LINKECOL Final Conference
In order to mark the end of the LINKECOL Programme which has fostered research in Europe at the interface between community ecology, evolutionary ecology, and ecosystem ecology since 1999, a final conference entitled “Linking community and ecosystem ecology: recent advances and future challenges”, took place on 18-21 May 2004 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. This event was a major opportunity to synthesise recent advances and to identify future challenges in this area.
See below for the General Conference Programme and Conference Workshop List.
For further information consult the conference web site Go to Website or contact the local organiser
- AnnaTravesetE-Mail
- CSICInstituto Mediterraneo de Estudios AvanzadosNatural ResourcesEsporles (Mallorca)Spain
Conference Programme
Monday 17 May 2004 | |
17.00-19.00 | Registration |
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| Tuesday 18 May 2004 |
08.00-08.50 | Registration (contd.) |
08.50-09.00 | A. Traveset: Welcome |
09.00-09.30 | M. Loreau: General Introduction |
09.30-10.15 | A. Hector: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: lessons from recent experiments |
10.15-11.00 | J. Bever: Interactions between aboveground and belowground components |
11.00-11.30 | Coffee/tea break |
11.30-12.15 | F. Berendse: Changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning driven by extrinsic factors |
12.15-13.00 | J. Peñuelas: From individual ecophysiology to community and ecosystem ecology in the study of life responses to climatic and atmospheric changes |
13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
14.00-15.00 | Poster session |
15.00-16.30 | 6 talks (15’ each) by young scientists |
16.30-17.00 | Coffee/tea break |
17.00-17.45 | M. Williamson: Factors that determine biological invasions |
17.45-18.30 | M. Scheffer: Theoretical advances at the interface between community, evolutionary and ecosystem ecology |
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| Wednesday 19 May 2004 |
09.00-09.45 | R. Sterner: Ecological stoichiometry as integrating perspectives |
09.45-10.30 | J. Brown (to be confirmed): Ecological energetics as integrating perspectives |
10.30-11.00 | Coffee/tea break |
11.00-12.00 | 4 talks (15’ each) by young scientists |
12.00-12.45 | J. Bascompte: Linking biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research and food-web and interaction-web research: theory and data set analyses |
12.45-13.30 | P. Morin: Linking biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research and food-web and interaction-web research: experiments |
13.30-15.00 | Lunch |
15.00-18.00 | Parallel Workshops 1 - Session 1 |
| WS1: Mutualistic networks (Chaired by J. Bascompte) |
| WS2: Biodiversity and community assemblage (Chaired by A. Troumbis) |
| WS3: Linking ecophysiology with ecosystem processes: the challenge of scaling interactions and indirect effects (Chaired by F. Valladares) |
| WS4: Linking terrestrial invasions to ecological theory (Chaired by M. Vilà) |
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| Thursday 20 May 2004 |
09.00-11.00 | Parallel Workshops 1 - Session 2 |
| WS1: Mutualistic networks (Chaired by J. Bascompte) |
| WS2: Biodiversity and community assemblage (Chaired by A. Troumbis) |
| WS3: Linking ecophysiology with ecosystem processes: the challenge of scaling interactions and indirect effects (Chaired by F. Valladares) |
| WS4: Linking terrestrial invasions to ecological theory (Chaired by M. Vilà) |
11.00-11.30 | Coffee/tea break |
11.30-12.15 | D. Tilman: Ecological and evolutionary mechanisms of coexistence and community assembly processes as drivers of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning |
12.15-13.00 | U. Dieckmann: The need and potential for evolutionary thinking in ecosystem ecology |
13.00-14.30 | Lunch |
14.30-15.15 | R. Dirzo: Human impacts on natural ecosystems and consequences for the conservation of ecological processes |
15.15-18.15 | Parallel Workshops 2 - Session 1 |
| WS5: Linking evolutionary and ecosystem ecology (Chaired by U. Dieckmann) |
| WS6: Overcoming classical categorization: the case of the mutualism-antagonism gradient (Chaired by R. Medel) |
| WS7: Ecosysem connectivity at multiple scales (Chaired by S. Hawkins) |
| WS8: The science-policy interface (Chaired by J. Sayer) |
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| Friday 21 May 2004 |
09.00-11.00 | Parallel Workshops 2 - Session 2 |
| WS5: Linking evolutionary and ecosystem ecology (Chaired by U. Dieckmann) |
| WS6: Overcoming classical categorization: the case of the mutualism-antagonism gradient (Chaired by R. Medel) |
| WS7: Ecosysem connectivity at multiple scales (Chaired by S. Hawkins) |
| WS8: The science-policy interface (Chaired by J. Sayer) |
11.00-11.30 | Coffee/tea break |
11.30-12.15 | C. Perrings: From ecosystem processes to ecosystem services: socio-economic implications of community and ecosystem ecology. Economic perspective. |
12.15-13.00 | J. Bengtsson: From ecosystem processes to ecosystem services: socio-economic implications of community and ecosystem ecology. Ecological perspective. |
13.00-14.30 | Lunch |
14.30-15.45 | Workshop Reports |
16.45-16.30 | J. Sayer: Science-policy interface (provisional title) |
16.30-17.00 | M. Loreau: Closure |
Conference Workshops
Workshop 1 - Mutualistic networks
Chair: Jordi Bascompte (Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain)
Speakers and topics:
• Jordi Bascompte (Spain): Plant-animal interactions: a network approach
• Pedro Jordano (Spain): Keystone species and the structure and topology of complex plant-frugivore mutualisms
• Jens Olesen (Denmark): Temporal dynamics of 1- and 2 mode pollination networks - example: Zackenberg, NE. Greenland
• Thomas Lewinsohn: A network view of plant-herbivore systems
• Diego Vázquez: Species abundance patterns and the structure of species interaction networks
Workshop 2 - Biodiversity and community assemblage
Chair: Andreas Troumbis (University of the Aegean, Greece)
Speakers and topics: (titles of talks to be confirmed)
• Bertrand Schmid (Switzerland): Biotope space, biodiversity and ecosystem performance
• David Raffaelli (United Kingdom): Functional type diversity and ecosystem function in aquatic webs
• Francisco Sánchez-Piñero (Spain): Community dynamics at the landscape level: Direct and indirect effects of marine input on island food webs
• Giorgios Kokkoris (Greece): Assembly mechanics, community properties and regional species pools.
Workshop 3 - Linking ecophysiology with ecosystem processes: the challenge of scaling interactions and indirect effects
Chair: Fernando Valladares (Centro de Estudios Medioambientales, Madrid, Spain)
Speakers and topics:
• Erwin Dreyer (France): Molecular ecophysiology, linking genes to plant performance
• Howard Griffiths (United Kingdom): Stable isotopes in leaf, canopy and atmosphere: how 13C and 18O provide discriminating signals across contrasting timescales
• Joao Santos Pereira (Portugal): Vanishing and unpredictable water supply, linking plant stress and ecosystem performance
• Fernando Valladares (Spain): Interactions between light and other ecological factors in a changing world: the plant perspective of counterintuitive situations
Workshop 4- Linking terrestrial invasions to ecological theory
Chair: Montserrat Vilà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Speakers and topics:
• Petr Pysek (Czech Republic): Succession, colonization and invasion
• Harald Auge (Germany): Evolution of plant invasions
• Daniel Sol (Spain): Can we predict the outcome of alien introductions? Progress in invasion ecology of birds
• Montserrat Vilà (Spain): Linking functional traits with impacts of invasions
Workshop 5 - Linking evolutionary and ecosystem ecology
Chair: Ulf Dieckmann (Institut for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria)
Speakers and topics: topics to be confirmed
• Sebastian Diehl (Germany): Evolution of omnivory
• Hiroshi Ito (Japan): Food-web evolution• Charles Ofria (USA): Artificial ecosystem evolution
• Colleen T. Webb (USA): Evolution-driven extinctions
Workshop 6 - Overcoming classical categorization: the case of the mutualism-antagonis, gradient
Chair: Rodrigo Medel (Universidad de Chile)
Speakers and topics:
• José M. Gómez: Ecological and evolutionary effects of herbivores in the interactions between pollinators and plants
• Sharon Strauss: Ecological costs may constrain plant responses to selection from herbivores and pollinators
• Rodrigo Medel: Mutualism-mediated host-parasite coevolution
• Francisco I. Pugnaire: The balance of interactions among plants and spatial patterns
• Ragan Callaway: The facilitation-competition gradient.
Workshop 7 - Ecosystem connectivity at multiple scales
Chair: Steve Hawkins
Speakers and topics: to be confirmed
• Anthony Richardson (United Kingdom): Oceanic ecosystem connectivity at large scales
• Steve Hawkins & Paul Somerfield (United Kingdom): Connectivity in coastal ecosystems: exchange of propagules and material across habitat patches
• Paul Giller & Guy Woodward (Ireland): Ecosystem connectivity in freshwaters – the four dimensions of streams and rivers
• Andrew Gonzalez (Canada): Species extinction, abundance and biomass dynamics in fragmented habitats
Workshop 8 - The science-policy interface
Chair: Jeff Sayer (WWF International)
Speakers and topics:
• John Young (United Kingdom): Bridging research and policy: context, evidence and links
• Adeline Kroll (Spain): The construction of European policy – the role of knowledge transfer in the political process
• Jaime Amézaga (United Kingdom): Providing research support for policies in the make – the ERMITE experience
• Carlos Duarte (Spain): Regime shifts in ecosystem and thresholds of environmental sustainability
