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Invited keynote presentations
Wednesday, 27. September 2006 - Opening evening lecture
Daniel Simberloff is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Tennessee, a current member of the National Science Board and past president of the American Society of Naturalists. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1964 and his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 1968.
His 350 publications center on ecology, biogeography, evolution, and biometrics, and they often relate to the causes and consequences of species associating with one another in communities. Much of his research for the last 20 years has focused on conservation issues, such as reserve design, the consequences of fragmentation and habitat destruction, and the impacts and management of introduced species.
His research projects involve insects, plants, birds, and mammals. He directs the University of Tennessee Institute for Biological Invasions. He was instrumental in formulating the presidential Executive Order 13112 on invasive species, and serves on the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group and the IUCN Species Survival Commission. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Nature Conservancy as well as the federal Invasive Species Advisory Committee, and he currently edits or serves on the editorial boards of Biodiversity and Conservation, Oecologia, Biological Invasions, BioScience, and Ecology.
Thursday, 28. September 2006 - Morning lecture
Jeff McNeely has been at IUCN since 1980, when he was appointed Executive Officer of the Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. He served as Director of the Programme Division from 1983 to 1987, when he became Deputy Director General (Conservation).
McNeely was named Chief Conservation Officer in 1988, a position which was converted to Chief Biodiversity Officer in 1992; he was appointed Chief Scientist in 1996, responsible for overseeing all of IUCN's scientific work.
McNeely has designed numerous programmes, advised governments and conservation organizations on conservation policy and practice, and produced a variety of technical and popular publications. Books have included: National Parks, Conservation, and Development (the proceedings of the III World Congress on National Parks); People and Protected Areas in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya; Culture and Conservation; Economics and Biological Diversity; Conserving the World's Biological Diversity; Biodiversity Conservation in the Asia-Pacific Region; and Conservation and the Future: Trends and Options Toward the Year 2025.
McNeely has published over 300 technical and popular articles on a wide range of conservation issues, seeking to link conservation of natural resources to the maintenance of cultural diversity and to economically-sustainable ways of life. He serves on the editorial advisory board of seven biodiversity-related journals.
Thursday, 28. September 2006 - Afternoon lecture
Phil Hulme is head of the Ecosystem Dynamics Section at the NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Banchory. He received his BSc and Ph.D. from Imperial College at Silwood Park, University of London, working on Small mammal herbivory and plant recruitment in grasslands. Following post-doc studies in Spain he returned to UK as lecturer in ecology at the University of Durham until receiving the position at CEH.
Current research focuses on non-indigenous plant species in the European Union, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and the Mediterranean and on the implications of herbivory in the maintenance of plant diversity.
Hulme is involved in several national and international projects dealing with invasive alien species, e.g. EPIDEMIE, ALARM, DAISIE, editor of J. Appl. Ecol., Secretary of the British Ecological Society Invasive Species Specialist Group and Member of the UK Government Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment.
Friday, 29. September 2006 - Morning lecture
Martin Sykes is an experimental and theoretical ecologist with broad interests in plant ecology focused on modelling the responses of vegetation to climate, and on the maintenance of plant species diversity. He undertook a PhD in New Zealand with an experimental study into the responses of native and exotic dune species to various environmental factors.
Sykes moved to Uppsala, Sweden in 1989 and to Lund in 1992 to work on the maintenance of species diversity in semi-natural grasslands on the island of Öland. He also spearheaded the application of stand-scale and global dynamic vegetation models to study past, present and future climate impacts on terrestrial vegetation distribution and productivity.
International projects include e.g. ATEAM, EPIDEMIE, ALARM, ENSEMBLE, DECVEG, he is co-editor of Global Ecology & Biogeography and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers.
Friday, 29. September 2006 - Afternoon lecture
Bernd Sures is a zoologist with research interests in ecology, biodiversity ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry and parasitology. After studying biology and chemistry at the University of Bochum, he received his PhD at the University of Karlsruhe. Currently he is Associate Professor at the University Duisburg-Essen and is leading a group which investigates effects of chemicals and parasites on the well being of organisms, populations and ecosystems.
Special emphasis is drawn on neozoic parasites and their effects on host populations. He has published 60 peer-reviewed papers and among them several studies on neozoic parasites, i.e. Anguillicola crassus, a swim bladder nematode of eels.
He is involved in national projects dealing with invasive fish parasites, is member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of Helminthology" and has organised the International Symposium on "Ecological and Environmental Parasitology: The impact of global change", which included a special session on neozoic parasites.
