Track C - Biodiversity & ecosystem services

Parallel Session Schedule

Track C - Biodiversity & ecosystem services

 

Track C chaired by:

Bente Jessen Graae – Professor, Department of Biology, and 

Gunnar Austrheim – Professor, Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum

Abstract session 1– Distribution of diversity and ecosystem services

Abstract session 1– Distribution of diversity and ecosystem services

*All presenters should bring their presentation on a USB stick to the presentation room 10 minutes before the scheduled session start*

When: Wednesday, 18 October 15:00-17:00
Room: COSMOS 3A
Moderator: Ivar Herfindal, Researcher, Dept. of Biology, NTNU

15 minutes per presenter = 12-minute presentations + 3 minutes of questions

Wednesday, 18 October 15:00-17:00

15:00-15:05

Session introduction

15:05-15:30

Kris Verheyen, Alicia Valdés, Jonathan Lenoir, Pieter De Frenne, Guillaume Decocq and the SmallForest-consortium

Small but strong: ancient forest patches deliver high levels of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes

15:30-15:45

Bram Van Moorter, Ilkka Kivimäki, Robin Devooght, Manuela Panzacchi and Marco Saerens
Measuring simultaneously habitat loss and fragmentation due to infrastructures: a novel habitat functionality metric

15:45-16:00

Yajie Liu, Jennifer Bailey and Jan Grimsrud Davidson
Ecosystem services of sea trout populations and the values of recreational fishing in Norway

16:00-16:15

Gary Watmough, Cheryl Palm, Clare Sullivan and Jens Christian-Svenning
Understanding socio-ecological systems: Coupling population and satellite remotely sensed environmental data to increase human-natural systems understanding

16:15-16:30

Asit Kumar Roy and Debajit Datta
Evaluating agroecosystem sustainability of interdunal wetlands of littoral West Bengal, India

16:30-16:45

Debajit Datta
Stakeholder based collaborative planning towards sustainable wetland management in Ichamati floodplains of West Bengal, India

 

Abstract session 2 – Methods and conservation

*All presenters should bring their presentation on a USB stick to the presentation room 10 minutes before the scheduled session start*

When: Thursday, 19 October 09:45-11:45
Room: LIVING 4
Moderator: Francesca Verones, Associate Professor, Dept. of Energy and Process Engineering, NTNU

15 minutes per presenter = 12-minute presentations + 3 minutes of questions

Thursday, 19 October 09:45-11:45

09:45-09:50

Session introduction

09:50-10:05

Ron Smith
The use of Bayesian Belief Networks to study the role of ecosystem services in decisions

10:05-10:20

Graciela Rusch, Verónica Rusch, Santiago Varela, Andrea Goijman, Pablo Peri and Dardo López                                                            

Integrating State-and-Transition Models, ecosystem services and BBNs to support environmentally and socially sustainable decision-making

10:20-10:35

 

Alexandra Tisma, Henk van Zeijts and Ed Dammers
Possible futures of nature in Europe: Communication with storylines and visualizations

10:35-10:50

Wenche Dramstad, Wendy Fjellstad, Christian Pedersen and Graeme Bell
A Norwegian Map of Ecosystem Services (no-mess) – Visualising multiple services to improve land use planning

10:50-11:05

Len Blom and Walter Vermeulen
Biodiversity conservation through landscape level voluntary standards

11:05-11:20

Signe Nybo
How to measure good ecological status, an advice from a Norwegian Expert Commission

 

Abstract session 3– Workshop – National ecosystem assessments:

Biodiversity and ecosystem services assessments for facilitation of political awareness, management and sustainable development

When: Thrsday, 19 October 13:15-15:15
Room: LIVING 4

Assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services is a key component for strengthening the science-policy interface for sustainable use and conservation of resources. However, good assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services are often lacking, hampering management and political awareness as well as scientific advances in the field of biodiversity and ecosystem services research. In this workshop, we want to involve researchers, managers and other stakeholders for discussing the framework for National Ecosystem Assessments (NEA) and draw on the experiences from the NEA from France, Portugal and Spain.

Some discussion questions:

  1. How to organize an assessment, what is the main focus (specific nature types, sectors, challenges) and constraints? How to get access to relevant data, and who should be involved (research community, stakeholders)?
  2. What type of impact/implications does the assessment have/are you hoping for: Policy, management, research agenda?
  3. Which type of follow up actions could be relevant?

Program:

13.15 Introduction by organizers, Gunnar Austrheim and Bente Jessen Graae
13.20 Perspectives from the Spanish NEA - Fernando Santos Martin, Social-Ecological Systems Lab., Dpt. Ecology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
13.50 Perspectives from the French NEA - Yann Kervinio, Division for Natural Resources and Risks Economics Transversal Directorate for Sustainable Development French Ministry for Environment
14.10 Perspectives from the Portuguese NEA – Vânia Proença, Instituto Superior Técnico Universidade de Lisboa
14.30 Comment from the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment
14.40 – 15.15 Common discussion with the four panel members


Abstract session 4 – Vegetation studies

*All presenters should bring their presentation on a USB stick to the presentation room 10 minutes before the scheduled session start*

When: Friday, 20 October 09:00-10:30
Room: COSMOS 3A
Moderator: Bente Jessen Graae, Professor, Dept. of Biology, NTNU

15 minutes per presenter = 12-minute presentations + 3 minutes of questions

Friday, 20 Oct 09:00-10:30

09:00-09:05

Session introduction

09:05-09:20

Inger Auestad, Knut Rydgren and Rune Halvorsen
Vegetation recovery of hydropower spoil heaps - assessing restoration success using ordination methods

09:20-09:35

Knut Rydgren, Inger Auestad, Rune Halvorsen, Liv Norunn Hamre, Jan Sulavik and Joachim Paul Töpper
Restoring ecosystems: an evaluation of methods for predicting time to recovery

09:35-09:50

Victoria T. Gonzalez, Bente Lindgård, Rigmor Reiertsen, Snorre B. Hagen and Kari Anne Bråthen
Vegetation bites the dust: No recovery of Empetrum nigrum heaths in response to an extreme event suggests allelopathy can facilitate Arctic browning

09:50-10:05

Kenny Helsen, James Speed and Bente Graae
Assessing the impact of an invasive plant on ecosystem functioning using a functional trait-based framework

09:05-10:20

Anders L Kolstad, Gunnar Austrheim, Erling J Solberg, Aurel M A Venete and Sarah J Woodin
Impact of moose on soils: are high moose densities in Norwegian forests sustainable?

10:20-10:35

Emma Marjakangas, Nerea Abrego, Vidar Grøtan, Milton Ribeiro, Mauro Galetti, Renata de Lara Muylaert, Richard Stevens, Laurence Culot, Lucas Pereira, Erica Hasui, Fernando Lima, Paulo Inacio Prado, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Renato de Lima, Ricardo Bovendorp, Carolina Bello and Otso Ovaskainen                                                                                              

Effects of forest fragmentation on seed dispersal networks in Brazilian Atlantic rainforest

 

POSTER SESSION

Posters will be on display during all conference days with a manned session on Wednesday, 18 October, 17:00-18:00

Instructions

  • The recommended poster size is A0 (84.1 cm x 118.9 cm/ 46.8 x 33.1 inches).
  • You may also choose to bring A4 versions of your poster for further distribution.
  • You should bring your poster with you to registration for hanging.

Presenters

Maximilian Koslowski, John Sebastian Woods and Francesca Verones
Identifying relevant impact pathways for marine invasive species within Life Cycle Assessment

Koen J.J. Kuipers, Kenny Helsen, Francesca Verones and Bente J. Graae
Identifying appropriate indicators for measuring the ecological status of African savannah ecosystems

Maria Tuomi and Sonja Kivinen
Value trade-offs in multifunctional landscapes – insights into northern environments

Jan Sulavik, Rune Halvorsen, Knut Rydgren, Inger Auestad and Liv Norunn Hamre

Recovery of species and functional trait composition at restored alpine spoil heaps

Dario Caro, Steven Davis, Ermias Kebreab and Frank Mitloehner
Land-use change emissions embodied in Brazilian pork and poultry meat

Marte Fandrem, Anders Lyngstad and Dag-Inge Øien
Raised bogs in Norway much rarer and in worse condition than expected - new insights from remote sensing surveys

Ernest Obeng Asante, Ilina Yusra, Jolanta Rieksta and Truc Van Nguyen
Designing a sustainable composting model to overcome peat-cutting

Victoria Berger and David Broome
An Analysis of Visions and Pathways for Sustainable Forestry at the European and Norwegian Levels

Sofia Soloperto, Ådne Messel Nafstad and Steffen Risstad Larssen
Visions and Pathways for Sustainable Development of the Aquaculture Future