This year’s Ecological Society of Australia conference is upon us! Next week will see the annual migration of a flock of qaecologists over to the conference, held this year in Fremantle, WA. There will be presentations & posters on topics ranging from feral predator management, to the impacts of global trade on biodiversity, to validating distribution models, to using drones to find sneaky tree kangaroos!
In addition, Jane Elith will be giving the Keynote address on Tuesday morning, where she will be presented with the Australian Ecology Research Award for 2016. Jane will be giving a talk about the application, challenges and recent progress in using species distribution models with kinds of data that are typically available.
So if you’re heading to ESA, keep an eye out for the following talks & posters from qaeco members throughout the week:
Keynote address:
Jane Elith – Australian Ecology Research Award (AERA) Presentation, Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 9am
Presentations:
Monday, November 28, 2016
Christopher Pocknee – Novel technologies for the detection of a Cryptic Arboreal mammal
SYMPOSIUM: Harnessing the Technology Revolution in Ecology, 10:45am-12:45pm
Jose Lahoz-Monfort – A manifesto for collaborative development of open-source technology for ecology and conservation
SYMPOSIUM: Harnessing the Technology Revolution in Ecology, 10:45am-12:45pm
Dini Fardila – Meta-analysis of biodiversity responses to habitat fragmentation
Landscape Ecology (1), 10:45am-12:45pm
Natalie Briscoe – Long-term climate averages and extremes can provide divergent forecasts of climate change refugia
Global Change (1), 10:45am-12:45pm
Joslin Moore – Woodland management and restoration: how do we link system models and management objectives?
SYMPOSIUM: Conservation ecology across the diverse woodlands of southern Australia (part 1), 4pm – 5:30pm
Peter Vesk – Ecological thinning is the answer, but what was the question?
SYMPOSIUM: Conservation ecology across the diverse woodlands of southern Australia (part 1), 4pm – 5:30pm
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Hannah Fraser – Protecting woodland birds: which species where?
SYMPOSIUM: Conservation ecology across the diverse woodlands of southern Australia (part 2), 11am – 1pm
Jian Yen – Linking growth, survival, and fecundity to traits: size matters
SYMPOSIUM: A diversity of approaches: key advances in trait-based theory and methods (part 2), 2pm – 3:30pm
Katherine Giljohann – A demographically effective measure of population size for disturbance-prone environments
Disturbance Ecology, 4pm – 6pm
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Brendan Wintle – Understanding and predicting the impacts of global trade on local biodiversity.
Ecological Modelling (part 2), 11:15am – 12:45pm
Bronwyn Hradsky – How do interactions between introduced predators and fire influence the persistence of critical-weight-range mammals?
Ecological Modelling (part 2), 11:15am – 12:45pm
Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita – Dealing with false positive and false negative errors about species occurrence at multiple levels
Ecological Modelling (part 2), 11:15am – 12:45pm
Matt West – 55-year data set implicates disease and a sympatric species in a threatened frogs decline
SYMPOSIUM: Disease ecology in biodiversity conservation, 11:15am – 12:45pm
Hugh Davies – Managing feral cats on Melville Island: saving the brush-tailed rabbit-rat from extinction
SYMPOSIUM: New science for prioritising management actions on Australian islands, 3:45pm – 6pm
Christopher Baker – Modelling the spread of weeds to inform decision-making on islands
SYMPOSIUM: New science for prioritising management actions on Australian islands, 3:45pm – 6pm
Heini Kujala – How well do species distribution models predict range shifts under climate change?
Global Change (2), 10:15am – 12:15pm
Elise Gould – Managing Grasslands with Models: Resolving Uncertainty and Allocating Effort Among a Suite of Sites
Restoration Ecology, 10:15am – 12:15pm
Poster Sessions:
Daniel White – Rising from the flames: how do wet forest understorey plants respond to fire and logging?
Forest Ecology, 6:15pm – 7:45pm
