BOU Annual Conference
3 - 5 April 2012 | University of Leicester, UK
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DAY 1 / Tues, 3 April / evening only
17:00 onwards / Registration
19:00 – 20:00 / Dinner (self service)
20:30 / Mike Clarke (RSPB) / Bird and nature conservation - do we need ecosystem services?
DAY 2 / Weds, 4 April
08:30 / Registration
SESSION 1 / Ecosystem services and the future for bird conservation
09:00 / Conference opening / Jenny Gill, BOU President
09:05 / John Fanshawe (BirdLife) / Cultural services of birds
09:25 / Peter Harris (A Rocha International) / Ecosystem services and faith-based bird conservation
09:45 / Andy Clements (BTO) / Bird conservation in an ecosystem service context
10:10 / Stewart Clarke (Natural England) / From species to systems: ecosystem services resulting from bird conservation
10:30 / Coffee / Time to view posters, displays and bookshop
SESSION 2 / Birds and ecosystem functioning /Chair
11:10 / Sandra Anderson (Aukland, New Zealand) / Bird pollination and dispersal services to plants: interactions, losses and trophic cascades
11:30 / Haldre Rogers (Rice University, USA) / The impact of total bird loss on ecosystem services in the forests for Guam
11:50 / Pedro Jordano (CSIC) / Bird-plant mutualisms
12:15 / David Edwards (Princeton University, USA) / Can payments for ecosystem services protect southeast Asian birds?
12:40 / Paramasivam Balasubramanian (Salim Ali Centre, India) / Pollination and seed dispersal services by Indian forest birds
13:00 / Lunch / Time to view posters, displays and bookshop
SESSION 3 / Cultural services provided by birds
14:30 / Andy Gosler (University of Oxford) & Caroline Jackson-Houlston (Oxford Brookes University) / 'A Nightingale by any other name?": the significance of differences in scientific and vernacular bird naming
14:55 / Prof. Ken Norris (University of Reading) / Closing the circle - birds, cultural services and human well-being
15:15 / Martin Dallimer (University of Sheffield) / Birds and the feel-good factor: exploring links between avian diversity and human wellbeing
15:40 / Jacob Kronenberg (University of Lodz, Poland) / The economic value of white stork colonies in Polish 'stork villages'
16:00 / Afternoon tea / Time to view posters & displays
SESSION 4 / Valuing bird ecosystem services
16:30 / KEYNOTE / Matthew Johnson (Humboldt State University, USA) / Economics of pest control by birds
17:10 / Chris Panter (University of East Anglia) / Do birds provide proxies for biodiversity in the assessment of ecosystem value?
17:30 / David Johnson (Northwest Habitat Institute, USA) / Habitat and biodiversity accounting tools
17:50 / Presentation of the BOU Union Medal
18:00 / BOU Annual General Meeting
/ Young Researcher Workshop
/ Free time – time to view posters & displays
20:00 / BOU Annual Dinner
DAY 3 / Thurs, 5 April
08:30 / Registration
SESSION 5 / Integrating ecosystem services and species conservation into policy
09:00 / Peter Costigan (Defra) / What’s Government doing?
09:20 / Prof. Steve Albon (Hutton Institute) / The Valuing Nature Network
09:45 / Ian Bainbridge & Prof. Des Thompson (Scottish Natural Heritage) / Integrating approaches into policy
10:10 / TBC
10:30 Coffee / Time to view posters and displays
SESSION 6 / Management strategies and trade-offs /Chair
11:10 / Simon Butler (University of East Anglia) / Recasting the role of birds within an ecosystem service framework: what do popolation dynamics indicate
11:30 / Mark Hulme (BTO) / Farming for wild nature - integration of biodiversity and sustainable development in tropical agricultural landscapes in Uganda
11:50 / Andras Baldi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) / Birds as control agents of caterpillars in oak forests
12:10 / Darren Evans (University of Hull) / Investigating the role of farmland birds in complex ecological networks
12:30 / Matt Grainger (World Pheasant Association) / A systematic review of bird ecosystem services: what is the evidence-base linking birds with ecosystem services?
12:50 / Lunch / Time to view posters and displays
SESSION 7 / Knowledge gaps and future direction
14:00 / KEYNOTE / Prof. Andrew Watkinson (Living With Environmental Change) / Partnerships and strategic challenges
14:40 / SUMMARY / Ecosystem Services: do we need birds?
15:00 / Panel/Discussion
16:00 / Close of Conference / Jenny Gill, President of the BOU
/ Afternoon tea and departure
+ Also a debate about the implications of the ecosystem service approach for bird conservation
+ More speakers to be confirmed – please check the BOU website for programme updates
+ Plus Subbuteo Natural History Books, Second Nature second-hand books, Wiley journals, poster presentations and displays.
