Conference Programme

Conference Programme

 

Monday 30 October

19:00 – 22:00           Foyer

Registration and welcome reception

 

Tuesday 31 October

09:00 09:15           Seminar Room

Bernt-Erik Sæther – Welcome address


Session 1: Behaviour

09:15 – 10:00           Seminar Room
Keynote

Ben Sheldon – Social processes in a community of Paridae

10:00 10:20          Seminar Room

Tore Slagsvold – On the use of heterospecific information in birds

10:20  10:35          Foyer
Coffee

10:35  10:55          Seminar Room
Jesús Martínez-Padilla – Evolutionary dynamics in wild birds: from single populations to multiple species

10:55 – 11:15          Seminar Room
Friederike Hillemann – Diurnal patterns of the production and use of food-related information in Parid flocks

11:15 – 11:35          Seminar Room
Tomasz Wesołowski – Adaptations of birds to tree holes: insights from long-term studies in primeval conditions

11:15 – 11:35          Seminar Room
Eva Serrano-Davies – Personality-related differences in response to habitat in Mediterranean blue tits

 

Session 2: Physiology

11:55 12:40           Seminar Room
Keynote

Jan-Åke Nilsson – Body temperature and immune defence

12:40 13:00          Seminar Room
Anna Dubiec – Interaction types between four genera of haemoparasites in blue tit females

13:00 14:30          Restaurant & Foyer
Lunch

14:30 14:50          Seminar Room
Roger Colominas-Ciuró – Distinct foraging behaviours differently constrain the physiological state in a hole-nesting seabird, the Scopoli’s shearwater (Calonectris diomedea)

14:50 15:10          Seminar Room
Sylvie Massemin – Effects of urban environment on health in the great tits

15:10 15:30          Seminar Room
Szymon Drobniak – Interaction between genetic effects and experimentally manipulated pre-hatching hormonal conditions

15:30  15:45          Foyer
Coffee

 

Session 3: Population Dynamics

15:45 16:30           Seminar Room
Keynote

Marlène Gamelon – Age-specific contributions to the dynamics of hole-nesting birds

16:30 16:50          Seminar Room
Toni Laaksonen – The importance of conservation measures for pied flycatchers breeding in the boreal landscape dominated by forest management

16:50 17:10          Seminar Room
Gábor Seress – Impact of urbanization on abundance and phenology of caterpillars and consequences for breeding in an insectivorous bird

 

Session 4: Posters

17:10 19:00           Seminar Room
Poster presentations

19:30                      Restaurant
Dinner

 

Wednesday 1 November


Session 5: Movement

09:00 09:45          Seminar Room
Keynote

Erik Matthysen – Individual variation in dispersal in great tits

09:45 10:05          Seminar Room
Yimen Araya-Ajoy – Spatio-temporal variation in emigration and immigration is density-dependent in a house sparrow metapopulation

10:05 10:25          Seminar Room
Luis Cadahia – Advancement of spring arrival in a long-term study of a passerine bird: sex, age and environmental effects

10:25  10:40          Foyer
Coffee

 

Session 6: Speciation

10:40 11:25           Seminar Room
Keynote

Anna Qvarnström – Speciation in hole-nesting birds: any general lessons so far?

11:25  11:45          Seminar Room
Martyn Stenning – The Blue Tit

11:45  12:05          Seminar Room
Malcolm Burgess – Citizen science for the study of hole-nesting birds: UK examples and emerging opportunities

12:05 13:30          Restaurant & Foyer
Lunch

 

Session 7: Genetics & Genomics

13:30 14:15           Seminar Room
Keynote

Jon Slate – The significance of genetic variation in wild tit populations

14:15  14:35          Seminar Room
Kees van Oers – Avian ecological epigenetics: what do we know about DNA methylation in hole-breeding passerines

14:35  14:55          Seminar Room
Henrik Jensen – Consequences of demographic processes for genetic drift in house sparrows

14:55  15:15          Seminar Room
Erica Ponzi – Estimating heritability and response to selection in the presence of phenotypic error

15:15  15:30          Foyer
Coffee

15:30  16:15          Seminar Room
Keynote
Phillip Gienapp – Phenotypic evolution in tits: have we identified the important processes?

16:15  16:35          Seminar Room
Thomas Kvalnes – Reversal of response to artificial selection on body size in a wild passerine

16:35  16:55          Seminar Room
Veronika Laine – Gene expression linked to timing of reproduction in the great tit

 

Session 8: Discussion

16:55  17:10           Seminar Room
Requests for discussions, meetings, collaborations

17:10  19:00           Discussion Room 14, Foyer & Seminar Room
Group discussion

19:30                      Restaurant
Dinner

 

Thursday 2 November


Session 9: Life History

09:00 09:45          Seminar Room
Keynote

Christiaan Both – Ongoing adjustment of flycatcher phenology in response to climate change: evolution in action?

09:45 10:05          Seminar Room
Marta Szulkin – The evolutionary ecology of passerines in the Anthropocene

10:05  10:25          Seminar Room
Peter Santema – Complete brood loss in blue tits is almost always associated with the sudden and permanent disappearance of a parent

10:25  10:40          Foyer
Coffee

10:40  11:25          Seminar Room
Keynote
David Westneat – Layers of variance in the parental care of hole-nesting birds and what they might mean

11:25  11:45          Seminar Room
Nathanial Warning – Structural nest cavity modification using stones

11:45  12:05          Seminar Room
Rienk Fokkema – Family planning under social competition

12:05  13:30          Restaurant & Foyer
Lunch

 

Session 10: Climate Change

13:30  14:15           Seminar Room
Keynote

Marcel Visser – Hole-nesting passerines in a warming world

14:15  14:35          Seminar Room
Josefa Bleu – An experimental increase of nestbox temperature during egg-laying affects maternal effects and nestling health in great tits

14:35  14:55          Seminar Room
Liam Bailey – Do responses to temperature vary spatially in the great tit (Parus major)?

14:55  15:15          Seminar Room
Valeria Jennings – Eco-evolutionary dynamics of a sexually selected trait in a Mediterranean population of pied flycatchers

15:15  15:30          Foyer
Coffee

15:30  15:50          Seminar Room
Jelmer Samplonius – Phenological sensitivity to climate change is higher in resident than in migrant bird populations among European cavity breeders

15:50  16:10          Seminar Room
Tomas Pärt – Seasonal decline in fitness: its causes and its relation to warmer springs in northern wheatears

16:10  16:30          Seminar Room
Bernt-Erik Sæther – Concluding remarks

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Time and place
October 30 - November 2, 2017
Scandic Lerkendal, Trondheim, Norway

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Contact
For further information on the conference, please contact Stefan Vriend.
Email: stefan.vriend@ntnu.no

For further information on the satellite meeting, please contact Alina Niskanen.
Email: alinan@ntnu.no

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Centre for biodiversity dynamics Norwegian University of Science and Technology