Abstract booklet - gtö – Society for Tropical Ecology

10TUESDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2011 | MORNINGDETAILED SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME | AFTERNOON | TUESDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2011 11Hall H IIIHall H IIIHall H III9:10 Plenary: KeynoteAlison Cameron | Biodiversity data mining and modelling: prospects for biodiversity inMadagascar, a tropical biodiversity hotspot;Chair: Eduard Linsenmair p 4310:00 Parallel sessionsBiodiversity & Economy p 44Chair: Manfred Niekisch10:00 The economics of ecosystems andbiodiversity: insights into the relationship of environment & economy;Carsten Nesshöver10:15 Enhancing biodiversity within palmoil: butterflies, stakeholders and theconsumer; Ellie Lindsay10:30 Balancing society’s priorities: reconcilingconflicting land uses in Indonesia;Jaboury Ghazoul10:45 Coffee breakTropical Aquatic Ecosystems p 50Chair: Pia Parolin, Matthias Wantzen11:15 How do rivers work? Tropical limnologyprovides new insights;Karl Matthias Wantzen11:30 Conservation of endemic extremophilelivebearing fishes from sulfichabitats in southern Mexico;David Bierbach11:45 Helminthes infestation of clariasbatrachus & clarias macrophalus:comparison of the small rivers &Mekong delta habitats (...);Elena Mishina12:00 Flora of centric diatoms from sevenreservoirs in Central Vietnam;Evgeniy Gusev12:15 Estimating carbon stock sizes &distribution of methane sourcesfor upper Amazon palm swampecosystems (...); Viviana Horna12:30 Leaf functional traits of Amazonianfloodplain trees in relation toflooding; Pia Parolin13:00 Lunch breakHall H IVHall H IVClimate Change & Seasonality p 47Chair: Ulrich Saint-Paul10:00 The impact of pleistocene climatechange on speciation in Central Africa- the case of haumania; AlexandraLey10:15 Modeling the dynamics of rainforests.How strong is the impact of droughton tropical rainforests in Madagascar?Rico Fischer10:30 Influence of climatic seasonality onthe diversity & assemblage compositionof hummingbirds & their foodplant(...); Stefan AbrahamczykRainforest Structure & Dynamics p 58Chair: Jürgen Homeier11:15 The structure of tropical rainforests:what can we learn from tree sizedistributions? Franziska Taubert11:30 The tropical lowland cloud forest:a lowland forest with montaneepiphyte richness;Christine Gehrig-Downie11:45 The role of fog in the spatial distributionof a new tropical lowlandforest type; Andre Obregon12:00 Long term dynamics of an epiphytecommunity in a lowland rainforestin Panama;Glenda Mendieta-Leiva12:15 Tree-level fecundity & dispersal ofmasting co-dominant rain foresttrees in Central Africa;Julian Norghauer12:30 Spatial distribution of pine forestin Cusco National Park, Honduras,Central America; Cordula Lennkh12:45 Specialization or generalization?Functionality of woody & palm regenerationin a montane Guayananrainforest, Sierra de Lema, Venezuela;Cristabel Durán-Rangel14:25 Plenary: KeynoteMiguel Vences | Diversity assessment of Madagascar‘s amphibians & reptiles: microendemismof species & phylogeographic lineages & perspectives for theirconservation; Chair: Eckhard Heymann p 6515:15 Parallel sessionsEast African Mountain Forests p 66Chair: Georg Guggenberger, ReinhardMosandl15:15 Coexistence of 3 different functionaltypes of indiginous trees in a tropicalmontane forest in Ethiopia; ErwinBeck15:30 Growth strategies of evergreen & deciduousspecies in a tropical montaneforest in Ethiopia; Julia Krepkowski15:45 Temporal resolution of recently assimilatedcarbon allocation from treecanopy to soil CO 2 efflux in two contrastingtree species of an Afromontaneforest; Olga Shibistova16:00 Coffee break16:30 Using stable isotope labelling totrace SOM decomposition & transformationby microbes under differentsilvicultural management in theMunessa forest, Ethiopia;Marianne Benesch16:45 Soil CO 2 efflux in an afromontane forestof Ethiopia as driven by seasonality &tree species; Yonas Yohannes17:00 Human impact on vascular plantsdiversity, population structure &natural regeneration of South NandiForest, Kenya;Adane Girma Gebreselasse17:15 Strategies to conserve a lower-montaneforest in East Africa using nativetree specie; Robert Gliniars17:30 Acclimation of two afromontane treespecies to different irradiance levelsdetermined by thinning of a Pinus patulaplantation in southern Ethiopia;Andreas Nenninger17:45 Effects of silvicultural managementpractices on the soil & foliar nutrientstatus of tree species in the MunessaForest, Ethiopia;Wolfgang ZechHall H IIIHall H IIITropical Island Biodiversity p 76Chair: Holger Kreft, Yann Clough15:15 The Patterns of fern diversity inthe Southeast Asian Archipelago;Dirk Nikolaus Karger15:30 Historical & contemporary driversof biogeographical modules &island roles: a cross comparison ofWallacea & West Indies;Daniel Wisbech Carstensen15:45 Equilibrium or non-equilibriumprocess shapes ground spiderdiversity? A comparative studybetween tropical &temperate ecosystems;Samuel Yu-Lung Hsieh16:30 Ant communities on small tropicalislands: effects of island size &isolation are obscured by habitatdisturbance & ‚tramp‘ ant species;Akhmad Rizali16:45 Can key food resources explain thepresence & absence of two mouselemurs in north-western Madagascar?Sandra Thorén17:00 Ecology & social organisation ofFarasan Gazelles on the FarasanArchipelago in the Red Sea;Torsten Wronski17:15 Island invasion by threatened treespecies: evidence for natural enemyrelease of Mahogany on Dominica,Lesser Antilles;Julian Norghauer17:30 The yellow crazy ant Anoplolepisgracilipes on Christmas Island: Issuccessful invasion the end of thestory? Heike Feldhaar17:45 Conservation genetics of the Jellyfishtree, a Seychelles flagship species;Aline Finger18:30 Public talk (in German) | Hall H VI p86Walter Jetz | Die Biodiversität der Landwirbeltiere in einer Welt des Wandels;Status Chair: and future Manfred of tropical Niekisch biodiversity | Frankfurt, 21 - 24 February 2011Hall H VI Hall H IVHall H IV Hall H III