NewFinal Presentations

  • Introductory Comments:
  • Plenary 1 Keynote:
  • Plenary 2 Session_1: Climate Change and Biodiversity: A Sponsor's View
    Chair: Adam Fenech, Environment Canada
    1. Integrating biodiversity conservation into energy development: Experiences from Gabon and Peru
      Francisco Dallmeier, Smithsonian Institution, USA

    2. Environment = Management x Climate2
      Don MacIver, Environment Canada

    3. Biodiversity, global change and development - a dialogue?
      Holm Thiessen, InterAmerican Institute for Global Change Research, Brazil

    4. Climate change impacts on forest biodiversity
      RobertStefanski and Buruhani Nyenzi, World Meteorological Organization, Switzerland

    5. Climate change and biodiversity challenges at UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
      Natarajan Ishwaran, United Nations' Education, Science and Cultural Organization, France

    6. Climate change and biodiversity in the Caribbean
      Leslie Walling, Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Belize

    7. Global Forest Observatories: Monitoring the health of tropical forests
      Stuart Davies, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

    8. Environmental prediction, biodiversity and the changing climate
      Heather Auld, Environment Canada
  • Plenary 3 Session 1: Current Status of Monitoring and Future Modelling of Climate and Biodiversity
    Chair: Holm Tiessen, InterAmerican Institute for Global Change Research

    1. A new Smithsonian initiative on carbon dynamics and impacts of global change in tropical and temperate forests
      Helene Muller-Landau, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

    2. Climate change and biodiversity in St.Vincent and the Grenadines
      Ruth Knights, SVG Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

    3. Modelling future climates: From GCMs to statistical downscaling approaches
      Bill Gough, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Canada

    4. Climate scenarios for the Caribbean: Limitations and needs for biodiversity studies
      Anthony Chen, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

    5. Changing climate and hydrologic variability in the Cordillera of the Americas
      B. H. Luckman, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, CANADA
  • Plenary 3 Session 2:

    1. Status and future direction of the SI/MAB network of permanent plots
      Alfonso Alonso, Smithsonian Institution, USA

    2. Neutral-plus models as a tool for exploring impacts of climate change on tropical forests
      Rick Condit, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Lee Hannah Conservation International, Nathan Snider, UCSB

    3. Tropical tree plantations with native species: linking carbon storage with concerns for biodiversity
      Catherine Potvin, McGill University, Canada

    4. Impacts of climate extremes on biodiversity in the Americas
      Marianne Karsh, Environment Canada

    5. Priorities and pitfalls for assessing the responses of tropical forests to global climatic and atmospheric change: lessons from research to date
      Deborah Clark, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA

    6. The Canadian Climate Change Scenarios Network (CCCSN)
      Neil Comer, Environment Canada

    7. Potential effects of climate change on the sex ratio of crocodiles
      Armando H. Escobedo-Galván, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico

  • Plenary 4 Session 1: Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity
    Chair: Ahmed Djoghlaf, Convention on Biological Diversity

    1. How will global change affect tropical forests? Recent findings and debates
      William F. Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

    2. Changes on ecosystem growth due to climate change in tropical dry forests in the Americas
      Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, University of Alberta, Canada

    3. Climate and global change will induce the development of new forests
      Ariel Lugo, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Puerto Rico

    4. Climate change impacts on coastal biodiversity
      Virginia Burkett, US Geological Society
  • Plenary 4 Session 2:

    1. Rapid change in Amazonian forest dynamics: effects of climate change?
      Susan Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

    2. The vulnerability of tropical species to global warming
      Joseph Wright, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

    3. Prospectos para la inclusio%oacute;n de actividades de deforestación evitada en Panamá
      Ing. Darysbeth Martínez Unidad de Cambio Climático y Desertificación Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente

    4. Global warming and rainforest: a geological perspective
      Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

    5. Influence of niche properties on distance for habitat tracking in response to future climate change by highland grasses endemic to Mesoamerica
      Iván Jiménez, Missouri Botanical Garden, USA
  • Plenary 5 Session 1: Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity
    Chair: Buruhani Nyenzi, World Meteorological Organization

    1. The effects of functional biodiversity on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and sustainability: an interdisciplinary approach
      Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

    2. Biodiversity consequences of long-term snow climate change
      Michael E. Loik, University of California, USA

    3. Increase in the dominance of galls across the Americas as a result of climate change.
      Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Universidade Federale de Minas Gerais, Brazil

    4. Bridging the gap: Neotropical endangered species and climate changes
      Denise Rambaldi, Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado, Brazil

    5. Tropospheric ozone and climatic changes: Effects on the main agronomic species
      Jesus Ramirez, Instituto de Meteorología de Cuba

    6. Avian response to climate change in British Columbia, Canada - towards a general model
      Fred Bunnell, University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Plenary 5 Session 2:

    1. Can 40-years natural restoration give us a clue about climatic change effects in transition zones between two Brazilian hot spots?
      Luiz Carlos Busato, Signus Vitae Environmental Projects, Brazil

    2. Phenological changes of Mammillaria mathildae in a deciduous tropical forest as a bio-indicator of climatic change
      Oscar Rubio, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico

    3. Modelación espacial del efecto del cambio climático sobre la distribución de Quercus emoryi Torr. (Fagaceae) en México
      María de Jesús Torres Meza, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Mexico

    4. Population trends of montane birds in southwestern Puerto Rico eight years after the passage of Hurricane Georges
      Adrianne Tossas, Puerto Rico

    5. Regional bird monitoring as a tool for predicting the effects of climate change on biodiversity
      Maria Zaccagnini, Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Argentina
  • Plenary 6: Adaptation Strategies and Solutions
    Chair: Natarajan Ishwaran, United Nations' Education, Science and Cultural Organization, France

    1. Mainstreaming adaptation in national protected areas systems in Central America by scaling up biological corridors and forest landscape restoration
      Pascal O. Girot, IUCN Mesoamerica, Costa Rica

    2. Adapting management strategies under changing climate scenarios
      Robert Szaro, US Geological Survey

    3. Climate change and adaptive resource management in the Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve
      Cliff Drysdale, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institution, Nova Scotia, Canada

    4. Biomass and carbon accumulation in secondary forests and forestry plantations used as restoration tools in the Caribbean region of Costa Rica
      Frederico Alice, Instituto de Investigación y Servicios Forestales (INISEFOR), Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica

    5. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, deforestation and their policy responses in Bolivia under the current political context: What scope for synergies and interactions?
      Bernardo Peredov, Oxford University Centre for the Environment (Bolivia)

    6. The status and rate of adaptation policymaking for biodiversity conservation
      Kelly Levin, USA

    7. A Mata Atlântica e o aquecimento global
      Monika Naumann, Consultant, Brazil