WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26th |
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| 9.00 -10.30 | Session 1: Welcome and Opening (Room 67.107) | ||
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Gold Medal
Award
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Plenary lecture:
Professor Mike
Bull – "Lizards and Ticks and Four Thoughts about Ecology
in Australia"
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| 10.30 | Morning tea - Wednesday | ||
| 11.00-12.30 |
Session 2A: Resource Allocation and Behavioural Ecology (Room 20.1) |
Session 2B: Population Dynamics (Room 20.2) |
Session 2C: Predictive Modelling in Conservation Biology (Room 67.107) |
| Session Chair: Mark Westoby | Session Chair: Peter Fairweather | Session Chair: Bob Pressey | |
| 11.00 | %HODKINSON, Johnson, Krockenberger and Evans. Contribution of activity to the daily energy expenditure in free-living brushtail possums | %GIBB and Hochuli. Effects of a dominant ant, Iridomyrmex purpureus, on the foraging activity of ant assemblages on Hawkesbury Sandstone. | BALL, Lindenmayer and Possingham. How reliable is population viability analysis? A test for two small mammal species in a fragmented landscape. |
| 11.15 | %THOMSON, Cunningham, Ball and Nicotra. Cunning Cucurbits: How do cucumber plants compensate for herbivory? | %HAYWARD, Tores and Fox. Aspects of the ecology of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) (Macropodidae: Marsupialia) in the northern jarrah forest of southwest Western Australia. | DAVIES and Margules. Traits in combination have synergistic effects on population persistence in forest fragments. |
| 11.30 | %O’CONNOR. Sociality and aggression in the black rock skink, Egernia saxatilis. | LEIGH, Davila and Nicotra. Do sex-based differences in reproductive allocation lead to physiological divergence in dioecious plants? | DORFMAN. Decisions about risk, occupancy and dispersal in a hostile environment. |
| 11.45 | PICKERING and Fuessel. No sex-specific patterns of resource allocation in the wind pollinated dioecious weed Baccharis halimifolia (Asteraceae) | %MOKANY. Interactions between tadpoles and mosquito larvae. | EMMERSON, Otahal and Barmuta. Temporal variability and its consequences for AusRivas model output. |
| 12.00 | %PRIDER and Facelli. Facilitation of plant growth and survival in open woodlands. | WARDLE, Watson and Gill. Population biology of Trachymene incisa (Apiacea): density, dormancy and dispersal. | %MEGGS, Munks and Richards. Evaluation of a habitat model developed for the conservation of a threatened species of stag beetle in production forests in Tasmania. |
| 12.15 | %THORNBY. Investigating effects of defoliation on cotton plant architecture using L-system modelling. | MELBOURNE and Chesson. Scaling up population dynamics: integrating theory and field data. | LUDWIG et al. Monitoring Savanna Health: A New Resource Retention Index based on Remote-sensing |
| 12.30 | Lunch -Wednesday | ||
| 1.30-3.00 | Session 3A: Ecological Genetics and Conservation (Room 20.1) | Session 3B: Determinants of Distribution (Room 20.2) | |
| Session Chair: Andrew Young | Session Chair: Nigel Andrew | ||
| 1.30 | AYRE and Miller. Is sex overrated? A new position on reproduction in Pocillopora damicornis from the Great Barrier Reef. | GROOM. Impacts of declining water table levels on the groundwater-dependent sandplain vegetation of southwestern Australia. | |
| 1.45 | ENGLAND. The molecular ecology of disturbance: genetic spatial auto-correlation of Grevillea | HASTWELL Isolated trees in a landscape: a recipe for fertile islands? | |
| 2.00 | HOEBEE,Thrall and Young. The effects of genetic self-incompatibility on the population viability of plants with varied life histories. | MATTHEWS
and Fairweather. The effect of salinity on the survivorship, condition and behaviour of Soletellina alba (Lamarck, 1818) (Bivalvia: Psammobiidae). |
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| 2.15 | %RYMER.The recruitment of Persoonia mollis after a wildfire: seed dispersal or residual seed bank? | MILLER, Norton and Williams. The development of a vegetation condition index. | |
| 2.30 | SHAPCOTT. Conservation genetics of rare Graptophyllum species (Acanthaceae) from Queensland | %MUGODO. Assessment of logistic regression in predicting the distribution of plant species of different forms of distribution. | |
| 2.45 | %CELEBREZZE, Ayre and Whelan. Do European honeybees bungle Australian plant pollination ecology? A comparison between bird-adapted and insect-adapted Grevillea species. | %POHLMAN,
Murray and Nicotra. Differences in ecophysiological traits between Australian Acacia species with contrasting geographical range sizes. |
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| 3.30 | Afternoon tea - Wednesday | ||
| 4.00-5.30 | Session 4A: Conservation and management (Room 20.1) | Session 4B: Policy, Law and Management (Room 20.2) | |
| Session Chair: Alan York | Session Chair: Claire Brown | ||
| 4.00 | %VENN and Morgan. The effect of snowmelt gradients on snowpatch plant community patterns. | %DUNCAN. How useful is scientific uncertainty in debates over the environment? | |
| 4.15 | HILL and Pickering. Potential effects of snow manipulation on alpine vegetation. | JAMES and Saunders. Setting biodiversity targets in the Murray-Darling Basin | |
| 4.30 | LUNNEY, Grant and Mathews. Distribution of platypuses in the Bellinger-Kalang catchment, on the north coast of New South Wales. | MURRAY. Monitoring and evaluation of ten years of on-ground environmental works; some lessons to be learned. | |
| 4.45 | %TASKER. Are We Managing Our Forests in an Ecologically Sustainable Way? Eucalypt Regeneration in Cattle-Grazed and Frequently Burnt Forest. | FISHER. Conservation and management of parrots in the central tablelands of New South Wales. | |
| 5.00 | WARMAN. The role of the community in Riparian Rehabilitation, Central Coast Region, New South Wales. | PRESSEY, Watts and Barrett. Is maximising protection the same as minimizing loss? Efficiency and retention as alternative measures of the effectiveness of proposed reserves. | |
| 5.15 | McDONNELL et al. The effect of 150 years of human activity in Melbourne on the breeding range of Grey-headed Flying Foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus). | FARRIER, Whelan and Brown. What happens when science cannot keep up with the demands of law? Making decisions in a context of scientific uncertainty and ignorance. | |
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH |
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| 9.00–10.30 | Session 5A: Habitat Fragmentation (Room 20.1) | Session 5B: Biodiversity (Room 20.2) | Session 5C: Invasions and Weed Ecology (Room 67.104) |
| Session Chair: Kris French | Session Chair: Melinda Hillary | Session Chair: Jill Landsberg | |
| 9.00 | BAKER, Whelan and French. Ecotones and the edge effect: response of bird species. | BICKEL and Tasker. Diversity and ecology of the tree trunk arthropod fauna in New England eucalypt forests | HEYLIN, Pratley and Sivapalan. Using phenology to help manage the rice weed water plantain. |
| 9.15 | %CHRISTIE and Hochuli. Urban bushland remnants of the Sydney Region: the effects of urban fragmentation on herbivory and ecosystem functioning. | %DORROUGH and Ash. Declines in native species: grazing impacts or competitive inferiority? | %JOHNSTON and Johnston. Relationship between road induced disturbance, soil properties and weed occurrence in Kosciuszko National Park. |
| 9.30 | %PARSONS. What were there? Results from the Birds in Backyards Community Survey. | LANDSBERG and Clarkson. How well do threatened species lists reflect conservation status for the flora of Cape York Peninsula? | MINCHINTON and Bertness. Nutrient enrichment, vegetation buffers and the invasion of coastal marshes by the Common Reed Phragmites australis. |
| 9.45 | TAYLOR and Fox. Microhabitat use by the sympatric lizards, Ctenotus taeniolatus and C. robustus. | BOULTER, Kiching, Hurley and Howlett. Where might the bees be? Unravelling the floral landscape of the Wet Tropics. | MORGAN and Wearne. Biological invasions and ecosystem processes. |
| 10.00 | VAN DER REE and Bennett. Nest tree use by the Squirrel Glider Petaurus norfolcensis within a network of roadside habitats. | WILLIAMS. Biodiversity of rainforest birds. | MULLETT, Willis and Groves. Weeds and native plant diversity. |
| 10.15 | %HAHS and McDonnell. Interactions between patch and landscape remnants of Eucalyptus camaldulensis open woodland in Melbourne. | %van RENSBURG, Chown and Gaston. Species richness, environmental correlates, and spatial scale: a test using South African birds. | %STENHOUSE. Local government managing urban native vegetation. |
| 10.30 | Morning tea - Thursday | ||
| 11.00-12.30 | Session 6A: Reserve Design and Human Impacts (Room 20.1) | Session 6B: Predation (Room 20.2) | Session 6C: Evolutionary Ecology (Room 67.104) |
| Session Chair: Tom Celebrezze | Session Chair: David Ward | Session Chair: Bill Buttemer | |
| 11.00 | KANOWSKI, Catterall, Proctor et al. The restoration of biodiversity and ecological function to cleared rainforest land under different styles of reforestation. | BARBEE Nicole. Grazing insects regulate algal biomass in a tropical lowland stream. | FALSTER and Westoby. Plant strategies for light capture: the influence of leaf angle and leaf size. |
| 11.15 | MAJOR, Christie, Gowing and Cassis. The effect of habitat configuration on arboreal insects in fragmented woodlands. | %BERRY Lainie. Predation rates on artificial bird nests in edges and interior of Australian forest. | %MARSHALL and Keough. The effects of variation in offspring size on adult performance…. |
| 11.30 | RAMP and Minchin. Persistence of remnant vegetation within an agricultural and catchment matrix: the interaction of environmental and disturbance variables. | GODFREE. The infestation of lodgepole pine stands by dwarf mistletoe: effects of a parasitic flowering plant on forest community structure and diversity. | %MOLES and Westoby. Seed size and seed limitation: all is just as we suspected… |
| 11.45 | %REID, Hochuli and Cassis. Grassland management and arthropod diversity: implications for sustainability. | SPENCER. Ecological and evolutionary considerations of nesting: sub-lethal impacts of predation. | WESTOBY. The spectrum of leaf and twig size across species. |
| 12.00 | CATTERALL et al. Recovery patterns of bird assemblages during rainforest reconstruction. | FAIRWEATHER. Scavenging on carrion in marine benthic habitats: An overlooked interaction? | %WRIGHT and Westoby. Enhanced water conservation in low-rain species leads to shorter leaf lifespan at a given leaf mass per area. |
| 12.15 | DARCOVICH. Conservation Management of the Green and Golden Bell Frog at Sydney Olympic Park | ||
| 12.30 | Lunch - Thursday | ||
| 2.00-3.45 | Session 7: Annual General Meeting - PLENARY (Room 67.107) | ||
| 3.45 | Opening of Poster Session - 67.107 - PLENARY | ||
| 4.00 - 5.30 | Session 8: Poster session - PLENARY | ||
FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER |
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| 9.00-10.30 | Session 9A: Disturbance Ecology (Room 20.1) | Session 9B: Coastal Processes (Room 20.2) | Session 9C: The importance of scale (Room 67.104) |
| Session Chair: Richard Major | Session Chair: David Ayre | Session Chair: Carla Catterall | |
| 9.00 | %ROSS, Fox and Fox. Shifts in plant species richness and composition at edge zones. | %CRUZ, Juan. Dredged material disposal impacts on a tropical soft-bottom benthic assemblage. | BELL and Clarke. Spatial and temporal variation in the vegetation of temporary wetlands. |
| 9.15 | %BOGGON and Skilleter. Effects of disturbance on the structural characteristics of mangrove forests and associated crab assemblages. | HENRY and Fairweather. Ecological effects of kelp wrack on sandy beaches. | COUSENS. Patterns in plant populations – How good are current analytical methods? |
| 9.30 | HENDERSON and Keith. A correlation of disturbance impacts on woody understorey plants in NE NSW grassy forest dells. | %LINACRE and Keough. A matrix population model that accounts for the history effects in modular organisms: illustrated using a colonial bryozoan. | %HILLERY. Linking body size, foraging strategies, range size and frequency to species richness at different scales. |
| 9.45 | CHALMERS. Do plant attributes predict response to soil disturbance and fertilisation better than plant species? | %JELBART, Ross and Connolly. Does size and shape of a seagrass bed influence the abundance and diversity of small fish. | %McKENNA, D. A question of scale: does size really matter? |
| 10.00 | McINTYRE and Martin. Disturbance response groups in grasslands: do exotics and natives have more in common than we think? | SWEARER and Warner. Evidence of self-recruitment in demersal marine populations. | KEITH, Bedward and Auld. 2001: a spatial odyssey to assess extinction risk using using range size estimates at varying scales |
| 10.15 | %PENN, Lunney and Sherwin. The effects of prescribed burning on small mammals and skinks in a disturbed forest. | %KNOTT et al. Testing ecological hypotheses about the growth of sponges: the effect of orientation. | %CUMMINS . Distribution of the marine gastropod, Batillaria australis (Batillariidae), within seagrass meadows in coastal lagoons in New South Wales. |
| 10.30 | Morning tea - Friday | ||
| 11.00-12.30 | Session 10A: Environmental Pollution and Climate Change (Room 20.1) | Session 10B: Recruitment and Colonisation (Room 20.2) | |
| Session Chair: Rob Whelan | Session Chair: Andy Davis | ||
| 11.00 | JOHNSTON and Keough. Pollution events restructure assemblages in the field: a study of the interaction between competition and disturbance. | %COLEMAN. The role of pre- versus post-recruitment processes in structuring patterns of small-scale spatial variability in turfing algal assemblages. | |
| 11.15 | %ABOOD Maree. The impact of gross pollutants on water quality. | DOWNES and Street. Disturbance-habitat complexity interactions and effects on colonisation of hard substrata. | |
| 11.30 | %ANDREW, Nigel. Potential impacts of climate change: The effects of host plant and climate on insect herbivory. | DENHAM, Auld and Turner. Postfire recruitment, survival and the size of the residual seedbank in Persoonia lanceolata. | |
| 11.45 | %KINLEY and Davis. The influence of natural UV radiation on community dynamics and Biodiversity of Shallow Marine Benthic Assemblages in Antarctica. | %GRIFFITHS, Davis and West. Recolonisation of intertidal rock pools by fishes at Bass Point, Australia: a quantitative approach. | |
| 12.00 | ROBINSON, et al. Antarctic moss coping with the ozone hole. | PORTER. Spatial patterns in the seed banks of arid zone wetlands. | |
| 12.15 | %KEARNEY. Clones, clines and climate: Latitudinal variation in the ecophysiology of sexual and asexual lizards. | WEARNE and Morgan. Why is Broom (Cytisus scoparius) such a successful invader into subalpine areas in Victoria, Australia? | |
| 12.30 | Lunch - Friday | ||
| 1.30-3.00 | Session 11A: Fire Ecology (Room 20.1) | Session 11B: Conservation Ecology (Room 20.2) | |
| Session Chair: David Keith | Session Chair: Dan Lunney | ||
| 1.30 | %KORCZYNSKI and Lamont. How grasstrees recover after fire. | %BUIST, Yates, Dixon and Sivasithamparam. Towards an understanding of rarity of geographically restricted Acacia taxa in south-western Australia. | |
| 1.45 | %LETNIC. Responses of small mammals and lizards to fire and rainfall in the Simpson Desert, Queensland. | %FIELD, Whelan and Ayre. Local plant density and its impact on the mating system of Persoonia bargoensis. | |
| 2.00 | %ORSHEG. Fire season in extensively disturbed eucalypt forest: an investigation of plant functional group composition and vegetation structure. | Koch, MUNKS et al. Occurrence of the platypus, Ornithorhynchus anatinus in headwater streams in production forests in NE Tasmania. | |
| 2.15 | KENNY, Auld and Morrison. Germination after fire: what is the purpose of multiple germination cues? | COFINAS. Collating, assessing and making available information on Australia’s native vegetation | |
| 2.30 | RADFORD and Grice. Minor impacts of wet season burning on riparian savanna communities in the dry tropics. | ||
| 2.45 | Afternoon Tea - Friday | ||
| 3.30-4.30 |
Session 12: Plenary Lecture (Room 67.107) President's Address - "The State of Biodiversity in Australia" - Dr Jann Williams |
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| 4.30-5.00 | Session 13: Awarding of prizes; Close of Conference | ||
| Out on the town | |||
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