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Welcome / Opening of the conference

Session 1: Functional significance of mountain biodiversity

Session 2: Phylogeny and genetic diversity in mountains

Session 3: Climate change and mountain biodiversity

Session 4: Improving forecasts of climate change effects on mountain biodiversity

Session 5: Large scale patterns in mountain biodiversity

Session 6: Altitudinal trends in mountain biodiversity

Session 7: Land use change effects on mountain biodiversity

Session 8: Invasive species in mountains

Session 9: LTERs in the Alpine and their influence on biodiversity research

 

 

27 July 2010

Welcome / Opening of the conference

 

08:45 - 09:00

Bruno Messerli

History of mountain programmes and GMBA birthday note

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09:15 - 09:45

Christian Körner

Mountain biodiversity, its causes and function in a changing environment 

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Session 1: Functional significance of mountain biodiversity

 

10:30 - 11:00

Richard Bardgett

Plant Diversity, Soil Microbes and Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics

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11:00 - 11:30

Sandra Lavorel

Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of ecosystem services 

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13:30 - 13:45

Nikolaus Obojes

Plant functional diversity effects on water balance in mountain grasslands across the Alps 

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(The first couple of minutes of this presentation are missing - we apologize) 

 

13:45 - 14:00

Christian Rixen

Biodiversity and erosion control: restoration of disturbed alpine sites 

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14:00 - 14:15

G. Nakhutsrishvili

Alpine plant diversity and function in the Central Caucasus 

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14:15 - 14:30

Marko Spasojevic

Traits patterns indicate increased production and isolation due to global change will impact functional diversity in the alpine 

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14:30 - 14:45

Flore Viard-Crétat

Seed traits dancing in subalpine grasslands: from convergence to divergence under mowing 

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Session 2: Phylogeny and genetic diversity in mountains

 

15:30 - 16:00

Mary T. K. Arroyo

Using molecular phylogenetic construction to deconstruct the high elevation flora of the South American Andes

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16:00 - 16:15

Patrick Kuss

Diversity, distribution and evolution of arctic-alpine Pedicularis

 

16:15 - 16:30

Andrea R. Pluess

Genetic structure of a rapidly expanding Larix decidua population

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16:30 - 16:45

Lucienne de Witte

Longevity of arctic-alpine clonal plants

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16:45 - 17:00

Felix Gugerli

Patterns of Biodiversity at the Species and Gene Level in Alpine Plants: Relevance for Conservation 

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July 28 2010

Session 3: Climate change and mountain biodiversity

 

08:45 - 09:00

Ken Green

Historical match and recent mis-match in the Snowy Mountains, Australia

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09:00 - 09:15

Sonja Wipf

Increasing plant biodiversity on mountain tops at the upper limit of dwarf shrub heath

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09:15 - 09:30

Jalil Noroozi

Potential effects of climate warming on a unique cryo-flora: the endemic high alpine to subnival plants in the mountains of Iran 

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10:00 - 10:15

Samuel Schmid

Impacts of experimentally induced summer drought on ecosystem functioning in alpine grasslands

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10:15 - 10:30

Nicole Inauen

Diversity responses to elevated CO2 in alpine plant communities 

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Session 4: Improving forecasts of climate change effects on mountain biodiversity

 

11:00 - 11:30

Wilfried Thuiller

Preserving the Tree of Life - consequences of climate change on European biodiversity

 

11:30 - 11:45

Michael Kalyuzhny

Niche Theory, Elevation Range, and Mountain Biodiversity: A Combined Theoretical and Empirical Study

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11:45 - 12:00

Chris Randin

Past and future changes in alpine tundra in the Rocky Mountains (Colorado, USA)

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12:00 - 12:15

Julien Pottier

Can we predict plant assemblages from species responses to topoclimatic factors? 

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29 July 2010

Session 5: Large scale patterns in mountain biodiversity

 

08:30 - 09:00

Falk Huettmann

Data Mining of GBIF Data with the GMBA webportal tool: examples from the Third Pole 

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09:00 - 09:15

Laszlo Nagy

Publication of a Special Issue: Functional significance of mountain biodiversity

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(Due to technical problems there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize) 

 

09:30 - 09:45

Hang Sun

The floristic division of the southern and northern parts of Hengduan Mountains, a biodiversity hotspot in SW China

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(Due to technical problems there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)  

 

09:45 - 10:00

Vincent Clark

The phytogeography of the southern Great Escarpment in southern Africa: Diversity, Endemism and Connectivity 

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(Due to technical problems there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)  

 

 

Session 6: Altitudinal trends in mountain biodiversity

 

10:30 - 10:45

Lily O. Rodriguez

Trends along Andean altitudinal transects in Peru: evidence of declines in frog density and diversity

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(Due to technical problems there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)  

 

10:45 - 11:00

Ramona Viterbi

Patterns of congruence and diversity along altitudinal transects in N-W Italian Alps by a multi-taxa approach

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(Due to technical problems there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)  

 

11:00 - 11:15

Gopal S. Rawat

Patterns of plant species diversity and endemism in the alpine zone of Western Himalaya

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(Due to technical problems there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)  

 

11:15 - 11:30

Philippe Vernon

How to interpret the diversity of insect body size patterns along altitudinal gradients?

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(Due to technical problems there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)  

 

11:30 - 11:45

Anne Loison

Coexistence of large herbivores in mountains at multiple scales 

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(Due to technical problems there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)  

 

 

Session 7: Land use change effects on mountain biodiversity

 

13:15 - 13:30

Jürg Stöcklin

Land use and biodiversity in the Alps from the genetic to the landscape level

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(Due to technical problems, there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)

 

13:30 - 13:45

J. F. Scheepens

Regional Differentiation in Life History and Susceptibility to Grazing in a Widespread Alpine Monocarp

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(Due to technical problems, there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)

 

13:45 - 14:00

Roz Anderson

The consequences of grazing management strategies in the Irish uplands

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(Due to technical problems, there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)

 

14:00 - 14:15

Nigel Yoccoz

Tundra plant diversity and semi-domestic reindeer management in northern Norway

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(Due to technical problems, there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)

 

14:15 - 14:30

Joao Torres

Fire regime as a driver of resilience, funcional diversity and ecosystem services in Mediterranean mountains

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(Due to technical problems, there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)

 

14:30 - 14:45

Thijs van den Bergh

Evapotranspiration in alpine plant communities along an altitudinal gradient

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(Due to technical problems, there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)

 

14:45 - 15:00

Erika Hiltbrunner

Ecological and hydrological consequences of green alder expansion in the Swiss Alps 

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(Due to technical problems, there may be a slight sound delay - we apologize)

 

 

Session 8: Invasive species in mountains

 

15:30 - 15:45

Jake Alexander speaking for Christoph Kueffer

Global comparisons of plant invasions along elevational gradients as a model system for studying niche dynamics

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15:45 - 16:00

Tim Seipel

Biogeographic distributions of non-native plants in mountains 

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16:00 - 16:15

Jake Alexander

Genetic and plastic responses of non-native plants along altitudinal gradients

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(The first couple of minutes of this presentation are missing - we apologize)  

 

16:15 - 16:30

Sylvia Haider

Non-native plant species richness along elevation gradients: the interplay of climate matching and time since introduction

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Session 9: LTERs in the Alpine and their influence on biodiversity research

 

16:30 - 17:00

Mark Williams

Long-term ecological research (LTER): the challenge of converting long term monitoring into science 

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17:00 - 17:15

Francisco J. Bonet

Converting field data into knowledge: towards adaptive management in Sierra Nevada LTER site

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17:15 - 17:30

Brigitta Erschbamer

LTER in the Austrian Central Alps: scientific relevance and outlook 

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