Integrated A ssessment of V ulnerable E cosystems under Global C hange

A Concerted Action funded by the 5th Framework Programme of the European Commission «Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development» ; Life time 2001 - 2004

Effects of Land Abandonment and Global Change on Plant and Animal Communities

11 - 13 October 2004, Villa Orlandi, Capri

	Programme
8:15 – 9:00	Monday, 11 October 2004 Global change and land abandonment: Past and present Welcome address Stefano Mazzoleni, Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Wolfgang Cramer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany Round table: short introduction and information what are the expectations of this workshop (by all)
9:00 – 9:30	Back to the future: what palaeontology tells about possible effects of global warming on habitats and animal communities (pdf: 6MB) Anastassios Kotsakis, Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
9:30 – 10:00	Recent causes of land abandonment from an economical perspective (pdf: 100KB) Adele Coppola, Dipt. Economia e Politica Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30	Connectivity: spatial and temporal scales issues in the context of land abandonment (pdf: 1,5MB) Jacques Baudry, INRA – Rennes, France
11:30 – 12:00	Can we distinguish between climate and land abandonment effects? (pdf: 3,4MB) Mark Mulligan, Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Research Group, Department of Geography, King’s College, London, UK
12:00 – 12:30	CO2 and fire regime impacts on vegetation structure: Potential interactions with land use and land abandonment (pdf: 1MB) Guy Midgley, Climate Change Group, Kirstenbosch Research Center, National Botanical Institute, Cape Town, South Africa
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 16:00	Discussion/ Poster presentation
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30- 18:30	Discussion
19:30	Dinner at “La Rondinella”
	Tuesday, 12 October 2004 Effects of land abandonment and global change on biodiversity
9:00 – 9:30	Plant diversity, climate change and land use transitions (pdf: 1,5MB) Sandra Lavorel, Laboratoire d´Ecologie Alpine (CEFE), Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
9:30 – 10:00	Vulcan Project: Vulnerability Assessment of shrublands in Europe under climatic changes Experimental rationale and results Jacqueline Dyer, School of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, UK (pdf: 3,6MB) and Bridget Emmett, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor, UK (pdf: 600KB)
10:00 – 10:30	Land abandonment and animal communities: Winners and losers (pdf: 1,2MB) Danilo Russo, Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy and School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30	Animal communities and populations in changing Mediterranean landscapes - from patterns to processes (pdf: 6MB) Jean-Louis Martin, CEFE-CNRS, Montpellier, France
11:30 – 12:00	Effects of land abandonment on invertebrate communities - a European perspective (pdf: 2MB) Volkmar Wolters, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematic Zoology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
12:00 – 12:30	Global warming and the conservation of amphibians in changing landscapes (pdf: 800KB) Richard A. Griffiths, The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:30	Understanding land degradation abandonment: the role of the very long term (pdf: 700KB) Sander van der Leeuw, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University PO Box 872404, Tempe AZ 85287-2402, USA
14:30 - 15:30	Discussion on effects of global change and land abandonment on services to humans and
14:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00	Field trip: Mediterranean flora (taking the funiculare to Monte Solaro, walking downhill) Background literature: A checklist of Capri flora and floristic change patterns in the Naples Bay in the XX Century by Massimo Ricciardi (pdf: 280KB) Guide: Stefano Mazzoleni, Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
20:00	Dinner at “Da Gelsomina”
	Wednesday, 13 October 2004 Managing biodiversity under land abandonment and climate change and Land abandonment under special risks: Fire and mountain ecosystems
9:00 – 9:30	Ecological effects of land-use change in the European Alps (pdf: 3,5MB) Ulrike Tappeiner, Botanical Institute, University of Innsbruck, Austria
9:30 – 10:00	Land abandonment and fire in the Mediterranean Europe: Implications for bird and mammal communities (pdf: 400KB) Francisco Moreira, Centro de Ecologica Aplicada, Lisbon, Portugal
10:00 – 10:30	European pastoralism and land abandonment: The experience of the PASTORAL project (pdf: 700KB) Davy McCracken, Scottish Agricultural College, Ayr, UK
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30	Ecotourism as part of adaptation strategies in biodiverse regions undergoing change in use (pdf: 2,5MB) Sylvie Blangy, TUKTU, Montpellier, France
11:30 – 12:00	The value of pastoralism in Mediterranean plant diversity conservation (pdf: 3,1MB) Begona Peco Vàzquez, Terrestrial Ecology Group, Universidad Autònoma de Madrid, Spain
12:00 – 12:30	How to manage dynamic landscapes under climate change for biodiversity conservation? (pdf: 400KB) Paul Opdam, University of Wageningen and Research Center, Dept. Landscape Ecology, Netherlands
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 16:00	Discussion groups
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30- 18:00	Discussion on vulnerability and land abandonment and fire (first in two separate groups, last half hour jointly)
18:00	Closing remarks Wolfgang Cramer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
19:30	Farewell dinner at “La Rondinella”

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