation- opportunities and challengesof small NGOs;Elke Mannigel12:15 Examples from the Frankfurt Insitute:Biodiversity and Climate ResearchCentre (BiK-F); Georg Zizka12:30 Consulting firms - opportunities forworking in the field of developmentcooperation; Wolfgang Scharm,GOPA12:45 Broad-based expertise for sustainabledevelopment – under one roofGIZ - Gesellschaft für InternationaleZusammenarbeit; Harald LossackHall H IVHall H IVFree Contributions p 128Chair: Meike Piepenbring10:00 Ecological impact of Prosopis speciesinvasion in Turkwel Riverine Forest,Kenya; Gabriel Muturi10:30 Tree-grass competition in savannadepending on organic & mineral nutrients;Judith Sitters10:45 Biogeography & cenozoic climatechange: on the occurrence of tropicalforms in Grube Messel & othermid-latitude fossil sites; Krister T.SmithAnthropogenic Influences p 144Chair: Doyle McKey11:30 Resilience of ecological services inhuman modified types in South Africa;Eike Lena Neuschulz11:45 Forest regeneration dynamics indifferently modified South Africanscarp forests; Alexandra Botzat12:00 Disentangling small-scale variabilityin tree growth, herbivore distribution& herbivore-antagonist interactionsin reforestation plantations onformer tropical pasture;Karsten Mody12:15 Ant diversity vs. single species dominancein Indonesian cocoa plantations;Arno Wielgoss12:30 Bird diversity & feeding guild compositionalong a tropical forestfarmlandgradient in western Kenya;Ronald Mulwa12:45 Impact of anthropogenic pressureon the population structure of Anogeissusleiocarpa within Wari-MaroForest Reserve in Benin; AchilleEphrem Assogbadjo14:25 Plenary: KeynoteMichael Bruford | Genetic diversity and tropical biodiversity conservation:neglected component or needless distraction?Chair: Heribert Hofer p 15015:15 Parallel sessionsAndean Biodiversity Hotspot II p 151Chair: Jörg Bendix, Erwin Beck15:15 Functional soil-landscape modelling- estimating slope stability in asteep Andean mountain forest region;Mareike Liess15:30 Influence of shallow landslides onforest dynamics in a South Ecuadoriantropical montane forest;Claudia Dislich15:45 Implications of land-use change& pasture-fertilization on soil microbialactivities & communities ina mountain rainforest region of s.Ecuador; Karen Potthast16:00 Coffee break16:30 Regeneration of abandoned pasturesin South Ecuador;Kristin Roos16:45 Simultation of net photosynthesisof two competing species, thesouthern bracken & the pasturegrass Setaria sphacelata, in tropicalmountain ecosystem; Brenner Silva17:00 Neotropical C3/C4 grass distribution- present, past & future;Laurent Bremond17:15 Effects of grass competition & fertilizationon root length & biomassallocation of native tree speciesfrom Ecuador; Paula Loaiza17:30 Application of native arbuscularmycorhizal fungi for reforestationwith native tree species in SouthEcuador; Claudia Krüger17:45 Growth performance of six nativetree species planted at three successionalsites in the Andes of SouthEcuador; Ximena PalomequeHall H IIIHall H IIILink for Survival p 161Chair: Christof Schenck, Antje Müllner15:15 The great green Macaw: Conservationbiology for the implementationof a transboundary biological corridorin the lower watershed of the SanJuan River (Costa Rica/Nicaragua);Monika Melisch15:30 Adding a distribution modelling toolfor conservationists to the AfricanOdonata database; Nirmal Ojha15:45 How to estimate the conservationstatus of vascular plants in a smallscale area? A case study in East Africanrain forests; Katja Rembold16:30 The cutting edge of sustainability:explorations of Amphibian functionaldiversity in selectively loggedsilvicultural systems of the GuianaShield; Monique Hölting16:45 Spider species richness in cacaoagroforestry systems, comparingvertical strata, local management &distance to forest; Kathrin Stenchly17:00 Understanding impacts of fragmentation& human disturbance ontree species community in tropicalforest fragments; Sandro Pütz17:15 Habitat threshold effects on geneticdiversity & differentiation: empiricalevidence from specialist species inthree Atlantic forest landscapes;Niko Balkenhol17:30 Economic incentives for mitigatingfragmentation & edge-effects inthe Brazilian Atlantic forest;Florian Hartig17:45 Behavioural Ecology and Conservationof grey-shanked douc monkeys(Pygathrix cinerea) in the Central ofVietnam; Long Ha ThangHall H IIIHall H IVHall H IV13:00 Lunch break19:30 Dinner & awards | Café „Sturm und Drang“ at Campus WestendPublic transport: U1, U2, U3 (Stop:„Holzhausenstraße“); Bus 75/36 fromBockenheimer Status and future Warte of tropical (Stop: biodiversity „Uni Campus | Frankfurt, Westend“) 21 - 24 February 2011