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Department of Ecology
Chair of Vegetation Ecology
Chair of Vegetation Ecology
Unit of Geobotany

Technische Universitaet Muenchen

IAVS
International Association of
Vegetation Science

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Monday 30.07.2001
Thursday 02.08.2001
Friday 03.08.2001

Tuesday 31.07.2001


Lecture Hall 14

8.30-9.05 Keynote Lecture: Vladimir Klimanov
Palynological information as a paleoclimate indicator
9.05-9.40 Keynote Lecture: Valerio Pillar
On the use of plant functional types as indicators of ecosystem functions

Session 2.2 - Lecture Hall 14

9.50-10.10 von Oheimb Goddert Effects of forest management on species diversity of vascular plants in northern Germany
10.10-10.30 Heinken Thilo Dispersal of plants by large mammals in a deciduous forest: implications for conservation and management
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.20 Gigon Andreas Conservation of attractive spring geophytes in vineyards
11.20-11.40 Kleijn David The conservation of plant and animal communities by farmers in Dutch agricultural landscapes
11.40-12.00 Redzic Sulejman Patterns of secondary successions of vegetations and ecosystem stability
12.00-12.20 Huth Andreas Can tropical rain forest buffer the impacts of fragmentation and logging - an analysis using forest models
12.20-13.40 Lunch
13.40-14.15 Keynote Lecture: Deborah Goldberg
Plant-plant interactions, productivity, and community diversity
14.15-14.50 Keynote Lecture: Bernhard Schmid
Vegetation as habitat for plants, animals and microbes: how plant diversity affects their population dynamics

Session 2.1 - Lecture Hall 14

15.00-15.20 McQueen Amelia Local and regional species pools; correlations with rainfall and altitude in grasslands of the lower South Island, New Zealand
15.20-15.40 Kluth Christian Are the growing conditions of Hornungia petraea- populations more favourable at the species' distribution limit?
15.40-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.00 Poster Session
17.00-17.20 Isagi Yuji Gene flow in isolated forests determined with microsatellite markers
17.20-17.40 Abs Clemens Habitat effects demography of Armeria pupurea
17.40-18.00 Kuuluvainen Timo Habitat characteristics of natural and managed boreal forests in Fennoscandia: implications for biodiversity conservation

Session 5.1 - Lecture Hall 15

9.50-10.10 Britton Andrea Arctic-alpine Calluna heath as an indicator of human impacts in the montane zone
10.10-10.30 Piernik Agnieszka Inland halophilous vegetation as predictor of soil salinity
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.20 Schickhoff Udo Structural and Functional Changes of Forest Ecosystems Along an Anthropogenic Disturbance Gradient, Northern Pakistan
11.20-11.40 Rixen Christian Ski Piste Vegetation under Artificial and Natural Snow: Species Composition and Vegetation structure
11.40-12.00 Schulte Anja Vegetation dynamics and degradation of a Namibian savanna: Have pastoralists sustainable modes of pasture management?
12.00-12.20 Ejrnæs Rasmus Predictability and stochasticity of grassland vegetation
12.20-13.40 Lunch
15.00-15.20 Zedda Luciana Epiphytic lichens as indicator of hemeroby in Mediterranean oak forests - an example from Sardinia (Italy)
15.20-15.40 Mulder Christian A mycological indicator for ecological quality?
15.40-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.00 Poster Session
17.00-17.20 Hill Mark Hemeroby, urbanity and ruderality: bioindicators of disturbance
17.20-17.40 Ewald Jörg Effect of reducing species richness on the performance of Ellenberg indicator values
17.40-18.00 Wamelink Wieger Validity of Ellenberg indicator values judged from physico-chemical field measurements

Session 2.3 - Lecture Hall 16

9.50-10.10 Hoelzel Norbert Restoration of a species-rich flood-meadow by topsoil removal and diaspore transfer with litter
10.10-10.30 Urban Katharina Vegetation dynamics during the restoration of amphibic plant communities
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.20 Müller Norbert Long term vegetation studies in the restoration of alpine semidry grasslands in Southern Germany
11.20-11.40 Münzbergová Zuzana Restoration of species rich xerophilous grasslands - a case study from two localities in Central Bohemia
11.40-12.00 Safronova Irina On the restoration of steppe vegetation in the Elton Lake region (European Russia)
12.00-12.20 Bobbink Roland Restoration of hot spots of plant diversity in deteriorated dwarf-shrub communities

Session 4.2 - Lecture Hall 16

15.00-15.20 Weigelt Alexandra Methodological problems related to the measurement of plant competition
15.20-15.40 Couteron Pierre Balance between facilitation and competition in plant communities. Where space does matter?
15.40-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.00 Poster Session
17.00-17.20 Tielbörger Katja Do indirect effects of desert shrubs generate spatial variation in interaction strength among annuals?
17.20-17.40 Bellingham Peter Differential facilitation by a nitrogen-fixing shrub during primary succession influences relative performance of tree species
17.40-18.00 Batish Daizy Rani Allelopathic Exclusion of understory Vegetation by Casuarina equisetifolia L.

Session 3.1 - Lecture Hall 12

9.50-10.10 Leps Jan Species diversity and ecosystem function
10.10-10.30 Mayer Franziska Species diversity versus attribute diversity as an indicator for functional diversity
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.20 Nijs Ivan Variability in plant traits: a key to explaining effects of diversity on ecosystem function?
11.20-11.40 Bültmann Helga The function of growth form in regards to diversity in terricolous lichen vegetation
11.40-12.00 Stampfli Andreas Diversity-productivity relationship over 13 successive years in a non-successional grassland
12.00-12.20 Mayer Philipp Plant species diversity - a regulating factor for stability after disturbance?
12.20-13.40 Lunch
15.00-15.20 Ulanova Nina The effects of windthrow and clearcutting on plant diversity in spruce forest ecosystems
15.20-15.40 Koricheva Julia Are mixed forest stands less susceptible to herbivore attacks as compared to pure stands?
15.40-16.00 Coffee Break
16.00-17.00 Poster Session
17.00-17.20 Leuschner Christoph Functional diversity of Central European tree species
17.20-17.40 Vetaas Ole R. Tree diversity and species richness relationships in The Himalayas
17.40-18.00 Falinski Jarusz Geophytes in the dynamics od the decicuous forest communities

Session 5.2 - Lecture Hall S1

9.50-10.10 Minayeva Tatiana Indication capacity of vegetation for evaluation of peat forming conditions in past and present
10.10-10.30 Rauber Christine Stability of raised bogs to climatic changes
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-11.20 Korotkov Konstantin The use of extinct vegetation data in analysis of phylocoenogenesis
11.20-11.40 Larocque Isabelle PAGES: Past Ecosystem Processes and Human-Environment Interactions
11.40-12.00 Wolf Annett Natural dynamics of Draved Forest, Jutland, Denmark
12.00-12.20 Dahdouh- Guebas Farid Mangrove vegetation structure dynamics : a review
16.00-17.00 Poster Session

Workshop - Lecture Hall S1

15.00-15.20 Chytry Milan Diagnostic species of Central European coniferous forests, established by fidelity calculations in large phytosociological databases - L
15.20-15.40 Walker Marilyn Boreal forest Landscapes of Interior Alaska: A Hierarchical Framework for Pattern and Process
15.40-16.00 Ewald Jörg Boreal forest Landscapes of Interior Alaska: A Hierarchical Framework for Pattern and Process
16.00-16.20 Coffee Break
16.20-16.40 Stachurska- Swakoñ Alina Phytosociological survey of coniferous forests in the Whitefish Range (Montana, U.S.A)
16.40-17.00 Exner Andreas Picea abies and Abies alba forests of the Eastern Alps - Syntaxonomy and Ecology
17.00-17.20 Rivas- Martínez Salvador Phytosociological, bioclimatical and biogeographical units and criteria to distinguish the boreal and temperate coniferous forests in North America
17.20-17.40 Walentowski Helge Fir-dominated ecosystems in Bavaria
17.40-18.00 Spribille Toby Overview of phytosociological data sources from the boreal forest of Canada
18.00-18.20 Adjourn

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Monday 30.07.2001
Thursday 02.08.2001
Friday 03.08.2001


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